Authoritative Scriptures in Ancient Judaism
Biographical note
Mladen Popović, Ph.D. (2006) in Theology and Religious Studies, is Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Early Judaism at the University of Groningen and Director of the Qumran Institute. He is the author of Reading the Human Body (Brill, 2007).
Readership
All those interested in canon formation and the transmission of authoritative texts and traditions in Judaism and Christianity.
Reviews
‘In sum, this fine collection of essays paints a representative picture of the state of the debates on the authoritativeness of Second Temple Jewish texts at the time of the completion of the publication endeavour of the Dead Sea Scrolls.‘
‘Therefore, this volume is to be recommended to biblical scholars of Old and New Testament alike, and to students of Second Temple Judaism and its literature in particular.’
H. Debel
Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 87/1 2011
‘Therefore, this volume is to be recommended to biblical scholars of Old and New Testament alike, and to students of Second Temple Judaism and its literature in particular.’
H. Debel
Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 87/1 2011
Table of contents
Contributors include: Florentino García Martínez, George J. Brooke, Arie van der Kooij, Emanuel Tov, Julio Trebolle, Émile Puech, Michael A. Knibb, Eibert Tigchelaar, Albert L.A. Hogeterp, Charlotte Hempel, John J. Collins, Mladen Popović, Hindy Najman, George H. van Kooten, Tobias Nicklas, and Jan N. Bremmer
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These essays honor James C. VanderKam on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and twentieth year on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame. Essays from an international group of scholars address various topics in Second Temple Judaism and biblical studies.
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The first full-length analysis of the heavenly book motif in English, this study highlights a vital element of early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature. Through multiple intertextual readings, it demonstrates that for the ancients heavenly writing had life or death consequences.
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This book explores the reaction to the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 found in Jewish apocalypses and related literature preserved among the Pseudepigrapha (4 Ezra, 2 Baruch, 3 Baruch, 4 Baruch, Sibylline Oracles 4 and 5, and the Apocalypse of Abraham).
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The present volume brings together studies by some of the best specialists on the texts and versions of the Book of Ben Sira. Each textual form is placed in its own historical context and analysed in regard to what explains the typical changes it contains.
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The book offers a comprehensive analytic comparison between the images of primeval history in Babylonia, in the Hebrew Bible and the parallel Enochic traditions. It presents new interpretations of each of these traditions and how they relate to each other.
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The volume contains the 22 papers presented to Hanan Eshel before his death, covering topics in archaeology, history, and textual studies, with a particular emphasis on aspects relating to the Dead Sea Scrolls, spanning the late Iron Age through late Antiquity.
€190.00$246.00
Drawing on the ancient writings of the Dead Sea Scrolls and early rabbinic Judaism, this book comprises studies that explore the intersections of scriptural interpretation, narrative fiction, and legal rhetoric. It proposes and models methods of a non-reductive historiography for each of these ...
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Josephus, the Jewish historian who wrote about history, bible, and serves as a source for a wide-range of related disciplines is the subject of twenty four articles which grew out of an international colloquium.
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Jewish-Hellenistic authors rejected Greek myth, but they were also aware of its importance as a symbol of power and identity. This book offers a comprehensive reading of how Jews dealt with Greek mythology in the Hellenistic period.
Jüdisch-hellenistische Autoren verwarfen die griechische ...
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