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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An accurate picture of ancient religious studies: all papers stress historiography, anthropological history, and philology. Topics range from Mesopotamia to Christianism and rabbinic Judaism. The result is to offer an ambitious and comparatist status quaestionis for today.
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Through close textual analysis as well as a study of historical and literary context, this book shows how the amoraic midrashic collection Pesikta deRav Kahana developed a new homiletical language in an age of religious outreach and persuasion.
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