Ancient Readers and their Scriptures

Garrick V. Allen, Ph.D. (2015, St Andrews) is Lecturer in New Testament at Dublin City University and Research Associate at the School of Ancient and Modern Cultures and Language, University of Pretoria. He is the author of The Book of Revelation and Early Jewish Textual Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2017).John Anthony Dunne, Ph.D. (2016, St Andrews) is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Bethel Seminary (St. Paul, MN). He is the author of Persecution and Participation in Galatians (Mohr Siebeck, 2017).

• ContributorsIntroductionGarrick V. Allen and John Anthony DunneReading the Hebrew Bible in Jewish and Christian AntiquityWilliam A. ToomanPart 1: Reading Scripture in the Second Temple Period1 What Did Ben Sira’s Bible and Desk Look Like?Lindsey Arielle Askin2 Creation as the Liturgical Nexus of the Blessings and Curses in 4QBerakhotMika S. Pajunen3 The Qumran Library and the Shadow it Casts on the Wall of the CaveJonathan D.H. NortonPart 2: The New Testament and Practices of Reading and Reusing Jewish Scripture4 Exegetical Methods in the New Testament and “Rewritten Bible”: A Comparative AnalysisSusan E. Docherty5 Scriptural Quotations in the Jesus Tradition and Early Christianity: Textual History and TheologyMartin Karrer6 The Return of the Shepherd: Zechariah 13:7–14:6 as an Interpretive Framework for Mark 13Paul Sloan7 The Hybrid Isaiah Quotation in Luke 4:18–19Joseph M. Learpart 3: Reading Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism8 A Single, Huge, Aramaic Spoken Heretic: Sequences of Adam’s Creation in Early Rabbinic LiteratureWillem Smelik9 The Variant Reading ולא / ולו of Psalm 139:16 in Rabbinic LiteratureDagmar Börner-Klein10 Jewish and Christian Exegetical Controversy in Late Antiquity: The Case of Psalm 22 and the Esther NarrativeAbraham Jacob Berkovitzpart 4: Reading Retrospective11 What does ‘Reading’ have to do with it? Ancient Engagement with Jewish ScriptureGarrick V. Allen and John Anthony Dunne