Jan Joosten – författare

From two expert scholars comes a comprehensive study of the dating of the Hebrew BibleThe age of the Hebrew Bible is a topic that has sparked controversy and debate in recent years. The scarcity of clear evidence allows for the possibility of many views, though these are often clouded by theological and political biases. This impressive, broad‑ranging book synthesizes recent linguistic, textual, and historical research to clarify the history of biblical literature, from its oldest texts and literary layers to its youngest. In clear, concise language, the authors provide a comprehensive overview that cuts across scholarly specialties to create a new standard for the historical study of the Bible. This much‑needed work paves the path forward to dating the Hebrew Bible and understanding crucial aspects of its historical and contemporary significance.

The Syriac Bible is a fascinating field to which too little research has been devoted. In the present volume, Jan Joosten gathers a number of pilot studies, published in various journals and collective volumes, shedding light on the Syriac Old Testament, New Testament, and the relation between them. A number of studies advance the claim that the Old Syriac and Peshitta gospels preserve echoes of an Aramaic gospel tradition that gives independent access to the earliest, oral traditions on the life and teaching of Jesus.

Lexicography, together with grammatical studies and textual criticism, forms the basis of biblical exegesis. Recent decades have seen much progress in this field, yet increasing specialization also tends to have the paradoxical effect of turning exegesis into an independent discipline, while leaving lexicography to the experts. The present volume seeks to renew and intensify the exchange between the study of words and the study of texts. This is done in reference to both the Hebrew source text and the earliest Greek translation, the Septuagint. Questions addressed in the contributions to this volume are how linguistic meaning is effected, how it relates to words, and how words may be translated into another language, in Antiquity and today. Etymology, semantic fields, syntagmatic relations, word history, neologisms and other subthemes are discussed. The main current and prospective projects of biblical lexicology or lexicography are presented, thus giving an idea of the state of the art. Some of the papers also open up wider perspectives of interpretation.

Das geplante Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint behandelt den Wortschatz der Septuaginta in historischer Perspektive. Hierzu wird die Verwendung der wichtigsten Wörter und Wortfamilien von frühen griechischen Autoren an über nicht-literarische Zeugnisse der Koine, die Septuaginta selbst, bis in jüdisch-hellenistische und frühchristliche Literatur verfolgt. Die letzteren beiden Phasen waren Thema eines Workshops im Jahr 2011, dessen Beiträge in diesem Band veröffentlicht werden. Die Rezeption der Septuaginta im griechischsprachigen Judentum und Christentum wirft viele Fragen auf: Wie wird die unterschiedliche Bedeutung einiger Wörter in ihrer "biblischen" Verwendung im Gegensatz zu ihrer gewöhnlichen Verwendung im Griechischen von den jüdischen oder christlichen Autoren gehandhabt? In welchem Ausmaß haben die Autoren des Neuen Testaments ihre religiöse Terminologie von der Septuaginta übernommen? Welche Wörter der Septuaginta leben mit ihrer spezifischen Bedeutung in späteren jüdischen oder christlichen Schriften weiter - und welche nicht?Die Beiträge in diesem Band verbinden die Analyse ausgewählter einzelner Wörter oder Wortgruppen mit grundsätzlichen methodischen Erwägungen.

Wie können philologische Untersuchungen den Textkritiker anleiten/lenken? Und wie kommt die Textkritik dem Philologen zu Hilfe? Kann die Philologie konjekturelle Emendationen begründen, und falls ja, unter welchen Bedingungen? Haben philologische Hypothesen einen Platz in einem textkritischen Apparat oder Kommentar? Die Beiträger dieses Bandes diskutieren theoretische Fragen und analysieren Fallstudien, die die zur Diskussion stehenden Prinzipien illustrieren.

The aim of the present work is to make a contribution to the understanding of the inner workings of the Syriac language through a study of one important corpus written in that language.The book contains four chapters on aspects of Syriac syntax. In addition, a chapter on inner-Syriac developments — traceable owing to the fact that the Gospel of Matthew was translated several times and at different dates — and a chapter on the process of translation from Greek into Syriac are included as well.The analysis of the language of the Syriac versions of Matthew facilitates the use of these versions in textual criticism of the New Testament. Moreover, close study of these texts allows some light to be shed on the history of the text of the Gospel.

This work proposes a reconstruction of the thought world underlying the Holiness Code (Leviticus 17-26). It focuses on the notions of people and land, which are central to the way the law is presented in this corpus. Important themes treated include the sons of Israel, the resident alien, the call to holiness, the camp in the desert and the land as the property of the Lord.The conceptual universe of the Holiness Code is entirely dominated by the notion of the presence of the Lord in his sanctuary, in the midst of his people. It is this presence which requires the Israelites to observe holiness and confers upon the land its particular status.The priestly conception of the relationship between God, people and land finds interesting parallels in the ideology of holy places evidenced in writings from the Ancient Near East.

This volume contains 15 contributions presented at a symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls & Ben Sira, held in Strasbourg on May 29 and 30, 2006. The papers address linguistic and philological issues. They seek to relate the Hebrew texts of the Hellenistic period to earlier and later traditions. Among the authors are some of the most eminent Hebraists of our period as well as some younger scholars. The papers throw new light on the interpretation of the Qumran Scrolls, of the Apocrypha and of the Hebrew Bible.

The Book of Ben Sira comes to us in a bewildering variety of ancient textual forms. Each version shows how the book was received and interpreted in a new situation and by another community of readers. The present volume contains studies by some of the best specialists in this field of research. Each of the ancient text forms of Ben Sira—Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, and Latin—is studied in its proper context and analysed in regard to what explains the typical changes it contains.

On the occasion of the twenty-first conference of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, Brill and the editorial board of Vetus Testamentum present this publication of ten articles published in the journal between 1950 and today. Most of them have been seminal in one way or another, and all, we think, continue to repay close study. The selection was made so as to illustrate the diversity of subject matter, scholarly approach, and geographic provenance that characterizes Vetus Testamentum.

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