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Theologies in Conflict in 4 Ezra
Wisdom Debate and Apocalyptic Solution
Av Karina Hogan
Inbunden, 2008
2466 kr
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Recent scholarship on 4 Ezra has taken two divergent approaches, the first reading the dialogues between Ezra and Uriel as a reflection of theological debates in the author's time, and the second focusing on the psychological development of the protagonist. Combining the two approaches, this book …
Idea of Biblical Interpretation
Essays in Honor of James L. Kugel
Av Hindy Najman, Judith Newman
Inbunden, 2003
3769 kr
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The essays in this Festschrift honor James L. Kugel for his contribution to the field of biblical studies, in particular early biblical interpretation. The essays are organized in three roughly chronological categories. The first group treats some part of the Tanakh, ranging from the creation and …
Alexandrian Riots of 38 C.E. and the Persecution of the Jews. A Historical Reconstruction
Inbunden, 2009
2770 kr
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Scholars have read the Alexandrian riots of 38 CE according to intertwined dichotomies. The Alexandrian Jews fought to keep their citizenship - or to acquire it; they evaded the payment of the poll-tax - or prevented any attempts to impose it on them; they safeguarded their identity against the …
La guerre et les rites de guerre dans le judaïsme du deuxième Temple
Inbunden, 2004
4843 kr
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This work deals with the Jewish warfare in the Hellenistic and Roman Antiquity from the point of view of the religious rites which, for the Ancients, were a necessary part of all social activity. The author rejects the traditional concept of "Holy War" and prefers to emphasise the diversity of …
Josephus and Jewish History in Flavian Rome and Beyond
Inbunden, 2005
3012 kr
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The essays in this volume focus on the relationship between Josephus’ Judean and Jewish identity on the one hand, and his life and writings in the context of Flavian Rome on the other. From very different points of view the various contributions to this volume, which is the fruit of an …
Households, Sects, and the Origins of Rabbinic Judaism
Inbunden, 2005
2464 kr
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This book suggests a new approach to the social history of Jewish religious movements in the Second Temple and early Rabbinic periods. It argues that most of these movements and their traditions emerged within the context of complex interaction between traditional families and disciple circles.The …
Making History
Josephus and Historical Method
Inbunden, 2006
3587 kr
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The encounter between interpretation and history in the writings of Josephus provides the conceptual framework for this collection of essays. The contributions in this volume, which were presented at an international colloquium entitled “Josephus: Interpretation and History” held in Dublin in 2004, …
Book of Jubilees
Rewritten Bible, Redaction, Ideology and Theology
Inbunden, 2007
3828 kr
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Almost all scholars have viewed the book of Jubilees as the work of a single author, applying to the book methods of analysis determined primarily by its literary genre, Rewritten Bible. This study suggests a new approach, in light of numerous contradictions between the rewritten stories on the one …
Jewish Community of Rome
From the Second Century B.C. to the Third Century C.E.
Inbunden, 2006
2655 kr
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This volume deals with the development of the Jewish community of Rome in the late Republican and Imperial periods. It uses both literary and archaeological evidence, but attaches a great importance to the epigraphic source. The first section studies the structure of the community, in comparison …
Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to Text
Inbunden, 2017
2557 kr
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In The Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to Text, Paul Mandel presents a comprehensive study of the words darash and midrash from the Bible until the early rabbinic periods (3rd century CE). In contrast to current understandings in which the words are identified with modes of analysis of the …
Sustain Me With Raisin-Cakes: Pesikta deRav Kahana and the Popularization of Rabbinic Judaism
Inbunden, 2009
2400 kr
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History and literature come together in a new way in this study of the midrashic collection Pesikta deRav Kahana. The book combines the findings of rabbinic historians and early Christianity scholars with a close reading of this midrashic text on its own and in relation to the tannaitic midrashim …
LXX-Isaiah as Translation and Interpretation
The Strategies of the Translator of the Septuagint of Isaiah
Inbunden, 2007
3078 kr
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This book offers a fresh understanding of how Isaiah was translated into Greek, by considering the impact of the translator's Alexandrian milieu on his work. Whereas most studies over the past fifty years have regarded the book's free translation style as betraying the translator's conviction that …
Viewing Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology
VeHinnei Rachel – Essays in Honor of Rachel Hachlili
Av Ann Killebrew, Gabriele Faßbeck
Inbunden, 2015
3528 kr
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In honor of eminent archaeologist and historian of ancient Jewish art, Rachel Hachlili, friends and colleagues offer contributions in this festschrift which span the world of ancient Judaism both in Palestine and the Diaspora. Hachlili's distinctive research interests: synagogues, burial sites, and …
Early Enoch Literature
Av Gabriele Boccaccini, Collins
Inbunden, 2007
3248 kr
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In recent years there has been a lively debate about the early Enoch literature and its place in Judaism. This volume is intended to represent that debate, by juxtaposing pairs of articles on several key issues: the textual evidence, the relationship to the Torah, the calendar, the relation to …
L’Apocalypse des animaux (1 Hen 85-90): une propagande militaire?
Approches narrative, historico-critique, perspectives théologiques
Inbunden, 2007
3495 kr
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For the majority of scholars, the Animal Apocalypse is a militant text, a piece of pro-Maccabean propaganda. This text, however, develops theological reflections that are distinctly different from a justification of an armed struggle. Its themes are even incompatible with the Maccabean movement. It …
Flores Florentino
Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Early Jewish Studies in Honour of Florentino García Martínez
Av Anthony Hilhorst, Emile Puech m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
4616 kr
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This volume contains forty-eight essays, presented by friends, colleagues and students from many countries, in honour of Florentino García Martínez, director of the Groningen Qumran Institute, editor-in-chief of the Journal for the Study of Judaism, and professor in Leuven. The majority of the …
Primeval History: Babylonian, Biblical, and Enochic
An Intertextual Reading
Inbunden, 2011
4382 kr
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Most cultures have myths of origin. The Babylonians were the first to combine blocks of traditions about primeval time into primeval histories where humans had a central role. In the first millennium there were different versions that influenced the concepts of primeval history within Jewish …
Wisdom in Transition
Act and Consequence in Second Temple Instructions
Av Samuel Adams
Inbunden, 2008
3078 kr
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This volume considers a major shift among Jewish sages during the Second Temple period, as certain authors moved from an earthly focus to a belief in individual immortality. Egyptian instructions and the book of Proverbs are examined for necessary background. The colorful responses of Qoheleth and …
Wisdom’s Root Revealed
Ben Sira and the Election of Israel
Inbunden, 2009
2831 kr
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This monograph interprets the theme of election in the book of Sirach. Previous scholarship has often understood Ben Sira’s worldview to be dualistic, and has approached the sage's correlation of Wisdom and Torah as either a nationalization of Wisdom or a universalization of Torah. By probing Ben …
Calendrical Variations in Second Temple Judaism
New Perspectives on the ‘Date of the Last Supper’ Debate
Inbunden, 2012
2791 kr
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Starting from the seminal work of the French scholar Annie Jaubert on the date of the Last Supper, the present work revisits known - and identifies new - calendrical issues in the literature of Second Temple Judaism. The research supports the conclusion that all known calendrical traditions …
Exploring the Scripturesque
Jewish Texts and their Christian Contexts
Inbunden, 2009
2400 kr
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These essays span about a third of a century and include both previously published and some unpublished studies by Robert A. Kraft which focus on interfaces between Jewish materials and the worlds in which they were transmitted and/or perceived, especially Christian contexts. The initial section on …
Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Seán Freyne
Av Zuleika Rodgers, Margaret Daly-Denton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
4186 kr
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Starting his career as a scholar of the New Testament, Seán Freyne's work became synonymous with the study of Galilee in the Greek and Roman periods. His search for a deeper and more nuanced understanding of Judaism in the Greek and Roman periods and the development of the early Christian movement …
New Testament and Rabbinic Literature
Av Reimund Bieringer, Florentino García Martínez m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
3965 kr
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The present book brings together the contributions of the foremost specialists on the relationship of the New Testament and Rabbinic Literature. It contains the proceedings of a Symposium held at the K.U.Leuven in January 2006. The contributors, from different European countries as well as from …
Torah Centers and Rabbinic Activity in Palestine, 70-400 CE
History and Geographic Distribution
Inbunden, 2010
2476 kr
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This book analyses the data about Torah centers and rabbinic activity in Palestine during Mishnaic and Talmudic times, 70–400 CE—the Roman and early Byzantine periods. The research is an interdisciplinary inquiry. It encompasses rabbinic literature as well as archeology, geography, and sociology, …
Past Renewals
Interpretative Authority, Renewed Revelation and the Quest for Perfection in Jewish Antiquity
Av Hindy Najman
Inbunden, 2010
2387 kr
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How did ancient Jewish authors claim authority for their interpretations? How, after the “end of prophecy”, could they claim the authority of revelation? Whom did one have to be, or aspire to be, in order to merit authority? Hindy Najman addresses these questions through close readings of ancient …
Pentateuchal Traditions in the Late Second Temple Period
Proceedings of the International Workshop in Tokyo, August 28-31, 2007
Inbunden, 2012
2439 kr
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The main theme of the collected essays is expressed clearly in the following statement by Eugene Ulrich in the beginning of his article: What was the state of the Pentateuch during the Second Temple period? Was it basically complete and static at the time of Ezra, or was it still developing in …
Authoritative Scriptures in Ancient Judaism
Inbunden, 2010
3183 kr
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Many scholars of the Second Temple period have replaced the concept of canonization by that of canonical process. Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls has been crucial for this new direction. Based on this new evidence taxonomic terms like biblical, nonbiblical or parabiblical seem anachronistic for the …
Studies in the Book of Wisdom
Av Kim Searcy, Geza G. Xeravits m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2374 kr
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The volume publishes papers delivered at the International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books (Pápa, Hungary). This conference dealt with the Book of Wisdom. As such, this was one of the most extended discussions of the Book of Wisdom that has ever taken place at a scholarly meeting. The …
Other Worlds and Their Relation to This World
Early Jewish and Ancient Christian Traditions
Av Tobias Nicklas, Joseph Verheyden m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
3183 kr
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Is there a future after death and what does this future look like? What kind of life can we expect, and in what kind of world? Is there another, hopefully better world than the one we live in? The articles collected in this volume, all written by leading experts in the field, deal with the question …
What is Good, and What God Demands
Normative Structures in Tannaitic Literature
Inbunden, 2010
2464 kr
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The normative rhetoric of tannaitic literature (the earliest extant corpus of rabbinic Judaism) is predominantly deontological. Prior scholarship on rabbinic supererogation, and on points of contact with Greco-Roman virtue discourse, has identified non-deontological aspects of tannaitic …
