Understanding Texts In Early Judaism

Author : József Zsengellér
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110768534

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Understanding Texts in Early Judaism by József Zsengellér Pdf

This volume remembers Géza Xeravits, a well known scholar of deuterocanonical and Qumran literature. The volume is divided into four sections according to his scholarly work and interest. Contributions in the first part deal with Old Testament and related issues (Thomas Hiecke, Stefan Beyerle, and Mattew Goff). The second section is about the Dead Sea Scrolls (John J, Collins, John Kampen, Peter Porzig, Eibert Tigchelaar, Balázs Tamási and Réka Esztári). The largest part is the forth on deuterocanonica (Beate Ego, Lucas Brum Teixteira, Fancis Macatangay, Tobias Nicklas, Maria Brutti, Nuria, Chalduch-Benages, Panc Beentjes, Ben Wright, Otto Mulder, Angelo Passaro, Friedrich Reiterer, Severino Bussino, Jeremy Corley and JiSeong Kwong). The third section deals with some cognate literature (József Zsengellér and Karin Schöpflin). The last section about the Ancient Synagogue has the paper of Anders Kloostergaard Petersen. Some hot topics are discussed, for example the Two spirits in Qumran, the cathegorization of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the authorship and antropology of Ben Sira, and the angelology of Vitae Prophetarum.

Author : James Nati
Publisher : Supplements to the Journal for
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004471944

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Textual Criticism and the Ontology of Literature in Early Judaism by James Nati Pdf

The Dead Sea Scrolls have demonstrated the fluidity of biblical and early Jewish texts in antiquity. How did early Jewish scribes understand the nature of their pluriform literature? How should modern textual critics deal with these fluid texts?0Centered on the Serekh ha-Yahad - or Community Rule - from Qumran as a test case, this volume tracks the development of its textual tradition in multiple trajectories, and suggests that it was not understood as a single, unified composition even in antiquity. Attending to material, textual, and literary factors, the book argues that ancient claims for textual identity ought to be given priority in discussions among textual critics about the ontology of biblical books.

Author : Jan N. Bremmer,Florentino García Martínez,A. S. van der Woude
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Apocryphal books (Old Testament)
ISBN : 9039001014

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Sacred History and Sacred Texts in Early Judaism by Jan N. Bremmer,Florentino García Martínez,A. S. van der Woude Pdf

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Author : Matthias Henze,Rodney A. Werline
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884144823

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Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters by Matthias Henze,Rodney A. Werline Pdf

An essential resource for scholars and students Since the publication of the first edition of Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters in 1986, the field of early Judaism has exploded with new data, the publication of additional texts, and the adoption of new methods. This new edition of the classic resource honors the spirit of the earlier volume and focuses on the scholarly advances in the past four decades that have led to the study of early Judaism becoming an academic discipline in its own right. Essays written by leading scholars in the study of early Judaism fall into four sections: historical and social settings; methods, manuscripts, and materials; early Jewish literatures; and the afterlife of early Judaism.

Author : Alexander Kulik,Lorenzo DiTommaso
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780190863074

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A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission by Alexander Kulik,Lorenzo DiTommaso Pdf

The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions, but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus not as an artificial collection of reconstructed texts--a body of hypothetical originals--but rather from the perspective of the preserved materials, examined in their religious, social, and political contexts. It also considers the other, non-Christian, channels of the survival of early Jewish materials, including Rabbinic, Gnostic, Manichaean, and Islamic. This unique project brings together scholars from many different fields in order to map the trajectories of early Jewish texts and traditions among diverse later cultures. It also provides a comprehensive and comparative introduction to this new field of study while bridging the gap between scholars of early Judaism and of medieval Christianity.

Author : George W. E. Nickelsburg,Michael E. Stone
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Judaism
ISBN : UCAL:B3937078

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Faith and Piety in Early Judaism by George W. E. Nickelsburg,Michael E. Stone Pdf

The book is a reader for students, that deals with a number of salient issues in early Judaism, omitting all scholarly technicalities. The authors have selected six topics and assembled an array of texts dealing with or related to each one of these topics. As a rule they have used existing translations of the texts in question, but occasionally they offer new ones. Although the book is primarily concerned with early Judaism (the last two centuries B.C.E. and the first century C.E.), each chapter includes both rabbinic and early Christian texts in order to illustrate further developments. The six topics are: - Sects and Parties; - Temple and cult; - Ideals of Piety; - Deliverance, Judgment, and Vindication; - The Agents of Divine Deliverance; - Lady Wisdom and Israel.

Author : Matthias Henze
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506406435

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Mind the Gap by Matthias Henze Pdf

Do you want to understand Jesus of Nazareth, his apostles, and the rise of early Christianity? Reading the Old Testament is not enough, writes Matthias Henze in this slender volume aimed at the student of the Bible. To understand the Jews of the Second Temple period, it’s essential to read what they wrote—and what Jesus and his followers might have read—beyond the Hebrew scriptures. Henze introduces the four-century gap between the Old and New Testaments and some of the writings produced during this period (different Old Testaments, the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls); discusses how these texts have been read from the Reformation to the present, emphasizing the importance of the discovery of Qumran; guides the student’s encounter with select texts from each collection; and then introduces key ideas found in specific New Testament texts that simply can’t be understood without these early Jewish “intertestamental” writings—the Messiah, angels and demons, the law, and the resurrection of the dead. Finally, he discusses the role of these writings in the “parting of the ways” between Judaism and Christianity. Mind the Gap broadens curious students’ perspectives on early Judaism and early Christianity and welcomes them to deeper study.

Author : Mladen Popović
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004190740

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Authoritative Scriptures in Ancient Judaism by Mladen Popović Pdf

The notion of authoritative Scriptures plays an important part in the new paradigm of canonical process. This volume focuses on specific texts or corpora of texts, and approaches the notion of authoritative Scriptures from sociological, cultural and literary perspectives.

Author : Steven Bayme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Jews
ISBN : 0614275202

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Understanding Jewish History by Steven Bayme Pdf

Author : Frederick E. Greenspahn
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479896950

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Early Judaism by Frederick E. Greenspahn Pdf

"Over the past generation, several major discoveries and methodological innovations have led scholars to reevaluate the foundations of Judaism. The Dead Sea Scrolls are the most famous, but other materials have further altered our understanding of Judaism's development after the Biblical era. This volume explores some of the latest clues into how early Judaism took shape ..."--Back cover.

Author : James C. Vanderkam
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467464055

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An Introduction to Early Judaism by James C. Vanderkam Pdf

Based on the best archaeological research, this volume explores the history of Judaism during the Second Temple period (516 BCE–70 CE), describing the body of Jewish literature written during these centuries and the most important groups, institutions, and practices of the time. Particularly interesting are VanderKam’s depiction of events associated with Masada and, more briefly, the Bar Kokhba revolt—as well as his commentary on texts unearthed in places like Elephantine and Qumran. Now in its second edition, with additional material and updated throughout, this book remains the preeminent guide to early Judaism for anyone looking for a text that is concise and accessible while still comprehensive—and written by one of the foremost experts in the field.

Author : Jörg Frey
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 929 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161560156

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Qumran, Early Judaism, and New Testament Interpretation by Jörg Frey Pdf

Back cover: How did the Qumran discoveries change New Testament scholarship? What are the main insights to be gained from the Qumran corpus with regard to the Jesus tradition, Paul's language and theology, the dualistic language and worldview of the Fourth Gospel, or the formation of the biblical Canon? The articles of this volume present the fruits of 25 years of scholarship on Qumran and the New Testament.

Author : Ra'anan S. Boustan,Alex P. Jassen,Calvin J. Roetzel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047444787

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Violence, Scripture, and Textual Practice in Early Judaism and Christianity by Ra'anan S. Boustan,Alex P. Jassen,Calvin J. Roetzel Pdf

This volume analyzes the emergence of Jewish and Christian discourses of “religious violence” within their Roman imperial context with an emphasis on the shared textual practices through which authoritative scriptural traditions were redeployed to represent, legitimate, and indeed sacralize violence.

Author : David Ray Bourquin
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780809514014

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First Century Palestinian Judaism by David Ray Bourquin Pdf

Jesus was a Jew. That simple statement carries with it a millennia of cultural bias, persecution, and ignorance. David Ray Bourquin attempts to shed some light on what it meant to be a Jew during the Roman Period with this detailed, annotated bibliography of works in English. Following a brief introduction and guide on how to use the book, Bourquin divides his work into three major sections: A. Primary Sources; B. Books; and C. Periodical and Serial Articles. In each section, materials are arranged by subject, and in each sub-section in alphabetical order by main entry. Entries include complete bibliographical data, plus concise, descriptive, and analytical annotations. A glossary and four detailed indexes, all correlated to entry numbers, complete the volume. Every student of the period will want a copy of this carefully compiled bibliography.

Author : Judith H. Newman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190212223

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Before the Bible by Judith H. Newman Pdf

Before the Bible reveals the landscape of scripture in an era prior to the crystallization of the rabbinic Bible and the canonization of the Christian Bible. Most accounts of the formation of the Hebrew Bible trace the origins of scripture through source critical excavation of the archaeological "tel" of the Bible or the analysis of the scribal hand on manuscripts in text-critical work, but the discoveries in the Dead Sea Scrolls have transformed our understanding of scripture formation. Judith Newman focuses not on the putative origins and closure of the Bible, but on the reasons why scriptures remained open, with pluriform growth in the Hellenistic-Roman period. Drawing on new methods from cognitive neuroscience and the social sciences as well as traditional philological and literary analysis, Before the Bible argues that the key to understanding the formation of scripture is the widespread practice of individual and communal prayer in early Judaism. The figure of the teacher as a learned and pious sage capable of interpreting and embodying the tradition is central to understanding this revelatory phenomenon. The book considers the entwinement of prayer and scriptural formation in five books reflecting the diversity of early Judaism: Ben Sira, Daniel, Jeremiah/Baruch, Second Corinthians, and the Qumran Hodayot (Thanksgiving Hymns). While not a complete taxonomy of scripture formation, the book illuminates performative dynamics that have been largely ignored as well as the generative role of interpretive tradition in accounts of how the Bible came to be.