Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls

Contents -- Publications of John J. Collins -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Between Athens and Jerusalem, on the Wings of a Dove? -- The Social Location of the Scribe in the Second Temple Period -- Heraclitus's Homeric Problems and Midrash Genesis Rabbah: Comparisons and Contrasts --...

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Main Author: Baden, Joel (Author)
Contributors: Najman, Hindy (Other) ; Tigchelaar, Eibert J. C. (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Boston BRILL 2016
In:Year: 2016
Reviews:[Rezension von: Sibyls, scriptures and scrolls] (2018) (Uusimäki, Elisa, 1986 -)
Series/Journal:Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
Further subjects:B Electronic books
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: Baden, Joel: Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy. - Boston : BRILL,c2016. - 9789004324732
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Summary:Contents -- Publications of John J. Collins -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Between Athens and Jerusalem, on the Wings of a Dove? -- The Social Location of the Scribe in the Second Temple Period -- Heraclitus's Homeric Problems and Midrash Genesis Rabbah: Comparisons and Contrasts -- The Identification of the "Wicked Priest" Reconsidered: The Case for Hyrcanus II -- What's in a Name? Naming the Unnameable in Philo and John -- Redactor or Rabbenu? Revisiting an Old Question of Identity -- Old Testament Ethics: Story or Style?
Future Food and Future Feasting: Tracing the Idea of the Meal in the World to Come in Qumran Literature -- Casting Lots and Distributing Territories: The Hellenistic Background of the Book of Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon -- Authority and Propaganda-The Case of the Potter's Oracle -- How Jesus Became Uncreated -- Thrēskeia in 4 Maccabees -- The Visualisation of the Sacred at Qumran -- The Wisdom of the Nations and the Law of Israel: Genealogies of Ethnic Difference in Ben Sira and the Mekhilta -- Zechariah, Zerubbabel, and Zemah: Ideological Development in Early Postexilic Judah
The Divine Assembly in Genesis 1-11 -- The Enochs of Genesis 4 and 5 and the Emergence of the Apocalyptic Enoch Tradition -- Genre Analysis and Early Christian Martyrdom Narratives: A Proposal -- The Disappearing God in Ezekiel the Tragedian -- Scent of a Woman: The Influence of Lady Wisdom on 2 Maccabees 7:20-29 -- Preserving the Cult of Yhwh in Judean Garrisons: Continuity from Pharaonic to Ptolemaic Times -- "If a Case is Too Baffling for You to Decide . . ." (Deut 17:8-13): Between Constraining and Expanding Judicial Autonomy in the Temple Scroll and Early Rabbinic Scriptural Interpretation
Of Doves, Fish, and Goddesses: Reflections on the Literary, Religious, and Historical Background of the Book of Jonah -- Fire and Water? Apocalyptic Imagination and Hellenistic Worldview in 2 Peter -- Where's Enoch? The Mythic Geography of the Qumran Book of Giants -- Josephus and Jewish Ethnicity -- Cutting the Cord with the Familiar: What Makes 4Q265 Miscellaneous Rules Tick? -- The Dream of a Perfect Text: Textual Criticism and Biblical Inerrancy in Early Modern Europe -- "I Am the Judge": Judgment in the Apocalypse of Abraham
Mother Zion in Baruch 4:5-5:9 and 2 Baruch 1-12: A Study of Different Models of Intertextuality -- Scribal Innovation and the Book of Tobit: A Long Overdue Discussion -- What is "Serekh ha-Yahad (S)"? Thinking About Ancient Manuscripts as Information Processing -- Deity and Divine in the Hebrew Bible and in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Simeon and Levi's Attack on Shechem, or: The Mystery of MS C of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs -- What Really Troubled Andronikos? A Note on P.Polit.Iud. 1
Who were the Advisers of the King? A Comparative Study of Royal Consultants in Mesopotamia and in Israel
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ISBN:9004324739