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Author International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books (10th : 2013 : Budapest, Hungary)

Title Canonicity, setting, wisdom in the Deuterocanonicals : papers of the jubilee meeting of the International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books / edited by Géza G. Xeravits, József Zsengellér and Xavér Szabó
Published Berlin [Germany] ; Boston [Massachusetts] : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (296 pages)
Series Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies, 1865-1666 ; Volume 22
Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies ; Volume 22.
Contents Preface; Table of Contents; MAIN PAPERS; The Penumbra of the Canon: What Do the Deuterocanonical Books Represent?; Some Brief Notes on the Early History of the Deuterocanonici: A Response to John Collins; Hellenization and Jewish Identity in the Deuterocanonical Literature; Hellenization and Jewish Identity in the Deuterocanonical Literature: A Response to Ben Wright; Short Notes on Ben Wright's "Hellenization and Jewish Identity in the Deuterocanonical Literature"; Wisdom in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literatures; THEMATIC STUDIES
Creation, Torah, and Revealed Wisdom in Some Second Temple Sapiential Texts (Sirach, 4QInstruction, 4Q185, and 4Q525): A Response to John KampenPANCRATIUS C. BEENTJES Philo of Alexandria and Greek Ben Sira; Images of Imparting Knowledge in Ben Sira and Proverbs; The Figure of Moses in the Book of Wisdom; Apocalypticism and Narration in the Book of Tobit; "What About the Dog?" Tobit's Mysterious Canine Revisited; Wisdom in the Book of Tobit; APPENDIX; Mr. Deuterocanonical Literature (1546-2013): A Brief Vita of a Controversial Religious Figure; Index of Modern Authors; Index of Passages
Summary The volume publishes papers read at the tenth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2013. The authors explore various aspects of this literature, with pre-eminent emphasis on their relation to diverse early Jewish texts and traditions; their reactions on Hellenism; and the way they treated as a canonical collection within their history of interpretation
Analysis Apocrypha
Biblical Studies
Early Judaism
Old Testament
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Bible. Apocrypha -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses
Bible. Apocrypha fast
Bibel Altes Testament gnd
Apokryphen gnd
Subject RELIGION / Judaism / General.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Xeravits, Géza G., editor
Zsengellér, József, editor
Szabó, Xavér, editor
ISBN 9783110392548
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