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Author Qumran Institute Symposium (3rd : 2013 : Groningen, Netherlands), author.

Title Jewish cultural encounters in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world / edited by Mladen Popovic, Myles Schoonover, Marijn Vandenberghe
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 317 pages) : illustrations
Series Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; volume 178
Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 178.
Contents Chapter 1 Ancient Jewish Cultural Encounters and a Case Study on Ezekiel; Chapter 2 Taming Egypt: The Impact of Persian Imperial Ideology and Politics on the Biblical Exodus Account; Chapter 3 Exchange, Replacement, or Acceptance? Two Examples of Lending Deities among Ethnic Groups in Elephantine; Chapter 4 Netting Marduk? The Concept of Hidden Transcripts and the Transfer of Cultural Knowledge from Mesopotamian to Judean Texts; Chapter 5 The Prayer of Nabonidus in the Light of Hellenistic Babylonian Literature
Chapter 6 Levels of Meaning and Textual Polysemy in Akkadian and Hebrew Exegetical TextsChapter 7 "Judaism" and "Hellenism": Martin Hengel's Work in Perspective; Chapter 8 Choosing Between Papyrus and Skin: Cultural Complexity and Multiple Identities in the Qumran Library; Chapter 9 What Does India Have to Do with Jerusalem? Ben Sira, Language, and Colonialism; Chapter 10 Hybridity, Hydrology, and Hidden Transcript: Sirach 24 and the Judean Encounter with Ptolemaic Isis Worship
Chapter 11 Reflections on the Cultural Encounter between the Jews and the Greeks and Romans in Jewish Coin Iconography of the Hellenistic-Roman PeriodChapter 12 Philo's Greek Scriptures and Cultural Symbiosis; Chapter 13 "I Wish Those Who Unsettle You Would Mutilate Themselves!" (Gal 5:12): Circumcision and Emasculation in the Letter to the Galatians; Chapter 14 Rabbis and Romanization: A Review Essay; Chapter 15 Subversion and Subculture: Jewish Time-Keeping in the Roman Empire; Chapter 16 Elijah's Cave in Haifa: Whose Holy Site is this Anyway?; Index of Modern Authors
Summary "The essays in this volume originate from the Third Qumran Institute Symposium held at the University of Groningen, December 2013. Taking the flexible concept of "cultural encounter" as a starting point, the essays in this volume bring together a panoply of approaches to the study of various cultural interactions between the people of ancient Israel, Judea, and Palestine and people from other parts of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world. In order to study how cultural encounters shaped historical development, literary traditions, religious practice and political systems, the contributors employ a broad spectrum of theoretical positions (e.g., hybridity, métissage, frontier studies, postcolonialism, entangled histories and multilingualism), to interpret a diverse set of literary, documentary, archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic, and iconographic sources"-- Provided by publisher
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SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses
Dead Sea scrolls -- Congresses
Bible. Old Testament fast
Dead Sea scrolls fast
Subject Jews -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- Congresses
Jews -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses
Judaism -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- Congresses
Judaism -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Jews
Judaism
Juden
Judentum
Kulturbeziehungen
Mediterranean Region
Middle East
Mittelmeerraum
Alter Orient
Naher Osten
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Popović, Mladen, editor.
Schoonover, Myles, editor.
Vandenberghe, Marijn, editor.
LC no. 2016050013
ISBN 9789004336919
9004336915