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Title Pursuing the text : studies in honor of Ben Zion Wacholder on the occasion of his seventieth birthday / edited by John C. Reeves & John Kampen
Published Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (434 pages) : portrait
Series Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 184
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 184.
Contents Creation, philosophy and spirituality: aspects of Jewish interpretation of Psalm 19 / Alan Cooper -- 'Break in the middle of a verse': some observations on a Massoretic feature / David B. Weisberg -- Putting them in their place: geography as an evaluative tool / James C. VanderKam -- The 'Damascus' sect and Judaism / Philip R. Davies -- The eschatological temple(s) of 11Qt / John Kampen -- Second thoughts on [dvk] and the Qumran synchronistic calendars / Michael O. Wise -- The deuteronomic character of 4Q252 / George J. Brooke -- 4Q471: a case of mistaken identity? / Martin G. Abegg, Jr. -- Kann man als Jude auch Grieche sein? Erwägungen zur jüdisch-hellenistischen Pseudepigraphie / Nikolaus Walter -- Sirach research since 1965: progress and questions / Daniel J. Harrington -- Josephus's portrait of Ehud / Louis H. Feldman -- Josephus's use of Greek sources for biblical history / James E. Bowley -- Philo, Grammatikē, and the narrative Aggada / Adam Kamesar -- The 'Antiochenes in Jerusalem', again / Getzel M. Cohen -- An Enochic citation in Barnabas 4.3 and the Oracles of Hystaspes / John C. Reeves -- Is 'proselyte baptism' mentioned in the Mishnah? The interpretation of M. Pesahim 8.8 (= M. Eduyot 5.2) / Shaye J.D. Cohen -- Did the Amoraim see Christianity as something new? / Robert Goldenberg -- What 'the rabbis' thought: a method and a result: one statement on prophecy in rabbinic Judaism / Jacob Neusner -- Ad verbum or ad sensum: the Christianization of a Latin translation formula in the fourth century / William Adler -- Dates in Sepher Yosippon / Steven Bowman -- Responsa and rhetoric: on law, literature and the rabbinic decision / Mark Washofsky -- Bibliography of works by Ben Zion Wacholder / Ida Cohen Selavan and Laurel S. Wolfson
Summary The themes of this volume encompass the lifelong interests of one of the most eminent and learned Jewish scholars of our time: Qumran, Hellenism, Rabbinics and chronography. The contributors, leading scholars in these fields, have produced what is a benchmark of modern scholarship of Judaism in the Graeco-Roman period
Analysis Judaism Scriptures
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-412) and indexes
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SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013771
Bible. Old Testament -- Theology
Dead Sea scrolls -- Relation to the Old Testament. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007006117
Bible. Old Testament fast
Dead Sea scrolls fast
Bibel Altes Testament gnd
Bible. A.T. -- Critique, interprétation, etc. ram
Subject Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism
Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425.
RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament.
Judaism -- Post-exilic period (Judaism)
Rabbinical literature
Theology
Bibelwissenschaft
Jodendom.
Judaïsme -- 10-425 (période talmudique)
Manuscrit de la Mer Morte.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Reeves, John C.
Kampen, John.
Wacholder, Ben Zion.
ISBN 9780567181329
0567181324