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Title The function of scripture in early Jewish and Christian tradition / edited by Craig A. Evans and James A. Sanders
Published Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (350 pages)
Series Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 154
Studies in scripture in early Judaism and Christianity ; 6
Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 154.
Studies in scripture in early Judaism and Christianity ; 6.
Contents Incredulity, faith, and textual purposes: post-biblical responses to the laughter of Abraham and Sarah / Elaine A. Phillips -- Lot in Sodom: the post-mortem of a city and the afterlife of a biblical text / Judith H. Newman -- Abraham and Sarah: literary text and the rhetorics of reflection / Paul Borgman -- Singular prophet and ideals of Torah: Miriam, Aaron, and Moses in early rabbinic texts / Elaine A. Phillips -- Isaianic midrash and the Exodus / George Wesley Buchanan
Nehemiah 9 and the scripturalization of prayer in the Second Temple period / Judith H. Newman -- Decalogue in early Judaism and Chrisitianity / Richard A. Freund -- Retelling of the Song at the Sea in Wisdom 10.20-21 / Peter Enns -- Family as scriptural and social construct in Tobit / Will Soll -- More complete Semitic background for ..., 'Son of Man' / Randall Buth -- Vilification of Jehoiakim (a.k.a. Eliakim and Joiakim) in early Judaism / Steve Delamarter
Sanctification of the (Divine) name: Targum Neofiti's 'Translation' of Genesis 39.25-26 / Esther M. Menn -- Hannah's later songs: a study in comparative methods of interpretation / Joan E. Cook -- What does Ruth have to do with Rahab? Midrash Ruth Rabbah and the Matthean genealogy of Jesus / Larry L. Lyke -- ... : the influence of Palestinian Jewish exegesis on the interpretation of Exodus 12.5 in Origen's Peri Pascha / Ruth Anne Clements -- Paul and the Persian sage: some observations on Aphrahat's use of the Pauline Corpus / Stephen S. Taylor
Summary The studies that make up this book explore in what ways Israel's sacred tradition developed into canonical scripture and in what ways this sacred tradition was interpreted in early Judaism and Christianity. This collection will stimulate continuing investigation into the growth and interpretation of scripture in the context of the Jewish and Christian communities of faith, and will serve well as a reader for graduate courses with its focus on early exegesis and intertextuality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013770
Bible. Old Testament fast
Ible et Tradition. ram
Bible. New Testament -- Critique, interprétation, etc., juives. ram
Subject Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism
Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism
Bible and tradition.
Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism, Christian.
Tradition (Judaism)
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Quotations.
Tradition (Judaism)
Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism, Christian
Bible and tradition
Christian literature, Early
Rabbinical literature
Frühchristentum
Frühjudentum
Exegese
Aufsatzsammlung
Oude Testament.
Christendom.
Jodendom.
Littérature rabbinique -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature chrétienne primitive -- Histoire et critique.
Geschichte 30-600.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Evans, Craig A
Sanders, James A. (James Alvin), 1927-2020.
ISBN 9780567651402
0567651401
1283201488
9781283201483