Pursuing the text studies in honor of Ben Zion Wacholder on the occasion of his seventieth birthday
Title:
Pursuing the text studies in honor of Ben Zion Wacholder on the occasion of his seventieth birthday
Author:
Reeves, John C.
ISBN:
9780567181329
Publication Information:
Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, c1994.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (434 p.) : port.
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 / 'Break in the middle of a verse': some observations on a Massoretic feature / Putting them in their place: geography as an evaluative tool / The 'Damascus' sect and Judaism / The eschatological temple(s) of 11Qt / Second thoughts on [dvk] and the Qumran synchronistic calendars / The deuteronomic character of 4Q252 / 4Q471: a case of mistaken identity? / Kann man als Jude auch Grieche sein? Erwägungen zur jüdisch-hellenistischen Pseudepigraphie / Sirach research since 1965: progress and questions / Josephus's portrait of Ehud / Josephus's use of Greek sources for biblical history / Philo, Grammatikē, and the narrative Aggada / The 'Antiochenes in Jerusalem', again / An Enochic citation in Barnabas 4.3 and the Oracles of Hystaspes / Is 'proselyte baptism' mentioned in the Mishnah? The interpretation of M. Pesahim 8.8 (= M. Eduyot 5.2) / Did the Amoraim see Christianity as something new? / What 'the rabbis' thought: a method and a result: one statement on prophecy in rabbinic Judaism / Ad verbum or ad sensum: the Christianization of a Latin translation formula in the fourth century / Dates in Sepher Yosippon / Responsa and rhetoric: on law, literature and the rabbinic decision / Bibliography of works by Ben Zion Wacholder
Abstract:
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.
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