Jerusalem, Alexandria, Rome : studies in ancient cultural interaction in honour of A. Hilhorst / edited by Florentino García Martínez and Gerard P. Luttikhuizen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hilhorst, A.

García Martínez, Florentino.

Luttikhuizen, Gerard P.

Series:

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism 1384-2161 ; v. 82.

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, 1384-2161 ; v. 82

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian literature, Early--History and criticism.

Christian literature, Early.

Literature, Ancient--History and criticism.

Literature, Ancient.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xiv, 389 pages, 1 unnumbered page of plates : portrait ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, 2003.

Summary:

The present volume has been compiled by colleagues and friends as a tribute to Dr. A. Hilhorst, the Secretary of the Journal for the Study of Judaism, on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Its 23 contributions by renowned international experts, reflect the various interests of the honouree, his approach to the Classical and Semitic languages and literatures as forming part of a continuum, and his attention to the interactions between the different literary corpora. Several contributions deal with the interaction of the Old Testament with later Jewish, Gnostic, or Christian writings; others explore the influences of Greek writings within a Jewish context at the levels of philology, of theological ideas, of realia, or of influence of literary compositions. Furthermore, a number of contributions centers on the interaction of Greek motives in Jewish and Christian literature, whereas in several others the focus is on the Martyrium literature or on early Christian texts.

Contents:

1. Illitteratus in Early Christian and Medieval Texts: Church and Illiteracy / Gerard J.M. Bartelink 1

2. "He must Grow, I must Diminish." (John 3:30): Augustine of Hippo Preaching on John the Baptist / Antoon A.R. Bastiaensen 13

3. Aeterne rerum conditor: Ambrose's Poem about "Time" / Jan den Boeft 27

4. "Never Repay Evil with Evil": Ethical Interaction between the Joseph Story, the Novel Joseph and Aseneth, the New Testament and the Apocryphal Acts / Janos Bolyki 41

5. The Vision of Saturus in the Passio Perpetuae / Jan N. Bremmer 55

6. Life after Death in Pseudo-Phocylides / John J. Collins 75

7. The Eagle on the Tree: A Homeric Motif in Jewish and Christian Literature / Istvan Czachesz 87

8. The Text of the Martyrdom of Polycarp Again (With a Note on the Greek Text of Polycarp, ad Phil.) / Boudewijn Dehandschutter 101

9. Theodoret's Philological Remarks on the Language of the Septuagint / Natalio Fernandez Marcos 107

10. Greek Loanwords in the Copper Scroll / Florentino Garcia Martinez 119

11. Between Old and New: The Problem of Acculturation Illustrated by the Early Christian Usage of the Phoenix Motif / Anders Klostergaard Petersen 147

12. The Use of Scripture in 1 Enoch 17-19 / Michael A. Knibb 165

13. The Interpretation of Metaphorical Language: A Characteristic of LXX-Isaiah / Arie van der Kooij 179

14. The Critical Rewriting of Genesis in the Gnostic Apocryphon of John / Gerard P. Luttikhuizen 187

15. The Irish Legend of Antichrist / Martin McNamara 201

16. [characters not reproducible] Remarks about Storied Places at the Jordan, John the Baptist and the Madaba Mosaic Map / Ed Noort 221

17. The Three Nets of Belial from Qumran to the Opus Imperfectum in Matthaeum / Monika Pesthy 243

18. Erasmus' Note on Gal 4:25: The Connection between Mount Sinai and Jerusalem / Miekske L. van Poll-van de Lisdonk 255

19. The Four Rivers of Eden in the Apocalypse of Paul (Visio Pauli): The Intertextual Relationship of Genesis 2:10-14 and the Apocalypse of Paul 23 / Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten 263

20. "Moses received Torah ..." (m. Avot 1:1): Rabbinic Conceptions of Revelation / Gunter Stemberger 285

21. The White Dress of the Essenes and the Pythagoreans / Eibert J.C. Tigghelaar 301

22. Origen on the Assumption of Moses / Johannes Tromp 323

23. La saveur biblique du latin merovingien: l'example de la Vie de Sainte Rusticule, Abbesse a Arles (VII[superscript e] siecle) / Marc Van Uytfanghe 341.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9004135847

OCLC:

52688088