With wisdom as a robe : Qumran and other Jewish studies in honour of Ida Fröhlich / edited by Károly Dániel Dobos and Miklós Kőszeghy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dobos, Károly.

Kőszeghy, Miklós

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Series:

Hebrew Bible monographs ; 21.

Hebrew Bible monographs, 1747-9614 ; 21

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Fröhlich, Ida.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament.

Qumran community.

Qumran Site (West Bank).

Judaism--History.

Judaism.

History.

Jews--History.

Jews.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Relations.

Christianity.

Dead Sea scrolls.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xviii, 549 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, England : Sheffield Phoenix Press, in co-operation with the Faculty of Humanities, Pázmány Péter Catholic University of Hungary, [2009]

Contents:

Biblical texts and the past / Philip R. Davies

Eight critical junctures in ancient Jewish history / Magen Broshi

Muss die exklusive Gottesverehrung Gewalttätig sein? Israels steiniger weg zum Monotheismus / Rainer Albertz

Abimelech: two sides of the story (Judges 9) / Georg Hentschel

The sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter and the notion of Ḥērem ([HRM]) (a problematic narrative against its biblical background) / Dolores G. Kamrada

Heilige texte un Gewalt: Annaherung an das Thema am Beispiel von Ps 137 / Jutta Hausmann

Die Sprache ser Armee von Juda: Eine Spurensuche / Miklós Kőszeghy

Ezra's elusive presence / István Karasszon

Babylon remembered: Nebuchadnezzar in the collective memory of ancient Israel / Matthias Henze

Ritual in the Old Testament apocrypha / James R. Davila

Subterranean giants and septuagint proverbs: the 'earth-born' of LXX Proverbs / Matthew Goff

The family of Tobit / Devorah Dimant

A leaf from a medieval Hebrew Book of Tobit: Jacques Mosseri Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library, Mosseri I.38 (with a note on the dating of T-S A45.25) / Siam Bhayro

Putting angels in their place: developments in the second temple angelology / Kelley Coblentz Bautch

The eschatological worship of God by the nations: an inquiry into the early Enoch tradition / Loren T. Stuckenbruck

The Aramaic Astronomical Book and the Ethiopic Book of Luminaries / James C. VanderKam

The virgin heifer and a lost Christian version of the animal apocalypse / Darrell D. Hannah

Hebrew patriarchs in the book of Jubilees: a descriptive analysis as an interpretative methodology / Jamal-Dominique Hopkins

Rebekah's prayer (Jubilees 25.11-23) / John C. Endres

Qumran witness to the developmental growth of the prophetic books / Eugene Ulrich

'Which is written in the words of Isaiah, son of Amoz, the Prophet' (CD 7.10): quotations of and allusions to the book of Isaiah in Qumran literature / Armin Lange

Ancient Jewish traditions of biblical commentary in Qumran literature / Bilhah Nitzan

The primacy and the shunning of a priestly Noah in 4QCommentary on Genesis A-D and the Damascus Document at Qumran / Dorothy Peters

Prophesized history of the Postexilic Period and polemics against priests in 4Q390 from Qumran: Levite authorship behind the fragments? / Balázs Tamási

The Temple Scroll calendar: revisiting the feast of oil in the calendrical documents/mis̆marot / Michael A. Daise

The terminology of death at Qumran / Nora David

Jewish attitudes to afterlife in the age of Jesus / Geza Vermes

Remarks on the miracles of Elisha in the Lives of the Prophets 22.5-20 / Géza G. Xeravits

Reconstructing past (Jewish) cultures / Anders Klostergaard Petersen

Weight standards and fineness of silver in Aramaic documents from Elephantine / Péter Vargyas

The Old Testament quoted in the New Testament: the interpretation of the Torah in the early Christian tradition / György Benyik

John, Jesus, and Metatron: mediators, knowledge, and the importance of a neglected interpretation / Phillip Muñoa

An ancient debate on canonicity: Julius Africanus and Origen on Susanna

Support for the poor: Leviticus 19 in Qumran and in early rabbinic interpretation / Günter Stemberger

The legal status of slaves in Sasanian and Talmudic Law / János Jany

A Jewish Aramaic amulet from Afghanistan / Shaul Shaked

'In they light shall we see the light' (Psalm 36.10): Maimonides on human intellect / Károly Dániel Dobos.

Notes:

Thirty-four essays in English and three in German.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

ISBN:

1906055572

9781906055578

OCLC:

317674235