Studies in ancient Judaism and early Christianity / by Pieter W. van der Horst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horst, Pieter Willem van der.

Series:

Ancient Judaism and early Christianity ; v. 87.

Ancient Judaism and early Christianity, 0169-734X ; volume 87

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Judaism.

History.

Judaism--Post-exilic period (Judaism).

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Church history--Primitive and early church.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliographie 2006-2013.

Physical Description:

xiii, 307 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Summary:

"Over the past 45 years Professor Pieter W. van der Horst contributed extensively to the study of ancient Judaism and early Christianity. The 24 papers in this volume, written since his early retirement in 2006, cover a wide range of topics, all of them concerning the religious world of Judaism and Christianity in the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Byzantine era. They reflect his research interests in Jewish epigraphy, Jewish interpretation of the Bible, Jewish prayer culture, the diaspora in Asia Minor, exegetical problems in the writings of Philo and Josephus, Samaritan history, texts from ancient Christianity which have received little attention (the poems of Cyrus of Panopolis, the Doctrina Jacobi nuper baptizati, the Letter of Mara bar Sarapion), and miscellanea such as the pagan myth of Jewish cannibalism, the meaning of the Greek expression 'without God,' the religious significance of sneezing in pagan antiquity, and the variety of stories about pious long-sleepers in the ancient world (pagan, Jewish, Christian)"--Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

1 The Site of Adam's Tomb 1

2 Bitenosh's Orgasm (1QapGen 2:9-15) 6

3 At Abraham's Table: Early Jewish Interpretations of Genesis 18:8 21

4 Moses' Father Speaks Out 30

5 Philo and the Problem of God's Emotions 37

6 Two Short Notes on Philo 47

7 Philosophia epeisaktos: Some Notes on Josephus, Ant. 18.9 54

8 Biblical Quotations in Judaeo-Greek Inscriptions 66

9 Did the Gentiles Know Who Abraham Was? 80

10 The Provenance of 2 Enoch 69-73: Jewish or Christian? 95

11 Greek Philosophical Elements in Some Judaeo-Christian Prayers 100

12 Mystical Motifs in a Greek Synagogal Prayer? 111

13 A Qedushat ha-Yom in Greek 123

14 The Jews of Ancient Phrygia 134

15 Judaism in Asia Minor 143

16 Samaritan Origins according to the Paralipomena Jeremiae 161

17 The Myth of Jewish Cannibalism: A Chapter in the History of Antisemitism 173

18 Porphyry on Judaism: Some Observations 188

19 A Short Note on the Doctrina Jacobi nuper baptizati 203

20 Consolation from Prison: Mara bar Sarapion and Boethius 209

21 Cyrus: A Forgotten Christian Poet 220

22 'Without God': Some Notes on a Greek Expression 230

23 The Omen of Sneezing in Pagan Antiquity 240

24 Pious Long-Sleepers in Pagan, Jewish and Christian Antiquity 248.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004271043

900427104X

9789004271111

9004271112

OCLC:

871200229