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Take another scroll and write : studies in the interpretive afterlife of prophets and prophecy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam / edited by Pekka Lindqvist & Sven Grebenstein.
Van Pelt Library BS1505.52 .T34 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in the reception history of the Bible ; 6.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Prophets--Congresses.
- Bible.
- Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible. Prophets.
- Prophets.
- Christianity.
- Judaism.
- Islam.
- Congresses and conventions.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 403 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Turku, Finland : Åbo Akademi University ; Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2016.
- Contents:
- Elijah, the servant, and Phinehas: the exegetical tradition behind Ben Sira's portrayal of Elijah's coming (Sir 48:10-11)
- "Prophecy" and "rewriting" in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- "One of the prophets of the old" (Lk 9:19): Lukes' rewriting of the biblical prophetic tradition
- Past, present, and prophecy in Hebrews 1
- Bringing the beast into the present: Daniel 7 rewritten in Revelation 13
- Hezekiah in the rewritten version of the Book of Isaiah, Targum Isaiah
- Moshe ha-Naví in Rabbinic tradition
- Rabbis on false prophets
- Prophecy and pseudo-prophecy: Biblical texts, rewritten Bible, and ancient exegetical literature
- Eve, Rebecca, and Mary as prophetical images of the church
- The prophet Muḥammad and the Arabian prophecy
- The use of the Book of Isaiah in Catholico Timotheos' dialogue with Caliph al-Mahdi
- The role of prophecy in early Christian-Arabic apologetics: Theodore Abu Qurrah's model or rewritten Bible in the encounter with Islam
- The direct speech of John the Baptist and the liturgical use of the Book of Warda
- Prophecy, astrology, and the role of Enoch in the works of Abraham Ibn Ezra
- Hezekiah in question: Medieval Jewish controversies on Isaiah 11.
- Notes:
- Papers in this volume were first presented in the 5th Rewritten Bible Conference, Gottingen, Germany, November 2012.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789521233388
- 9521233389
- OCLC:
- 944224040
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