The Aramaic version of the Bible : contents and context / Etan Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Étan.

Series:

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 174.

Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 0934-2575 ; 174

Language:

Aramaic

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Aramaic--Theology.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2012

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1988.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgments

Preface

Table of Contents

Abbreviations

Introductory Essays

I. The People and the Book

II. The Language Barrier

III. Tradition and Translation

IV. The Extant Targums

V. The Aramaic Version as Textual Witness

VI. General Characteristics of Targum

The Aramaic Version of the Bible

I. Aspects of Monotheism

II. The Name of God

III. The Angelic, the Demonic & the Occult

IV. Revelation through Word and Wonder

V. On Divine Justice

VI. Free Will and the Evil Urge

VII. Israel of the Flesh; Apologetic Biography

VIII. Imputed Merit and Imputed Guilt

IX. The Holiness Imperative

X. The Jerusalem Temple

XI. Repentance and Atonement

XII. On Prayer

XIII. On Torah

XIV. The Legitimation of Pharisaic Authority

XV. Pharisaic-Rabbinic Law and Institutions

XVI. Contradictions of Pharisaic-Rabbinic Law

XVII. History and Historiography

XVIII. The Theology of Exile

XIX. Confronting Pagan Civilization

XX. Anti-Christian Polemic

XXI. Anti Moslem Polemic

XXII. The Messiah

XXIII. Resurrection and the Afterlife

Select Bibliography

Source Index

Index of Aramaic and Hebrew Terms

Subject Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Includes the Aramaic text of the Bible with English translations.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contains:

Bible. O.T. Aramaic. 1988.

Bible. O.T. English. Levine. 1988.

ISBN:

9783110846690

3110846691

OCLC:

922945669