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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horst, Pieter Willem van der, author.

Series:

Ancient Judaism and early Christianity ; Volume 87.

Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 1871-6636 ; Volume 87

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Judaism.

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

Church history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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).

Contents:

Preliminary Material

1 The Site of Adam’s Tomb

2 Bitenosh’s Orgasm (1QapGen 2:9–15)

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

4 Moses’ Father Speaks Out

5 Philo and the Problem of God’s Emotions

6 Two Short Notes on Philo

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

8 Biblical Quotations in Judaeo-Greek Inscriptions

9 Did the Gentiles Know Who Abraham Was?

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

11 Greek Philosophical Elements in Some Judaeo-Christian Prayers

12 Mystical Motifs in a Greek Synagogal Prayer?

13 A Qedushat ha-Yom in Greek

14 The Jews of Ancient Phrygia

15 Judaism in Asia Minor

16 Samaritan Origins according to the Paralipomena Jeremiae

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

18 Porphyry on Judaism: Some Observations

19 A Short Note on the Doctrina Jacobi nuper baptizati

20 Consolation from Prison: Mara bar Sarapion and Boethius

21 Cyrus: A Forgotten Christian Poet

22 ‘Without God’: Some Notes on a Greek Expression

23 The Omen of Sneezing in Pagan Antiquity

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

Bibliography of Pieter W. van der Horst, 2006–2013

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Names and Subjects.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-27111-2

OCLC:

874322947

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004271111 DOI