Pursuing the text : studies in honor of Ben Zion Wacholder on the occasion of his seventieth birthday / edited by John C. Reeves & John Kampen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reeves, John C.

Kampen, John.

Wacholder, Ben Zion.

Series:

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 184.

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 184

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament--Theology.

Dead Sea scrolls--Relation to the Old Testament.

Dead Sea scrolls.

Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.

Rabbinical literature.

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

Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (447 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The themes of this volume encompass the lifelong interests of one of the most eminent and learned Jewish scholars of our time: Qumran, Hellenism, Rabbinics and chronography. The contributors, leading scholars in these fields, have produced what is a benchmark of modern scholarship of Judaism in the Graeco-Roman period.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Creation, Philosophy and Spirituality: Aspects of Jewish Interpretation of Psalm; 'Break in the Middle of a Verse': Some Observations on a Massoretic Feature; Putting Them in their Place: Geography as an Evaluative Tool; The 'Damascus' Sect and Judaism; The Eschatological Temple(s) of 11QT; Second Thoughts on [Omitted] and the Qumran Synchronistic Calendars; The Deuteronomic Character of 4Q252; 4Q471: A Case of Mistaken Identity?; Kann man als Jude auch Grieche sein? Erwägungen zur jüdisch-hellenistischen Pseudepigraphie

Sirach Research since 1965: Progress and QuestionsJosephus's Portrait of Ehud; Josephus's Use of Greek Sources for Biblical History; Philo, Grammatik#&275; , and the Narrative Aggada; The 'Antiochenes in Jerusalem'. Again; An Enochic Citation in Barnabas 4.3 and the Oracles of Hystaspes; Is 'Proselyte Baptism' Mentioned in the Mishnah? The Interpretation of m. Pesahim 8.8 (= m. Eduyot 5.2); Did the Amoraim See Christianity as Something New?; What 'the Rabbis' Thought: A Method and a Result. One Statement on Prophecy in Rabbinic Judaism

Ad Verbum or Ad Sensum: The Christianization of a Latin Translation Formula in the Fourth CenturyDates in Sepher Yosippon; Responsa and Rhetoric: On Law, Literature and the Rabbinic Decision; Bibliography of Works by Ben Zion Wacholder; Index of References; Index of Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611803834

9781281803832

1281803839

9780567181329

0567181324

OCLC:

650000537