Ancient Readers and their Scriptures, Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garrick Allen; John Anthony Dunne (Editors)

Contributor:

Garrick, Allen V., editor.

Series:

Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 107.

Ancient Judaism and early Christianity ; Volume 107

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Bible.

Judaism.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 312 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2019.

Summary:

explores the various ways that ancient Jewish and Christian writers engaged with and interpreted the Hebrew Bible in antiquity, focusing on physical mechanics of rewriting and reuse, modes of allusion and quotation, texts and text forms, text collecting, and the development of interpretative traditions. Contributions examine the use of the Hebrew Bible and its early versions in a variety of ancient corpora, including the Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, and Rabbinic works, analysing the vast array of textual permutations that define ancient engagement with Jewish scripture. This volume argues that the processes of reading and cognition, influenced by the physical and intellectual contexts of interpretation, are central aspects of ancient biblical interpretation that are underappreciated in current scholarship.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Contributors

Preface / Garrick V. Allen and John Anthony Dunne

Reading the Hebrew Bible in Jewish and Christian Antiquity / William A. Tooman

Reading Scripture in the Second Temple Period

What Did Ben Sira’s Bible and Desk Look Like?1 / Lindsey Arielle Askin

Creation as the Liturgical Nexus of the Blessings and Curses in 4QBerakhot / Mika S. Pajunen

The Qumran Library and the Shadow it Casts on the Wall of the Cave / Jonathan D.H. Norton

The New Testament and Practices of Reading and Reusing Jewish Scripture

Exegetical Methods in the New Testament and “Rewritten Bible”: A Comparative Analysis / Susan E. Docherty

Scriptural Quotations in the Jesus Tradition and Early Christianity: Textual History and Theology / Martin Karrer

The Return of the Shepherd: Zechariah 13:7–14:6 as an Interpretive Framework for Mark 13 / Paul Sloan

The Hybrid Isaiah Quotation in Luke 4:18–19 / Joseph M. Lear

Reading Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism

A Single, Huge, Aramaic Spoken Heretic: Sequences of Adam’s Creation in Early Rabbinic Literature* / Willem Smelik

The Variant Reading ולא / ולו of Psalm 139:16 in Rabbinic Literature / Dagmar Börner-Klein

Jewish and Christian Exegetical Controversy in Late Antiquity: The Case of Psalm 22 and the Esther Narrative / Abraham Jacob Berkovitz

Reading Retrospective

What does ‘Reading’ have to do with it? Ancient Engagement with Jewish Scripture / Garrick V. Allen and John Anthony Dunne

Back Matter

Bibliography

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Subjects

Index of Modern Authors.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789004383371

9004383379

OCLC:

1052903247

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004383371 DOI