Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls
John Collins at Seventy
Published on 15. November 2016
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1538 pages
978-90-04-32473-2 (ISBN)
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This volume, a tribute to John J. Collins by his friends, colleagues, and students, includes essays on the wide range of interests that have occupied John Collins's distinguished career. Topics range from the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism and beyond into early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. The contributions deal with issues of text and interpretation, history and historiography, philology and archaeology, and more. The breadth of the volume is matched only by the breadth of John Collins's own work.
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English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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Joel Baden, Ph.D. (2007), Harvard University, is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale Univerity. He is the author of The Composition of the Pentateuch (Yale, 2012) and The Historical David (HarperOne, 2014), among many other books and articles.
Hindy Najman, Ph.D. (1998), Harvard University, is Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at Oxford University. Among her many publications are Seconding Sinai (Brill, 2003) and Losing the Temple and Recovering the Future (Cambridge, 2014).
Eibert Tigchelaar, Ph.D. (1994), University of Groningen, is Research Professor in the Research Unit of Biblical Studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is the co-author of The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition (Brill, 1997-1998), and the author of To Increase Learning for the Understanding Ones (Brill, 2001).
Hindy Najman, Ph.D. (1998), Harvard University, is Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at Oxford University. Among her many publications are Seconding Sinai (Brill, 2003) and Losing the Temple and Recovering the Future (Cambridge, 2014).
Eibert Tigchelaar, Ph.D. (1994), University of Groningen, is Research Professor in the Research Unit of Biblical Studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is the co-author of The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition (Brill, 1997-1998), and the author of To Increase Learning for the Understanding Ones (Brill, 2001).
Content
Contents
VOLUME 1
Publications of John J. Collins
Between Athens and Jerusalem, on the Wings of a Dove?
Susan Ackerman
The Social Location of the Scribe in the Second Temple Period
Samuel L. Adams
Heraclitus's Homeric Problems and Midrash Genesis Rabbah: Comparisons and Contrasts
Philip Alexander
The Identification of the "Wicked Priest" Reconsidered: The Case for Hyrcanus II
Kenneth Atkinson
What's in a Name? Naming the Unnameable in Philo and John
Harold W. Attridge
Redactor or Rabbenu? Revisiting an Old Question of Identity
Joel S. Baden
Old Testament Ethics: Story or Style?
John Barton
Future Food and Future Feasting: Tracing the Idea of the Meal in the World to Come in Qumran Literature
Claudia D. Bergmann
Casting Lots and Distributing Territories: The Hellenistic Background of the Book of Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon
Katell Berthelot
Authority and Propaganda-The Case of the Potter's Oracle
Stefan Beyerle
How Jesus Became Uncreated
Gabriele Boccaccini
Threskeia in 4 Maccabees
Daniel Boyarin
The Visualisation of the Sacred at Qumran
George J. Brooke
The Wisdom of the Nations and the Law of Israel: Genealogies of Ethnic Difference in Ben Sira and the Mekhilta
Joshua Ezra Burns
Zechariah, Zerubbabel, and Zemah: Ideological Development in Early Postexilic Judah
Laura Carlson
The Divine Assembly in Genesis 1-11
Richard J. Clifford
The Enochs of Genesis 4 and 5 and the Emergence of the Apocalyptic Enoch Tradition
John Day
Genre Analysis and Early Christian Martyrdom Narratives: A Proposal
Michal Beth Dinkler
The Disappearing God in Ezekiel the Tragedian
Robert Doran
Scent of a Woman: The Influence of Lady Wisdom on 2 Maccabees 7:20-29
Antonios Finitsis
Preserving the Cult of Yhwh in Judean Garrisons: Continuity from Pharaonic to Ptolemaic Times
Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley
"If a Case is Too Baffling for You to Decide . . ." (Deuteronomy 17:8-13): Between Constraining and Expanding Judicial Autonomy in the Temple Scroll and Early Rabbinic Scriptural Interpretation
Steven D. Fraade
Of Doves, Fish, and Goddesses: Reflections on the Literary, Religious, and Historical Background of the Book of Jonah
Eckart Frahm
Fire and Water? Apocalyptic Imagination and Hellenistic Worldview in 2 Peter
Joerg Frey
Where's Enoch? The Mythic Geography of the Qumran Book of Giants
Matthew Goff
Josephus and Jewish Ethnicity
Erich S. Gruen
Cutting the Cord with the Familiar: What Makes 4Q265 Miscellaneous Rules Tick?
Charlotte Hempel
The Dream of a Perfect Text: Textual Criticism and Biblical Inerrancy in Early Modern Europe
Ronald Hendel
"I Am the Judge": Judgment in the Apocalypse of Abraham
Matthias Henze
Mother Zion in Baruch 4:5-5:9 and 2 Baruch 1-12: A Study of Different Models of Intertextuality
Karina Martin Hogan
Scribal Innovation and the Book of Tobit: A Long Overdue Discussion
Naomi S. S. Jacobs
What is "Serekh ha-Yahad (S)"? Thinking About Ancient Manuscripts as Information Processing
Jutta Jokiranta
Deity and Divine in the Hebrew Bible and in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Reinhard G. Kratz
Simeon and Levi's Attack on Shechem, or: The Mystery of MS C of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
James Kugel
What Really Troubled Andronikos? A Note on P.Polit.Iud. 1
Rob Kugler
Who were the Advisers of the King? A Comparative Study of Royal Consultants in Mesopotamia and in Israel
Helge S. Kvanvig
Solomon in the Garden of Eden: Autonomous Wisdom and the Danger of Discernment
Peter T. Lanfer
VOLUME 2
Inner- and Extra-Jewish Polemics: The Parting of the Way Once Again
Armin Lange
"Ask What You Wish": The Intersection between Economic Freedom and Cosmopolitanism in 1 Esdras
Kyong-Jin Lee
The Place of the Early Printed Editions of Josephus's Antiquities and War (1470-1534) in the Latin Textual Tradition
David B. Levenson and Thomas R. Martin
Conceptualizing Spirit: Supernatural Meteorology and Winds of Distress in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Ingrid E. Lilly
Covenantal Nomism and the Hebrew Bible
Timothy H. Lim
From Zedekiah to the Messiah: A Glimpse at the Early Reception of the Sprout
Christl M. Maier
Ethnicity and Essentialism in and about Ezekiel's Tragedy
Stewart Moore
Perfecting Translation: The Greek Scriptures in Philo of Alexandria
Hindy Najman and Benjamin G. Wright
The Community Rule or Rules for the Communities? Contextualizing the Qumran Serakhim
James Nati
The Thanksgiving Hymns of 1QHa and the Construction of the Ideal Sage through Liturgical Performance
Judith H. Newman
Beautiful Theories: Approaching Deut 21:1-9 as Ritual Performance and Narrative Medium
Susan Niditch
Desires Crossing Boundaries: Romance and History in Josephus's Antiquities
Maren R. Niehoff
Lost Historical Traditions: Between Josephus and the Rabbis
Vered Noam
Defects, Holiness, and Pollution in Biblical Cultic Texts
Saul M. Olyan
Anthropology, Pneumatology, and Demonology in Early Judaism: The Two Spirits Treatise (1QS 3:13-4:26) and Other Texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls
Mladen Popovic
Les Esseniens et la croyance a la resurrection : de l'eschatologie zoroastrienne aux notices de Josephe et d'Hippolyte
Emile Puech
Metacritical Thoughts on "Transcendence" and the Definition of Apocalypse
Rebecca Raphael
The Passive Qal in the Hebrew of the Second Temple Period, especially as Found in the Wisdom of Ben Sira
Eric D. Reymond
A Twentieth-Century Irishman's First Century Palestine: George Moore's The Brook Kerith
Zuleika Rodgers
Blake, Enoch, and Emerging Biblical Criticism
Christopher Rowland
The Origins of the Book of Isaiah
Konrad Schmid
The Poetics of Abjection in Psalm 44
Carolyn J. Sharp
The End of Military Campaigns: Gamala and Masada in The Jewish War of Josephus
Gregory E. Sterling
"I Will Speak . . . with My Whole Person in Ecstasy": Instrumentality and Independence in the Sibylline Oracles
Olivia Stewart
Airing the High Priest's Dirty Laundry: Understanding the Imagery and Message of Zechariah 3:1-7
Ryan E. Stokes
Thrice Nahum 3:8-10: MT, LXX, and 4Q385a 17 ii-New Proposals
Eibert Tigchelaar
Textual Criticism of Hebrew Scripture in the 20th Century
Emanuel Tov
The Role of Charity in the Testament of Job
Jonathan R. Trotter
The Samaritan and Masoretic Pentateuch: Text and Interpretation(s)
Eugene Ulrich
Masada World Heritage Site: Josephus the Narrator Defeated
Jan Willem van Henten
Mastema in the Qumran Literature and the Book of Jubilees
James C. VanderKam
Women, Worship, Wilderness, and War: Celibacy and the Constructions of Identity in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Cecilia Wassen
Resonances of Jeremiah in Daniel 9
Robert R. Wilson
The Angel's Self-Revelation in Tobit 12
Geza G. Xeravits
Peace from the Ashes: Commemorating the Wars in the East, the Centre, and the West of the Roman Empire during the "Long Year of the Four Emperors" (68-70 CE)
Juergen K. Zangenberg
Hu Ezra Alah mi-Bavel: Ezra as an Exemplar of Babylonian Superiority in Rabbinic Literature
Shlomo Zuckier
Index
VOLUME 1
Publications of John J. Collins
Between Athens and Jerusalem, on the Wings of a Dove?
Susan Ackerman
The Social Location of the Scribe in the Second Temple Period
Samuel L. Adams
Heraclitus's Homeric Problems and Midrash Genesis Rabbah: Comparisons and Contrasts
Philip Alexander
The Identification of the "Wicked Priest" Reconsidered: The Case for Hyrcanus II
Kenneth Atkinson
What's in a Name? Naming the Unnameable in Philo and John
Harold W. Attridge
Redactor or Rabbenu? Revisiting an Old Question of Identity
Joel S. Baden
Old Testament Ethics: Story or Style?
John Barton
Future Food and Future Feasting: Tracing the Idea of the Meal in the World to Come in Qumran Literature
Claudia D. Bergmann
Casting Lots and Distributing Territories: The Hellenistic Background of the Book of Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon
Katell Berthelot
Authority and Propaganda-The Case of the Potter's Oracle
Stefan Beyerle
How Jesus Became Uncreated
Gabriele Boccaccini
Threskeia in 4 Maccabees
Daniel Boyarin
The Visualisation of the Sacred at Qumran
George J. Brooke
The Wisdom of the Nations and the Law of Israel: Genealogies of Ethnic Difference in Ben Sira and the Mekhilta
Joshua Ezra Burns
Zechariah, Zerubbabel, and Zemah: Ideological Development in Early Postexilic Judah
Laura Carlson
The Divine Assembly in Genesis 1-11
Richard J. Clifford
The Enochs of Genesis 4 and 5 and the Emergence of the Apocalyptic Enoch Tradition
John Day
Genre Analysis and Early Christian Martyrdom Narratives: A Proposal
Michal Beth Dinkler
The Disappearing God in Ezekiel the Tragedian
Robert Doran
Scent of a Woman: The Influence of Lady Wisdom on 2 Maccabees 7:20-29
Antonios Finitsis
Preserving the Cult of Yhwh in Judean Garrisons: Continuity from Pharaonic to Ptolemaic Times
Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley
"If a Case is Too Baffling for You to Decide . . ." (Deuteronomy 17:8-13): Between Constraining and Expanding Judicial Autonomy in the Temple Scroll and Early Rabbinic Scriptural Interpretation
Steven D. Fraade
Of Doves, Fish, and Goddesses: Reflections on the Literary, Religious, and Historical Background of the Book of Jonah
Eckart Frahm
Fire and Water? Apocalyptic Imagination and Hellenistic Worldview in 2 Peter
Joerg Frey
Where's Enoch? The Mythic Geography of the Qumran Book of Giants
Matthew Goff
Josephus and Jewish Ethnicity
Erich S. Gruen
Cutting the Cord with the Familiar: What Makes 4Q265 Miscellaneous Rules Tick?
Charlotte Hempel
The Dream of a Perfect Text: Textual Criticism and Biblical Inerrancy in Early Modern Europe
Ronald Hendel
"I Am the Judge": Judgment in the Apocalypse of Abraham
Matthias Henze
Mother Zion in Baruch 4:5-5:9 and 2 Baruch 1-12: A Study of Different Models of Intertextuality
Karina Martin Hogan
Scribal Innovation and the Book of Tobit: A Long Overdue Discussion
Naomi S. S. Jacobs
What is "Serekh ha-Yahad (S)"? Thinking About Ancient Manuscripts as Information Processing
Jutta Jokiranta
Deity and Divine in the Hebrew Bible and in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Reinhard G. Kratz
Simeon and Levi's Attack on Shechem, or: The Mystery of MS C of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
James Kugel
What Really Troubled Andronikos? A Note on P.Polit.Iud. 1
Rob Kugler
Who were the Advisers of the King? A Comparative Study of Royal Consultants in Mesopotamia and in Israel
Helge S. Kvanvig
Solomon in the Garden of Eden: Autonomous Wisdom and the Danger of Discernment
Peter T. Lanfer
VOLUME 2
Inner- and Extra-Jewish Polemics: The Parting of the Way Once Again
Armin Lange
"Ask What You Wish": The Intersection between Economic Freedom and Cosmopolitanism in 1 Esdras
Kyong-Jin Lee
The Place of the Early Printed Editions of Josephus's Antiquities and War (1470-1534) in the Latin Textual Tradition
David B. Levenson and Thomas R. Martin
Conceptualizing Spirit: Supernatural Meteorology and Winds of Distress in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Ingrid E. Lilly
Covenantal Nomism and the Hebrew Bible
Timothy H. Lim
From Zedekiah to the Messiah: A Glimpse at the Early Reception of the Sprout
Christl M. Maier
Ethnicity and Essentialism in and about Ezekiel's Tragedy
Stewart Moore
Perfecting Translation: The Greek Scriptures in Philo of Alexandria
Hindy Najman and Benjamin G. Wright
The Community Rule or Rules for the Communities? Contextualizing the Qumran Serakhim
James Nati
The Thanksgiving Hymns of 1QHa and the Construction of the Ideal Sage through Liturgical Performance
Judith H. Newman
Beautiful Theories: Approaching Deut 21:1-9 as Ritual Performance and Narrative Medium
Susan Niditch
Desires Crossing Boundaries: Romance and History in Josephus's Antiquities
Maren R. Niehoff
Lost Historical Traditions: Between Josephus and the Rabbis
Vered Noam
Defects, Holiness, and Pollution in Biblical Cultic Texts
Saul M. Olyan
Anthropology, Pneumatology, and Demonology in Early Judaism: The Two Spirits Treatise (1QS 3:13-4:26) and Other Texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls
Mladen Popovic
Les Esseniens et la croyance a la resurrection : de l'eschatologie zoroastrienne aux notices de Josephe et d'Hippolyte
Emile Puech
Metacritical Thoughts on "Transcendence" and the Definition of Apocalypse
Rebecca Raphael
The Passive Qal in the Hebrew of the Second Temple Period, especially as Found in the Wisdom of Ben Sira
Eric D. Reymond
A Twentieth-Century Irishman's First Century Palestine: George Moore's The Brook Kerith
Zuleika Rodgers
Blake, Enoch, and Emerging Biblical Criticism
Christopher Rowland
The Origins of the Book of Isaiah
Konrad Schmid
The Poetics of Abjection in Psalm 44
Carolyn J. Sharp
The End of Military Campaigns: Gamala and Masada in The Jewish War of Josephus
Gregory E. Sterling
"I Will Speak . . . with My Whole Person in Ecstasy": Instrumentality and Independence in the Sibylline Oracles
Olivia Stewart
Airing the High Priest's Dirty Laundry: Understanding the Imagery and Message of Zechariah 3:1-7
Ryan E. Stokes
Thrice Nahum 3:8-10: MT, LXX, and 4Q385a 17 ii-New Proposals
Eibert Tigchelaar
Textual Criticism of Hebrew Scripture in the 20th Century
Emanuel Tov
The Role of Charity in the Testament of Job
Jonathan R. Trotter
The Samaritan and Masoretic Pentateuch: Text and Interpretation(s)
Eugene Ulrich
Masada World Heritage Site: Josephus the Narrator Defeated
Jan Willem van Henten
Mastema in the Qumran Literature and the Book of Jubilees
James C. VanderKam
Women, Worship, Wilderness, and War: Celibacy and the Constructions of Identity in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Cecilia Wassen
Resonances of Jeremiah in Daniel 9
Robert R. Wilson
The Angel's Self-Revelation in Tobit 12
Geza G. Xeravits
Peace from the Ashes: Commemorating the Wars in the East, the Centre, and the West of the Roman Empire during the "Long Year of the Four Emperors" (68-70 CE)
Juergen K. Zangenberg
Hu Ezra Alah mi-Bavel: Ezra as an Exemplar of Babylonian Superiority in Rabbinic Literature
Shlomo Zuckier
Index