A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
Published on 6. December 2019
Book
Hardback
558 pages
978-0-19-086307-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions, but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus not as an artificial collection of reconstructed texts--a body of hypothetical originals--but rather from the perspective of the preserved materials, examined in their religious, social, and political contexts. It also considers the other, non-Christian, channels of the survival of early Jewish materials, including Rabbinic, Gnostic, Manichaean, and Islamic. This unique project brings together scholars from many different fields in order to map the trajectories of early Jewish texts and traditions among diverse later cultures. It also provides a comprehensive and comparative introduction to this new field of study while bridging the gap between scholars of early Judaism and of medieval Christianity.
Reviews / Votes
This valuable volume will no doubt serve its purpose and stimulate scholars to continue their search for the reception of this material in Christian tradition, especially for a somewhat later period for which this has perhaps not yet been done to the full extent. * J. Verheyden, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses * the volume as a whole is a significant step towards future research on the Nachleben of early Jewish texts and traditions in multicultural and multilingual environments. * FLORENTINA BADALANOVA GELLER, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament * A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission is an extremely meritorious work that succeeds in highlighting the complexity of Jewish traditions over the centuries and their importance in defining Western identity itself. * RBL 11/2023 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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2
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Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
1224 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-086307-4 (9780190863074)
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Gabriele Boccaccini | Lorenzo DiTommaso | David Hamidovic
A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
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10/2019
OUP eBook
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Gabriele Boccaccini | Lorenzo DiTommaso | David Hamidovic
A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
E-Book
10/2019
OUP eBook
€97.99
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Persons
Alexander Kulik is Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Gabriele Boccaccini is Professor of Second Temple Judaism and and Christian Origins at the University of Michigan.
Lorenzo DiTommaso is Professor of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University Montreal.
David Hamidovic is Professor of Jewish Apocryphal Literature and History of Judaism in Antiquity at the University of Lausanne.
Michael E. Stone is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religions and Armenian Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Gabriele Boccaccini is Professor of Second Temple Judaism and and Christian Origins at the University of Michigan.
Lorenzo DiTommaso is Professor of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University Montreal.
David Hamidovic is Professor of Jewish Apocryphal Literature and History of Judaism in Antiquity at the University of Lausanne.
Michael E. Stone is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religions and Armenian Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Editor
Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic StudiesAssociate Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian OriginsProfessor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, University of Michigan
Professor of Religions and CulturesProfessor of Religions and Cultures, Concordia University Montreal
Professor of Jewish Apocryphal Literature and History of Judaism in AntiquityProfessor of Jewish Apocryphal Literature and History of Judaism in Antiquity, University of Lausanne
Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religions and Armenian StudiesProfessor Emeritus of Comparative Religions and Armenian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Content
Introduction: Alexander Kulik, "The Voice of Jacob" A. Traditions
1. William Adler, "Greek"
2. Robert A. Kraft, "Latin"
3. Pierluigi Piovanelli, "Ethiopic"
4. Alexander Kulik, "Slavonic"
5. Jacques van der Vliet, "Coptic"
6. Sergey Minov, "Syriac"
7. Michael E. Stone, "Armenian"
8. Jost Gippert, "Georgian"
9. John C. Reeves, "Christian Arabic"
10. Martin McNamara, "Irish"
11. Brian Murdoch, "Germanic" B. Corpora
12. Lorenzo DiTommaso, "The 'Old Testament Pseudepigrapha' as Category and Corpus"
13. Michael Tuval, "Flavius Josephus"
14. Gregory E. Sterling, "Philo of Alexandria"
15. Abraham Terain, "Armenian Philonic Corpus"
16. Folker Siegert, "Minor Jewish Hellenistic Authors"
17. Folker Siegert, "Early Jewish Liturgical Texts"
18. David Hamidovic, "Qumran Texts"
19. Gabriele Boccaccini, "Enochic Traditions"
21. Jonathan Ben-Dov, "The Jewish Calendar and Jewish Sciences" C. Comparative Perspectives: Alternative Modes of Transmission
21. Martha Himmelfarb, "Rabbinic and Post-Rabbinic Jewish"
22. Dylan M. Burns, "Gnostic"
23. John C. Reeves, "Manichaean"
24. John C. Reeves, "Islamic" D. Trajectories of Traditions
25. James Hamilton Charlesworth, "'The Pseudepigrapha Crescent,' and a Taxonomy of How Christians Shaped Jewish Traditions and Texts"
26. Lorenzo DiTommaso, "The Reception and Interpretation of 'Old Testament' Figures in Literature and Art from Antiquity through the Reformation: Studies, 1983-2017" Indices
1. William Adler, "Greek"
2. Robert A. Kraft, "Latin"
3. Pierluigi Piovanelli, "Ethiopic"
4. Alexander Kulik, "Slavonic"
5. Jacques van der Vliet, "Coptic"
6. Sergey Minov, "Syriac"
7. Michael E. Stone, "Armenian"
8. Jost Gippert, "Georgian"
9. John C. Reeves, "Christian Arabic"
10. Martin McNamara, "Irish"
11. Brian Murdoch, "Germanic" B. Corpora
12. Lorenzo DiTommaso, "The 'Old Testament Pseudepigrapha' as Category and Corpus"
13. Michael Tuval, "Flavius Josephus"
14. Gregory E. Sterling, "Philo of Alexandria"
15. Abraham Terain, "Armenian Philonic Corpus"
16. Folker Siegert, "Minor Jewish Hellenistic Authors"
17. Folker Siegert, "Early Jewish Liturgical Texts"
18. David Hamidovic, "Qumran Texts"
19. Gabriele Boccaccini, "Enochic Traditions"
21. Jonathan Ben-Dov, "The Jewish Calendar and Jewish Sciences" C. Comparative Perspectives: Alternative Modes of Transmission
21. Martha Himmelfarb, "Rabbinic and Post-Rabbinic Jewish"
22. Dylan M. Burns, "Gnostic"
23. John C. Reeves, "Manichaean"
24. John C. Reeves, "Islamic" D. Trajectories of Traditions
25. James Hamilton Charlesworth, "'The Pseudepigrapha Crescent,' and a Taxonomy of How Christians Shaped Jewish Traditions and Texts"
26. Lorenzo DiTommaso, "The Reception and Interpretation of 'Old Testament' Figures in Literature and Art from Antiquity through the Reformation: Studies, 1983-2017" Indices