Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2008

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• The Ancient Synagogue from its Origins to 200 C.E.

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  • Authors: A. Runesson; D. Binder; B. Olsson
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  • This volume gathers for the first time all of the primary source material on the early synagogues up through the Second Century C. E. Each entry contains bibliographic citations and interpretative comments. An Introduction frames the current state of synagogue research, while extensive indices allow for easy location of specific allusions.

• Animal Imagery in the Book of Proverbs

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  • Author: T. Forti
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  • This book focuses on the zoological, literary, and conceptual aspects of animal imageries in Proverbs. Discussions of each animal's characteristics introduce analyses of the accompanying imageries' relationship to their literary setting and their rhetorical function within the worldview of Proverbs.

• Bene Israel

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  • Authors: A. Fantalkin; A. Yasur-Landau
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  • This collection of new studies in the archaeology of Israel and the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages is dedicated to Professor Israel Finkelstein and is written by twelve of his former students.

• Bible and Canon

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  • Author: L. Zaman
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  • Starting with a thorough study of canonical criticism, this book purports that a historical study is necessary for a veridical dogmatic canon. The evidence for this is presented in this book, which is a new historical study of the canon process that follows its development from the earliest stages.

• Brot, Licht und Weinstock

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  • Author: S. Petersen
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  • This study offers an intertextual approach to the “I am” sayings of the Gospel of John, considering parallels to the “I am” formula in late Antiquity. It focuses particularly on three exemplary predicates – bread, light, vine – and and their context. *** Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie sind die Ich-bin-Worte des Johannesevangeliums. Basierend auf den Einsichten der Intertextualitätstheorie werden werden spätantike Parallelen zu den johanneischen Ich-bin-Aussagen untersucht, wobei ein Schwerpunkt auf den Prädikationen Brot, Licht und Weinstock und deren Kontext liegt.

• The Character of the Syriac Version of Psalms

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  • Author: I. Carbajosa
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  • This book, that investigates the character of the Peshitta in Psalms 90-150, is designed as a tool for scholars who seek to understand the readings preserved in the Peshitta. Questions as the theology of the translation, the identity of the translators, and the relationships among the manuscripts are also raised.

• A Companion to Second-Century Christian 'Heretics'

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  • Editors Antti Marjanen; Petri Luomanen
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  • The book deals with thinkers and movements that were embraced by many second-century religious seekers but which are now largely forgotten or known only as “heretics”: Basilides, Sethianism, Valentinus’ school, Marcion, Tatian, Bardaisan, Montanists, Cerinthus, Ebionites, Nazarenes, Jewish-Christianity of the Pseudo-Clementines, and Elchasites.

• Conservatism and Innovation in the Hebrew Language of the Hellenistic Period

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  • Authors: J. Joosten; J.-S. Rey
  • Editors Jan Joosten; Jean-Sébastien Rey
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  • This volume contains 15 contributions presented at a symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls & Ben Sira, held in Strasbourg on May 29 and 30, 2006. The papers address linguistic and philological issues. Among the authors are some of the most eminent Hebraists of our period.

• Continuity and Innovation in the Aramaic Legal Tradition

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  • Author: A.D. Gross
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  • This book argues that Aramaic scribes from antiquity drew upon a common legal tradition. It identifies the distinctive elements that form the core of this tradition and traces their antecedents within the cuneiform record.

• The Courtyards of the House of the Lord

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  • Author: L.H. Schiffman
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  • Already before its publication, it was clear that the Temple Scroll represented a major contribution to the history of Jewish law in Late Antiquity. The present volume brings together the author’s studies on this important scroll. He has sought to uncover the hermeneutics of the Zadokite/Sadducean legal system and to compare and contrast it with other texts of its own type as well as with those in rabbinic literature preserving the Pharisaic-rabbinic approach.

• Defining Identities: We, You, and the Other in the Dead Sea Scrolls

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  • Authors: M. Popović; F. García Martínez
  • Editors Florentino García Martínez; Mladen Popović
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  • This selection of papers read at the 5th meeting of the IOQS offers the explorations of the forming and defining of the identities of the group or groups behind the Dead Sea Scrolls by the foremost specialists in the field.

• The Despoliation of Egypt

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  • Author: J.S. Allen
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  • This work examines how Jews defended themselves against anti-Jewish slander concerning the biblical despoliation of Egypt. The embarrassment of the episode was later 'healed' through allegory and became a critically important biblical justification for the Christian appropriation of the Greco-Roman cultural heritage.

• Echoes of Scripture in the Letter of Paul to the Colossians

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  • Author: Beetham
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  • The introduction of literary intertextuality into biblical studies has led to both discovery and dilemma. This study proposes new definitions of ‘allusion’ and ‘echo’ and a methodology on how to detect them, using the neglected letter of Colossians as a test case.

• Empsychoi Logoi — Religious Innovations in Antiquity

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  • Authors: A. Houtman; A.F. De Jong; M. Misset-Van De Weg
  • Editors Alberdina Houtman; Albert Jong; Magda Misset-Van de Weg
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  • The contributions to this volume all deal with the crucial problem of change in the religious traditions of the ancient world. They range from broad overviews to detailed case-studies, discussing examples from Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian and Manichaean literature.

• Essays on Halakhah in the New Testament

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  • Authors: David Golinkin; Marcel Poorthuis; Joshua Schwartz; Freek Van Der Steen
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  • These essays explore the Jewish background to central issues in the New Testament —letter and spirit, prophecy and law, forgiveness, the accounts of Jesus’ “trial(s)”, evidence required for legal/theological claims, the shepherding images, disinheritance, and teachings on marriage and divorce.

• The Ethics of Obscene Speech in Early Christianity and Its Environment

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  • Author: J.F. Hultin
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  • This book examines the earliest Christian comments about foul language, situating them in their historical context by means of a broad survey of ancient uses of and views about obscene speech.

• Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Volume 1B: Judean War 2

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  • Author: S. Mason
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  • Volume 1b in Brill's Josephus Project contains Book 2 of Josephus' Judean War (translation and commentary). This book deals with a period of enormous consequence: from King Herod's death (4 BCE) to the first phase of the war against Rome (66 CE). The commentary aims at a balance between historical and literary issues.

• From a Virgin Womb

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  • Author: A.J. Welburn
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  • Utilising parallels from the Apocalypse of Adam and elsewhere, this book re-examines Mt.'s infancy narratives in the light of the apocalyptic and mythological background to the virgin birth. Jesus is shown as the fulfilment of universalistic hopes though not as Son of God. Mt.'s special tradition in relation to Lk. is thereby cast in a new light.

• A Glossary of Targum Onkelos

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  • Author: E.M. Cook
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  • This glossary of Targum Onkelos, based on the standard critical edition, contains all of the vocabulary of the targum with supralinear vocalization, and accompanied by bibliographical references to other Aramaic dictionaries.

• Gnostica, Judaica, Catholica. Collected Essays of Gilles Quispel

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  • Authors: G. Quispel; J. Van Oort