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

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• Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: James R. Royse
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  • This book investigates the scribal habits of P45, P46, P47, P66, P72, and P75, the six most extensive early New Testament manuscripts. All the singular readings in these six papyri are studied along with all the corrections.

• Scripture and Traditions

  • Type: E-Book
  • Authors: P. Gray; G.R. O'Day
  • Editors Patrick Gray; Gail R. O'Day
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  • This volume contains twenty-two essays in honor of Carl R. Holladay, whose work on the interaction between early Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism has had a considerable impact on the study of the New Testament.

• Scripture in Transition

  • Type: E-Book
  • Authors: A. Voitila; J. Jokiranta
  • Editors Anssi Voitila; Jutta Jokiranta
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  • This collection of 46 essays in honour of Raija Sollamo illuminates the dynamic nature of scripture in the Second Temple Period. The Septuagint as the first biblical translation, the living traditions in the Hebrew scriptures, and the Dead Sea Scrolls are investigated to enrich our knowledge of scripture that was and is in transition.

• Sight and Blindness in Luke-Acts

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: C. Hartsock
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  • Reading Luke-Acts through the lens of Greco-Roman physiognomics, this is a study of the use of physical descriptions in characterization in the biblical texts. Specifically, this work studies blindness as characterization and, ultimately, as an interpretive guide to Luke-Acts.

• The Significance of Sinai

  • Type: E-Book
  • Authors: G.J. Brooke; H. Najman; L.T. Stuckenbruck
  • Editors George Brooke; Hindy Najman; Loren Stuckenbruck
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  • The essays in this volume disclose how Sinai, its location, the scriptural narratives about it, and the content of the revelation received there, are variously read by Deuteronomy, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Paul, Josephus, rabbinic literature, art and philosophy.

• Studies in the Book of Ben Sira

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: G.G. Xeravits
  • Editors Géza Xeravits; József Zsengellér
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  • The volume publishes the papers read at an international conference on the Book of Ben Sira, held at the Shime'on Centre, Pápa, Hungary. Renowned specialists of the field treat among others various questions of early Jewish wisdom thought, the interpretation of history, and canon forming.

• Tobit

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: R.J. Littman
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  • This is the first commentary and translation, containing two Greek texts (Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus) of Tobit to be published since the the discovery of the Hebrew and Aramaic fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls.