Pursuing the text [[electronic resource] ] : studies in honor of Ben Zion Wacholder on the occasion of his seventieth birthday / / edited by John C. Reeves & John Kampen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453923703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sheffield, : Sheffield Academic Press, c1994
• ISBN: 1-281-80383-9; 9786611803834; 0-567-18132-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (447 p.)
• Collana: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 184
• Altri autori (Persone): ReevesJohn C; KampenJohn; WacholderBen Zion
• Disciplina: 220.44; 221.6
• Soggetti: Rabbinical literature - History and criticism; Judaism - History - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Creation, Philosophy and Spirituality: Aspects of Jewish Interpretation of Psalm; 'Break in the Middle of a Verse': Some Observations on a Massoretic Feature; Putting Them in their Place: Geography as an Evaluative Tool; The 'Damascus' Sect and Judaism; The Eschatological Temple(s) of 11QT; Second Thoughts on [Omitted] and the Qumran Synchronistic Calendars; The Deuteronomic Character of 4Q252; 4Q471: A Case of Mistaken Identity?; Kann man als Jude auch Grieche sein? Erwägungen zur jüdisch-hellenistischen Pseudepigraphie; Sirach Research since 1965: Progress and QuestionsJosephus's Portrait of Ehud; Josephus's Use of Greek Sources for Biblical History; Philo, Grammatik#&275; , and the Narrative Aggada; The 'Antiochenes in Jerusalem'. Again; An Enochic Citation in Barnabas 4.3 and the Oracles of Hystaspes; Is 'Proselyte Baptism' Mentioned in the Mishnah? The Interpretation of m. Pesahim 8.8 (= m. Eduyot 5.2); Did the Amoraim ; See Christianity as Something New?; What 'the Rabbis' Thought: A Method and a Result. One Statement on Prophecy in Rabbinic Judaism; Ad Verbum or Ad Sensum: The Christianization of a Latin Translation Formula in the Fourth CenturyDates in Sepher Yosippon; Responsa and Rhetoric: On Law, Literature and the Rabbinic Decision; Bibliography of Works by Ben Zion Wacholder; Index of References; Index of Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: The themes of this volume encompass the lifelong interests of one of the most eminent and learned Jewish scholars of our time: Qumran, Hellenism, Rabbinics and chronography. The contributors, leading scholars in these fields, have produced what is a benchmark of modern scholarship of Judaism in the Graeco-Roman period.