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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794234803321

Titolo

Early Judaism and its modern interpreters / / edited by Matthias Henze and Rodney A. Werline

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Atlanta : , : SBL Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

0-88414-482-8

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 645 pages)

Disciplina

296/.09014

Soggetti

Judaism - History - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D - Historiography

Jews - History - 586 B.C.-70 A.D - Historiography

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Historical and Social Settings -- 1.Jewish History from Alexander to Hadrian / Chris Seeman -- 2.Social World of Early Judaism / Philip F. Esler -- 3.Judaism in the Diaspora / Erich S. Gruen -- 4.Gender in Early Jewish Literature / Francoise Mirguet -- pt. 2 Methods, Manuscripts, and Materials -- 5.New Methodologies / Rodney A. Werline -- 6.Dead Sea Scrolls / Alison Schofield -- 7.Early Jewish Epigraphy / Pieter W. van der Horst -- 8.Documentary Papyri / Robert Kugler -- 9.Archaeology of Early Judaism / Eric M. Meyers -- 10.Early Judaism and Modern Technology / Todd R. Hanneken -- pt. 3 Early Jewish Literatures -- 11.Literature of Early Judaism / Timothy H. Lim -- 12.Alexandrian Judaism / Maren R. Niehoff -- 13.Thinking about Scripture in Second Temple Times / James Kugel -- 14.Testaments / Robert Kugler -- 15.Narrative Literature / Sylvie Honigman -- 16.Jewish Historiography / Steve Mason -- 17.Apocalyptic Literature / Matthias Henze -- 18.Wisdom Literature / Benjamin G. Wright -- 19.Early Jewish Prayer / Angela Kim Harkins -- pt. 4 Afterlife of Early Judaism -- 20.Early Judaism and Rabbinic Judaism / Ishay Rosen-Zvi -- 21.Early Judaism and Mysticism / Andrea Lieber -- 22.Early Judaism and Early Christianity / Lutz Doering -- 23.Transmission History of the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha / Liv



Ingeborg Lied.

Sommario/riassunto

"Since the publication of the first edition of Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters in 1986, the field of early Judaism has exploded with new data, the publication of additional texts, and the adoption of new methods. This new edition of the classic resource honors the spirit of the earlier volume and focuses on the scholarly advances in the past four decades that have led to the study of early Judaism becoming an academic discipline in its own right. Essays written by leading scholars in the study of early Judaism fall into four sections: historical and social settings; methods, manuscripts, and materials; early Jewish literatures; and the afterlife of early Judaism"--Publisher