The testaments of the twelve patriarchs / / Robert A. Kugler

• Autore: Kugler Robert A.
• Pubblicazione: Sheffield, England : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (128 p.)
• Disciplina: 229/.914
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [101]-111) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. An Introduction to the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs; 2. A Closer Look at the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs: Special Characteristics, Critical Points of Interest and Meaning; 3. Exegesis and Theology in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is of especial interest to students of early Judaism and Christianity, though this importance is not always recognized. This collection preserves extra-biblical traditions about the sons of Jacob, it reflects a moral worldview of Jews and Christians around the turn of the era, and it casts light on its authors' eschatological imagination. Robert A. Kugler introduces the student to the Testaments' contents, their relationship to other texts of the era, textual witnesses and sources, and rehearses the debate regarding authorship, compositional history and
• Titolo autorizzato: The testaments of the twelve patriarchs
• ISBN: 1-283-20128-3; 9786613201287; 0-567-62515-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461345503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Guides to Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha.