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Biblical Prophets in Byzantine Palestine

Author : David Satran
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004675566
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Biblical Prophets in Byzantine Palestine written by David Satran and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lives of the Prophets, a series of brief biographical sketches of the major and minor prophets of the Hebrew Bible, is a unique composition. Generally held to be a Jewish document from the end of the period of the Second Temple, the Lives offers an abundance of geographical, genealogical, and narrative detail which is not readily paralleled. This study provides the first thorough assessment of the work in nearly a century. A survey of the textual state of the composition and its reception is followed by a detailed examination of the literary structures which underlie the individual vitae. It is argued that the Lives is an evolved, heavily redacted document whose present form cannot predate the fourth century C.E. Only within the context of early Byzantine Christian concerns — holy men, sacred sites, and the veneration of the saints — does the Lives of the Prophets become a comprehensible and vital text.

Biblical Prophets in Byzantine Palestine

Author : David Satran
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004102347
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Biblical Prophets in Byzantine Palestine written by David Satran and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1995 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Lives of the Prophets," a series of brief biographical sketches of the major and minor prophets of the Hebrew Bible, is a unique composition. Generally held to be a Jewish document from the end of the period of the Second Temple, the "Lives" offers an abundance of geographical, genealogical, and narrative detail which is not readily paralleled. This study provides the first thorough assessment of the work in nearly a century. A survey of the textual state of the composition and its reception is followed by a detailed examination of the literary structures which underlie the individual "vitae," It is argued that the "Lives" is an evolved, heavily redacted document whose present form cannot predate the fourth century C.E. Only within the context of early Byzantine Christian concerns - holy men, sacred sites, and the veneration of the saints - does the "Lives of the Prophets" become a comprehensible and vital text.

The Old Testament in Byzantium

Author : Paul Magdalino
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780884023487
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (234 download)

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Book Synopsis The Old Testament in Byzantium by : Paul Magdalino

Download or read book The Old Testament in Byzantium written by Paul Magdalino and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Testament in Byzantium contains papers from a Dumbarton Oaks symposium based on an exhibition of early Bible manuscripts titled "In the Beginning: Bibles before the Year 1000." Topics include manifestations of the holy books in Byzantine manuscript illustration, architecture, and government, as well as in Jewish Bible translations.

The Land Called Holy

Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300060836
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Land Called Holy written by Robert Louis Wilken and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on both primary texts and archaelogy, Wilken traces the Christian conception of a Holy Land from its origins inthe Hebrew Bible to the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in the seventh century.

Japheth in the Tents of Shem

Author : Pieter Willem van der Horst
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042911376
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Japheth in the Tents of Shem written by Pieter Willem van der Horst and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fifteen essays, most of them published previously. Ch. 6 (pp. 109-118), "Jews and Christians in Antioch at the End of the Fourth Century" [appeared in "Christian-Jewish Relations through the Centuries" (2000)], contrasts the vitriolic anti-Jewish polemics of John Chrysostom in regard to Judaizing with the attitude of the "Apostolic Constitutions" (material on ecclesiastical law). The latter, instead of denigrating the Jews, borrowed from them aspects of Judaism that local Christians found attractive. Ch. 12 (pp. 207-221), "Who Was Apion?" [unpublished], focuses on Apion's "scholarship" and writing, i.e. activities other than his anti-Jewish polemics. However, notes that Apion's self-proclaimed originality included his invention of the libel of Jewish cannibalism.

The Aramaic Bible

Author : Derek R. G. Beattie
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567111741
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book The Aramaic Bible written by Derek R. G. Beattie and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-six essays in this volume represent the papers read at the international Conference on the Aramiac Bible held in Dublin (1992). The purpose of the Conference was to bring together leading specialists on the Targums and related topics to discuss issues in the light of recent developments, for instance Second Temple interpretation of the Scriptures, Qumran Literature, targumic and Palestinian Aramaic, new Genizah manuscripts, Jewish tradition, Origen's Hexapla, Pseudepigrapha, Apocrypha and the Christian West. The papers are arranged under seven headings: Targum Texts and Editions; The Aramaic Language: The Targums and Jewish Biblical Interpretation; Targums of the Pentateuch; Targums of the Hagiographa; Targums and New Testament; Jewish Traditions and Christian Writings. The international team, drawn from nine countries, is as follows (following the order of the papers); M. Klein, S. Reif, L. Diez Merino, R. Gordon, M. McNamara, S.A. Kaufman, E. Cook, M. Hengel, O. Betz, A. Shinan, J. Ribera, B. Grossfeld, P.V.M. Flesher, G. Boccaccini, M. Maher, R. Hayward, R. Syren, P.S. Alexander, D.R.G. Beattie, C. Mangan, B. Ego, M. Wilcox, B. Chilton, G.J. Norton, B. Kedar Kopstein, M. Stone.

Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament as Part of Christian Literature

Author : Marinus de Jonge
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004496513
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament as Part of Christian Literature written by Marinus de Jonge and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary witnesses of the writings called Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament are, in great majority, of Christian provenance. It has been customary for scholars to look for an originally Jewish form of the documents, reflecting Jewish life and thought in the period between 200 BCE and 100 CE. In this volume, M. de Jonge argues that these writings should, first of all, be studied as documents relevant for Christians. This volume incorporates essays written earlier by the author as well as a number of new chapters. The first part deals with general questions concerning the transmission of the pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament whereas the second part has a particular focus on the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the Greek Life of Adam and Eve.

Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity

Author : Elsa Giovanna Simonetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009328786
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity written by Elsa Giovanna Simonetti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores divination in antiquity from a range of perspectives, looking both at practices and theories and how and why these changed over time. Important for students and academics working in classics, history of philosophy, and history of religion"--

Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire

Author : Natalie B. Dohrmann
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812208579
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire by : Natalie B. Dohrmann

Download or read book Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire written by Natalie B. Dohrmann and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In histories of ancient Jews and Judaism, the Roman Empire looms large. For all the attention to the Jewish Revolt and other conflicts, however, there has been less concern for situating Jews within Roman imperial contexts; just as Jews are frequently dismissed as atypical by scholars of Roman history, so Rome remains invisible in many studies of rabbinic and other Jewish sources written under Roman rule. Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire brings Jewish perspectives to bear on long-standing debates concerning Romanization, Christianization, and late antiquity. Focusing on the third to sixth centuries, it draws together specialists in Jewish and Christian history, law, literature, poetry, and art. Perspectives from rabbinic and patristic sources are juxtaposed with evidence from piyyutim, documentary papyri, and synagogue and church mosaics. Through these case studies, contributors highlight paradoxes, subtleties, and ironies of Romanness and imperial power. Contributors: William Adler, Beth A. Berkowitz, Ra'anan Boustan, Hannah M. Cotton, Natalie B. Dohrmann, Paula Fredriksen, Oded Irshai, Hayim Lapin, Joshua Levinson, Ophir Münz-Manor, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Hagith Sivan, Michael D. Swartz, Rina Talgam.

Biblical Traditions in Transmission

Author : Charlotte Hempel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047405978
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Biblical Traditions in Transmission written by Charlotte Hempel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by a group of well-known international scholars deals with the complex and fluid ways in which biblical traditions are transmitted in a variety of contexts focusing especially on the versions, the pseudepigrapha and Qumran, and early Christian literature.

Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World

Author : Judith Lieu
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191532347
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World by : Judith Lieu

Download or read book Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World written by Judith Lieu and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I am a Christian' is the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others; but what did this confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructed? This innovative study sets the emergence of Christian identity in the first two centuries, as it is constructed by the broad range of surviving literature, within the wider context of Jewish and Graeco-Roman identity. It uses a number of models from contemporary constructionist views of identity formation to explore how what comes to be seen as 'Christian' literature creates a sense of what to be 'a Christian' means, and traces both continuities and discontinuities with the ways in which Jewish and Graeco-Roman identity were also being constructed through their texts. It seeks to acknowledge the centrality of texts in shaping early Christianity, historically as well as in our perception of it, while also exploring how we might move from those texts to the individuals and communities who preserved them. Such an approach challenges more traditional emphases on the development of institutions, whether structures or credal and ethical formulations, which often fail to recognize the rhetorical function of the texts on which they draw, and the uncertainties of how well these reflect the actual practice and experience of individuals and communities. While building on recent recognition of the diversity of early Christianity, the book goes on to explore the question whether it is possible to speak of a distinctive Christian identity across both the range of early texts and as a pressing historical and theological question in the contemporary world.

Jesus and the God of Israel

Author : Richard Bauckham
Publisher : Authentic Media Inc
ISBN 13 : 1842278967
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Jesus and the God of Israel written by Richard Bauckham and published by Authentic Media Inc. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "God Crucified" and Other Essays on the New Testament's Christology of Divine Identity The basic thesis of this important book on New Testament Christology, sketched in the first essay 'God Crucified, is that the worship of Jesus as God was seen by the early Christians as compatible with their Jewish monotheism. Jesus was thought to participate in the divine identity of the one God of Israel. The other chapters provide more detailed support for, and an expansion of, this basic thesis. Readers will find not only the full text of Bauckham's classic book God Crucified, but also groundbreaking essays, some of which have never been published previously

The Monastic School of Gaza

Author : Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047408446
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Monastic School of Gaza written by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies one of the most striking chapters in the history of late antique monastic culture, provided by the monastic legacy of Gaza. A monastic intellectual community flourished in the region of Gaza from the fourth to the seventh century, producing a wealth of literary works. In this diverse and exciting literary corpus—especially in the unique correspondence between spiritual leaders and their clientele—matters that are usually only hinted at in monastic sources, are vividly portrayed. Distinct from the dry and matter-of-fact monastic instructions and the stereotypes of hagiography, this corpus exposes the psychological tensions, moods, frustrations, and elations in the daily existence of the monks, revealing them as creatures of flesh and blood. This book seeks to frame the historical development of this community and endeavours to analyze the spiritual and intellectual context of what may be termed the monastic school of Gaza. The legacy of this complex and thriving centre cuts across theological differences and boundaries. Shedding light on these neglected educated circles enhances and somewhat balances the overall historical picture of late antique ascetic culture and Palestinian Christianity.

The Biblical World

Author : John Barton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415350914
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Biblical World written by John Barton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive guide to the contents, historical setting, and social context of the Bible.

Perspectives on the Formation of the Book of the Twelve

Author : Rainer Albertz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311028376X
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on the Formation of the Book of the Twelve written by Rainer Albertz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formation of the Book of the Twelve is one of the most vigorously debated subjects in Old Testament studies today. This volume assembles twenty-four essays by the world’s leading experts, providing an overview of the present state of scholarship in the field. The book’s contributors focus on questions of method, history, as well as redactional and textual history.

Hebrew Scripture in Patristic Biblical Theory

Author : Edmon Louis Gallagher
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004228020
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Hebrew Scripture in Patristic Biblical Theory by : Edmon Louis Gallagher

Download or read book Hebrew Scripture in Patristic Biblical Theory written by Edmon Louis Gallagher and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The status of the Christian Old Testament as originally Hebrew scripture had certain theoretical implications for many early Christians. While they based their exegesis on Greek translations and considered the LXX inspired in its own right, the Fathers did acknowledge the Hebrew origins of their Old Testament and in some ways defined their Bible accordingly. Hebrew scripture exerted its influence on patristic biblical theory especially in regard to issues of the canon, language, and text of the Bible. For many Fathers, only documents thought to be originally composed in Hebrew could be considered canonical, the Hebrew language was considered the primordial language subsequently confined to Israel, and the LXX, as the most faithful translation, corresponded precisely to the Hebrew text.

The Animalising Affliction of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4

Author : Peter Joshua Atkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567706206
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book The Animalising Affliction of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4 written by Peter Joshua Atkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed investigation into the nature of Nebuchadnezzar's animalising affliction in Daniel 4 and the degree to which he is depicted as actually becoming an animal. PeterAtkins examines two predominant lines of interpretation: either Nebuchadnezzar undergoes a physical metamorphosis of some kind into an animal form; or diverse other readings that specifically preclude or deny an animal transformation of the king. By providing an extensive study of these interpretative opinions, alongside innovative assessments of ancient Mesopotamian divine-human-animal boundaries, Atkins ultimately demonstrates how neither of these traditional interpretations best reflect the narrative events. While there have been numerous metamorphic interpretations of Daniel 4, these are largely reliant upon later developments within the textual tradition and are not present in the earliest edition of Nebuchadnezzar's animalising affliction. Atkins' study displays that when Daniel 4 is read in the context of Mesopotamian texts, which appear to conceive of the human-animal boundary as being indicated primarily in relation to possession or lack of the divine characteristic of wisdom, the affliction represents a far more significant categorical change from human to animal than has hitherto been identified.