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Published by Brill Academic Publishers Inc., Boston, Leiden, 2002
ISBN 10: 0391041606ISBN 13: 9780391041608
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xii, 250 pp., index Understanding the religious perspectives of the Mishnah starts with asking three questions. First, what is the relationship of the Mishnah to Scripture, or "oral torah" to "written torah," for understanding the religion of Judaism? Second, what is the relationship between religious ideas and the world in which those ideas emerged? Third, what is the formal religious significance of the language of the Mishnah? These questions are posed with regard to a Judaism that existed from just prior to the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E. until around 200 C.E. and assumes as well the groundwork of Neusner's earlier volume The Mishnah: Social Perspectives. In the present volume, Neusner condenses years of research on these questions and offers a clear and thorough analysis through a single lens. He looks closely at how the Halakhah of the Mishnah relates to the events prior to the Mishnah's writing (e.g., the destruction of the Temple, ca. 70 C.E., and the Bar Kokhba War, ca. 135 C.E.), through the reconstruction following Bar Kokhba until the close of the Mishnah (ca. 200 C.E.). Readers also profit from a thorough sociolinguistic explication of the rhetorical forms of the Mishnah in the light of the social context of that time. The religious perspectives of the Mishnah do not simply record the rules and regulations of bygone times; rather, they mirror the way of life and the social and religious history of Judaism.
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ISBN 10: 0391041304ISBN 13: 9780391041301
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xiv, 337 pp., bibliography, index For all those interested in intellectual history, the history of the Church, the history of Late Antiquity, as well as theologians and biblical scholars. Aryeh Kofsky is Lecturer of Comparative Religion at the University of Haifa. He recently co-edited and contributed to Sharing the Sacred: Religious Contacts and Conflicts in the Holy Land (Jerusalem, 1998). Essential reading for reconstructing early Christianity, the writings of Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260340 C.E.) have held a central place for historians of early Christianity. Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History frequently stands on the scholar's shelf alongside the writings of Josephus or Philo of Alexandria. While apologists like Irenaeus and Origen have stood squarely in the spotlight, Eusebius has remained in the shadows. Kofsky contends that the value of Eusebius's own apologetic and theological writings has been neglected. He corrects this deficit and invites us to see Eusebius as a "contender for the faith" in his own right. To accomplish his goal, Kofsky takes us on a detailed tour of two of Eusebius's key documents: Eusebius's Praeparatio Evangelica and Demonstratio Evangelica.
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ISBN 10: 0391041592ISBN 13: 9780391041592
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xviii, 270 pp., index Understanding the religious perspectives of the Mishnah starts with asking three For Aristotle, politics, economics, and philosophy define the social construction of any society. For Judaism, the Mishnahalong with Scripturesets forth the systematic statement for understanding the social construction and world view of Judaism around 200 C.E. The Mishnah functioned as the basic law in the holy land and was adopted also by Jews in the Diaspora, from Babylonia to the western satrapies of the Iranian empire of the Sasanians. Professor Jacob Neusner takes seriously the three principal tasks of theoretical thought enjoined by Aristotle and asks us to look at the Mishnah not as an inert collection of traditions passed on, but as a deliberate, programmatic statement of Judaism's way of life and world view. He points to the systematic nature of the Mishnah, with its six divisions, and shows how collectively those divisions cover the everyday life of the people. The Mishnah contains independent judgements about the nature of the system and does not merely rehearse what tradition says about a given topic. This interpretive aspect of the Mishnah has been ignored to the interpreter's peril, because it is precisely by paying attention to how the Mishnah uses traditions for its own purposes that the interpreter can appreciate the building blocks of Judaism: its politics, economics, and philosophy.
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ISBN 10: 0391041770ISBN 13: 9780391041776
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xxii, 264 pp., bibliography The academic study of Judaism requires a systematic inquiry into the history, literature, and religionand eventually the theologyas revealed in the historical documents themselves. Under this premise, Three Questions of Formative Judaism encounters the canonical writings of Judaism in the context of their creation at a certain time and place. How something is said thus becomes as important as what is said. Bringing nearly fifty years of research to bear on these fundamental questions, Jacob Neusner challenges his readers to face the difficult, often unasked or neglected questions about the nature, background, and purposes of Rabbinic Judaism and rewards them with an enriched understanding and a stronger foundation for tackling the even more elusive questions concerning the theology of formative Judaism.
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ISBN 10: 0391042181ISBN 13: 9780391042186
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xiv, 274 pp., bibliography, index Helen J. Nicholson, Ph.D. (1990) in History, University of Leicester, is Senior Lecturer in History at Cardiff University, Wales. She has published on the Crusades and the military orders, including Chronicle of the Third Crusade (Ashgate, 1998). The Knights Templar, Knights Hospitaller, and Teutonic Knights frequently appear in the French, German, and English epic and romance literature of the Middle Ages. Love, War, and the Grail examines the religious roles of the military orders, such as caring for the sick, their warrior role of fighting Muslims, and the role of Templars in the Grail romances. It traces how these roles developed over time and looks at the role of these military religious orders in fiction of the Middle Ages. Nicholson's analysis of the military orders in medieval fictional literature is of interest both to historians and to literary specialists. This is the first in-depth study to consider the subject throughout the medieval period.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 273pp; Bibliography; Index. Contents clean; some underlining and marginalia in light pencil (erasable). No ownership name; no library markings.
Published by Humanities Press, Inc., A subsidiary of Brill Academic Publishers, Boston, 1999
ISBN 10: 0391040952ISBN 13: 9780391040953
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Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. x, 301pp. Ex-library. Just a hint of a bump to lower corner of front board. Text clean. Binding sound. A good, clean, sound copy.
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ISBN 10: 0391041797ISBN 13: 9780391041790
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Paperback. 276p. A softcover book in near-fine condition. Private library stamps inside covers and on half-title page; otherwise clean and tight. Externally fine.
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ISBN 10: 0391041223ISBN 13: 9780391041226
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 221p. A softcover book in very good condition. Ex-library; original binding. Corners a bit crinkled. Labels on spine and endpapers and stamp on title page. Text clean and binding tight.
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Published by Brill Academic Publishers, Inc., Boston, 1999
ISBN 10: 0391041649ISBN 13: 9780391041646
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Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Cover shows wear. No markings in the main text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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Published by Brill Academic Publishers, Inc, Boston/Leiden, 2005
ISBN 10: 0391042467ISBN 13: 9780391042469
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition, First Printing. 389p. Ex-library hardcover book in original binding. Label residue on spine and stamp on title page, but otherwise a clean, tight, unmarked book in very good condition. Biblical Interpretation Series volume 72.
Published by Brill Academic Publishers Inc., Boston, Leiden, 2002
ISBN 10: 0391041630ISBN 13: 9780391041639
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, xvi, 479 pp., index of Biblical Literature, index of Modern Authors For all those interested in Jesus research, early Christianity, early Judaism, and Israel in the first century. Bruce D. Chilton, Ph.D. (1976) in Biblical Studies, Cambridge University, is Professor of Hebrew Bible and New Testament at Bard College, New York. He has published numerous books and scholarly articles on Jesus and Judaism. Craig A. Evans, Ph.D. (1983) in Biblical Studies, Claremont Graduate School, is Professor of Biblical Studies and Director of the Graduate Program at Trinity Western University and Senior Research Fellow at Roehampton Institute London. Jesus research is a difficult task because of the number of primary source materials and their complexities. These complexities involve problems that arise from imperfect preservation of sources, uncertain literary relationships among the documents themselves, and even less certain knowledge of their respective provenances. Jesus research inevitably involves reaching behind the extant sources, inferring from what lies before us the nature of the material upon which the evangelists drew. This volume reviews the criteria, assumptions, and methods involved in critical Jesus research. Its purpose is to clarify the procedures necessary to distinguish tradition that stems from Jesus from tradition and interpretation that stem from later tradents and evangelists, and to inquire into the various forces and situations that led to the emergence of the tradition as we have it. Articles are "Authenticating the Words of Jesus," Craig A. Evans, "Assessing Progess in the Third Quest," Bruce D. Chilton, "Criteria for Assessing the Authentic Words of Jesus: Some Specifications," Bruce J. Malina, "Doubts about Double Dissimilarity: Restructuring the Main Criterion of Jesus-of-History Research," Tom Holmen, "How Jesus Changed Language with Meaning: A Study in Rhetoric," Ben F. Meyer, "The Implications of Textual Variants for Authenticating the Words of Jesus," Stanley E. Porter and Matthew Brook O'Donnell, "The Lord's Prayer in Social Perspective," Douglas E. Oakman, "The Lord's Prayer: Second Thoughts on the First Petition," Norman Meltzer, "The Silence of Jesus: The Galilean Rabbi Who was More than a Prophet," Eckhard J. Schnabel, "The (Son) of (the)Man, and Jesus," Bruce Chilton, "Q 12:51-53 and Mark 9:11-13 and the Messianic Woes," Dale C. Allison, Jr., "Jesus: A Glutton and Drunkard," Howard Clark Kee, "Questioning and Discernment in Gospel Discourse: Communicative Strategy in Matthew 11:2-9," J. Ian H. McDonald, "Public Declaration or Final Judgement? Matthew 10:26-27 = Luke 12:2-3 as a Case of Creative Redaction," Scot McKnight, "The Authenticity of the Command: 'Love Your Enemies,'" William Klassen, "The Authenticity of the Parable of the Warring King: A Response to the Jesus Seminar," Charles L. Quarles, "The Sayings of Jesus in the Letter of James," Wesley Hiram Wachob and Luke Timothy Johnson.
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ISBN 10: 0391041622ISBN 13: 9780391041622
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xviii, 298 pp., bibliography, indexes 'In his treatment of the rhetorical complexities of Ezekiel as well as in his reconstruction of the concerns of the second generation of Judaean exiles, Renz has not only built on past generations of Ezekiel scholarship, he has also defined an approach that will stimulate further investigation for many years to come.'Margaret S. Odell, St. Olaf College. Thomas Renz teaches Old Testament and Hebrew at Oak Hill College, London. In this study, Renz argues that the book of Ezekiel functions as a rhetorical unit, that it addresses a specific rhetorical situation, and that it aims at shaping the self-understanding of the second-generation of Judaean exiles and defining the "true Israel." After examining the historical context of the exile, the author addresses the overall literary arrangement and the individual rhetorical techniques in the book. A final chapter explores the book's rhetorical effectiveness in presenting a suitable response to the issues the exilic community faced. Renz offers both a convincing analysis of the book of Ezekiel as well as a model for the fruitful integration of traditional critical methods with more recent literary, rhetorical, and sociological approaches. This book will interest all those who study the history, literature, and theology of ancient Israel.
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ISBN 10: 0391041711ISBN 13: 9780391041714
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 350p. Ex-library softcover book in original binding. Label on spine and stamp on title page, but otherwise a clean, tight, unmarked book in very good condition.
Published by Brill Academic Publishers, Inc, Boston, 2002
ISBN 10: 0391041789ISBN 13: 9780391041783
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Paperback. 611p. A softcover book in near-fine condition. Private library stamps inside covers and on half-title page; otherwise clean and tight. A very nice copy.
Published by Brill Academic Publishers Inc., Boston, Leiden, 2002
ISBN 10: 0391041584ISBN 13: 9780391041585
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, svi, 278 pp., bibliography, addenda, index Shaye J. D. Cohen is Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Harvard University. Josephus, a Palestinian Jew, authored Bellum Judaicum, which chronicled the Jewish revolt against Rome begun in 66 C.E. in Jerusalem, and roughly twenty years later wrote Antiquitates Judaicae, a study of Jewish history from the creation to 66 C.E. In both Bellum Judaicum and the Vita, an appendix to Antiquitates Judaicae, Josephus deals with his own role in the war. Although both works have apologetic aims, Josephus changes his story from one work to the next. By viewing these two works in the greater context of Josephus's life and not in isolation from each other, Cohen traces Josephus's development as a historian, as an apologist, and as a Jew. Cohen bases his historical reconstruction of Josephus's participation in the war on a delineation of specific contradictions between the two works, a survey of the scholarship on the subject, a discussion of the literary relationship between the two documents, an investigation of how Josephus treated his sources, and a detailed analysis of both the Bellum Judaicum and the Vita. Comprehensive and contextual, this work will be of general interest to students and scholars of ancient Judaism and classical antiquity.
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ISBN 10: 0391041355ISBN 13: 9780391041356
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, x, 270 pp., bibliography, indexes For all those interested in new developments in Biblical Hebrew Grammar and in linguistic analysis of narrative texts in the Hebrew Bible: Hebraists, linguists and Biblical exegetes. Articles are "An Overview of Hebrew Narrative Syntax," Christo H.J. van der Merwe, "Linguistic Motivation and Biblical Exegesis," Ellen van Wolde, "The Indicative System of the Biblical Hebrew Verb and its Literary Exploitation," Jan Joosten, "A Heirarchy of Clauses in Biblical Hebrew Narrative," Eep Talstra, "Workshop: Clause Types, Textual Heirarchy, Translation in Exodus 19, 20 and 24," Eep Talstra, "A Critical Anaylsis of Narrative Syntactic Approaches, with Special Attention to their Relationship to Discourse Analysis," Christo H.J. van der Merwe, "Workshop: Text Linguistics and the Structure of 1 Samuel I," Christo H.J. van der Merwe, "Basic Facts and Theory of the Biblical Hebrew Verb System in Prose," Alviero Niccacci, "Workshop: Narrative Syntax of Exodus 19-24," Alviero Niccacci, "The Alleged Final Function of the Biblical Syntagm ," Takamitsu Muruoka, "Workshop: Notes on the Use of Hebrew Tenses in Exodus 19-24," Takamitsu Muruoka. Ellen van Wolde is Professor of Old Testament Exegesis and Hebrew at the Tilburg University. She has published on literary and linguistic methodology and semiotics, and on Genesis, Ruth and Job, including Words become Worlds. Semantic Studies of Genesis (Brill, 1994). For centuries the Hebrew Bible had been the province of Jewish scholars. Christian interpreters focused instead on the Latin. But with the advent of the Reformation came a resurgence of interest in the original languages of Scripture. Christian scholars brought to the task a certain understanding of grammar not shared by earlier Jewish interpreters, whose interest in Hebrew waned as concern with the living tradition of rabbinic Judaism waxed. Largely European preoccupation with the form of words, their history, and their relationship to other words prevailed for centuries, and the narrative itself, the syntax of language, languished. Questions of how words and sentences communicate were not asked. New interest in linguistics, the explosion of translations of the Scriptures, and growing discontent with historical-critical methods led scholarship to rethink many of its approaches, including its approach to the study of language.
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ISBN 10: 0391041517ISBN 13: 9780391041516
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 279p. A softcover book in very good condition. Ex-library; original binding. Spine slightly sunfaded. Label on spine; labels and stamps on endpapers. Text clean and binding tight.
Published by Brill Academic Publishers Inc., Boston, Leiden, 2002
ISBN 10: 0391041665ISBN 13: 9780391041660
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xx, 386 pp., bibliography, indexes Samuel Byrskog is Professor of New Testament and Hermeneutics at Göteborg University. Samuel Byrskog employs models from the interdisciplinary field of oral history as presented by Paul Thompson, coupled with insights from cultural anthropology, in order to examine the interaction between the present and the past as the gospel tradition evolved. The ancient Greek and Roman historians, with their use of eyewitness testimony as sources to the past and as central elements in interpretive and narrativizing processes of the present, serve as the basis for unraveling culture-specific patterns of oral history, and thus for conceptualizing similar aspects during the development of the gospel tradition. Eyewitness testimonies played a central but varying role in early Christianity. They were transmitted in the matrix of discipleship, where verbal and behavioral traditions were passed on through acts of mimesis. The folkloristic notion of re-oralization explains how oral accounts regularly interacted with written texts, indicating a vivid and engaged relationship to the past as well as the semantic significance of oral communication and performance. Factual truth was essential but inseparable from interpreted truth during the course of investigation, transmission, and composition. The gospel tradition developed through a subtle interaction between the unique historic events of the past and the various circumstances of the present. The narrative and historical dimensions of a text cannot be separated, because the semantic codes of a text are often located in the culture and not in the text itself. The gospels are therefore the synthesis of history and story, intertwining the horizons of the past and of the present in their own right.
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ISBN 10: 0391041193ISBN 13: 9780391041196
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xviii, 303 pp., bibliography, index For scholars and students interested in ancient Judaism and early Christianity, the literature surviving from that period and the foundational uses of the names discussed. Graham Harvey is a Lecturer at King Alfred's College of Higher Education, Winchester. What do the names Jew, Hebrew, and Israel mean in the vernacular? That is, how did writers from 300 BCE to 200 CE use these names? What were they influenced by? And how did readers interpret them? Judaism was and continues to be culturally diverse, and writers sought to be clear and therefore "politically correct" even then. This book takes into account written as well as oral works that circulated during this 500-year period. Taking neither an etymological nor an archeological approach, Harvey instead uses the theory of associative fields to explore the full range of associations of the names in their actual context to better understand how the words were actually used. Divided into three parts, Jew, Hebrew, and Israel respectively, the volume especially examines Israel. Within each section, individual chapters are dedicated to specific literature. This book makes a significant contribution to Jewish self-definition, then and now.
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ISBN 10: 0391041363ISBN 13: 9780391041363
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xii, 604 pp., reference index James C. VanderKam is the John A. O'Brien Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely on the Dead Sea Scrolls including An Introduction to Early Judaism and The Dead Sea Scrolls Today. Scholars who actually shape the fields they work in remain few and far between. University of Notre Dame professor James VanderKam, renowned for his writings on the Dead Sea Scrolls, is one of them. This volume represents the best of Professor VanderKam's non-Qumran articles covering Second Temple Judaism, Hebrew Bible, apocalypticism, and key essays on 1 Enoch and Jubilees. Researchers and students will welcome having all of these readily available. Anyone working in these areas will appreciate VanderKam's contributions to discussions concerning calendars and festivals, the high priesthood, and prophecy and apocalyptic in the ancient Near East. A new essay on the development of Scripture's canon rounds out this essential collection.
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ISBN 10: 0391041339ISBN 13: 9780391041332
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xx, 580 pp., indexes For scholars and students from a wide variety of backgrounds interested in Judaism in the Greco-Roman world. Tessa Rajak is currently Reader in Classics, University of Reading, and Associate Director, AHRB Research Centre for the Study of Jewish Non-Jewish Relations. This volume includes twenty-seven interdisciplinary essays written by Tessa Rajak, a well-known scholar, on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world. The essays derive from the author's long-standing interests in the analysis of texts as documents of cultural and religious interaction, and in how Jewish communities were woven into the social fabric of Greek cities in the Hellenistic and Roman East. The book is divided into four sections: Greeks and Jews, Josephus, The Jewish Diaspora and Epigraphy, and an epilogue, which addresses modern uses and abuses of the Greek-Jewish polarity as exemplified by three nineteenth-century writers. Scholars and students from a wide variety of backgrounds will benefit.
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ISBN 10: 039104155XISBN 13: 9780391041554
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xviii, 595 pp., two maps, Herodean family tree, index E.M. Smallwood is Professor of Romano-Jewish History at Queen's University, Belfast.It is remarkable that Judaism could develop given the domination by Rome in Palestine over the centuries. Smallwood traces Judaism's constantly shifting political, religious, and geographical boundaries under Roman rule from Pompey to Diocletian, that is, from the first century BCE through the third century CE. From a long-standing nationalistic tradition that was a tolerated sect under a pagan ruler, Judaism becomes, over time, a threat that needs to be repressed and confined against a now-Christian empire. This work examines the galvanizing forces that shaped and defined Judaism as we have come to know it.
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ISBN 10: 0391041347ISBN 13: 9780391041349
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Paperback. Revised Edition. 876p. A softcover book in very good condition. Spine creased. First several pages lightly dampstained along the edges. Otherwise, text unmarked and binding tight.
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ISBN 10: 0391041169ISBN 13: 9780391041165
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Paperback. 4th impression. 671p. A softcover book in very good condition. Clear adhesive lamination on cover. Owner's stamps inside covers and on title page. Otherwise clean and tight.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 517p. Ex-library softcover book in original binding. Faint label residue on spine, stamp on title page, and sticker in back. Otherwise a clean, tight book in very good condition.
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xiv, 302 pp., select bibliography, indexes For scholars interested in early Judaism, Greco-Roman religions, the New Testament and early Christianity, as well as theologians interested in pneumatology. John R. Levison is Professor of New Testament at Seattle Pacific University and the author of Portraits of Adam in Early Judaism (Sheffield, 1988) and edited, with Louis H. Feldman Josephus' Contra Apionem: Studies in its Character and Context with a Latin Concordance to the Portion Missing in Greek (Brill, 1996). The Spirit in First Century Judaism mirrors the growing recognition that the role of the Spirit in Judaism and early Christianity warrants further scholarly inquiry and moreover lays a cornerstone in the foundation of pneumatological studies by scouring the writings of the likes of Plato and Plutarch, Daniel and the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as those of Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus. Levison contextualizes the material both historically and literarily, taking seriously the influence of popular Greco-Roman thinking as well as Jewish exegetical traditions. Convincingly argued, cogently presented, and thoroughly documented, this volume, in the words of the Journal of Jewish Studies, "has profound ramifications for both Jewish and New Testament Studies.".
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ISBN 10: 039104110XISBN 13: 9780391041103
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xii, 438 pp., indexes John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament at Yale University. John J. Collins offers readers a model for the scholarly study of all aspects of Judaism, from the Persian period through Late Antiqity, including its influence on early Christianity. The essays are thematically grouped to cover the problem of the Canon in Second Temple Judaism and deal with apocalypticism, the Book of Daniel, the Sibylline Oracles, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Also analyzed is the relationship between Wisdom and the Apocalypticism. This volume brings together over two decades of research by a leading authority in the field of Judaism.
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavos, paperbound, xxiv, 291-769 pp., cumulative bibliography, indexes John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament at Yale University. He has published widely on apocalypticism and Hellenistic Judaism.Peter W. Flint is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Trinity Western University in Canada. He has published widely on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Psalms, and the Septuagint. Even though the earlier debates of the twentieth century have subsided, questions concerning the composition and genre of Daniel, the social setting of the work, its literary context, and its theology persist. Because of the Dead Sea Scrolls discoveries and advances in understanding the history of transmission, Daniel has found a new generation of scholars interested in its place in the Jewish and Christian scriptures. Collins and Flint have assembled a stellar international team to review the state of Danielic studies and the hot issues surrounding them. Of the thirty-two essays, only one has previously appeared. Articles on Second Temple Judaism, theology, apocalypticism, and the New Testament afford the foundational resources scholars require for doing their own detailed analysis. Articles in Volume I are "Curretn Issues in the Study of Daniel," John J. Collins, "The Book of Daniel in Its Context," Michael A. Knibb, "Scholars at the Oriental Court: The Figure of Daniel Against Its Mesopotamian Background," Karel Van Der Toorn, "The Mesopotamian Babylonian Background of Daniel 1-6," Shalom Paul, "The Anzu Myth as Relevant Background for Daniel 7?" John Walton, "The Visions of Daniel," Reinhard G. Kratz, "Allusions to Creation in Daniel 7," Andre Lacocque, "Daniel 12 und die Auferstehung der Toten," Ernst Haag, "Daniel 3 and 6 in Early Christian Literature," Jan Willem Van Henten, "The Sopcial Setting of the Aramiac and Hebrew Book of Daniel," Rainer Albertz, "The Book of Daniel and Its Social Setting," Stefan Beyerle, "A Dan(iel) for All Seasosns: For Whom was Daniel Important?" Lester L. Grabbe, "The Scribal School of Daniel," Philip Davies, "Prayers and Dreams: Power and Diaspora Identites in the Social Setting of the Daniel Tales," Dnaiel Smith-Christopher. Articles in Volume II are "The Writing of Daniel," Jan-Wim Wesselius, "The Solar Calendars of Daniel and Enoch," Gabrielle Boccaccini, "The Daniel Tradition at Qumran," Peter Flint, "Daniel and Early Enoch Traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls," Loren Stuckenbruck, "Possible Sources of the Book of Daniel," Esther Eshel, "Resurrection in the Daniel Tradition and Other Writings at Qumran," John Robbins, "Stages in the Canonization of the Book of Daniel," Klaus Koch, "The Book of Daniel and the Radical Political Critique of Empire. An Essay in Apocalyptic Hermeneutics," Christopher Rowland, "Die 'vier Reiche' aus Daniel in der targumischen Literatur," Uwe Glessmer, "Daniel in the New Testament: Vixions of God's Kingdom," Craig A. Evans, "The Danielic Son of Man in the New Testament," James D.G. Dunn, "Nebuchadnezzar's Madness (Daniel 4) in Syriac Literature," Matthias Henze, "The Text of Daniel in the Qumran Scrolls," Eugene Ulrich, "The Textual History of Septuagint-Daniel and Theodotion-Daniel," Alexander A. Di Lemmi, OFM, "Syriac Daniel," Konrad D. Jenner, "Daniel in the Context of Old Testament Theology," John Goldingay, "Theological Ethics in Daniel," John Barton, "Cult and Sacrifice in Daniel. The Tamid and the Abomination of Desolation," Johan Lust.
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ISBN 10: 0391041215ISBN 13: 9780391041219
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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavos, paper covers, xiv, 344 pp. + xvi, 430 pp., bibliography, errata, index For philologists, students and specialists in the history of religion in Late Antiquity, of urban and village history of Late Antiquity, and of epigraphy.Frank R. Trombley has held visiting positions at Georgetown University, Dumbarton Oaks, University of California (Los Angeles), and King's College London. He is now a lecturer in religious studies at Cardiff College, University of Wales.Christianity seeped into the social, political, and religious fabric of the Roman Empire at an incredible pace, and during the late fourth to early sixth centuries the effects of christianization upon both the city and the countryside were profound. Frank Trombley looks specifically at this process he calls "christianization" and at the "points of conjuncture between the old and new religions, wherein the ordinary people of the Greek cities and their semi-Greek hinterlands accepted radical changes in their religious allegiances at the behest of Christian bishops, their deacons and periodeutai, the monks, and ultimately of the Christen emperors" (preface). Trombley's view encompasses not the intellectual elite but the "ordinary folk" of religious life. He studies, for example the effect of the laws against sacrifice and sorcery instituted by the Christian religion upon the Greek religious practices of the general populace. He also instructs us how official sanctions against pagan gods and the christianization of rite become the backdrop for better understanding conversion to Christianity. Trombley's firm grasp on a variety of complex disciplines reassures the reader throughout that his conclusions are informed by rigorous analysis.