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The study of early Judaism and early Christianity has been revolutionised by new evidence from a host of sources: the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Pseudepigrapha, the New Testament Apocrypha, the Nag Hammadi writings and related texts, and new papyrus and amulet discoveries. Now scholars have entered the "next generation" of scholarship, where these bodies of evidence are appreciated in conversation with each other and within the contexts of the wider Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman cultures from the fourth century BCE to the fourth century CE.
This volume features chapters from leading scholars who approach the study of early Judaism and early Christianity from this synthetic approach. The chapters engage in an inter-generational and international dialogue among the past, present and future generations of scholars, and also among European, North-American, African and South-American scholars and their various methodologies and approaches -- linguistic, historical or comparative. Among the chapters are contributions by Professors James Charlesworth (Princeton), André Gagné (Concordia) and Loren Stuckenbruck (Munich), as well as papers from researchers from North America, Europe, South America and Africa.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Foreword and Introduction, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Concordia University, Canada, and Gerbern S. Oegema, McGill University, Canada
1. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Thirty Years Later, James H. Charlesworth, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
Part I: Early Jewish Texts and Traditions
2. 1 Enoch Chapter 1: Comparison of Two Translations, Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
3. Iron Age Heroes and Enochic Giants, Kyle Roark, Florida State University, USA
4. 4QEnc (4Q204) Column I: A New Reconstruction, Bronson Brown-De Vost, Brandeis University, USA
5. Bulls, Cows, and the Tragic Fate of the Females at the Eschaton: A Gender Reading of the Animal Apocalypse in 1 Enoch 85-90, Zhenya Gurina-Rodriguez, Brite Divinity School/Texas Christian University, USA
6. Confined by Mountains of Metal: The Translation Problem of 1 Enoch 67:4, Raul Vitor Rodrigues Peixoto, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
7. Compositional Technique in the Temple Scroll: Creative Interpretation and Integrative Interpretation in the Passover Legislation, James Nati, Yale University, USA
8. Hellish Rhetoric: The Pedagogical Function of the Underworld in 4Q184, Ross P. Ponder, University of Texas at Austin, USA
9.The Transmission of Jubilees: Reevaluating the Textual Basis, Matthew P. Monger, MF-Norwegian School of Theology, Norway
10. Mending the Fractures of Genesis: Strategies of Harmonization in the Book of Jubilees, Brett Maiden, Emory University, USA
11. Ptolemaic Sovereignty and the Political Unconscious of 3 Maccabees: Philopator's Decree (2:28-30) in Light of Late Ptolemaic Asylia Inscriptions, G. Anthony Keddie, University of Texas at Austin, USA
12. Belial in the Dead Sea Scrolls: From Worthless to Stumbling Block to Archenemy, Francis Daoust, Université de Montréal, Canada
13. Flatterers, Whisperers, and Other Hypocrites: New Denominations for Sinners in the Writings of the Second Temple Period, Patrick Pouchelle, Centre Sèvres, France
14. Ezra's Continuity in 4 Ezra, Jason Ford, Rice University, USA
Part II: The Reception of Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christianity and Judaism
15. Interpretations of Abraham's Circumcision in Early Christianity and Genesis Rabbah, Malka Z. Simkovich, Brandeis University, USA
16. Redemption from the Ashes: Repositioning the Temple in Early Christian and Rabbinic Thought, Andrew W. Higginbotham, Hebrew Union College, Israel
17. Inside the Parables: Inside and Outside in the Apocryphon of James and in the First In-Parables Speech of Mark, Antoine Paris, Université Paris - Sorbonne, France / Université de Montréal, Canada
18. The Evolution of the Figure of Nimrod through the Lens of Rabbinic Literature, Apolline Thromas, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
19. Jewish Apocalyptic and Mystical Background in the Gospel of Judas, Serge Cazelais, Université Laval and St. Paul University, Canada
20. Satan at the Sacrifices of Isaac and Jesus, Gavin McDowell, École Pratique des Hautes Études, France
21. What is Gnosticism? Reassessing the Nomenclature, André Gagné, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
Combined Bibliography
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