Golden Calf Traditions in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Themes in Biblical Narrative)

Mason, Eric F. (EDT)/ Lupieri, Edmondo (EDT)

Brill（2018/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 330 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004386754
• DDC分類 202.1

Full Description

The seventeen studies in Golden Calf Traditions in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam explore the biblical origins of the golden calf story in Exodus, Deuteronomy, and 1 Kings, as well as its reception in a variety of sources: Hebrew Scriptures (Hosea, Jeremiah, Psalms, Nehemiah), Second Temple Judaism (Animal Apocalypse, Pseudo-Philo, Philo, Josephus), rabbinic Judaism, the New Testament (Acts, Paul, Hebrews, Revelation) and early Christianity (among Greek, Latin, and Syriac writers), as well as the Qur'an and Islamic literature. Expert contributors explore how each ancient author engaged with the calf traditions—whether explicitly, implicitly, or by clearly and consciously avoiding them—and elucidate how the story was used both negatively and positively for didactic, allegorical, polemical, and even apologetic purposes.

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

1 The Calf Episodes in Exodus and Deuteronomy: A Study in Inner-Biblical Interpretation

 Robert A. Di Vito

2 The "Sin" of Jeroboam

 Ralph W. Klein

3 Do the Books of Hosea and Jeremiah Know of a Sinai/Horeb Golden Calf Story?

 Pauline A. Viviano

4 The Golden Calf in the Historical Recitals of Nehemiah 9 and Psalm 106

 Richard J. Bautch

5 Did the Sheep Worship the Golden Calf? The Animal Apocalypse's Reading of Exodus 32

 Daniel Assefa and Kelley Coblentz Bautch

6 Philo of Alexandria's Interpretations of the Episode of the Golden Calf

 Thomas H. Tobin, S.J.

7 When Silence is Golden: The Omission of the Golden Calf Story in Josephus

 Gregory E. Sterling

8 Leaders without Blemish: Pseudo-Philo's Retelling of the Biblical Golden Calf Story

 John C. Endres, S.J.

 with the assistance of Peter Claver Ajer

9 Paul and the Calf: Texts, Tendencies, and Traditions

 Alec J. Lucas

10 "They Made a Calf": Idolatry and Temple in Acts 7

 Joel B. Green

11 Traces of the Golden Calf in the Epistle to the Hebrews

 Eric F. Mason

12 A Beast and a Woman in the Desert, or the Sin of Israel: A Typological Reflection

 Edmondo Lupieri

13 "A Good Argument to Penitents": Sin and Forgiveness in Midrashic Interpretations of the Golden Calf

 Devorah Schoenfeld

14 Anti-Judaism and Pedagogy: Greek and Latin Patristic Interpretations of the Calf Incident

 Wesley Dingman

15 Justin Martyr and the Golden Calf: Ethnic Argumentation in the New Israel

 Andrew Radde-Gallwitz

16 The Incident of the Golden Calf in Pre-Islamic Syriac Authors

 Andrew J. Hayes

17 "A Calf, a Body that Lows": The Golden Calf from Late Antiquity to Classical Islam

 Michael E. Pregill

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