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Author Kraft, Robert A

Title Exploring the scripturesque : Jewish texts and their Christian contexts / by Robert Alan Kraft
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 313 pages)
Series Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, 1384-2161 ; v. 137
Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 137.
Contents General context and methodology. The pseudepigrapha in Christianity ; The pseudepigrapha and Christianity, revisited : setting the stage and framing some central questions ; Christian transmission of Greek Jewish scriptures : a methodological probe ; The weighing of the parts : pivots and pitfalls in the study of early Judaisms and their early Christian offspring ; Combined review : The Old Testament pseudepigrapha, edited by James H. Charlesworth; The apocryphal Old Testament, edited by H.F.D. Sparks -- Selected specific studies. Reassessing the "recensional problem" in Testament of Abraham ; "Ezra" materials in Judaism and Christianity ; Towards assessing the Latin text of "5 Ezra" : the Christian connection ; Enoch and written authorities in Testaments of the 12 patriarchs ; The Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila and its echoes of Judaism -- Some related studies. Pliny on Essenes, Pliny on Jews ; Philo on Seth, Philo on Enoch ; Philo's treatment of the number seven in On creation ; Philo and the Sabbath crisis : Alexandrian Jewish politics and the dating of Philo's works ; Tiberius Julius Alexander and the crisis in Alexandria according to Josephus
Summary These essays focus on interfaces between "scripturesque" Jewish materials and the worlds in which they were transmitted and/or perceived, especially in the period prior to (or apart from) the development of an exclusivistic canonical consciousness in some Jewish and Christian circles
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Bible. New Testament -- Relation to the Old Testament. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013757
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013769
Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013751
Bible. New Testament fast
Bible. Old Testament fast
Bibel Altes Testament gnd
Bibel Altes Testament Apokryphen gnd
Subject Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Relation to the New Testament.
Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.
Christianity and other religions -- Judaism.
Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Christianity -- Origin.
Judaism -- Controversial literature -- History and criticism
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies.
Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Relation to the New Testament
Christianity
Christianity -- Origin
Interfaith relations
Judaism
Judaism -- Controversial literature
Judaism -- Post-exilic period (Judaism)
Literatur
Frühchristentum
Christentum
Frühjudentum
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004190726
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9781282949355