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Author Zsengellér, József

Title Rewritten Bible after Fifty Years : a Last Dialogue with Geza Vermes / edited by Jozsef Zsengeller
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (395 pages)
Series Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism.
Contents List of Abbreviations; Preface; Part 1 Defining of Rewritten Bible; The Genesis of the Concept of "Rewritten Bible"; Part 2 Redefining of Rewritten Bible; Textual Fidelity, Elaboration, Supersession or Encroachment?; Rewritten Bible: A Terminological Reassessment; Crossing the Borders from "Pre-Scripture" to Scripture (Rewritten) to "Rewritten Scripture"; Rewritten Scriptures as a Clue to Scribal Traditions in the Second Temple Period; Memory, Cultural Memory and Rewriting Scripture; Rewritten Bible and the Vocalization of the Biblical Text; Part 3 Case Studies
Inner Biblical RewritingsReuse of Prophecy in the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets; On the Battlefield and Beyond: The Reinterpretation of the Moabite-Israelite Encounters in 2 Chronicles 20; Early Jewish Rewritings; Textual Criticism of Hebrew Scripture and Scripture-Like Texts; Apocryphon of Jeremiah C from Qumran: Rewritten Prophetic Text or Something Else?; Between Rewritten Bible and Allegorical Commentary: Philo's Interpretation of the Burning Bush; Philo's Life of Moses as "Rewritten Bible"; Josephus' "Rewritten Bible" as a Non-Apologetic Work
Josephus' Rewriting of Genesis 24 in Ant. 1.242-255Later Rewritings; Can We Apply the Term "Rewritten Bible" to Midrash? The Case of Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer; Adam or Adams? Genesis and the Mythical Anthropology in the Writing without Title on the Origin of the World from Nag Hammadi (NHC II,5); Samaritan Rewritings: The Toledot in Samaritan Literature; Index of Ancient Sources; Index of Modern Authors
Summary Rewritten Bible After Fifty Years offers several papers on the meanings and usages of the notion Rewritten Bible introduced by Geza Vermes in 1961
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish -- Congresses
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013771
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Sacred Writings.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004271180
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