Of scribes and sages : early Jewish interpretation and transmission of Scripture /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Evans, Craig A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : T & T Clark International, [2004]
Series:	Studies in scripture in early Judaism and Christianity ; 9-10. Library of Second Temple studies ; 50-51.
Subjects:	Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish. Apocryphal books > Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

v. 1. Ancient versions and traditions. Being seen and not heard : the interpretation of Genesis 4.8 / Mark McEntire
Creation in Ezekiel's merkabah : Ezekiel 1 and Genesis 1 / Ben Zion Wacholder
Images of David in early Judaism / Kenneth E. Pomykala
The recontextualization of Old Greek Daniel 1 / R. Glenn Wooden
The cosmology of P and theological anthropology in the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira / Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis
"It overflows like the Euphrates with understanding" : another look at the relationship between law and wisdom in Sirach / Jessie Rogers
The relationship of eschatology to esoteric wisdom in the Jewish pseudepigraphal apocalypses / Paul Owen
Herod the Great as Antiochus redivivus : reading the Testament of Moses as an anti-Herodian composition / Kenneth R. Atkinson.
v. 2. Later versions and traditions. Satan in the testament of Job : a literary analysis / Bradford A. Kirkegaard
Gaps in the story, cracks in the earth : the exile of Cain and the destruction of Korah in Pseudo-Philo (Liber antiquitatum biblicarum 16) / Bruce N. Fisk
The tradition history of the Exodus-review in 5 Ezra 1 / Theodore A. Bergren
Voice and vision : song as a vehicle for ecstatic experience in Songs of the Sabbath sacrifice / Andrea Lieber
The face as the heavenly counterpart of the visionary in the Slavonic Ladder of Jacob / Andrei A. Orlov
Prayerful origins : David as temple founder in Rabbinic Psalms commentary (Midrash tehillim) / Esther M. Menn
Reading as rhetoric in halakhic texts / Natalie B. Dohrmann
On the culture of the Bavli / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Holy, holy, holy : the use of Isaiah 6.3 in Apostolic constitutions 7.35.1-10 and 8.12.6-27 / Judith H. Newman
Patristic interpretations of the composition of the Psalter / Matthias Henze
Jewish influence on Christian Biblical interpretation : Hugh of St Victor and "The four daughters of God" / Rebecca Moore.