A guide to early Jewish texts and traditions in Christian transmission /

The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions, but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish text...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Kulik, Alexander (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Rabbinical literature > History and criticism. Transmission of texts. Judaism > Relations > Christianity. Christianity and other religions > Judaism. Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. Judaism > History > Talmudic period, 10-425. Littérature rabbinique > Histoire et critique. Transmission de textes. Judaïsme > Relations > Christianisme. Christianisme > Relations > Judaïsme. Judaïsme > Histoire > 586 av. J.-C.-210 (Période postexilique) Judaïsme > Histoire > 10-425 (Période talmudique) BIBLES. Biblical Studies. RELIGION. Judaism. Christianity Interfaith relations Judaism Judaism > Post-exilic period (Judaism) Judaism > Talmudic period Rabbinical literature Transmission of texts 586 B.C.-425 A.D. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : The voice of Jacob / Alexander Kulik
A. Traditions. Greek / William Adler
Latin / Robert A. Kraft
Ethiopic / Pierluigi Piovanelli
Slavonic / Alexander Kulik
Coptic / Jacques van der Vliet
Syriac / Sergey Minov
Armenian / Michael E. Stone
Georgian / Jost Gippert
Christian Arabic / John C. Reeves
Irish / Martin McNamara
Germanic / Brian Murdoch
B. Corpora. The "Old Testament Pseudepigrapha" as category and corpus / Lorenzo DiTommaso
Flavius Josephus / Michael Tuval
Philo of Alexandria / Gregory E. Sterling
Armenian Philonic corpus / Abraham Terian
Minor Jewish Hellenistic authors / Folker Siegert
Early Jewish liturgical texts / Folker Siegert
Qumran texts / David Hamidović
Enochic traditions / Gabriele Boccaccini
The Jewish calendar and Jewish sciences / Jonathan Ben-Dov
C. Comparative perspectives : alternative modes of transmission. Rabbinic and post-rabbinic Jewish / Martha Himmelfarb
Gnostic / Dylan M. Burns
Manichaean / John C. Reeves
Islamic / John C. Reeves
D. Trajectories of traditions. The Pseudepigrapha crescent and a taxonomy of how Christians shaped Jewish traditions and texts / James Hamilton Charlesworth
The reception and interpretation of "Old Testament" figures in literature and art from antiquity through the Reformation : studies, 1983-2018 / Lorenzo DiTommaso.