A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission (Hardcover)

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 texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus not as an artificial collection of reconstructed texts-a body of hypothetical originals-but rather from the perspective of the preserved materials, examined in their religious, social, and political contexts. It also considers the other, non-Christian, channels of the survival of early Jewish materials, including Rabbinic, Gnostic, Manichaean, and Islamic. This unique project brings together scholars from many different fields in order to map the trajectories of early Jewish texts and traditions among diverse later cultures. It also provides a comprehensive and comparative introduction to this new field of study while bridging the gap between scholars of early Judaism and of medieval Christianity.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2019
Editors:	Alexander Kulik (Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies) • Gabriele Boccaccini (Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins) • Lorenzo DiTommaso (Professor of Religions and Cultures) • David Hamidovic (Professor of Jewish Apocryphal Literature and History of Judaism in Antiquity) • Michael E. Stone (Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religions and Armenian Studies)
Dimensions:	262 x 182 x 39mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	560
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-086307-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian sacred works & liturgy > Sacred texts > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian sacred works & liturgy > Sacred texts > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-086307-2
Barcode:	9780190863074

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