An exciting development of recent years in the study of early
Judaism and Christianity has been the growing recognition of the
importance of the extra-biblical traditions for understanding these
religious movements apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature,
the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Nag Hammadi Gnostic texts. One major
source for surviving works and traditions, however, has been
largely ignored. This is the wealth of later Jewish and Christian
(and to some extent Islamic) texts, citations, and traditions
relating to biblical figures. One reason for the relative neglect
of this material is that it is difficult to access, requiring a
range of knowledge extending beyond the biblical traditions,
through patristics, and into medieval studies. This book is
designed to provide access to some of these complex traditions and
to do it in such a way as to present the reader both with
specialized insights and also with a work of general reference
value. An international array of outstanding scholars treat the
evolution of the biographical traditions of some fourteen biblical
figures during the second temple, late antique, and medieval
periods: Adam and Eve (Gary A. Anderson), Seth (John D. Turner),
Enosh (Steven D. Fraade), Enoch (Philip S. Alexander), Noah
(Devorah Dimant), Abraham (George W. E. Nickelsburg), Melchizedek
(Birger A. Pearson), Levi (Marinus de Jonge and Johannes Tromp),
Joseph (Harm W. Hollander), Baruch (J. Edward Wright), Ezekiel
(Benjamin G. Wright, Aviva Schussman), Ezra and Nehemiah (Theodore
A. Bergren). The figures were selected on the grounds of the
richness and interest of the traditions connected with them and
their importance in the thought worlds of early Judaism and
Christianity. Michael E. Stone is Gail Levin de Nur Professor of
Religion and Professor of Armenian Studies at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem and co-author of Faith and Piety in Early Judaism:
Texts and Documents, also published by Trinity Press. Theodore
Bergren is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of
Richmond (Virginia). 1999 Biblical Archaeology Society Publication
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