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The impact of earlier works to the literature of early Judaism is
an intensively researched topic in contemporary scholarship. This
volume is based on an international conference held at the
Sapientia College of Theology in Budapest, May 18 21, 2010. The
contributors explore scriptural authority in early Jewish
literature and the writings of nascent Christianity. They study the
impact of earlier literature in the formulation of theological
concepts and books of the Second Temple Period."
The impact of earlier works to the literature of early Judaism is
an intensively researched topic in contemporary scholarship. This
volume is based on an international conference held at the
Sapientia College of Theology in Budapest,May 18 -21, 2010. The
contributors explore scriptural authority in early Jewish
literature and the writings of nascent Christianity. They study the
impact of earlier literature in the formulation of theological
concepts and books of the Second Temple Period.
Why did the biblical writers choose the specific words they did? In
order to explore this question, this book investigates the use of
literary-stylistic metathesis in the Hebrew Bible. By way of
introduction, the book first discusses the related phenomena of
linguistic metathesis, in which letters or sounds are
unintentionally inverted during the historical development of a
language, and textual metathesis, in which the letters of a word
are accidentally inverted during the transmission of a text. The
discussion then moves on to the widespread use of
literary-stylistic metathesis in the Hebrew Bible, in which two or
more words that use the same letters in opposite orders are
deliberately juxtaposed within a sentence. This device appears in
various literary genres within the Bible and in diverse forms,
which demonstrates that various biblical authors and editors used
it as a compositional device, for a variety of purposes: whether
for literary, aesthetic, or rhetorical effect; to make a
theological or exegetical point; to connect or contrast particular
words with one another; or to emphasise a specific viewpoint. The
book also demonstrates that literary metathesis is not limited to
the Hebrew Bible but that it also appears in post-biblical Jewish
Hebrew compositions, such as The Wisdom of Ben Sira and the
rabbinic literature.
This two-volume work in biblical studies is a commemorative
presentation to Simon John DeVries, noted Old Testament Scholar.
Volume one offers a series of essays on issues in Hebrew bible
studies. The topics addressed include the nature of Yahweh as God
of Israel, a reexamination of the Exodus tradition, the Priestly
code and practices, prophets and revelation, biblical poetry,
issues in biblical linguistics, dramatic narrative in Hebrew Bible
tradition and Yahweh's deliverance as redemption in Israel.
This two-volume work in biblical studies is a commemorative
presentation to Simon John DeVries, noted Old Testament Scholar.
Volume one offers a series of essays on issues in Hebrew bible
studies. The topics addressed include the nature of Yahweh as God
of Israel, a reexamination of the Exodus tradition, the Priestly
code and practices, prophets and revelation, biblical poetry,
issues in biblical linguistics, dramatic narrative in Hebrew Bible
tradition and Yahweh's deliverance as redemption in Israel. Volume
two encompasses the worldviews of the Bible for Jews and
Christians, the Holiness of God, Psalms in LXX, similarities in
ancient Near Eastern narrative and Hebrew Bible, the Bible in the
cultural settings of ancient Rome, Middle Ages, Oriental
theologies, and contemporary cultural imperatives, and the function
of biblical metaphors.
The book of Esther is one of the most challenging books in the
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, not only because of the difficulty of
understanding the book itself in its time, place, and literary
contexts, but also for the long and tortuous history of
interpretation it has generated in both Jewish and Christian
traditions. In this volume, Isaac Kalimi addresses both issues. He
situates 'traditional' literary, textual, theological, and
historical-critical discussion of Esther alongside comparative
Jewish and Christian interpretive histories, showing how the former
serves the latter. Kalimi also demonstrates how the various
interpretations of the Book of Esther have had an impact on its
reception history, as well as on Jewish-Christian relations. Based
on meticulous and comprehensive analysis of all available sources,
Kalimi's volume fills a gap in biblical, Jewish, and Christian
studies and also shows how and why the Book of Esther became one of
the central books of Judaism and one of the most neglected books in
Christianity.
This study investigates how the Rabbis handled the Book of
Chronicles, highlighting issues including intermarriage. While
genealogical lists contain intermarriage in Chronicles,
Ezra-Nehemiah is generally opposed. Ezra did compose some of the
lists and intermarriage was acceptable only under certain
conditions.
This volume comprises fifteen essays classified in three major
sections. Some of these essays raise theoretical and methodological
issues while others focus on specific topics. The time span ranges
from late biblical period to the present. The volume reflects the
current thought of some of the major scholars in the field in
various shapes and contexts as well as from a variety of
perspectives: inner-biblical, qumranic, New Testament, various
rabbinic literature (targumic, midrashic, halachic, and Medieval
kabalistic), and some modern interpretation. The essays reflect the
contemporary thought of some of the foremost scholars in the field
of biblical exegesis from a variety of standpoints, moving the
biblical exegesis well beyond its conventional limits, and
enriching the knowledge and deepening the understanding of the
readers.
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