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This collection presents innovative research by scholars from
across the globe in celebration of Gabriele Boccaccini's sixtieth
birthday and to honor his contribution to the study of early
Judaism and Christianity. In harmony with Boccaccini's
determination to promote the study of Second Temple Judaism in its
own right, this volume includes studies on various issues raised in
early Jewish apocalyptic literature (e.g., 1 Enoch, 2 Baruch, 4
Ezra), the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other early Jewish texts, from
Tobit to Ben Sira to Philo and beyond. The volume also provides
several investigations on early Christianity in intimate
conversation with its Jewish sources, consistent with Boccaccini's
efforts to transcend confessional and disciplinary divisions by
situating the origins of Christianity firmly within Second Temple
Judaism. Finally, the volume includes essays that look at
Jewish-Christian relations in the centuries following the Second
Temple period, a harvest of Boccaccini's labor to rethink the
relationship between Judaism and Christianity in light of their
shared yet contested heritage.
Despite the impressive strides made in the past century in the
understanding of Second Temple Jewish history and the strong
scholarly interest in paideia within ancient Greek, Hellenistic,
Roman, and late antique Christian cultures, the nature of Jewish
paideia during the period has, until recently, received
surprisingly little attention. The essays collected here were first
offered for discussion at the Fifth Enoch Seminar Nangeroni
Meeting, held in Naples, Italy, from June 30 - July 4, 2015, the
purpose of which was to gain greater insight into the diversity of
views of Jewish education during the period, both in Judea and
Diaspora communities, by viewing them in light of their
contemporary Greco-Roman backgrounds and Ancient Near Eastern
influences. Together, they represent the broad array of approaches
and specialties required to comprehend this complex and
multi-faceted subject, and they demonstrate the fundamental
importance of the topic for a fuller understanding of the period.
The volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars
of the history and culture of the Jewish people during the
Hellenistic and Roman periods, ancient education, and Greek and
Roman history.
This tightly focused collection of essays, from an invited seminar
of international specialists, centres on the question of the
apocalyptic worldview around the time of the Maccabean revolt. What
was the nature of apocalyptic at this time? Did the Maccabees
themselves have a distinct apocalyptic worldview? These questions
lead to other, more specific queries: who of the various groups
held such a view? Certain of the essays analyse the characteristics
of the apocalypses and related literature in this period, and
whether the apocalyptic worldview itself gave rise to historical
events or, at least, influenced them. The collection begins with
two introductory essays. Both the main and short papers have
individual responses, and two considered responses by well-known
experts address the entire collection. The volume finishes with a
concluding chapter by the lead editor that gives a perspective on
the main themes and conclusions arising from the papers and
discussion.
In this volume Gabriele Boccaccini and Jason M. Zurawski collect
together essays from leading international scholars on the books of
4 Ezra and 2 Baruch. The literature of the Second Temple Period has
become increasingly studied in recent years as scholars have begun
to recognize the importance of these texts for a developed
understanding of Rabbinic and Christian origins. Through close
readings of the texts themselves, examining the books in comparison
with other Jewish apocalyptic literature and early Christian
materials, and reading the texts in light of their social and
historical settings, the fifteen papers collected herein
significantly advance the current scholarly conversation on these
defining Jewish apocalypses written at the end of the first century
CE, and they shed light on the everlasting legacy of apocalyptic
ideas in both Christianity and Judaism.
In this volume Gabriele Boccaccini and Jason M. Zurawski collect
together essays from leading international scholars on the books of
4 Ezra and 2 Baruch. The literature of the Second Temple Period has
become increasingly studied in recent years as scholars have begun
to recognize the importance of these texts for a developed
understanding of Rabbinic and Christian origins. Through close
readings of the texts themselves, examining the books in comparison
with other Jewish apocalyptic literature and early Christian
materials, and reading the texts in light of their social and
historical settings, the fifteen papers collected herein
significantly advance the current scholarly conversation on these
defining Jewish apocalypses written at the end of the first century
CE, and they shed light on the everlasting legacy of apocalyptic
ideas in both Christianity and Judaism.
This tightly focused collection of essays, from an invited seminar
of international specialists, centres on the question of the
apocalyptic worldview around the time of the Maccabean revolt. What
was the nature of apocalyptic at this time? Did the Maccabees
themselves have a distinct apocalyptic worldview? These questions
lead to other, more specific queries: who of the various groups
held such a view? Certain of the essays analyse the characteristics
of the apocalypses and related literature in this period, and
whether the apocalyptic worldview itself gave rise to historical
events or, at least, influenced them. The collection begins with
two introductory essays. Both the main and short papers have
individual responses, and two considered responses by well-known
experts address the entire collection. The volume finishes with a
concluding chapter by the lead editor that gives a perspective on
the main themes and conclusions arising from the papers and
discussion.
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