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The topic of covenant is as important to the study of ancient Near
Eastern religions, Second Temple Judaism, early Christian
literature, and the early Christian Church and Rabbinic Judaism as
it is complex and disputed among ancient and modern scholars. It
permeates much of biblical and cognate literature throughout many
centuries. The essays in this collection explore the diverse
spectrum of covenant concepts that emerged during this time period
in different parts of the ancient Near East and the Eastern
Mediterranean. They also discuss theological implications and later
applications in mostly religious texts from different scholarly
perspectives. The result is a detailed, comprehensive, and thorough
presentation of the tremendous range of covenantal concepts and
their complexities in biblical and cognate literature throughout
the ages, together with a keen look at the history of pertinent
scholarly research.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are an invaluable source of information about
Jewish biblical interpretation in antiquity. This volume by
preeminent scholars in the field examines central aspects of
scriptural interpretation as it was practiced at Qumran and
discusses their implications for understanding the biblical
tradition.
While many of the forms of biblical interpretation found in the
Scrolls have parallels elsewhere in Jewish literature, other kinds
are original to the Scrolls and were unknown prior to the discovery
of the caves. These chapters explore examples of biblical
interpretation unique to Qumran, including legal exegesis and the
Pesher. Readers will also find discussion of such fascinating
subjects as the "rewritten Bible," views on the creation of
humanity, the "Pseudo-Ezekiel" texts, the pesharim, and the prophet
David.
Contributors: Moshe J. Bernstein
Shani Berrin
Monica Brady
George J. Brooke
John J. Collins
Peter W. Flint
Matthias Henze
Shlomo A. Koyfman
Michael Segal
James C. VanderKam
Do you want to understand Jesus of Nazareth, his apostles, and the
rise of early Christianity? Reading the Old Testament is not
enough, writes Matthias Henze in this slender volume aimed at the
student of the Bible. To understand the Jews of the Second Temple
period, it's essential to read what they wrote-and what Jesus and
his followers might have read-beyond the Hebrew scriptures. Henze
introduces the four-century gap between the Old and New Testaments
and some of the writings produced during this period (different Old
Testaments, the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea
Scrolls); discusses how these texts have been read from the
Reformation to the present, emphasizing the importance of the
discovery of Qumran; guides the student's encounter with select
texts from each collection; and then introduces key ideas found in
specific New Testament texts that simply can't be understood
without these early Jewish "intertestamental" writings-the Messiah,
angels and demons, the law, and the resurrection of the dead.
Finally, he discusses the role of these writings in the "parting of
the ways" between Judaism and Christianity. Mind the Gap broadens
curious students' perspectives on early Judaism and early
Christianity and welcomes them to deeper study.
This book is a collection of readings from Sallie McFague's most
essential theological works. In this collection, Sallie McFague
offers a lucid and powerful guide to theological thinking about God
and the world, individual and community, humanity and nature,
reality and metaphor, the sacramental and the prophetic, and the
critical issue of climate change. She calls Christians to new
feeling, new acting, and new thinking.
A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism presents
eighteen commissioned articles on biblical exegesis in early
Judaism, covering the period after the Hebrew Bible was written and
before the beginning of rabbinic Judaism. The essays, all written
by experts in the field, are arranged in seven categories: Hebrew
Bible, Rewritten Bible, Qumran Literature, Apocalyptic Literature
and Testaments, Wisdom Literature, Hellenistic Judaism, and
Biblical Interpretation in Antiquity. Together these essays provide
a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the diverse modes of
scriptural interpretation practiced by a variegated and dynamic
spectrum of Jewish groups in the Hellenistic and early Roman eras.
Contributors:
Moshe J. Bernstein
George J. Brooks
Edward M. Cook
Peter Enns
Matthias Henze
Howard Jacobson
James L. Kugel
Robert Kugler
Itamar Manoff
Eva Mroczek
Hindy Najman
Zuleika Rodgers
Martin R sel
Jacques van Ruiten
Aharon Shemesh
Gregory E. Sterling
Sarah J. Tanzer
Shani Tzoref
Benjamin G. Wright III
Yair Zakovitch
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