Theologies In Conflict In 4 Ezra

Author : Karina Hogan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004129693
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theologies in Conflict in 4 Ezra written by Karina Hogan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent scholarship on 4 Ezra has taken two divergent approaches, the first reading the dialogues between Ezra and Uriel as a reflection of theological debates in the author's time, and the second focusing on the psychological development of the protagonist. Combining the two approaches, this book offers a new interpretation of the dialogues as a literary representation of a debate between covenantal and eschatological wisdom, two branches of Jewish wisdom that emerged in the late Second Temple period. The inconclusive quality of the dialogues indicates the author's dissatisfaction with Uriel's attempt at a rational theodicy. Ezra's subsequent transformation points to the symbolic visions as the locus of the author's apocalyptic solution to the intractable theological problems raised in the dialogues.

Author : Matthias Henze
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004258817
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fourth Ezra and Second Baruch written by Matthias Henze and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two Jewish works that are the subject of this volume, 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch, were written around the turn of the first century CE in the aftermath of the Roman destruction of the Second Temple. Both texts are apocalypses, and both occupy an important place in early Jewish literature and thought: they were composed right after the Second Temple period, as Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity began to emerge. The twenty essays in this volume were first presented and discussed at the Sixth Enoch Seminar at the Villa Cagnola at Gazzada, near Milan, Italy, on June 26-30, 2011. Together they reflect the lively debate about 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch among the most distinguished specialists in the field. The Contributors are: Gabriele Boccaccini; Daniel Boyarin; John J. Collins; Devorah Dimant; Lutz Doering; Lorenzo DiTommaso; Steven Fraade; Lester L. Grabbe; Matthias Henze; Karina M. Hoogan; Liv Ingeborg Lied; Hindy Najman; George W.E. Nickelsburg; Eugen Pentiuc; Pierluigi Piovanelli; Benjamin Reynolds; Loren Stuckenbruck; Balázs Tamási; Alexander Toepel; Adela Yarbro Collins

Author : Meredith J. C. Warren
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884143570
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature written by Meredith J. C. Warren and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New research that transforms how to understand food and eating in literature Meredith J. C. Warren identifies and defines a new genre in ancient texts that she terms hierophagy, a specific type of transformational eating where otherworldly things are consumed. Multiple ancient Mediterranean, Jewish, and Christian texts represent the ramifications of consuming otherworldly food, ramifications that were understood across religious boundaries. Reading ancient texts through the lens of hierophagy helps scholars and students interpret difficult passages in Joseph and Aseneth, 4 Ezra, Revelation 10, and the Persephone myths, among others. Features: Exploration of how ancient literature relies on bending, challenging, inverting, and parodying cultural norms in order to make meaning out of genres Analysis of hierophagy as social action that articulates how patterns of communication across texts and cultures emerge and diverge A new understanding of previously confounding scenes of literary eating

Author : Gerbern S. Oegema
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190689668
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha written by Gerbern S. Oegema and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha addresses the Old Testament Apocrypha, known to be important early Jewish texts that have become deutero-canonical for some Christian churches, non-canonical for other churches, and that are of lasting cultural significance. In addition to the place given to the classical literary, historical, and tradition-historical introductory questions, essays focus on the major social and theological themes of each individual book. With contributions from leading scholars from around the world, the Handbook acts as an authoritative reference work on the current state of Apocrypha research, and at the same time carves out future directions of study. This Handbook offers an overview of the various Apocrypha and relevant topics related to them by presenting updated research on each individual apocryphal text in historical context, from the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods to the early Roman era. The essays provided here examine the place of the Apocrypha in the context of Early Judaism, the relationship between the Apocrypha and texts that came to be canonized, the relationship between the Apocrypha and the Septuagint, Qumran, the Pseudepigrapha, and the New Testament, as well as their reception history in the Western world. Several chapters address overarching themes, such as genre and historicity, Jewish practices and beliefs, theology and ethics, gender and the role of women, and sexual ethics.

Author : John J. Collins
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802872859
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy written by John J. Collins and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly regarded expert on Jewish apocalyptic texts, John J. Collins has written extensively on the subject. Nineteen of his essays written over the last fifteen years, including several previously unpublished contributions, are brought together for the first time in Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy. After an introductory essay that revisits the problem of defining Apocalypse as a literary genre, Collins deals with a number of different topics, including the relationship between apocalypse and prophecy and the troubling ethical issues raised by apocalyptic texts. Collins also examines several specific examples to show the themes and variation present in the genre. Organized in five sections, these thematic essays complement and enrich Collinss well-known bookThe Apocalyptic Imagination.

Author : Jeremy Penner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900421450X
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prayer and Poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature written by Jeremy Penner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely collection of contributions by major scholars in the field of prayer and poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Author : Lorenzo DiTommaso
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567666182
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Vistas on Early Judaism and Christianity written by Lorenzo DiTommaso and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of early Judaism and early Christianity has been revolutionised by new evidence from a host of sources: the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Pseudepigrapha, the New Testament Apocrypha, the Nag Hammadi writings and related texts, and new papyrus and amulet discoveries. Now scholars have entered the “next generation” of scholarship, where these bodies of evidence are appreciated in conversation with each other and within the contexts of the wider Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman cultures from the fourth century BCE to the fourth century CE. This volume features chapters from leading scholars who approach the study of early Judaism and early Christianity from this synthetic approach. The chapters engage in an inter-generational and international dialogue among the past, present and future generations of scholars, and also among European, North-American, African and South-American scholars and their various methodologies and approaches –- linguistic, historical or comparative. Among the chapters are contributions by Professors James Charlesworth (Princeton), André Gagné (Concordia) and Loren Stuckenbruck (Munich), as well as papers from researchers from North America, Europe, South America and Africa.

Author : J. Harold Ellens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110596717
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wisdom Poured Out Like Water written by J. Harold Ellens and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kyu Seop Kim
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900439494X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Firstborn Son in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity written by Kyu Seop Kim and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a study of the meaning of the firstborn son in the New Testament paying specific attention to the concept of primogeniture in the Old Testament and Jewish literature.

Author : David A. deSilva
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493413074
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introducing the Apocrypha written by David A. deSilva and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the Old Testament apocryphal books summarizes their context, message, and significance. The first edition has been very well reviewed and widely adopted. It is the most substantial introduction to the Apocrypha available and has become a standard authority on the topic. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated throughout to reflect the latest scholarship. The book includes a foreword by James H. Charlesworth.