Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

with the New Testament evidence. Criteria of varying strengths for canon or scriptural status would be: (a) a title of the canon ...

But regarding the Former Prophets and the remainder of the Writings, it can only be claimed that the literature was known to the ...

ther development. This shift, which froze each book in a single textual form, happened quite abruptly in the late first or early ...

Septante: Du judaïsme hellénistique au christianisme ancien.Paris: Cerf and C.N.R.S. Hendel, Ronald S. 2010. “Assessing the Text ...

and Transcriptions; Part 2: Introductions, Commentary, and Textual Variants. DJD 32. Oxford: Clarendon. VanderKam, James C. 2012 ...

Early Jewish Biblical Interpretation James L. Kugel Scripture was, by all accounts, a major interest, if not to say an obsession ...

another, to explain, allude to, or expand upon things found in biblical books. Indeed, the rules governing the daily life of the ...

so forth. Some of these texts were actually composed within the Second Temple period, but many went back far earlier, to the tim ...

vealed to them, was timeless truth, part of that great, static corpus of knowledge; it could never be displaced by later insight ...

But how exactly could one know what had been before? The landscape itself was mute; one could not pick up a rock or interrogate ...

The Laws of the Pentateuch Of all the writings that made up Israel’s Scripture, it was probably the laws of the Pentateuch that ...

tributed to these ancient laws. The Bible reports that the Persian adminis- tration actually adopted them as part of the Israeli ...

enth month. He read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men ...

gard to other things — names of places that no longer existed or histori- cal figures or events long forgotten or social institu ...

preters felt called to comment upon were apparent inconsistencies or con- tradictions within the biblical text. Take, for exampl ...

“Boiled” — the same word used earlier by Deuteronomy — need not nec- essarily mean “boiled in water,” this passage suggests; ins ...

The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel [that is, Jacob]. (Hewasthe firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s bed, his ...

the Old Greek (Septuagint) translation of the Pentateuch (third century b.c.e.) or various targums, translations of the Bible in ...

are Aramaic targums such as that ofPseudo-JonathanorNeofiti;they “translate” the Pentateuch into Aramaic, but with so many inter ...

the business of interpreting in strikingly similar fashion. It seems as if they all had, as it were, the same general set of mar ...