Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

Some parts of Scripture directly cite words spoken by God, “And the Lordsaid to Moses...”andsoforth.Otherparts,however,arenot i ...

the knife to kill his son. But an angel of the Lordcalled to him from heaven, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I ...

came to pass, after these things....”Suchphrases are often used in the Bi- ble to mark a transition; they generally signal a bre ...

tan felt moved to challenge God concerning his faithful servant. God takes up the challenge, but the author ofJubileesgoes to th ...

one who fears the Lord. You have not refused me your firstborn son.” (Jub.18:9-11) This passage is basically a rewording of the ...

tences: “God Himself will provide. The lamb for the burnt offering [is] my son.” (Note that Hebrew has no verb “to be” in the pr ...

Words and Verses One final point about the “how” of ancient biblical interpretation: it al- ways worked via a scrupulous examina ...

This is indeed intended as a precise explanation of the two occurrences of “and the two of them walked together” in the Genesis ...

proverbs, the favorite medium for transmitting wisdom. What wisdom was is not given to easy summary, but its basic premise was t ...

All this is the book of the covenant of the Most High God, the Torah that Moses commanded us as an inheritance for the congregat ...

ers, going back at least to the time of Ezra, “asageskilled in the law of Mo- ses” (Ezra 7:6). Although Scripture’s interpreters ...

Borgen, Peder. 1997.Philo of Alexandria: An Exegete for His Time.Leiden: Brill. Campbell, Jonathan G. 2004.The Exegetical Texts. ...

Nitzan, Bilhah. 2010. “The Continuity of Biblical Interpretation in the Qumran Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature.” InThe Oxford Ha ...

Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha Loren T. Stuckenbruck The terms “apocrypha” and “pseudepigrapha” mean, respectively, “hidden things ...

Testament, but that are nonetheless included in some modern Christian translations of the Bible, usually between the Old and New ...

Clementine Bible published in 1592.) Since Sixtus of Sienna (1566), many Roman Catholic scholars have referred to Old Testament ...

Beyond the core list, the Russian Orthodox Church, drawing on a tra- dition that received the Greek Bible, included in its first ...

document by that name in the Greek Psalter and, together with Psalms 154 and 155, is preserved in Hebrew among the Dead Sea manu ...

Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, 1 Baruch, Epistle of Jeremiah, Susannah, and Bel and the Dragon. Furthermore, the partially preserved ...

sessment of “apocrypha” did not mean Jerome denied them all religious value; but it takes “great prudence(grandis...prudentiae)t ...