Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity

Author:   Garrick Allen ,  John Anthony Dunne
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   107
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9789004383364


Pages:   312
Publication Date:   11 October 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Ancient Readers and their Scriptures explores the various ways that ancient Jewish and Christian writers engaged with and interpreted the Hebrew Bible in antiquity, focusing on physical mechanics of rewriting and reuse, modes of allusion and quotation, texts and text forms, text collecting, and the development of interpretative traditions. Contributions examine the use of the Hebrew Bible and its early versions in a variety of ancient corpora, including the Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, and Rabbinic works, analysing the vast array of textual permutations that define ancient engagement with Jewish scripture. This volume argues that the processes of reading and cognition, influenced by the physical and intellectual contexts of interpretation, are central aspects of ancient biblical interpretation that are underappreciated in current scholarship.

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Author:   Garrick Allen ,  John Anthony Dunne
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   107
Weight:   0.653kg
ISBN:  

9789004383364


ISBN 10:   9004383360
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   11 October 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contributors Introduction  Garrick V. Allen and John Anthony Dunne Reading the Hebrew Bible in Jewish and Christian Antiquity  William A. Tooman Part 1: Reading Scripture in the Second Temple Period 1 What Did Ben Sira’s Bible and Desk Look Like?  Lindsey Arielle Askin 2 Creation as the Liturgical Nexus of the Blessings and Curses in 4QBerakhot  Mika S. Pajunen 3 The Qumran Library and the Shadow it Casts on the Wall of the Cave  Jonathan D.H. Norton Part 2: The New Testament and Practices of Reading and Reusing Jewish Scripture 4 Exegetical Methods in the New Testament and “Rewritten Bible”: A Comparative Analysis  Susan E. Docherty 5 Scriptural Quotations in the Jesus Tradition and Early Christianity: Textual History and Theology  Martin Karrer 6 The Return of the Shepherd: Zechariah 13:7–14:6 as an Interpretive Framework for Mark 13  Paul Sloan 7 The Hybrid Isaiah Quotation in Luke 4:18–19  Joseph M. Lear part 3: Reading Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism 8 A Single, Huge, Aramaic Spoken Heretic: Sequences of Adam’s Creation in Early Rabbinic Literature  Willem Smelik 9 The Variant Reading ולא / ולו of Psalm 139:16 in Rabbinic Literature  Dagmar Börner-Klein 10 Jewish and Christian Exegetical Controversy in Late Antiquity: The Case of Psalm 22 and the Esther Narrative  Abraham Jacob Berkovitz part 4: Reading Retrospective 11 What does ‘Reading’ have to do with it? Ancient Engagement with Jewish Scripture  Garrick V. Allen and John Anthony Dunne

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Garrick V. Allen, Ph.D. (2015, St Andrews) is Lecturer in New Testament at Dublin City University and Research Associate at the School of Ancient and Modern Cultures and Language, University of Pretoria. He is the author of The Book of Revelation and Early Jewish Textual Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2017). John Anthony Dunne, Ph.D. (2016, St Andrews) is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Bethel Seminary (St. Paul, MN). He is the author of Persecution and Participation in Galatians (Mohr Siebeck, 2017).

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