Strategies for Responding to Catastrophe

Examples from Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature

Marko Marttila, Martti Nissinen, Jutta Jokiranta

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9783111703251
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Jewish Theology

Seit 2004 gibt der Verlag De Gruyter in Zusammenarbeit mit der International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature das Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature · Yearbook (DCLY) heraus. Die Gesellschaft widmet sich dem Studium der Bücher der griechischen Bibel (Septuaginta), die nicht in der hebräischen Bibel enthalten sind, und der späteren jüdischen Literatur, also etwa aus der Zeit vom 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis zum 1. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Die Jahrbücher publizieren die Referate und Ergebnisse der internationalen Konferenzen der Gesellschaft.

Die Ausgaben 2005 bis 2011 sind weiterhin online erhältlich.

– Prayer from Tobit to Qumran, ed. by Renate Egger-Wenzel and Jeremy Corley (2004)
– The Book of Wisdom in Modern Research, ed. by Angelo Passaro, Giuseppe Bellia, John J. Collins (2005)
– History and Identity, ed. by Núria Calduch-Benages and Jan Liesen (2006)
– Angels, ed. by Friedrich Reiterer, Tobias Nicklas and Karin Schöpflin (2007)
– Biblical Figures in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, ed. by Hermann Lichtenberger and Ulrike Mittmann-Richert (2008)
– The Human Body in Death and Resurrection, ed. by Tobias Nicklas, Friedrich Reiterer, Joseph Verheyden (2009)

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Frontmatter
• Contents
• “Like a Menstrual Cloth” (Esth C 27 LXX): Notes on a Simile of Defilement in the Greek Bible
• How Does Esther Cope with the Danger of Destruction? Observations on Esther’s Prayer in Addition C of the Septuagint Text
• Καὶ νῦν οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ βοηθὸς ἡμῶν (“There Is No One to Help Us Now” Jdt 7:25). Responding to Catastrophe in the Book of Judith
• Strategies for Responding to Catastrophe in the Book of Judith (Jdt 4:9–15)
• The I and the We: Reactions to Catastrophe in the Book of Tobit
• From Catastrophe to Salvation: The Tobit Story as a Resilience Narrative
• Healing and Marriage as “Radical Hope” against Exile in the Book of Tobit
• Social Cohesion and the Kairos of the Katastrophe: Mattathias’s Speech in 1 Maccabees 2:49–70
• Καταστροφή and καταστρέφειν in Greek Sirach
• Calamity and Divine Visitation in the Book of Sirach
• The Self-Inflicted Disaster and the Way Out: A Dramatic Example in the Book of Wisdom
• Failing to Find Wisdom (Bar 3:16–28)
• Vocabulary and Metaphors of Sorrow and Hope in Psalms of Solomon 8
• Crime, Misfortune or Fate? The Destruction of the Second Temple as Depicted by Josephus
• Strategies for Responding to Emotional Suffering amidst the Catastrophe of Death in the Testament of Job
• Homosexualizing Sodom and the Care for Masculinity
• The Literary Construction of Catastrophes in Ancient Jewish Apocalypses
• “When Will You Gather Them Together?” The Gathering Motif in Ezekiel Traditions during the Second Temple Period
• Catastrophe and Salvation in Luke 21: Layering the Sources and Traditions of the Lukan “Eschatological Discourse” – Mark, LXX, Q
• How Early Rabbinic Liturgy Responded to Catastrophe: A Jewish Desire to Return to Normality
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Modern Authors
• Index of Sources