Pursuing the Text
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Pursuing the Text

Studies in Honor of Ben Zion Wacholder on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday

  1. 434 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Pursuing the Text

Studies in Honor of Ben Zion Wacholder on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday

About this book

The themes of this volume encompass the lifelong interests of one of the most eminent and learned Jewish scholars of our time: Qumran, Hellenism, Rabbinics and chronography. The contributors, leading scholars in these fields, have produced what is a benchmark of modern scholarship of Judaism in the Graeco-Roman period.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Creation, Philosophy and Spirituality: Aspects of Jewish Interpretation of Psalm
  5. 'Break in the Middle of a Verse': Some Observations on a Massoretic Feature
  6. Putting Them in their Place: Geography as an Evaluative Tool
  7. The 'Damascus' Sect and Judaism
  8. The Eschatological Temple(s) of 11QT
  9. Second Thoughts on [Omitted] and the Qumran Synchronistic Calendars
  10. The Deuteronomic Character of 4Q252
  11. 4Q471: A Case of Mistaken Identity?
  12. Kann man als Jude auch Grieche sein? Erwägungen zur jüdisch-hellenistischen Pseudepigraphie
  13. Sirach Research since 1965: Progress and Questions
  14. Josephus's Portrait of Ehud
  15. Josephus's Use of Greek Sources for Biblical History
  16. Philo, Grammatik#&275;, and the Narrative Aggada
  17. The 'Antiochenes in Jerusalem'. Again
  18. An Enochic Citation in Barnabas 4.3 and the Oracles of Hystaspes
  19. Is 'Proselyte Baptism' Mentioned in the Mishnah? The Interpretation of m. Pesahim 8.8 (= m. Eduyot 5.2)
  20. Did the Amoraim See Christianity as Something New?
  21. What 'the Rabbis' Thought: A Method and a Result. One Statement on Prophecy in Rabbinic Judaism
  22. Ad Verbum or Ad Sensum: The Christianization of a Latin Translation Formula in the Fourth Century
  23. Dates in Sepher Yosippon
  24. Responsa and Rhetoric: On Law, Literature and the Rabbinic Decision
  25. Bibliography of Works by Ben Zion Wacholder
  26. Index of References
  27. Index of Authors