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Author Kraft, Robert A.

Title Exploring the scripturesque : Jewish texts and their Christian contexts / by Robert Alan Kraft.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 313 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, 1384-2161 ; v. 137
Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 137.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents General context and methodology. Pseudepigrapha in Christianity ; Pseudepigrapha and Christianity, revisited : setting the stage and framing some central questions ; Christian transmission of Greek Jewish scriptures : a methodological probe ; Weighing of the parts : pivots and pitfalls in the study of early Judaisms and their early Christian offspring ; Combined review : The Old Testament pseudepigrapha, edited by James H. Charlesworth; The apocryphal Old Testament, edited by H.F.D. Sparks -- Selected specific studies. Reassessing the "recensional problem" in Testament of Abraham ; "Ezra" materials in Judaism and Christianity ; Towards assessing the Latin text of "5 Ezra" : the Christian connection ; Enoch and written authorities in Testaments of the 12 patriarchs ; Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila and its echoes of Judaism -- Some related studies. Pliny on Essenes, Pliny on Jews ; Philo on Seth, Philo on Enoch ; Philo's treatment of the number seven in On creation ; Philo and the Sabbath crisis : Alexandrian Jewish politics and the dating of Philo's works ; Tiberius Julius Alexander and the crisis in Alexandria according to Josephus.
Summary These essays focus on interfaces between "scripturesque" Jewish materials and the worlds in which they were transmitted and/or perceived, especially in the period prior to (or apart from) the development of an exclusivistic canonical consciousness in some Jewish and Christian circles.
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Subject Bible. New Testament -- Relation to the Old Testament.
Bible. New Testament.
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. Old Testament.
Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Altes Testament.
Pseudepigraphen.
Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Relation to the New Testament.
Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Relation to the New Testament.
Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.
Judaism.
Relations.
Christianity.
Christianity and other religions -- Judaism.
Christianity and other religions.
Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Christianity -- Origin.
Christianity -- Origin.
Judaism -- Controversial literature -- History and criticism.
Judaism -- Controversial literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kraft, Robert A. Exploring the scripturesque. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9789004170100 (DLC) 2009020448 (OCoLC)344037034
ISBN 9789004190726 (electronic book)
9004190724 (electronic book)
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