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

Ancient Readers and their Scriptures explores the ways that ancient Jews and Christians interpreted the Hebrew Bible in antiquity, focusing on the processes of reading that are preserved in the textual and material record of the corpora that engage Jewish scripture.

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Superior document:Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity Series ; v.107
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2018.
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Year of Publication:2018
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (330 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 Reading the Hebrew Bible in Jewish and Christian Antiquity
  • Part 1 Reading Scripture in the Second Temple Period
  • Chapter 2 What Did Ben Sira's Bible and Desk Look Like?
  • Chapter 3 Creation as the Liturgical Nexus of the Blessings and Curses in 4QBerakhot
  • Chapter 4 The Qumran Library and the Shadow it Casts on the Wall of the Cave
  • Part 2 The New Testament and Practices of Reading and Reusing Jewish Scripture
  • Chapter 5 Exegetical Methods in the New Testament and "Rewritten Bible": A Comparative Analysis
  • Chapter 6 Scriptural Quotations in the Jesus Tradition and Early Christianity: Textual History and Theology
  • Chapter 7 The Return of the Shepherd: Zechariah 13:7-14:6 as an Interpretive Framework for Mark 13
  • Chapter 8 The Hybrid Isaiah Quotation in Luke 4:18-19
  • Part 3 Reading Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism
  • Chapter 9 A Single, Huge, Aramaic Spoken Heretic: Sequences of Adam's Creation in Early Rabbinic Literature
  • Chapter 10 The Variant Reading ולא / ולו of Psalm 139:16 in Rabbinic Literature
  • Chapter 11 Jewish and Christian Exegetical Controversy in Late Antiquity: The Case of Psalm 22 and the Esther Narrative
  • Part 4 Reading Retrospective
  • Chapter 12 What does 'Reading' have to do with it? Ancient Engagement with Jewish Scripture
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Ancient Sources
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Modern Authors.