Changes in Scripture : : Rewriting and Interpreting Authoritative Traditions in the Second Temple Period / / ed. by Hanne von Weissenberg, Juha Pakkala, Marko Marttila.

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• MitwirkendeR: Aejmelaeus, Anneli,; Beentjes, Pancratius C.,; Borchardt, Francis,; Collins, John J.,; Crawford, Sidnie White,; De Troyer, Kristin,; Debel, Hans,; Kugler, Robert,; Marttila, Marko,; Müller, Reinhard,; Pajunen, Mika S.,; Pakkala, Juha,; Ulrich, Eugene,; Vanonen, Hanna,; Voitila, Anssi,; Weeks, Stuart,; Weissenberg, Hanne von,; Zahn, Molly M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Marttila, Marko,; Pakkala, Juha,; Weissenberg, Hanne von,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft , 419
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (436 p.)

The articles in this volume investigate changes in texts that became to be regarded as holy and unchangeable in Judaism and Christianity. The volume seeks to draw attention to the “empirical” evidence from Qumran, the Septuagint as well as from passages in the Hebrew Scriptures that have been shaped...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• 1. Introduction
• Introducing Changes in Scripture
• 2. Methodological Issues
• Changing Scripture
• The Evolutionary Production and Transmission of the Scriptural Books
• Rewritten Bible, Variant Literary Editions and Original Text(s): Exploring the Implications of a Pluriform Outlook on the Scriptural Tradition
• Talking About Rewritten Texts: Some Reflections on Terminology
• 3. Changed Texts
• The Pentateuch as Found in the Pre-Samaritan Texts and 4QReworked Pentateuch
• David’s Three Choices: Textual and Literary Development in 2 Samuel 24
• The Legs and the Wings of the Grasshopper: A Case Study on Changes in the Masoretic Text and in the Old Greek Translation of the Book of Leviticus
• Uncovering a New Dimension of Early Judean Interpretation of the Greek Torah: Ptolemaic Law Interpreted by its Own Rhetoric
• Doubled Prophecy: The Pilgrimage of the Nations in Mic 4:1–5 and Isa 2:1–5
• The Quotations and References of the Pentateuchal Laws in Ezra-Nehemiah
• The Textual Connections between 1QM 1 and the Book of Daniel
• Changing Scripture? Scribal Corrections in MS 4QXIIc
• 4. Deuteronomism in Later Literature
• The Book of Ben Sira and Deuteronomistic Heritage: A Critical Approach
• The Deuteronomic Legacy of 1 Maccabees
• The Deuteronomistic Ideology and Phraseology in the Book of Baruch
• The Use of Different Aspects of the Deuteronomistic Ideology in Apocryphal Psalms
• Judith and Deuteronomistic Heritage
• A Deuteronomic Heritage in Tobit?
• 5. Indices
• Index of Modern Authors
• Index of Passages