Figures who Shape Scriptures, Scriptures that Shape Figures : : Essays in Honour of Benjamin G. Wright III / / ed. by Géza G. Xeravits, Greg Schmidt Goering.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Sean A.,; Balla, Ibolya,; Corley, Jeremy,; Goering, Greg Schmidt,; Gregory, Bradley C.,; Nicklas, Tobias,; Reymond, Eric D.,; Schmitz, Barbara,; Tov, Emanuel,; Troyer, Kristin De,; Xeravits, Géza G.,; Zsengellér, József,
• HerausgeberIn: Goering, Greg Schmidt,; Xeravits, Géza G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies , 40
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXVI, 241 p.)

The papers of the volume investigate how authoritative figures in the Second Temple Period and beyond contributed to forming the Scriptures of Judaism, as well as how these Scriptures shaped ideal figures as authoritative in Early Judaism. The topic of the volume thus reflects Ben Wright’s research, who—especially with his work on Ben Sira, on the Letter of Aristeas, and on various problems of authority in Early Jewish texts—creatively contributed to the study of the formation of Scriptures, and to the understanding of the figures behind these texts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Bibliography of Benjamin G. Wright III (1984–2017) -- Part 1: Figures -- Moses in the Septuagint -- Adding Profile to Moses and Joshua -- No Small Difference When Introducing Samuel in Sirach 46:13 -- David in the Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum -- The Reception of the Figure of David in Late Antique Synagogue Art -- A New Suggestion Concerning the Enigmatic Elioud of the Book of the Watchers -- Simon and the Actualization of Wisdom in the Jerusalem Temple -- Part 2: Scriptures -- The Book of Ruth as Social Commentary in Early Judaism -- Glimpses into Ben Sira’s Society -- Exemplars of Humility and the Discourse of Authority in Second Temple Judaism -- Gibberish? -- Die Idee von „Geschichte“ im 2. Makkabäerbuch -- Where’s Rome? -- King and God -- List of contributors -- Index