Cosmos and Creation : : Second Temple Perspectives / / ed. by Michael W. Duggan, Renate Egger-Wenzel, Stefan C. Reif.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Beentjes, Pancratius C.,; Beyerle, Stefan,; Bussino, Severino,; Calduch-Benages, Núria,; Cashell-Moran, Helen,; Corley, Jeremy,; De Troyer, Kristin,; Duggan, Michael W.,; Egger-Wenzel, Renate,; Horbury, William,; Kepper, Martina,; Macatangay, Francis M.,; Marx, Dalia,; Mulder, Otto,; Passaro, Angelo,; Reif, Stefan C.,; Schmitz, Barbara,; Witte, Markus,
• HerausgeberIn: Duggan, Michael W.,; Egger-Wenzel, Renate,; Reif, Stefan C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook , 2019
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 439 p.)

This volume contains essays by some of the leading scholars in the study of the Jewish religious ideas in the Second Temple period, that led up to the development of early forms of Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. Close attention is paid to the cosmological ideas to be found in the Ancient Near East and in the Hebrew Bible and to the manner in which the translators of the Hebrew Bible into Greek reflected the creativity with which Judaism engaged Hellenistic ideas about the cosmos and the creation. The concepts of heaven and divine power, human mortality, the forces of nature, combat myths, and the philosophy of wisdom, as they occur in 2 Maccabees, Ben Sira, Wisdom of Solomon and Tobit, are carefully analysed and compared with Greek and Roman world-views. There are also critical examinations of Dead Sea scroll texts, early Jewish prayers and Hebrew liturgical poetry and how they these adopt, adapt and alter earlier ideas. The editors have included appreciations of two major figures who played important roles in the study of the Second Temple period and in the history and development of the ISDCL, namely, Otto Kaiser and Alexander Di Lella, who died recently and are greatly missed by those in the field.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Zum Gedenken an Otto Kaiser (1924–2017) -- In Memory of Alexander A. Di Lella (1929–2019) -- Heaven: Use, Function and Content of a Cosmic Concept -- Does κτίστης Mean “Creator”? The Lexeme κτι- and Its Implications in the Greek-Hellenistic Context -- Cosmos and Creation in Job 38 (Septuagint) -- Cosmic Events in the First and Last Additions to the Greek Text of the Book of Esther -- “Bless the Lord, Winter Cold and Summer Heat”. Cosmos and Creation in Greek Daniel 3:52–90 -- Epiphanies: Cosmic Transcendence in 2 Maccabees -- “Gold from Heaven” in 2 Maccabees -- Creation and Humanity in the Book of Ben Sira -- Polarities in Creation (Sir 33:7–15) -- A Theology of the Creator and His Creation in Sir 42:15–25 -- Creation and Cosmos in Greek Sirach 18:1–10 -- Cosmos and Empire in the Wisdom of Solomon -- Creation and History in the Structure of the Book of Wisdom. ἡ κτίσις … ὑπηρετοῦσα (Wis 16:24) -- Philosophical Ideas about Cosmos and Creation in the Book of Wisdom -- God’s Conflict with the Chaos Monster in the Book of Tobit -- Cosmological Origins and Creation in 4QInstruction -- The Work of Creation in Early Rabbinic Prayers and Benedictions -- Ben Sira 42–50: An Antecedent of the Seder ‘Avodah Poems? -- Biographies of Authors -- Index of References -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects