Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature / / ed. by Stefan Beyerle, Matthew Goff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Abart, Christine,; Becker, Eve-Marie,; Beentjes, Pancratius C.,; Beyerle, Stefan,; Bussino, Severino,; Böttrich, Christfried,; Calduch-Benages, Núria,; Corley, Jeremy,; Duggan, Michael W.,; Egger-Wenzel, Renate,; Fahl, Dieter,; Fahl, Sabine,; Goff, Matthew,; Jordaan, Pierre Johan,; Kepper, Martina,; Legh Allen, Nicholas Peter,; Macatangay, Francis M.,; Reif, Stefan C.,; Reiterer, Friedrich V.,; Strobach, Niko,; Teixeira, Lucas Brum,; Wischmeyer, Oda,; Wright, Benjamin G.,; Zsengellér, József,
• HerausgeberIn: Beyerle, Stefan,; Goff, Matthew,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook , 2020/2021
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 532 p.)

A comprehensive investigation of notions of "time" in deuterocanonical and cognate literature, from the ancient Jewish up to the early Christian eras, requires further scholarship. The aim of this collection of articles is to contribute to a better understanding of "time" in deuterocanonical literature and pseudepigrapha, especially in Second Temple Judaism, and to provide criteria for concepts of time in wisdom literature, apocalypticism, Jewish and early Christian historiography and in Rabbinic religiosity.Essays in this volume, representing the proceedings of a conference of the "International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature" in July 2019 at Greifswald, discuss concepts and terminologies of "time", stemming from novellas like the book of Tobit, from exhortations for the wise like Ben Sira, from an apocalyptic time table in 4 Ezra, the book of Giants or Daniel, and early Christian and Rabbinic compositions. The volume consists of four chapters that represent different approaches or hermeneutics of "time:" I. Axial Ages: The Construction of Time as "History", II. The Construction of Time: Particular Reifications, III. Terms of Time and Space, IV. The Construction of Apocalyptic Time. Scholars and students of ancient Jewish and Christian religious history will find in this volume orientation with regard to an important but multifaceted and sometimes disparate topic.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- In Memory of Géza G. Xeravits (1971–2019) -- Table of Contents -- Notions and Concepts of Time: Introduction -- Part I: “Axial Ages:” The Construction of Time in Identity, History and Festivals -- Time is on My Side: Concepts of Time and Jewish Identity -- Ontologie im Mondlicht -- “All’s well that ends well” -- Time Factors in Early Rabbinic Religiosity -- Zeit-Begriffe und -Konzepte in historiographischen Texten des 1. Jhs. n. Chr. -- Biblische Zeit und christliche Historiographie -- References to Jewish Festivals in the LXX Book of Judith -- Ben Sira and the Sabbath -- Part II: Specific Constructions of Time in Deuterocanonical Literature -- Was tut Gott in der Nacht? -- Time and Jewish Identity in 2 Maccabees -- Kairos, Chronos und Aion im Buch der Weisheit -- Ideas of Time in the Diaspora Tale of Tobit: Tobit’s Incipit (1:1–2) as Case Study -- The “Shape of Time” in the Book of Tobit -- Does Time Conquer All Things (“aut tempus omnia vincit”)? -- Part III: Terms of Time and Space in the Book of Ben Sira -- Time and Change in the Book of Ben Sira -- The Notion of Time in Sir 18:19–26 -- Aspects of Time in the Book of Ben Sira: אחרית -- Die Bedeutung von קץ im Buch Ben Sira -- Part IV: The Construction of Apocalyptic Time -- Deep Time, the Monstrous, and the Book of the Watchers in the Hellenistic Age -- Concepts of Time in the Visions of Daniel -- Zeitkonstruktion im 4. Esrabuch. Eine Skizze -- Contributors -- Index of Sources -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Subjects