Tradition, transmission, and transformation from Second Temple literature through Judaism and Christianity in late antiquity : : proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, jointly sponsored by the Hebrew University Center for the Study of Christianity, 22-24 February, 2011 / / edited by Menahem Kister, Hillel I. Newman, Michael Segal and Ruth A. Clements.

• Superior document: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, v. 113
• Author: Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature. International Symposium
• TeilnehmendeR: Kister, Menahem.; Newman, Hillel.; Segal, Michael, 1972-; Clements, Ruth.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill.; c2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 113.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Many types of tradition and interpretation found in later Jewish and Christian writings trace their origins to the Second Temple period, but their transmission and transformation followed different paths within the two religious communities. For example, while Christians often translated and transmi...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Parabiblical Traditions and Their Use in the Palaea Historica / William Adler
• Outsider Impurity: Trajectories of Second Temple Separation Traditions in Tannaitic Literature / Yair Furstenberg
• No Angels before the World? A Preexistence Tradition and Its Transformations from Second Temple Literature to Early Piyyuṭ / Yehoshua Granat
• Pious Long-Sleepers in Greek, Jewish, and Christian Antiquity / Pieter W. van der Horst
• Remnants of a Pharisaic Apologetic Source in Josephus and in the Babylonian Talmud / Tal Ilan and Vered Noam
• Windy and Fiery Angels: Prerabbinic and Rabbinic Interpretations of Psalm 104:4 / Yaakov Kaduri
• Hellenistic Jewish Writers and Palestinian Traditions: Early and Late / Menahem Kister
• The Severus Scroll Variant List in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Armin Lange
• Where is the Lost Ark of the Covenant? The True History (of the Ancient Traditions) / Chaim Milikowsky
• Satan’s Refusal to Worship Adam: A Jewish Motif and Its Reception in Syriac Christian Tradition / Sergey Minov
• Stars of the Messiah / Hillel I. Newman
• Retelling Biblical Retellings: Epiphanius, the Pseudo-Clementines, and the Reception-History of Jubilees / Annette Yoshiko Reed
• Why is “A” Placed Next to “B”? Juxtaposition in the Bible and Beyond / Avigdor Shinan and Yair Zakovitch
• The Reception and Reworking of Abraham Traditions in Armenian / Michael E. Stone
• Index of Ancient Texts
• Index of Modern Authors.