Authoritative texts and reception history : : aspects and approaches / / edited by Dan Batovici, Kristin De Troyer.

• Superior document: Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume 151
• TeilnehmendeR: Batovici, Dan, 1976-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical interpretation series ; Volume 151.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

Reception history has emerged over the last decades as a rapidly growing domain of research, entertaining a notable methodological diversity. Authoritative Texts and Reception History samples that diversity, offering a collection of essay that discuss various reception-historical issues, from a plurality of perspectives, across several fields: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Pseudepigrapha and the Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, early and late-antique Christianity. While furthering specific discussions in their specific fields, the contributions included here—authored by both established and emerging scholars—illustrate just how wide the umbrella of ‘reception history’ can be, and the varied range of topics, concerns and approaches it can accommodate.

Table of Contents

Front Matter / Dan Batovici and Kristin De Troyer -- Introduction / Dan Batovici -- The Bible and the Crocodile: An Exercise in Balancing Translation Technique and Text-Critical Data / Kristin De Troyer -- Reading the Septuagint: The Hermeneutical Problem of a Translated Text / Benjamin J.M. Johnson -- The Not Not-Inglorious Death of Samson / Kerry Lee -- No Gods Made with Hands: Pauline Idol Polemics / Rebekah M. Devine -- Quotations from Lost Books in the Hebrew Bible: A New Translation and Introduction / James R. Davila -- The Reception of Isa 40:15 in Liber antiquitatum biblicarum, 2 Baruch, and 4 Ezra / Albertina Oegema -- After the Order of Melchizedek: Royal Themes and Melchizedek Traditions Applied to Jesus by the Author of Hebrews / David J. Larsen -- The Reception of the Jobraham Narratives in Jewish Thought / Nicholas J. Ellis -- Jesus and the Jewish Diviner: The Use and Misuse of 4Q242 / Beniamin Pascut -- Scripture and God’s Authority: Case Studies and Further Questions / New Testament Wright -- Elective Affinity: Second Peter’s Reception of Paul / Martin G. Ruf -- Poiesis, Aesthesis, and Catharsis: The Aesthetic Experience of Reading “the Day of the Lord” with the Fathers / Andrew Talbert -- The Reception of Paul’s Understanding of Resurrection and Eschatology in the Epistle to Rheginos: Faithful Paulinism, or Further Development? / Frederik S. Mulder -- Nicetas of Heraclea’s Catena on John’s Gospel: How Many Manuscripts are There? / Michael A. Clark -- The Promise and Threat of “Reception”, with Reference to Patristic Interpretation of Texts in Hebrews and Ephesians / Mark W. Elliott -- Between Ritual and Moral Purity: Early Christian Views on Dietary Laws / Moshe Blidstein -- The Greek Patristic Reception of the Sibylline Oracles / Madalina Toca -- The Early Christian Martyrdom Narratives: Narrative Features, Intertextuality and the Authoritative Texts Behind / Marijana Vuković -- The Ascension Spectacle: Lukan Narrative in Its Reception / Justin A. Mihoc -- Augustine’s Enarrationes and the Final Form of the Psalter / Kevin Haley -- Epilogue: Future Prospects in Reception History / Dan Batovici -- Index of Sources / Dan Batovici and Kristin De Troyer.