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 plur...

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.