Sibyls, scriptures, and scrolls: John Collins at seventy

by Baden, Joel S. Collins, John J., (John Joseph) Najman, Hindy Tigchelaar, Eibert J. C.

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"This volume, a tribute to John J. Collins by his friends, colleagues, and students, includes essays on the wide range of interests that have occupied John Collins's distinguished career. Topics range from the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism and beyond into early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. The contributions deal with issues of text and interpretation, history and historiography, philology and archaeology, and more. The breadth of …

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Full title :Sibyls, scriptures, and scrolls : John Collins at seventy / edited by Joel Baden, Hindy Najman and Eibert Tigchelaar ; with the assistance of Laura Carlson, James Nati, Olivia Stewart, Shlomo Zuckier.

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Publication Date:2017.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

Notes

Includes Publications of John J. Collins (volume 1, pages xiii-xxxviii).

The Physical Object

Description:2 volumes (xliv, 725, 1 unnumbered page, xi, [725]-1,478 pages) : : color portrait ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789004324732, 9004324739, 9789004338845, 9004338845, 9789004338852, 9004338853, 9789004324749, 9004324747
oclc:on1049769578
LC Classification:BS511.3
Dewey Decimal:220.6

Volume 1. Between Athens and Jerusalem, on the wings of a dove? / Susan Ackerman -- The social location of the scribe in the Second Temple period / Samuel L. Adams -- Heraclitus's Homeric problems and Midrash Genesis Rabbah: Comparisons and contrasts / Philip Alexander -- The identification of the "Wicked Priest" reconsidered: The case for Hyrcanus II / Kenneth Atkinson -- What's in a name? Naming the unnameable in Philo and John / Harold W. Attridge -- Redactor or Rabbenu? Revisiting an old question of identity / Joel S. Baden -- Old Testament ethics: story or style? / John Barton -- Future food and future feasting: Tracing the idea of the meal in the world to come in Qumran literature / Claudia D. Bergmann -- Casting lots and distributing territories: The Hellenistic background of the Book of Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon / Katell Berthelot -- Authority and propaganda -- The case of the Potter's Oracle / Stefan Beyerle -- How Jesus became uncreated / Gabriele Boccaccini -- Thrēskeia in 4 Maccabees / Daniel Boyarin -- The visualisation of the sacred at Qumran / George J. Brooke -- The wisdom of the nations and the law of Israel: Genealogies of ethnic difference in Ben Sira …

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Apocalyptic literature Apocalyptic literature -- History and c… Bible Bibliographies Collins, John J., (John Joseph) Criticism, interpretation, etc Dead Sea scrolls Festschriften Littérature apocalyptique -- Histoire e… Littérature rabbinique -- Histoire et c… Mélanges (Recueils) Rabbinical literature Rabbinical literature -- History and cr…