The reception and remembrance of Abraham
By: edited by Pernille Carstens, Niels Peter Lemche
Contributors: European Association of Biblical Studies
Series: Perspectives on Hebrew scriptures and its contexts -- 13
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible
Notes: Based on papers originally presented at a conference of the European Association of Biblical Studies.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: From Moses to Abraham : Jewish identities in the Second Temple period / Philip R. Davies; title: The memory of Abraham in late Persian/early Hellenistic period Yehud / Ehud Ben Zvi; title: Remembering Abraham in Pseudo-Philo's Liber antiquitatum; title: Biblicarum / Beate Ego; title: Abraham in the patriarchal texts of the Book of Genesis and the reception of this tradition in the Book of Isaiah / Klaus Baltzer; title: Abraham and the "law and the prophets" / Thomas Römer; title: Memories of return and the historicity of the "post-exilic" period / Thomas L. Thompson.