The temple in text and tradition
Subtitle: a festschrift in honour of Robert Hayward
By: edited by R. Timothy McLay
Series: Library of second temple studies -- 83; T & T Clark library of biblical studies; Library of Second Temple studies -- 85.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780567062697; 9780567068289; 9780567658289
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Bible; Frühjudentum; Literatur; Bibel; History; Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel); Theologie; Criticism, interpretation; Apocrypha; Sources; Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
Description: The Second Temple period is an era that marked a virtual explosion in the world of literature, with the creation, redaction, interpretation, and transmission of Jewish texts that represented diverse languages and ideologies. The creation of many of these writings coincided with the growth of the Jewish community beyond the borders of Israel; therefore, among those for whom the Temple played a diminishing role. The transition period from Temple to texts was accompanied by conflicting interpretations about the role of the Temple as well as diverse theological understandings about God and the Jewish people. Drawing on the expertise of leading specialists in Second Temple Judaism, Temple, Texts, and Traditions explores the rich traditions of the Jewish people as they were expressed and interpreted in their writings in that period, which included writings that later became recognized as Scriptures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The boundaries of translation / Anthony Gelston; title: What will happen to the serpent? unending struggle, hermeneutics, and the interpretation of Genesis 3.15 / R.W.L. Moberly; title: Reconstructing Tobit 13.6-10 / Stuart Weeks; title: Jewish worship amid greeks: the lexical context of the old greek psalter / James K. Aitken; title: Rabbinic and patristic Bible exegesis as intertexts: towards a theory of comparative Midrash / Philip S. Alexander; title: The Paraclete / Margaret Barker; title: The zeal of readers in defence and in dissent: Phinehas' Spear, The Covenant of Peace, and the politics of hermeneutics / Richard S. Briggs; title: Reading, searching and blessing: a functional approach to scriptural interpretation in the; title: George J. Brooks / Joseph as exemplar of wisdom: hidden allusion in Sirach 21.11-21 / Jeremy Corley; title: Samples of variant readings in the armenian proverbs: a comparison with the hexaplaric text and the Peshitta / Lorenzo Cuppi; title: The greek translations of Daniel 4-6 / R. Timothy Mclay; title: A glasgow octateuch and a leiden psalter, two Old Testament manuscripts formerly belonging to Dr John Clement (CA. 1500-1572): history and hypothesis / J. Lionel North; title: Observations on the structure and literary fabric of the temple scroll / Alex Samely; title: The sons of Joseph in 1 Chronicles 5.1-2 and in early samaritan tradition / H.G.M. Williamson.