The hermeneutics of divine testing
Subtitle: cosmic trials and biblical interpretation in the Epistle of James and other Jewish literature
By: Nicholas Ellis
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe -- 396; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 396.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Tübingen, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9783161534911
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Rabbinical literature; Literatur; Homilies (Pseudo-Clementine); Bibel; Bible; Book of Jubilees; Versuchung; Criticism, interpretation; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Judentum
Notes: Revision of author's thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Oxford.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-260) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The problem of probation in the Epistle of James and other Jewish literature; title: The Epistle of James and the discourse of probation; title: Comparative methodology and historical models; title: Current conversations in Jewish cosmology; title: Part II: Divine probation in Jewish literature; title: Rewritten Bible and demonic paradigms; title: The Wisdom of Ben Sira and human ability; title: Philo and Hellenistic philosophy; title: The Pseudo-Clementine Homilies; title: Rabbinic traditions and demonic anthropology; title: Part III: A hermeneutic of probation in the Epistle of James; title: A theology of probation in the Epistle of James; title: The Epistle of James and a hermeneutic of testing.