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Armenian Apocrypha Relating To Adam And Eve - Edited With Introductions, Translations And Commentary

by Michael E. Stone

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 Legends about Adam and Eve are to be found in Jewish, Christian and Moslem sources. They develop the first chapters of Genesis in many and varied ways, reflecting the religious understanding of the different traditions.In this volume 29 new texts are presented for the first time from unpublished Armenian manuscripts. The Armenian texts are accompanied by translations, introductions and commentaries, in which their roots in more ancient Jewish and Christian literature are explored.These texts illustrate the rich development of Adam traditions in an oriental Christian tradition, with relationship to Greek, Syriac and Georgian sources. Their ramifications extend back into earlier Jewish traditions and they are keys to understanding many aspects of medieval Armenian culture.
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Selected Studies In Pseudepigrapha And Apocrypha With Special Reference To The Armenian Tradition

by Michael Stone

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 This work contains selected essays dealing with the Jewish Literature of the Second Temple period, focusing around central themes of recent research. Stone's varied interests are reflected in this book, gathered around four main themes. Under the title "Enoch and the Testaments" are assembled studies which present and draw the implications from recent discoveries (including the Dead Sea Scrolls) as they modify the view of these two pivotal documents of ancient Judaism. Another focus of Stone's work has been 4 Ezra or 2 Esdras, a work reflecting the situation of Judaism, and especially to the understanding of apocalypticism, form a third section of the present work, while the particular development of apocryphal literature in Armenian is its fourth division.This work presents a range of significant studies in areas standing at the forefront of the study of Ancient Judaism.
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Essays On The Book Of Enoch And Other Early Jewish Texts And Traditions

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Essays On The Book Of Enoch And Other Early Jewish Texts And Traditions

by Michael Knibb

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 This volume brings together twenty-one essays by Michael Knibb on the Book of Enoch and on other Early Jewish texts and traditions, which were originally published in a wide range of journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings and thematic collections. A number of the essays are concerned with the issues raised by the complex textual history and literary genesis of 1 Enoch, but the majority are concerned with the interpretation of specific texts or with themes such as messianism. The essays illustrate some of the dominant concerns of Michael Knibb's work, particularly the importance of the idea of exile; the way in which older texts regarded as authoritative were reinterpreted in later writings; and the connections between the apocalyptic writings and the sapiential literature.
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Selected Studies In The Slavonic Pseudepigrapha

by Andrei Orlov

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 This volume is a study of two of the most important Slavonic apocalypses, the Apocalypse of Abraham and 2 Enoch, as crucial conceptual links between the symbolic universes of Second Temple apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism. The study seeks to understand the mediating role of these Slavonic pseudepigraphical texts in the development of Jewish angelological and theophanic traditions from Second Temple apocalypticism to later Jewish Merkabah mysticism attested in the Hekhalot and Shi?ur Qomah materials. The study shows that mediatorial traditions of the principal angels and the exalted patriarchs and prophets played an important role in facilitating the transition from apocalypticism to early Jewish mysticism.
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L'Exagoge D'Ezechiel Le Tragique - Introduction, Texte, Traduction Et Commentaire

by Pierluigi Lanfranchi

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 The seventeen fragments of the Ezekiel's Exagoge (between mid-2nd and mid-1st century BCE) relate the story of the first fifteen chapters of the Exodus. They are the only evidence of a Jewish tragedy which has come down to us from Antiquity, as well as the most extensive specimen of a Greek tragedy of the Hellenistic period. For this reason the Exagoge is of unique historical, religious and literary value.This volume provides a translation and an in-depth commentary of the fragments of the Exagoge. The author deals with philological, dramaturgical and exegetical questions and sheds light on the relation between Ezekiel's drama and the Greek Bible, Hellenistic Jewish literature and Greek classical models. The introduction focuses on general subjects: the manifold Jewish attitudes towards theatre, the social and cultural context of the performance of the Exagoge, the dramatisation of the biblical text by Ezekiel, the complicated history of the transmission of the fragments. Les dix-sept fragments de l'Exagoge d'Ezechiel le Tragique (entre la moitie du IIe et la moitie du Ier siecle av.n.e.) racontent l'histoire des quinze premiers chapitres de l'Exode. Ils sont non seulement le temoignage unique d'une tragedie juive que l'Antiquite nous a transmise, mais aussi le specimen le plus etendu de tragedie grecque de la periode hellenistique. Sa valeur historique, religieuse et litteraire est donc unique. Ce volume offre une traduction et un commentaire approfondi des fragments de l'Exagoge. Les problemes philologiques, dramaturgiques et exegetiques y sont etudies que les liens de cette piece avec d'une part le texte biblique et la litterature du Judaisme hellenistique, d'autre part les modeles des tragedies classiques. Dans l'introduction des questions generales sont abordees : les differentes attitudes des Juifs a l'egard du theatre, le contexte social et culturel dans lequel l'Exagoge a ete representee, la dramatisation du texte biblique operee par Ezechiel, l'histoire complexe de la transmission des fragments.
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Book Of Daniel And The Apocryphal Daniel Literature

by Lorenzo Ditommaso

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 This volume illuminates the full extent of the corpus of ancient and mediaeval apocryphal Daniel literature. It is the first study to examine the Daniel legenda, the apocryphal apocalypses, and the prognostica as discrete categories of texts and to evaluate their generic relationship to the biblical Book of Daniel. Special emphases include the identification of the texts and their manuscript evidence as well as the study of late antique and early mediaeval apocalyptic literature attributed to Daniel. This volume will be of particular interest to biblical scholars and to those who specialise in biblical apocrypha and pseudepigrapha.
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Aramaic Levi Document - Edition, Translation, Commentary

by Esther Eshel, Jonas C. Greenfield e Michael Stone

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 The Aramaic Levi Document is a collection of larger and smaller fragments identified in Aramaic, Greek and Syriac. The discovery of Aramaic fragments among at Qumran confirmed its antiquity and it is now considered to be one of the oldest Jewish works outside the Hebrew Bible. It presents surprising ideas about the priesthood, sacrifice, wisdom and ideals of piety.Greenfield, Stone and Eshel, each expert in their field, have for the first time presented this work as a single coherent whole (as far as the fragments allow). As well as the original texts, they have translated the book into English and written an extensive and detailed commentary as well as an introduction. Indexes, Concordances of Greek and Aramaic words complete the study. This book will move the study of this pivotal document to a new level.
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Literature On Adam And Eve - Collected Essays

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 For many centuries, the acts and destinies of the first-created human beings, Adam and Eve, have intrigued artists, story-tellers and theologians alike. This volume is a collection of articles on these traditions, written by some of the foremost scholars in the field.The volume consists of two parts. In the first part G.A. Anderson and M.E. Stone, close collaborators for years, have combined a number of studies on the rich variety of Adam and Eve-traditions, from the Life of Adam and Eve onwards to late medieval writings in Armenian. The second part, edited by Joh. Tromp, consists of papers read at the 1998 Leiden symposium, and deals more specifically with the Life of Adam and Eve.
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Oniad Sibyl - How A Greek Prophetess Became A Revolutionary Mouthpiece For Egyptian Jews

by Miguel Vargas

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 The Oniad community was a mercenary and priestly Jewish settlement in Greco-Roman Egypt. This community recognized an exiled high priest of the Jerusalem Temple as its founder and met its end after a Mediterranean-wide uprising that shook the foundations of the Roman Empire. This monograph attributes a group of rather puzzling prophetic narratives-filled with coded language, reused lines from Greek and Jewish literature, and confused historical references-to the Oniads. The thesis of this study is that each prophetic treatise responds to crises experienced by the Oniad settlement and, as a result, evidences its unfolding historical consciousness and hybrid literary culture in distinct phases of its existence.
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Biblical Prophets In Byzantine Palestine - Reassessing The Lives Of The Prophets

by David Satran

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 The Lives of the Prophets, a series of brief biographical sketches of the major and minor prophets of the Hebrew Bible, is a unique composition. Generally held to be a Jewish document from the end of the period of the Second Temple, the Lives offers an abundance of geographical, genealogical, and narrative detail which is not readily paralleled. This study provides the first thorough assessment of the work in nearly a century. A survey of the textual state of the composition and its reception is followed by a detailed examination of the literary structures which underlie the individual vitae. It is argued that the Lives is an evolved, heavily redacted document whose present form cannot predate the fourth century C.E. Only within the context of early Byzantine Christian concerns - holy men, sacred sites, and the veneration of the saints - does the Lives of the Prophets become a comprehensible and vital text.
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Assumption Of Moses - A Critical Edition With Commentary

by Johannes Tromp

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 The present volume provides for the long-felt need for a new critical edition of, and a full commentary on the Assumption of Moses, a Palestinian Jewish pseudepigraphon from the first century A.D.The book consists of four parts: I. Critical edition; II. Description of the Latin used in the text; III. The history of research on As. Mos., including the author's conclusions with regard to the literary-historical questions; IV. Detailed commentary. A bibliography and indices complete the book.This edition and commentary greatly enhance the accessibility of one of the most important witnesses of first-century Judaism, the matrix of earliest Christianity.
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Rediscovering Enoch? The Antediluvian Past From The Fifteenth To Nineteenth Centuries

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 The books of Enoch are famed for having been "lost" in the Middle Ages but "rediscovered" by modern scholars. But was this really the case? This volume is the first to explore the reception of Enochic texts and traditions between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bringing specialists in antiquity into conversation with specialists in early modernity, it reveals a much richer story with a more global scope. Contributors show how Enoch and the era before the Flood were newly reimagined, not just by scholars, but also by European artists and adventurers, Kabbalists, Sufis, Mormons, and Ethiopian and Slavonic Christians.
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Book Iii Of The Sibylline Oracles And Its Social Setting - With An Introduction, Translation, And Commentary

by Rieuwerd Buitenwerf

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 This volume contains a thorough study of the third book of the Sibylline Oracles. This Jewish work was written in the Roman province of Asia sometime between 80 and 40 BCE. It offers insights into the political views of the author and his perception of the relation between Jews and non-Jews, especially in the field of religion and ethics. The present study consists of three parts: 1. introductory questions; 2. a literary analysis of the book, translation, and commentary; 3. the social setting of the book. It aims to further the scholarly use of the third Sibylline book and to improve our knowledge of early Judaism in its Graeco-Roman environment.
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Pseudepigrapha Of The Old Testament As Part Of Christian Literature

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Pseudepigrapha Of The Old Testament As Part Of Christian Literature - The Case Of The Testaments Of The Twelve Patriarchs And The Greek Life Of Adam And Eve

by Marinus De Jonge

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 The primary witnesses of the writings called Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament are, in great majority, of Christian provenance. It has been customary for scholars to look for an originally Jewish form of the documents, reflecting Jewish life and thought in the period between 200 BCE and 100 CE. In this volume, M. de Jonge argues that these writings should, first of all, be studied as documents relevant for Christians.This volume incorporates essays written earlier by the author as well as a number of new chapters. The first part deals with general questions concerning the transmission of the pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament whereas the second part has a particular focus on the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the Greek Life of Adam and Eve.
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Dying Adam With His Multiethnic Family - Understanding The Greek Life Of Adam And Eve

by Michael D. Eldridge

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 The Greek Life of Adam and Eve addresses the issue that every individual in every generation needs to face: the prospect of pain and sickness leading to death and beyond that the great unknown. But what kind of message does this writing bring to its readers? What kind of 'salvation' does it offer? Is it a Jewish or Christian text? In this first attempt to provide a comprehensive interpretation, Michael Eldridge deploys a panoply of scholarly methods, including lexical analysis, textual criticism, genre criticism, narrative criticism and speech act theory, to establish that the Greek Life has in part a missionary intent and is most likely a Jewish rather than a Christian text.This study will interest all concerned with Early Judaism, especially those grappling with the 'Jewish mission' question.
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Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition - A Comparative Perspective

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 The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition: A Comparative Perspective comprises a collection of essays on apocalyptic literature in the Armenian tradition. This collection is unprecedented in its subject and scope and employs a comparative approach that situates the Armenian apocalyptic tradition within a broader context. The topics in this volume include the role of apocalyptic literature and apocalypticism in the conversion of the Armenians to Christianity, apocalyptic ideology and holy war, the significance of the Book of Daniel in Armenian thought, the reception of the Apocalypse of Ps.-Methodius in Armenian, the role of apocalyptic literature in political ideologies, and the expression of apocalypticism in the visual arts.
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New Reading Of The Animal Apocalypse Of 1 Enoch - &Quote;All Nations Shall Be Blessed&Quote;

by Daniel Olson

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 A New Reading of the Animal Apocalypse of 1 Enoch is the most comprehensive theological commentary on this important second-century BCE Jewish apocalypse to date, laying out the purpose and methodology of this Enochic allegory and using this as the basis for a new commentary on the whole text, presented here in a fresh translation. Against other interpretations that focus on Israel and its institutions, Daniel Olson argues that the promise of universal blessing in the Abrahamic covenant is presented in the Animal Apocalypse as the governing dynamic in a sacred history that begins and ends with humanity in general. The authentic Jacob/Israel will appear in the end times and be the catalyst of universal salvation
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Book Of Enoch Or I Enoch - A New English Edition With Commentary And Textual Notes. With An Appendix On The 'Astronomical' Chapters (72-82) By O. Neugebauer

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Joseph As An Ethical Model In The Testaments Of The Twelve Patriarchs

by Harm Hollander

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Apocryphes Slaves Et Roumains De L'Ancien Testament

by Turdeanu

389,55€ + 10% CARD
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Sentences Of Pseudo-Phocylides - With Introduction And Commentary

~~197,43€~~ 177,69€ 10% OFF

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