For a Later Generation: The Transformation of Tradition in Israel, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity,9781563383250

For a Later Generation: The Transformation of Tradition in Israel, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity

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ISBN13: 9781563383250
ISBN10: 156338325X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-11-01
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury USA Academic
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Summary

Twenty-seven scholars gather to honor George Nickelsburg in this collection of essays that uses his methods to examine the reuse or reinterpretation of authoritative tradition in early Judaism and Christianity.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Editors' Preface xiii
List of Abbreviations
xv
The Suda and the ``Priesthood of Jesus''
1(12)
William Adler
A Hellenistic Jewish Source on the Essenes in Philo, Every Good Man Is Free 75-91, and Josephus, Antiquities 18.18-22
13(12)
Randal A. Argall
Prophetic Rhetoric in 6 Ezra
25(8)
Theodore A. Bergren
Melchizedek's Birth Narrative in 2 Enoch 68-73: Christian Correlations
33(9)
Beverly A. Bow
When Did They Pray? Times for Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature
42(10)
Esther Chazon
Reinventing Exodus: Exegesis and Legend in Hellenistic Egypt
52(11)
John J. Collins
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and Related Qumran Fragments
63(15)
Marinus de Jonge
The Metamorphosis of Isaiah 13:2-14:27
78(11)
Jonathan A. Goldstein
The Wisdom of the Scribe, the Wisdom of the Priest, and the Wisdom of the King according to Ben Sira
89(11)
Martha Himmelfarb
Social Relations and Social Conflict in the Epistle of Enoch
100(16)
Richard A. Horsley
The Ironic End of Joash in Chronicles
116(12)
Ralph W. Klein
When Aseneth Met Joseph: A Postscript
128(8)
Ross S. Kraemer
Early Developments of the ``Two-Ways Tradition(s),'' in Retrospect
136(8)
Robert A. Kraft
Wisdom Psalms and the Shaping of the Hebrew Psalter
144(17)
J. Kenneth Kuntz
The Ending of Luke and the Ending of the Odyssey
161(8)
Dennis R. MacDonald
Augustine and the Strange Career of Romans 9:10-29
169(14)
James F. McCue
The Sabbath Halakhah in the Context of Rabbinic Judaism's Theological System
183(13)
Jacob Neusner
Exegesis of Genesis 1 in the Gospels of Thomas and John
196(20)
Elaine H. Pagels
Enoch in Egypt
216(16)
Birger A. Pearson
Elijah, the Son of God, and Jesus: Some Issues in the Anthropology of Characterization in Mark
232(9)
Norman R. Petersen
The Bones of Adam and Eve
241(5)
Michael E. Stone
Jesus' True Family: The Synoptic Tradition and Thomas
246(12)
Fred Strickert
Anti-apocalyptic Apocalypse
258(8)
Patrick Tiller
Studies on the Prologue and Jubilees 1
266(14)
James C. VanderKam
The Curses of the Covenant Renewal Ceremony in 1QS 1.16-2.19 and the Prayers of the Condemned
280(9)
Rodney Werline
Notes on 4Q391 (papPseudo-Ezekiele) and Biblical Ezekiel
289(10)
Benjamin G. Wright III
George W. E. Nickelsburg Publications 299(10)
Contributors 309(2)
Index of Ancient Sources 311(19)
Index of Modern Authors 330

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