The Book of Daniel and the Apocryphal Daniel Literature
Biographical note
Lorenzo DiTommaso, Ph.D. (2001), is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology at Concordia University, Montreal. He has published several books and articles on the Hebrew Bible, ancient and mediaeval apocalypses, and biblical apocrypha.
Readership
All those interested in the Book of Daniel, biblical apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, "rewritten Bible", biblical folklore, mediaeval studies, mediaeval Christianity, apocalypses and apocalyptic literature, and prognostic and divinatory literature.
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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 the crucial conceptual links between the symbolic universes of Second Temple apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism.
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Twenty-one essays by Michael Knibb on the Book of Enoch and on other Early Jewish texts and traditions have been included in this collection, which illustrates some of the dominant concerns of his work throughout his career.
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This volume includes an introduction, a translation and an in-depth commentary of the fragments of the Exagoge, a Greek tragedy written by a Jewish poet named Ezekiel the Tragedian, who lived between mid- 2nd and mid-1st century BCE. The author offers an interpretation of the play which links ...
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The fragments of Aramaic Levi Document are presented for the first time as a single coherent whole. This book, which will move the study of this pivotal document to a new level, includes original texts, translation, introduction and extensive and detailed commentary.
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This book analyses the Christian transmission of the Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, in particular the case of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the Greek Life of Adam and Eve.
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This volume contains a detailed study of the third Sibylline book. This Jewish work was written sometime between 80 and 40 BCE in Asia Minor. It provides valuable information on the position and self-image of Jews in a non-Jewish, Graeco-Roman environment.
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The first comprehensive attempt to provide an interpretation of this ancient text. Narrative criticism and speech act theory are deployed. A Jewish rather than Christian provenance is argued for, and its bearing on possible Jewish missionary activity is assessed.
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This volume is a collection of articles by some of the foremost scholars in the field, dealing with the rich variety of Adam and Eve-traditions, from The Life of Adam and Eve onwards to late medieval writings in Armenian.
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This volume is the first publication of 19 previously unpublished Armenian compositions about Adam and Eve. The Armenian texts are accompanied by translations, introductions and commentaries, in which their roots in more ancient Jewish and Christian literature are explored.
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This collection assembles 13 studies dealing with the history and importance of the ancient Jewish romance called Joseph and Aseneth, which in the original Greek and through ancient and medieval versions became part of the Christian heritage.
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