Pentateuchal Traditions in the Late Second Temple Period

Akio Moriya, Ph.D. (1994) in Hebraic and Cognate Studies, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, is Professor of Bible at Tokyo Woman's Christian University. He has published extensively on Aramaic studies.

Gohei Hata, Ph.D. (1975) in Jewish Studies, Doropsie University is Professor at Tama Art University, Tokyo. He has published extensively on Josephus studies including Whole Works of Josephus Translated into Japanese.

Part I Pentateuchal Traditions
1. The Doctrine of creatio ex nihilo and the Translation of tōhû wābōhû
Toshio David Tsumura
2. One Decalogue in Different Texts
Yuichi Osumi
3. The Evolutionary Growth of the Pentateuch in the Second Temple Period
Eugene Ulrich
4. The Scribal and Textual Transmission of the Torah Analyzed in Light of Its Sanctity
Emanuel Tov

Part II Hellenistic Judaism and the Pentateuch
5. In the Beginning Was a Greek Translation of Genesis and Exodus
Gohei Hata
6. Which Version of the Greek Bible Did Philo Read?
Gregory E. Sterling
7. The Importance of the Latter Half of Josephus’s Judaean Antiquities for his Roman Audience
Steve Mason

Part III Dead Sea Scrolls and the Pentateuch
8. The Interpretation of Genesis in the Dead Sea Scrolls
John J. Collins
9. Exegesis of Pentateuchal Legislation in Jubilees and Related Texts Found at Qumran
James C. VanderKam
10. The Pentateuch Reflected in the Aramaic Documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Akio Moriya

Part IV The New Testament and the Pentateuch
11. The Septuagint and the Transition of the Gospel Traditions
Migaku Sato
12. The Reception of the Torah in Mark: The Question about the Greatest Commandment
Adela Yarbro Collins
13. Creation and Sacred Space: The Reuse of Key Pentateuchal Themes by Philo, the Fourth Evangelist, and the Epistle to the Hebrews
Harold W. Attridge

Special Contribution
14. A Japanese Perspective－Searching for Further Points of Contact between East and West
Yutaka Ikeda