Textual Criticism and Dead Sea Scrolls Studies in Honour of Julio Trebolle Barrera

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xxviii, 427 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Andrés Piquer Otero, Ph.D. (2003) in Hebrew Philology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, is tenure-track Professor in the Department of Hebrew and Aramaic Studies at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is editor of 2 Kings for the Oxford Hebrew Bible Series.

Pablo A. Torijano Morales, Ph.D. (1999) in Jewish Studies, New York University, is Professor in the Department of Hebrew and Aramaic Studies at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His research focuses on Septuagint and Second Temple Judaism and includes Solomon the Esoteric King (Brill 2002).

Readership

Students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, particularly those interested in the history of the biblical text and its versions.

Contributors include: Anneli Aejmelaeus, A. Graeme Auld, Hans Ausloos, George J. Brooke, Devorah Dimant, Florentino García Martínez, Ronald S. Hendel, Philippe Hugo, Jan Joosten, Ingo Kottsieper, Armin Lange, Timothy M. Law, André Lemaire, Bénédicte Lemmelijn, Johan Lust, Corrado Martone, Andrés Piquer Otero, Émile Puech, Adrian Schenker, Mark S. Smith, Annette Steudel, Pablo A. Torijano Morales, Emanuel Tov, Eugene Ulrich, James Vanderkam, Marc Vervenne, Matthias Weigold

€123.00$171.00

Series:

Volume:

160

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004210493

Status:

The Mishnaic Sotah Ritual

Ishay Rosen–Zvi, Tel Aviv University

Combining philological, anthropological and cultural tools, this study sheds new light on issues of rabbinic gender economy and sexual morality, and contributes to the nascent scholarship on the formation of the temple in the Mishnah.

€121.00$166.00

Series:

Volume:

159

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004169630

Status:

Calendrical Variations in Second Temple Judaism

Stéphane Saulnier, Newman Theological College

From a consideration of previously known and from newly identified calendrical polemics, this book offers new perspectives on internal tensions within Second Temple Judaism and their possible impact on the long standing debate about the day of the last supper.

€105.00$144.00

Series:

Volume:

158

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004184534

Status:

Pentateuchal Traditions in the Late Second Temple Period

Edited by Akio Moriya Tokyo Woman's Christian University and Gohei Hata Tama Art University, Tokyo

This volume consists of collected essays, which was first read at the International Workshop on the Study of the Pentateuch with Special Emphasis on Textual Transmission History in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods held August 28-31, 2007 in Tokyo.

€155.00$212.00

Series:

Volume:

156

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004217683

Status:

A Walk through Jubilees

James L. Kugel

An extensive commentary on the Book of Jubilees, followed by a series of chapters exploring the possibility that the book had more than one author, as well as its relationship to the Genesis Apocryphon, the Aramaic Levi Document, 4Q225 Pseudo-Jubilees, and the writings of Philo of Alexandria.

€105.00$144.00

Series:

Volume:

155

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004210462

Status:

Jewish Identity and Politics between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba

Edited by Benedikt Eckhardt

Based on an interdisciplinary conference held in Münster, this volume discusses the interrelation between political change and Jewish identity in the three centuries between the Maccabean and the Bar Kokhba revolt (168 BCE – 135 CE).

€143.00$196.00

Series:

Volume:

154

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004216686

Status:

The Jewish Revolt against Rome

This volume brings together different disciplines, some for the first time, The contrubutions reflect on a wide range of literary, archaeological, documentary, epigraphic and numismatic sources and their bearing on the historical context of the Jewish revolt against Rome and on our own ...

€244.00$334.00

Series:

Volume:

153

Version:

Publication Value:

Bibliographic Set

ISBN13:

9789004215207

Status:

A Teacher for All Generations (2 vol. set)

Edited by Eric F. Mason (general editor);
Editors volume 1: Samuel I. Thomas, Alison Schofield, Eugene Ulrich;
Editors volume 2: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Angela Kim Harkins, Daniel A. Machiela

These essays honor James C. VanderKam on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and twentieth year on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame. Essays from an international group of scholars address various topics in Second Temple Judaism and biblical studies.

€99.00$136.00

Series:

Volume:

152

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004207264

Status:

The Heavenly Book Motif in Judeo-Christian Apocalypses 200 BCE-200 CE

The first full-length analysis of the heavenly book motif in English, this study highlights a vital element of early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature. Through multiple intertextual readings, it demonstrates that for the ancients heavenly writing had life or death consequences.

€121.00$166.00

Series:

Volume:

151

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004210271

Status:

Jewish Reactions to the Destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70

Kenneth R. Jones

This book explores the reaction to the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 found in Jewish apocalypses and related literature preserved among the Pseudepigrapha (4 Ezra, 2 Baruch, 3 Baruch, 4 Baruch, Sibylline Oracles 4 and 5, and the Apocalypse of Abraham).

€128.00$175.00

Series:

Volume:

150

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004206922

Status:

The Texts and Versions of the Book of Ben Sira

Edited by Jean- Sébastien Rey and Jan Joosten

The present volume brings together studies by some of the best specialists on the texts and versions of the Book of Ben Sira. Each textual form is placed in its own historical context and analysed in regard to what explains the typical changes it contains.