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Essays on the Book of Enoch and other early Jewish texts and traditions
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ISBN: 9789004167254 9004167250 9786612398995 1282398997 904744339X 9789047443391 9781282398993 661239899X Year: 2008 Volume: 22 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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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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The Ethiopic book of Enoch : a new edition in the light of the Aramaic Dead Sea fragments
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ISBN: 0198261632 9780198261636 Year: 1978 Publisher: Oxford: Clarendon,

Studies on the Testament of Job
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ISBN: 052137216X 0521020212 0511557434 9780521372169 9780511557439 9780521020213 Year: 1989 Volume: 66 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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Bringing together as it does papers delivered at the 1986 and 1987 meetings of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas Pseudepigrapha Seminar, this collection takes as its theme the Testament of Job. For much of the modern period the Testament of Job has been one of the lesser-known pseudepigraphic products of early Judaism, and this book attempts to remedy the deficiency of scholarly material in the area with a well-balanced treatment of its central concerns. Approximately the length of the New Testament book of Romans, the Testament celebrates the virtue of patience through a folkloristic elaboration of the Biblical story of Job. Yet the Testament adopts from the Biblical story scarcely more than the framework, much of it highlighting themes unusual in both early Christian and early Jewish writings. From the viewpoint of the history of religions it is of interest for its image of Satan, its ecstaticism and its emphasis on magic; it sheds light on the Jewish background of the early Christian phenomenon of glossolalia; and it is intriguing because of the remarkable role it assigns to women. The contributors to this volume are all distinguished scholars, and they provide an accessible introduction to this relatively neglected ancient document.

Biblical traditions in transmission : essays in honour of Michael A. Knibb
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ISBN: 9004139974 9786611384210 1281384216 9047405978 9789004139978 9789047405979 9781281384218 6611384219 Year: 2006 Volume: 111 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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This collection comprises eighteen papers by friends, colleagues and students of Michal A. Knibb on the theme of the transmission of biblical traditions in a variety of contexts. In the main the articles deal with the transmission of biblical traditions in the versions, the pseudepigrapha, at Qumran, and in early Christian writings. The collection as a whole clearly demonstrates the way in which biblical traditions were shaped and re-shaped creatively in the biblical, early Jewish and Christian literature.


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Israel's prophetic tradition : essays in honour of Peter R. Ackroyd
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ISBN: 0521242231 0521318866 0511557426 9780521242233 9780511557422 9780521318860 Year: 1982 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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This successful volume of essays by distinguished scholars not only makes a contribution to the study of Old Testament prophets but also summarizes scholarship in a way particularly appropriate to students, giving access to material available otherwise only in other languages or in journals difficult to obtain.

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