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Authoritative scriptures in ancient Judaism / edited by Mladen Popović.

Contributor(s): Language: English, French Series: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 141.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010Description: 1 online resource (viii, 394 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004185302
  • 9004185305
  • 9789004190740
  • 9004190740
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Authoritative scriptures in ancient Judaism.DDC classification:
  • 221.1 22
LOC classification:
  • BS480 .A96 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introducing Authoritative scriptures in ancient Judaism / Mladen Popović -- Rethinking the Bible : sixty years of Dead Sea Scrolls research and beyond / Florentino García Martínez -- The "apocalyptic" community, the matrix of the teacher and rewriting scripture / George J. Brooke -- Authoritative scriptures and scribal culture / Arie van der Kooij -- From 4QReworked Pentateuch to 4QPentateuch / Emanuel Tov -- Authoritative scripture as reflected in the textual transmission of the biblical books : the case of 1 Kings 3-10 / Julio Trebolle -- Quelques observations sur le 'canon' des <<Écrits>> / Émile Puech -- Reflections on the status of the early Enochic writings / Michael A. Knibb -- Aramaic texts from Qumran and the authoritativeness of Hebrew scriptures : preliminary observations / Eibert Tigchelaar -- Daniel and the Daniel Qumran cycle : observations on 4QFour Kingdoms a-b (4Q552-553) / Albert L.A. Hogeterp -- Pluralism and authoritativeness : the case of the S tradition / Charlotte Hempel -- Prophecy and history in the Pesharim / John J. Collins -- Prophet, books and texts : Ezekiel, Pseudo-Ezekiel and the authoritativeness of Ezekiel traditions in early Judaism / Mladen Popović -- Text and figure in ancient Jewish Paideia / Hindy Najman -- Ancestral, oracular and prophetic authority : "scriptural authority" according to Paul and Philo / George H. van Kooten -- "The words of the prophecy of this book" : playing with scriptural authority in the Book of Revelation / Tobias Nicklas -- From holy books to holy bible : an itinerary from ancient Greece to modern Islam via Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity / Jan N. Bremmer.
Summary: Many scholars of the Second Temple period have replaced the concept of canonization by that of canonical process. Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls has been crucial for this new direction. Based on this new evidence taxonomic terms like biblical, nonbiblical or parabiblical seem anachronistic for the period before 70 C.E. The notion of authoritative Scriptures plays an important part in the new paradigm of canonical process, but it has not yet been sufficiently reflected upon and is in need of clarification. Why were some texts more authoritative than others? For whom and in what contexts were tex.
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"This volume is a collection of contributions that reflect on the issue of the authoritativeness of Scriptures in Second Temple period Judaism. They result from a conference that the Qumran Institute organized on 28-29 April 2008"--Preface.

In English; one paper in French.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introducing Authoritative scriptures in ancient Judaism / Mladen Popović -- Rethinking the Bible : sixty years of Dead Sea Scrolls research and beyond / Florentino García Martínez -- The "apocalyptic" community, the matrix of the teacher and rewriting scripture / George J. Brooke -- Authoritative scriptures and scribal culture / Arie van der Kooij -- From 4QReworked Pentateuch to 4QPentateuch / Emanuel Tov -- Authoritative scripture as reflected in the textual transmission of the biblical books : the case of 1 Kings 3-10 / Julio Trebolle -- Quelques observations sur le 'canon' des <<Écrits>> / Émile Puech -- Reflections on the status of the early Enochic writings / Michael A. Knibb -- Aramaic texts from Qumran and the authoritativeness of Hebrew scriptures : preliminary observations / Eibert Tigchelaar -- Daniel and the Daniel Qumran cycle : observations on 4QFour Kingdoms a-b (4Q552-553) / Albert L.A. Hogeterp -- Pluralism and authoritativeness : the case of the S tradition / Charlotte Hempel -- Prophecy and history in the Pesharim / John J. Collins -- Prophet, books and texts : Ezekiel, Pseudo-Ezekiel and the authoritativeness of Ezekiel traditions in early Judaism / Mladen Popović -- Text and figure in ancient Jewish Paideia / Hindy Najman -- Ancestral, oracular and prophetic authority : "scriptural authority" according to Paul and Philo / George H. van Kooten -- "The words of the prophecy of this book" : playing with scriptural authority in the Book of Revelation / Tobias Nicklas -- From holy books to holy bible : an itinerary from ancient Greece to modern Islam via Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity / Jan N. Bremmer.

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Many scholars of the Second Temple period have replaced the concept of canonization by that of canonical process. Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls has been crucial for this new direction. Based on this new evidence taxonomic terms like biblical, nonbiblical or parabiblical seem anachronistic for the period before 70 C.E. The notion of authoritative Scriptures plays an important part in the new paradigm of canonical process, but it has not yet been sufficiently reflected upon and is in need of clarification. Why were some texts more authoritative than others? For whom and in what contexts were tex.

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