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The Early Reception of the Torah / ed. by Barbara Schmitz, Kristin de Troyer, Joshua Alfaro, Maximilian Häberlein.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies ; 39Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 204 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110691443
  • 9783110691849
  • 9783110691801
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Inheriting, Developing, and Debating within Tradition: Abraham’s Torah Observance in Second Temple Judaism -- Massah and Meribah Re-interpreted: Biblical Accounts, Judith, and Josephus -- Emotion and Law in the Book of Baruch -- The Torah in the Diaspora: The LXX Esther and Tobit as Test-cases -- Fearing the Lord God: The Reception of Deuteronomic and Deuteronomistic Torah Tropes in Tobit -- Re-Examining Torah in the Wisdom of Ben Sira: Was Hellenistic Wisdom Torahised? -- Searching the Book of Law: Jewish Divination in 1 Maccabees 3:48 -- The Sabbath: From Biblical Commandment to Halakhic Discussion -- Torah in the Fourth Book of Maccabees -- Moses versus Enoch? On the Reception of the Mosaic Torah in the Book of Enoch -- Mosaic Torah and Defense against Demons in the Book of Jubilees -- List of Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
Summary: This volume contains the papers presented at the 2017 meeting of the SBL Program Unit on Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature in Boston, MA. The theme of the sessions was the interpretation of Torah in deuterocanonical literature. The contributions cover a variety of concepts and themes related to Torah and trace these through the Hebrew Bible, into the Septuagintal deuterocanonical books and other relevant and cognate literature.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Inheriting, Developing, and Debating within Tradition: Abraham’s Torah Observance in Second Temple Judaism -- Massah and Meribah Re-interpreted: Biblical Accounts, Judith, and Josephus -- Emotion and Law in the Book of Baruch -- The Torah in the Diaspora: The LXX Esther and Tobit as Test-cases -- Fearing the Lord God: The Reception of Deuteronomic and Deuteronomistic Torah Tropes in Tobit -- Re-Examining Torah in the Wisdom of Ben Sira: Was Hellenistic Wisdom Torahised? -- Searching the Book of Law: Jewish Divination in 1 Maccabees 3:48 -- The Sabbath: From Biblical Commandment to Halakhic Discussion -- Torah in the Fourth Book of Maccabees -- Moses versus Enoch? On the Reception of the Mosaic Torah in the Book of Enoch -- Mosaic Torah and Defense against Demons in the Book of Jubilees -- List of Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

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This volume contains the papers presented at the 2017 meeting of the SBL Program Unit on Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature in Boston, MA. The theme of the sessions was the interpretation of Torah in deuterocanonical literature. The contributions cover a variety of concepts and themes related to Torah and trace these through the Hebrew Bible, into the Septuagintal deuterocanonical books and other relevant and cognate literature.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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