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Authoritative writings in early Judaism and early Christianity : their origin, collection, and meaning / edited byTobias Nicklas and Jens Schröter.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen TestamentPublisher: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2020Description: 1 online resource (vi, 356 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783161589928
  • 3161589920
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Authoritative Writings in Early Judaism and Early Christianity : Their Origin, Collection, and Meaning.DDC classification:
  • 270.1 23
LOC classification:
  • BR163 .A98 2020eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction -- Textual authority in ancient Israel and Judah : factors and forces of its development / Konrad Schmid -- The authority of the scriptures of Israel in the Qumran corpus / Jörg Frey -- 2 Baruch, 4 Ezra, and Israel's scriptures / Matthias Henze -- The meaning of the Septuagint in the process of authorization of Israelite writings / Natalio Fernández Marcos -- Jesus and the Jewish writings / Armand Puig i Tàrrech -- The use of Jewish writings and their collections in the New Testament Gospels / Dieter T. Roth -- The use of "canonical" and "non-canonical" texts in early Chrisitianity and its influence on the authorization of Christian writings / Jens Schröter -- Die Autorität der Schrift bei Paulus / Martin Meiser -- "He still speaks!" : the authority of scripture in Hebrews / Benjamin J. Ribbens ; Michael H. Kibbe -- Strategies of authorizing tradition in the letter of James / Susanne Luther -- Marcion, the writings of Israel, and the origins of the "New Testament" / Judith M. Lieu -- What kind of Jewish Bible did the Gnostics use? / Jean-Daniel Dubois -- Authority and canon according to some ancient "Christian" apocalypses : 5 Ezra and the Tiburtine Sibyl / Tobias Nicklas -- Early Christian book production and the concept of canon / Juan Chapa -- Hebrew Psalm 91 / Greek Psalm 90 : collections and contexts, and a text of authority / Thomas J. Kraus.
Summary: "Recent scholarship on the history of the biblical canons has increasingly recognised that the Jewish and Christian Bibles were not formed independently of each other but amid controversial debate and competition. But what does it mean that the formation of the Christian Bible cannot be separated from the developments that led to the Jewish Bible? The articles in this collection start with the assumption that the authorization of writings had already begun in Israel and Judaism before the emergence of Christianity and was continued in the first centuries CE by Judaism and Christianity in their respective ways. They deal with a broad range of sources, such as writings which came to be part of the Hebrew Bible, literature from Qumran, the Septuagint, or early Jewish apocalypses. At the same time they deal, for example, with structures of authorization related to New Testament writings, examine the role of authoritative texs in so-called Gnostic schools, and discuss the authority of late antique apocryphal literature." -- Publisher, inside front flap of dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- Textual authority in ancient Israel and Judah : factors and forces of its development / Konrad Schmid -- The authority of the scriptures of Israel in the Qumran corpus / Jörg Frey -- 2 Baruch, 4 Ezra, and Israel's scriptures / Matthias Henze -- The meaning of the Septuagint in the process of authorization of Israelite writings / Natalio Fernández Marcos -- Jesus and the Jewish writings / Armand Puig i Tàrrech -- The use of Jewish writings and their collections in the New Testament Gospels / Dieter T. Roth -- The use of "canonical" and "non-canonical" texts in early Chrisitianity and its influence on the authorization of Christian writings / Jens Schröter -- Die Autorität der Schrift bei Paulus / Martin Meiser -- "He still speaks!" : the authority of scripture in Hebrews / Benjamin J. Ribbens ; Michael H. Kibbe -- Strategies of authorizing tradition in the letter of James / Susanne Luther -- Marcion, the writings of Israel, and the origins of the "New Testament" / Judith M. Lieu -- What kind of Jewish Bible did the Gnostics use? / Jean-Daniel Dubois -- Authority and canon according to some ancient "Christian" apocalypses : 5 Ezra and the Tiburtine Sibyl / Tobias Nicklas -- Early Christian book production and the concept of canon / Juan Chapa -- Hebrew Psalm 91 / Greek Psalm 90 : collections and contexts, and a text of authority / Thomas J. Kraus.

"Recent scholarship on the history of the biblical canons has increasingly recognised that the Jewish and Christian Bibles were not formed independently of each other but amid controversial debate and competition. But what does it mean that the formation of the Christian Bible cannot be separated from the developments that led to the Jewish Bible? The articles in this collection start with the assumption that the authorization of writings had already begun in Israel and Judaism before the emergence of Christianity and was continued in the first centuries CE by Judaism and Christianity in their respective ways. They deal with a broad range of sources, such as writings which came to be part of the Hebrew Bible, literature from Qumran, the Septuagint, or early Jewish apocalypses. At the same time they deal, for example, with structures of authorization related to New Testament writings, examine the role of authoritative texs in so-called Gnostic schools, and discuss the authority of late antique apocryphal literature." -- Publisher, inside front flap of dust jacket.

Includes 14 contributions in English, and 1 in German.