A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism (2012 Henze), edited volume
A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism (2012) is a volume edited by Matthias Henze.
Abstract
"A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism presents eighteen commissioned articles on biblical exegesis in early Judaism, covering the period after the Hebrew Bible was written and before the beginning of rabbinic Judaism. The essays, all written by experts in the field, are arranged in seven categories: Hebrew Bible, Rewritten Bible, Qumran Literature, Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments, Wisdom Literature, Hellenistic Judaism, and Biblical Interpretation in Antiquity. Together these essays provide a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the diverse modes of scriptural interpretation practiced by a variegated and dynamic spectrum of Jewish groups in the Hellenistic and early Roman eras." -- Publisher's description
Editions
Published in Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2012.
Contents
The beginnings of biblical interpretation / James L. Kugel -- Inner-biblical interpretation / Yair Zakovitch -- Translators as interpreters: scriptural interpretation in the Septuagint / Martin Rösel -- The interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in the targums / Edward M. Cook -- Biblical interpretation in the book of Jubilees: the case of the early Abram (Jub. 11:4-12:15) / Jacques van Ruiten -- The Genesis apocryphon: compositional and interpretive perspectives / Moshe J. Bernstein -- Biblical interpretation in Pseudo-Philo's Liber antiquarian biblicarum / Howard Jacobson -- The use of scripture in the Community rule / Shani Tzoref -- Prophetic interpretation in the Pesharim / George J. Brooke -- Biblical Interpretation in the Hodayot / Sarah J. Tanzer -- The use of scripture in the book of Daniel / Matthias Henze -- How to make sense of pseudonymous attribution: the cases of 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch / Hindy Najman (with Itamar Manoff and Eva Mroczek) -- The Testaments of the twelve patriarchs: a not-so-ambiguous witness to early Jewish interpretive practices / Robert Kugler -- Biblical interpretation in the book of Bin Sira / Benjamin G. Wright III -- Pseudo-Solomon and his scripture: biblical interpretation in the wisdom of Solomon / Peter Enns -- The interpreter of Moses: Philo of Alexandria and the biblical text / Gregory E. Sterling -- Josephus's biblical interpretation / Zuleika Rodgers -- Biblical exegesis and interpretation from Qumran to the rabbis / Aharon Shemesh