Canonicity, Setting, Wisdom in the Deuterocanonicals (2014 Xeravits), edited volume

Canonicity, Setting, Wisdom in the Deuterocanonicals. Papers of the Jubilee Meeting of the International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books (2014) is a volume edited by Géza G. Xeravits.

Abstract

Selected papers delivered at the Tenth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, held at the Sapientia College of Theology (Budapest), Hungary, 4-6 June, 2013.

"The volume publishes papers read at the tenth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2013. The authors explore various aspects of this literature, with pre-eminent emphasis on their relation to diverse early Jewish texts and traditions; their reactions on Hellenism; and the way they treated as a canonical collection within their history of interpretation."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter, 2013 (Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies, 22).

Contents

• John J. Collins: The Penumbra of the Canon. What Do the Deuterocanonical Books Represent?

• Gabriele Boccaccini: Some Brief Notes on the Early History of the Deuterocanonici. A Response to John Collins

• Benjamin G. Wright: Hellenization and Jewish Identity in the Deuterocanonical Literature

• Katell Berthelot: Hellenization and Jewish Identity in the Deuterocanonical Literature: A Response to Ben Wright

• József Zsengellér: Short Notes on Ben Wright’s "Hellenization and Jewish Identity in the Deuterocanonical Literature"

• John Kampen: Wisdom in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literatures

• Greg Schmidt Goering: Creation, Torah, and Revealed Wisdom in Some Second Temple Sapiential Texts (Sirach, 4QInstruction, 4Q185, and 4Q525): A Response to John Kampen

• Pancratius C. Beentjes: Philo of Alexandria and Greek Ben Sira

• Ibolya Balla: Images of Imparting Knowledge in Ben Sira and Proverbs

• Luca Mazzinghi: The Figure of Moses in the Book of Wisdom

• Francis M. Macatangay: Apocalypticism and Narration in the Book of Tobit

• Naomi S. S. Jacobs: "What About the Dog?" Tobit’s Mysterious Canine Revisited

• Ida Fröhlich: Wisdom in the Book of Tobit

• Greg Schmidt Goering: Mr. Deuterocanonical Literature (1546-2013): A Brief Vita of a Controversial Religious Figure

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