The "Other" in Second Temple Judaism ~ Festschrift John J. Collins (2011 Harlow), edited volume

The "Other" in Second Temple Judaism: Essays in Honor of John J. Collins (2011) is a volume edited by Daniel C. Harlow et al., "in honor of John J. Collins."

Abstract

"Dedicated to prominent biblical scholar John J. Collins, The “Other” in Second Temple Judaism explores the various ways in which Jews living in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods (both in the land of Israel and the Diaspora) constructed their identity in relation to other Jews, pagans, and Christians. The twenty-eight contributors — which include both seasoned scholars and rising stars in the field — interact with Collins’s work as they engage the book’s unifying theme, focusing their efforts around five areas of scholarly inquiry that reflect the scope of Collins’s distinguished career: · The Hebrew Bible and Its Reception · Wisdom · Apocalypticism · The Dead Sea Scrolls · Jews among Greeks and Romans"--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011.

Contents

• Introduction: "Showing the wisdom of what he has learned": the scholarly contributions of John J. Collins

Part I. The Hebrew Bible and Its Reception

• Israel's election and the other in biblical, Second Temple, and rabbinic thought / Joel S. Kaminsky

• God's other : the intractable problem of the gentile king in Judean and early Jewish literature / Carol A. Newsom

• The original sin of the Canaanites / Katell Berthelot

• Defining and controlling others within: hair, identity, and the Nazirite vow in a Second Temple context / Susan Niditch

• Otherworldly music and the other sex / Susan Ackerman

• How good was Ruth's Hebrew?: ethnic and linguistic otherness in the book of Ruth / Timothy H. Lim

• The other in Haggai and Zechariah 1-8 / Antonio Finitsis

• When the king is the other : Nebuchadnezzar's Hibernian cousin / Naomi S. Jacobs

Part II. Wisdom

• Elusive wisdom and the other nations in Baruch / Karina Martin Hogan

• The lady vanishes: wisdom in Ben Sira and Daniel / Shannon Burkes Pinette

• "The foolish nation that dwells in Schechem" : Ben Sira on Schechem and the other peoples in Palestine / Matthew Goff

• Poverty and otherness in Second Temple instructions / Samuel L. Adams

• Transcending death : the reasoning of the "others" and afterlife hopes in Wisdom 1-6 / Daniel J. Harrington

Part III. Apocalypticism

• The apocalyptic other / Lorenzo DiTommaso

• Apocalypticism as the rejected other: wisdom and apocalypticism in early Judaism and early Christianity / Sean Freyne

• The we and the other in the worldview of 1 Enoch, the Dead Sea scrolls, and other early Jewish texts / George W.E. Nickelsburg

• Monsters and the crippled cosmos : construction of the other in Fourth Ezra / Rebecca Raphael

• Idolatry and alterity: Israel and the nations in the Apocalypse of Abraham / Daniel C. Harlow

Part IV. The Dead Sea Scrolls

• Religious epistemology and the history of the Dead Sea scrolls community / Shane Berg

• The wicked priest revisited / James C. VanderKam

• Poetry of the heavenly other : angelic praise in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice / Eric D. Reymond

• "At the crossroads": anti-Samaritan polemic in a Qumran text about Joseph / Esther Chazon with Yonatan Miller

Part V. Jews among Greeks and Romans

• Romans, Jews, and Christians on the names of the Jews / Martin Goodman

• Jews and Greeks as philosophers : a challenge to otherness / Erich S. Gruen

• The persecution of Judeans by Antiochus IV : the significance of "ancestral laws" / Robert Doran

• Constructing Jewish identity in Ptolemaic Egypt : the case of Artapanus / Patricia D. Ahearne-Kroll

• Dispelling an illusion of otherness?: judicial practice in the Heracleopolis papyri / Robert A. Kugler

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