The Use of Sacred Books in the Ancient World (1998 Rutgers), book

The Use of Sacred Books in the Ancient World (1998) is a book edited by Leonard Victor Rutgers.

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Published in Leuven [Belgium]: Peeters, 1998

The Christian hermeneutical revolution and its double helix / Guy G. Stroumsa
The brother of Jesus and the interpretation of Scripture / Bruce Chilton
Remarks on quotation formulas in Gospels and Acts / Gerard Mussies
Isaiah and the 'hidden things': the quotation from Psalm 78:2 in Matthew 13:35 / Maarten J.J. Menken
A critical contribution to the Corpus Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti: Jude and Hesiod / Bert Cozunsen
The Sarah imagery in 1 Peter / Magda Misset van de Weg
'Homer the prophet of all' and 'Moses our teacher': late antique exegesis of the Homeric epics and the Torah of Moses / Philip S. Alexander
Sortes: sacred books as instant oracles in late antiquity / Pieter W. van der Horst
Nullus disciplinae expers: Virgil's authority in (late) antiquity / Jan den Boeft
Concern for the unity of Tenakh in the formation of Aggadat Bereshit / Lieve Teugels
"I said, you are gods ..." : the significance of Ps. 82 for some early Christian authors / Annewies van de Hoek
The use of Scripture in the Coptic Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter (NHC VII, 3) / Henriëtte W. Havelaar
Jacob of Edessa and the text of Scripture / Alison Salvesen
Inscriptions in Mosaic pavements in Byzantine Palestina/Arabia quoting texts from the Old Testament / Karel J.H. Vriezen
Die Codexillustration als neuer Kunstzweig: Spiegel einer geänderten Funktion des Buches in der Spätantike? / Barbara Zimmermann
The importance of Scripture in the conflict between Jews and Christians: the example of Antioch / Leonard Victor Rutgers