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''' Of Scribes and Sages: Early Jewish Interpretation and Transmission of Scripture''' (2005) is a collection of essays edited by [[Craig A. Evans]]. 

==Abstract==

"Of Scribes and Sages focuses primarily on early interpretation of Scripture, including the emergence of Scripture as Scripture in its various versions and contexts. It examines recent research into the relationship of the Old Testament to the New and how sacred Scripture was interpreted during New Testament times. It also provides stimulating examples to students, scholars, and clergy in how the task of interpretation is to be done."--Publisher description.

==Editions==

Published in London [England] and New York, NY: T&T Clark International, <2 vols.> 2005 ([[Library of Second Temple Studies]], 50-51).

==Contents==

Vol.1 - Ancient versions and traditions. 

*Being seen and not heard : the interpretation of Genesis 4.8 / [[Mark McEntire]] 
*Creation in Ezekiel's merkabah : Ezekiel 1 and Genesis 1 / [[Ben Zion Wacholder]] 
*Images of David in early Judaism / [[Kenneth E. Pomykala]] 
*The recontextualization of Old Greek Daniel 1 / [[R. Glenn Wooden]] 
*The cosmology of P and theological anthropology in the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira / [[Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis]] 
*"It overflows like the Euphrates with understanding": another look at the relationship between law and wisdom in Sirach / [[Jessie Rogers]] 
*The relationship of eschatology to esoteric wisdom in the Jewish pseudepigraphal apocalypses / [[Paul Owen]] 
*Herod the Great as Antiochus redivivus: reading the Testament of Moses as an anti-Herodian composition / [[Kenneth Atkinson]]
Vol.2 - Later versions and traditions. 
*Satan in the testament of Job: a literary analysis / [[Bradford A. Kirkegaard]] 
*Gaps in the story, cracks in the earth: the exile of Cain and the destruction of Korah in Pseudo-Philo (Liber antiquitatum biblicarum 16) / [[Bruce N. Fisk]] 
*The tradition history of the Exodus-review in 5 Ezra 1 / [[Theodore A. Bergren]]
*Voice and vision: song as a vehicle for ecstatic experience in Songs of the Sabbath sacrifice / [[Andrea Lieber]]
*The face as the heavenly counterpart of the visionary in the Slavonic Ladder of Jacob / [[Andrei A. Orlov]]
*Prayerful origins : David as temple founder in Rabbinic Psalms commentary (Midrash tehillim) / [[Esther M. Menn]]
*Reading as rhetoric in halakhic texts / Natalie B. Dohrmann 
*On the culture of the Bavli / [[Jeffrey L. Rubenstein]]
*Holy, holy, holy : the use of Isaiah 6.3 in Apostolic constitutions 7.35.1-10 and 8.12.6-27 / [[Judith H. Newman]] 
*Patristic interpretations of the composition of the Psalter / [[Matthias Henze]]
*Jewish influence on Christian Biblical interpretation : Hugh of St Victor and "The four daughters of God" / [[Rebecca Moore]]

==External links==
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