Empsychoi Logoi — Religious Innovations in Antiquity (2008 Houtman), edited volume

Empsychoi Logoi — Religious Innovations in Antiquity (2008) is a volume edited by by Alberdina Houtman et al.

Abstract

J. den Boeft Ammianus Marcellinus’ Judgement of Julian’s Piety
A. de Jong A quodam Persa exstiterunt: Re-Orienting Manichaean Origins
A. Merz &
T. Tieleman The Letter of Mara bar Sarapion: Some Comments on its Philosophical and Historical Context
J. Tromp John the Baptist according to Flavius Josephus, and his Incorporation in the Christian Tradition
J.-W. van Henten The Panegyris in Jerusalem: Responses to Herod’s Initiative (Josephus, Antiquities 15.268-290)

III. Group Dynamics as Agents of Religious Change

B. Becking Sabbath at Elephantine: A Short Episode in the Construction of Jewish Identity
M.J.J. Menken The Opponents in the Johannine Epistles: Fact or Fiction?
G. van Oyen Is there a Heresy that Necessitated Jude’s Letter?
B.J. Lietaert Peerbolte Jewish Monotheism and Christian Origins
H. van de Sandt The Didache Redefining its Jewish Identity in the Light of Gentiles Joining the Community
P. Schaefer Bereshit Bara Elohim: Bereshit Rabba, Parashah 1, Reconsidered

IV. New Texts, New Readings

R. van den Broek Manichaean Elements in an Early Version of the Virgin Mary’s Assumption
J. Mansfeld & K. Algra Interpretative Thetas in the Strasbourg Empedocles
T. Nicklas ‘Our Righteous Brethren’: Reflections on the Description of the Righteous Ones according to the Greek Revelation of Peter (Akhm. 2)
E. Tigchelaar The Evil Inclination in the Dead Sea Scrolls, with a Re-edition of 4Q468i (4QSectarian Text?)
K. Worp A Greek Letter from Syria

V. Jewish and Christian Texts in Comparison

J.N. Bremmer Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Heliodorus in the Temple and Paul on the Road to Damascus
H. Lichtenberger The Untold End: 2 Maccabees and Acts
A. Houtman & M. Misset-van de Weg The Fate of the Wicked: Second Death in Early Jewish and Christian Texts
G. Rouwhorst & M. Poorthuis ‘Why do the Nations Conspire?’: Psalm 2 in Post-Biblical Jewish and Christian Traditions

VI. The Development of Jewish Literature

J.H. Newman The Composition of Prayers and Songs in Philo’s De Vita Contemplativa
K.-W. Niebuhr Life and Death in Pseudo-Phocylides
E. Ottenheijm The Phrase ‘Good Works’ in Early Judaism: A Universal Code for the Jewish Law?
E. Tov The LXX Translation of Esther: A Paraphrastic Translation of MT, a Free Translation or a Rewritten Version?
W.J. van Bekkum The Hidden Reference: the Role of EDOM in Late Antique and Early Medieval Jewish Hymnography

VII. The Development of Early Christian Literature

J. Herzer Rearranging the ‘House of God’: A New Perspective on the Pastoral Epistles
G.E. Sterling Prayer as Theological Reflection: The Function of Prayer in Ephesians
G. Mussies Reflections on the Apocryphal Gospels as Supplements