Empsychoi Logoi — Religious Innovations in Antiquity (2008 Houtman), edited volume
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Empsychoi Logoi — Religious Innovations in Antiquity (2008) is a volume edited by by Alberdina Houtman et al.
Abstract
Editions and translations
Published Leiden: Brill, 2008 (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 73).
Contents
I. Contexts
I. Zwiep ‘Judenthum’, ‘Griechentum’ and ‘Christentum’ as Parameters in Early Nineteenth Century Jewish Political Thinking
- M. Goodman Explaining Change in Judaism in Late Antiquity
- G.G. Stroumsa The End of Sacrifice: Religious Mutations of Late Antiquity
- D.T. Runia Worshipping the Visible Gods: Conflict and Accommodation in Hellenism, Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity
II. The Impact of the Individual
- 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
External links
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