Of Scribes and Sages: Early Jewish Interpretation and Transmission of Scripture (2004 Evans), edited volume

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

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Published in London [England] and New York, NY: T&T Clark International, <2 vols.> 2005 ([[.

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 R. 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