Lives of the Prophets (biblio)

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Selected Bibliography

Translations

• Charles Cutler Torrey, The Lives of the Prophets. Greek Text and Translation (JBL Monograph Series 1, Philadelphia: SBL 1946): English translation.

• Douglas R.A. Hare, The Lives of the Prophets, in: The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (1983-1985 Charlesworth), edited volume, 2: 379-384: English translation.

• Natalio Fernández Marcos, Vidas de los profetas, in: Apócrifos del Antiguo Testamento (1984-2009 Díez Macho/Piñero Sáenz), edited volume, 2: 505–525: Spanish translation.

• Anna Maria Schwemer, Vitae Prophetarum (JSHRZ I/7, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus 1997): German translation.

• A próféták élete. Bevezetés, fordítás és jegyzetek (2010 Xeravits), book: Hungarian translation.

Introductions

• Albert-Marie Denis, Introduction à la littérature religieuse judéo-hellenistique (2 vols., Turnhout: Brepols 2000), 1: 577–607.

• Lorenzo DiTommaso, The Book of Daniel and the Apocryphal Daniel Literature (2005 DiTommaso), book, 339-345: bibliographic collection.

Dictionaries

P. Enns, Lives of the Prophets, in: The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), dictionary, 892b-894a

Studies

Anna Maria Schwemer, Studien zu den frühjüdischen Prophetenlegenden Vitae prophetarum (1995-96 Schwemer), book

David Satran, Biblical Prophets in Byzantine Palestine: Reassessing the Lives of the Prophets (1995 Satran), book

E. Koskenniemi, The Old Testament Miracle-Workers in Early Judaism (WUNT 2.206, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2005), 160-188.

Articles

1800s

• I.H. Hall, Notes on the "Lives of the Prophets", JBL 6 (1886) 97-102.

1980s

• David Satran, Daniel: Seer, Philosopher, Holy Man, in: Ideal Figures in Ancient Judaism: Profiles and Paradigms (1980 Collins, Nickelsburg), edited volume, 33-48.

• Michael A. Knibb, The Ethiopic Version of the Lives of the Prophets, BSOAS 43 (1980) 197-206.

• Michael A. Knibb, The Ethiopic Version of the Lives of the Prophets II, BSOAS 48 (1985) 16-41.

1990s

• F. Dolbeau, "De vita et obitu prophetarum". Une traduction médiolatine des vies grecques des prophètes, Revue Bénédictine 100 (1990) 507-539.

• David Satran, Biblical Prophets and Christian Legend: The Lives of the Prophets Reconsidered, in: Messiah and Christos. Studies in the Jewish Origins of Christianity Presented to David Flusser on the Occasion of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday (TSAJ 32, eds. I. Gruenwald et al., Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 1992), 143–149.

• Anna Maria Schwemer, Elija als Araber. Die haggadischen Motive in der Legende vom Messias Menachem ben Hiskija (yBer 2,4 5a; EkhR 1,16 § 51) im Vergleich mit den Elija-Legenden der Vitae Prophetarum, in: Die Heiden. Juden, Christen und das Problem des Fremden (eds. R. Feldmeier and U. Heckel, WUNT 70, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 1994), 108-157.

• Anna Maria Schwemer, Die Verwendung der Septuaginta in den Vitae Prophetarum, in: Die Septuaginta zwischen Judentum und Christentum (eds. M. Hengel and A.M. Schwemer, WUNT 72, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 1994), 62-91.

2000s

• Géza G. Xeravits, Some Remarks on the Figure of Elijah in Lives of the Prophets 21:1-3, in: Flores Florentino (JSJSup 122, eds. T. Hilhorst and E.J.C. Tigchelaar, Leiden: Brill 2007), 499-508.

• Pieter W. van der Horst, Die Prophetengräber im antiken Judentum, in: Interesse am Judentum. Die Franz-Delitzsch-Vorlesungen 1989 – 2008 (Münsteraner Judaistische Studien 23, eds. J.C. de Vos and F. Siegert, Berlin/Münster 2008), 55–71.

• Anna Maria Schwemer, Vitae Prophetarum und Neues Testament, in: Biblical Figures in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature (2008 Lichtenberger/Mittmann-Richert), edited volume, 199-230.

• Géza G. Xeravits, The Wonders of Elijah in the Lives of the Prophets, in: Biblical Figures in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature (2008 Lichtenberger/Mittmann-Richert), edited volume, 231-238.

• Géza G. Xeravits, Remarks on the Miracles of Elisha in the Lives of the Prophets 22:5-20, in: With Wisdom as a Robe: Qumran and Other Jewish Studies (2009 Dobos/Koszeghy), edited volume, 360-364.

2010s

• Géza G. Xeravits, Some Common Themes in the Early Jewish Prophetic Biographies of Vitae Prophetarum, in: Weisheit als Lebensgrundlage (2013 Egger-Wenzel/Schöpflin/Diehl), edited volume, 437-449.