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{en} Matthias Henze - Rodney Alan Werline (eds.). Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters', 2nd ed. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2020

Abstract

2nd ed. of Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters (1986 Kraft, Nickelsburg), edited volume

"Since the publication of the first edition of Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters in 1986, the field of early Judaism has exploded with new data, the publication of additional texts, and the adoption of new methods. This new edition of the classic resource honors the spirit of the earlier volume and focuses on the scholarly advances in the past four decades that have led to the study of early Judaism becoming an academic discipline in its own right. Essays written by leading scholars in the study of early Judaism fall into four sections: historical and social settings; methods, manuscripts, and materials; early Jewish literatures; and the afterlife of early Judaism"--Publisher description.

Contents

Introduction : the modern study of early Judaism / Matthias Henze and Rodney A. Werline -- Part 1. Historical and social settings -- Jewish history from Alexander to Hadrian / Chris Seeman -- The social world of early Judaism / Philip F. Esler -- Judaism in the diaspora / Erich S. Gruen -- Gender in early Jewish literature / Francoise Mirguet -- Part 2. Methods, manuscripts, and materials -- New methodologies / Rodney A. Werline -- The Dead Sea scrolls / Alison Schofield -- Early Jewish epigraphy / Pieter W. van der Horst -- Documentary papyri / Robert Kugler -- The archaeology of early Judaism / Eric M. Meyers -- Early Judaism and modern technology / Todd R. Hanneken -- Part 3. Early Jewish literatures -- The literature of early Judaism / Timothy H. Lim -- Alexandrian Judaism / Maren R. Niehoff -- Thinking about scripture in Second Temple times / James Kugel -- Testaments / Robert Kugler -- Narrative literature / Sylvie Honigman -- Jewish historiography / Steve Mason -- Apocalyptic literature / Matthias Henze -- Wisdom literature / Benjamin G. Wright III -- Early Jewish prayer / Daniel K. Falk and Angela Kim Harkins -- Part 4. The afterlife of early Judaism -- Early Judaism and Rabbinic Judaism / Ishay Rosen-Zvi -- Early Judaism and mysticism / Andrea Lieber -- Early Judaism and early Christianity / Lutz Doering -- The transmission history of the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha / Liv Ingeborg Lied -- Appendix.

About the Editors

Matthias Henze is the Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism and the Founding Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at Rice University. He is the coeditor of The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Fifty Years of the Pseudepigrapha Section at the SBL (2019) and author of Mind the Gap: How the Jewish Writings between the Old and New Testament Help Us Understand Jesus (2017). He is editor-in-chief of the Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha.

Rodney A. Werline is Leman and Marie Barnhill Endowed Chair in Religious Studies at Barton College. He is the author of Pray Like This: Understanding Prayer in the Bible (2007) and Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism: The Development of a Religious Institution (1998) He is the general editor of the SBL Press series Early Judaism and Its Literature.

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