A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism
Overview
A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism presents 18 commissioned articles on biblical exegesis in early Judaism, covering the period after the Hebrew Bible was written and before the beginning of rabbinic Judaism. The essays, all written by experts in the field, are arranged in seven categories: Hebrew Bible, rewritten Bible, Qumran literature, apocalyptic literature and testaments, wisdom literature, Hellenistic Judaism, and biblical interpretation in antiquity. Together these essays provide a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the diverse modes of scriptural interpretation practiced by a diverse and dynamic spectrum of Jewish groups in the Hellenistic and early Roman eras.
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- Presents 18 commissioned articles on biblical exegesis in early Judaism
- Provides a systematic and comprehensive introduction to diverse modes of scriptural interpretation
- Covers the period after the Hebrew Bible was written and before the beginning of rabbinic Judaism
- “The Beginnings of Biblical Interpretation” by James L. Kugel
- “Inner-biblical Interpretation” by Yair Zakovitch
- “Translators as Interpreters: Scriptural Interpretation in the Septuagint” by Martin Rösel
- “The Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in the Targums” by Edward M. Cook
- “Biblical Interpretation in the Book of Jubilees: The Case of the Early Abram (Jub. 11:14–12:15)” Jacques van Ruiten
- “The Genesis Apocryphon: Compositional and Interpretive Perspectives” by Moshe J. Bernstein
- “Biblical Interpretation in Pseudo-Philo’s Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum” by Howard Jacobson
- “The Use of Scripture in the Community Rule” by Shani Tzoref
- “Prophetic Interpretation in the Pesharim” by George J. Brooke
- “Biblical Interpretation in the Hodayot” by Sarah J. Tanzer
- “The Use of Scripture in the Book of Daniel” by Matthias Henze
- “How to Make Sense of Pseudonymous Attribution: The Cases of 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch” by Hindy Najman (with Itamar Manoff and Eva Mroczek)
- “The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs: A Not-So-Ambiguous Witness to Early Jewish Interpretive Practices” by Robert Kugler
- “Biblical Interpretation in the Book of Ben Sira” by Benjamin G. Wright III
- “Pseudo-Solomon and His Scripture: Biblical Interpretation in the Wisdom of Solomon” by Peter Enns
- “The Interpreter of Moses: Philo of Alexandria and the Biblical Text” by Gregory E. Sterling
- “Josephus’s Biblical Interpretation” by Zuleika Rodgers
- “Biblical Exegesis and Interpretations from Qumran to the Rabbis” by Aharon Shemesh
Top Highlights
“Scribal Comments and Corrections; Legal Exegesis; Aggadic Exegesis; Mantological Exegesis (the interpretation of prophecies, dreams, omens, and oracles).” (Page 28)
“The Greek text was translated as a tool to understand the Hebrew, a ‘crib for the study of the Hebrew” (Page 71)
“a new approach to Israel’s ancient writings now emerged: They could tell you what to do now” (Page 5)
- Title: A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism
- Author: Matthias Henze
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 584
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish--History--To 1500
- ISBNs: 9780802803887, 0802803881
- Resource ID: LLS:CMPNNBBLCLRJDSM
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:50:03Z