A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism
Pages
584
Publisher
Eerdmans
Published
2012
ISBN-13
9780802803887
A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism presents eighteen 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 practised by a variegated and dynamic spectrum of Jewish groups in the Hellenistic and early Roman eras.
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part 1: Introduction
- The Beginnings of Biblical Interpretation / James L. Kugel
- Part 2: The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
- Inner-biblical Interpretation / Yair Zakovitch
- Translators as Interpreters: Scriptural Interpretation in the Septuagint / Martin Rösel
- The Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in the Targums / Edward M. Cook
- Part 3: Rewritten Bible
- Biblical Interpretation in the Book of Jubilees: The Case of the Early Abram (Jub. 11:4-12:15) / Jacques van Ruiten
- The Genesis Apocryphon: Compositional and Interpretive Perspectives / Moshe J. Bernstein
- Biblical Interpretation in Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquarian Biblicarum / Howard Jacobson
- Part 4: The Qumran Literature
- The use of scripture in the Community rule / Shani Tzoref
- Prophetic interpretation in the Pesharim / George J. Brooke
- Biblical Interpretation in the Hodayot / Sarah J. Tanzer
- Part 5: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments
- The Use of Scripture in the Book of Daniel / Matthias Henze
- How to Make Sense of Pseudonymous Attribution: The Cases of 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch / Hindy Najman (with Itamar Manoff and Eva Mroczek)
- The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs: A Not-So-Ambiguous Witness to Early Jewish Interpretive Practices / Robert Kugler
- Part 6: Wisdom Literature
- Biblical Interpretation in the Book of Bin Sira / Benjamin G. Wright III
- Pseudo-Solomon and His Scripture: Biblical Interpretation in the Wisdom of Solomon / Peter Enns
- Part 7: Hellenistic Judaism
- The Interpreter of Moses: Philo of Alexandria and the Biblical Text / Gregory E. Sterling
- Josephus's Biblical Interpretation / Zuleika Rodgers
- Part 8: Biblical Interpretation in Antiquity
- Biblical Exegesis and Interpretation from Qumran to the Rabbis / Aharon Shemesh.
- List of Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index of Modern Authors
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Passages
Inner Books
This physical volume has several internal sections, each of which has been reviewed independently
- 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 <i>Jubilees</i>: The Case of the Early Abram (Jub. 11:4-12:15) by Jacques van Ruiten
- The <i>Genesis Apocryphon</i>: Compositional and Interpretive Perspectives by Moshe J. Bernstein
- Biblical Interpretation in Pseudo-Philo's <i>Liber Antiquarian Biblicarum</i> by Howard Jacobson
- The use of scripture in the <i>Community rule</i> by Shani Tzoref
- Prophetic interpretation in the <i>Pesharim</i> by George J. Brooke
- Biblical Interpretation in the <i>Hodayot</i> 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 <i>4 Ezra</i> and 2 <i>Baruch</i> by Hindy Najman, Itamar Manoff, and Eva Mroczek
- The <i>Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs</i>: A Not-So-Ambiguous Witness to Early Jewish Interpretive Practices by Robert A. Kugler
- Biblical Interpretation in the Book of Bin 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 Interpretation from Qumran to the Rabbis by Aharon Shemesh