Book Three of the Sibylline Oracles and Its Social Setting

Book Three of the Sibylline Oracles and Its Social Setting
Title Book Three of the Sibylline Oracles and Its Social Setting PDF eBook
Author Rieuwerd Buitenwerf
Publisher BRILL
Pages 464
Release 2003-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9789004128613

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This volume contains a detailed study of the third Sibylline book. This Jewish work was written sometime between 80 and 40 BCE in Asia Minor. It provides valuable information on the position and self-image of Jews in a non-Jewish, Graeco-Roman environment.

Book III of the Sibylline Oracles and its Social Setting

Book III of the Sibylline Oracles and its Social Setting
Title Book III of the Sibylline Oracles and its Social Setting PDF eBook
Author Rieuwerd Buitenwerf
Publisher BRILL
Pages 454
Release 2021-08-04
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004496777

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This volume contains a thorough study of the third book of the Sibylline Oracles. This Jewish work was written in the Roman province of Asia sometime between 80 and 40 BCE. It offers insights into the political views of the author and his perception of the relation between Jews and non-Jews, especially in the field of religion and ethics. The present study consists of three parts: 1. introductory questions; 2. a literary analysis of the book, translation, and commentary; 3. the social setting of the book. It aims to further the scholarly use of the third Sibylline book and to improve our knowledge of early Judaism in its Graeco-Roman environment.

Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles

Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles
Title Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles PDF eBook
Author Ashley Bacchi
Publisher BRILL
Pages 252
Release 2020-04-28
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004426078

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In Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline oracles, Ashley L. Bacchi reclaims the importance of the Sibyl as a female voice of prophecy and reveals new layers of intertextual references that address political, cultural, and religious dialogue in second-century Ptolemaic Egypt. This investigation stands apart from prior examinations by reorienting the discussion around the desirability of the pseudonym to an issue of gender. It questions the impact of identifying the author’s message with a female prophetic figure and challenges the previous identification of paraphrased Greek oracles and their function within the text. Verses previously seen as anomalous are transferred from the role of Greek subterfuge of Jewish identity to offering nuanced support of monotheistic themes.

The Sibylline Oracles

The Sibylline Oracles
Title The Sibylline Oracles PDF eBook
Author J. L. Lightfoot
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 638
Release 2007-12-13
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0199215464

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The Sibyl was a legendary figure in Greco-Roman antiquity. J. L. Lightfoot describes how the verse prophecies attributed to her were taken over by Hellenistic Jews, and later by Christians, as a vehicle for their own understandings of prophecy, and provides an edition, translation, and commentary on the first and second books of extant oracles.

Expectations of the End

Expectations of the End
Title Expectations of the End PDF eBook
Author Albert Hogeterp
Publisher BRILL
Pages 588
Release 2010-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 904742509X

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Since a fuller range of Qumran sectarian and not clearly sectarian texts and recensions has recently become available to us, its implications for the comparative study of eschatological, apocalyptic and messianic ideas in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the New Testament need to be explored anew. This book situates eschatological ideas in Qumran literature between biblical tradition and developments in late Second Temple Judaism and examines how the Qumran evidence on eschatology, resurrection, apocalypticism, and messianism illuminates Palestinian Jewish settings of emerging Christianity. The present study challenges previous dichotomies between realized and futuristic eschatology, wisdom and apocalypticism and provides many new insights into intra-Jewish dimensions to eschatological ideas in Palestinian Judaism and in the early Jesus-movement.

Scripture and Theology

Scripture and Theology
Title Scripture and Theology PDF eBook
Author Tomas Bokedal
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 554
Release 2023-08-21
Genre Religion
ISBN 3110768496

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The academic disciplines of Biblical Studies and Systematic Theology were long closely linked to one another. However, in the modern period they became gradually separated which led to increasing subject specialization, but also to a lamentable lacuna within the various branches of Divinity. As the lack of dialogue between Biblical Studies and the various theological disciplines increased, a minority-group of scholars in the past few decades reacted and sought to re-establish the time-honoured bonds between the disciplines. The present volume is part of this intellectual response, with contributions from scholars of various professional and denominational backgrounds. Together, the book's 25 chapters seek to reinvigorate the crucial cross-disciplinary dialogue, involving biblical, narrative, historical, systematic-theological and philosophic-theological perspectives. The book opens the horizon to contemporary research, and fills a lamentable research gap with a number of fresh contributions from scholars in the respective sub-disciplines

The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha

The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha
Title The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha PDF eBook
Author James R. Davila
Publisher BRILL
Pages 286
Release 2005
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004137521

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This book analyzes a substantial corpus of Old Testament pseudepigrapha, proposing a methodology for understanding them first in the social context of their earliest (Christian) manuscripts and inferring still earlier Jewish or other origins only as required by positive evidence.