The Interpretation of Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity
Title | The Interpretation of Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Craig A. Evans |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 491 |
Release | 2000-06-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1841270768 |
This volume assembles several important studies that examine the role of language in meaning and interpretation. The various contributions investigate interpretation in the versions, in intertestamental traditions, in the New Testament, and in the rabbis and the targumim. The authors, who include well-known veterans as well as younger scholars, explore the differing ways in which the language of Scripture stimulates the understanding of the sacred text in late antiquity and gives rise to important theological themes. This book is a significant resource for any scholar interested in the interpretation of Scripture in and just after the biblical period.
Scripture and Traditions
Title | Scripture and Traditions PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Gray |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 521 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004167471 |
This volume contains twenty-two essays in honor of Carl R. Holladay, whose work on the interaction between early Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism has had a considerable impact on the study of the New Testament. The essays are grouped into three sections: Hellenistic Judaism; the New Testament in Context; and the History of Interpretation. Among the contributions are essays dealing with conversion in Greek-speaking Judaism and Christianity; 3 Maccabees as a narrative satire; retribution theology in Luke-Acts; church discipline in Matthew; the Exodus and comparative chronology in Jewish and patristic writings; corporal punishment in ancient Israel and early Christianity; and Die Judenfrage and the construction of ancient Judaism.
A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism
Title | A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism PDF eBook |
Author | Matthias Henze |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 585 |
Release | 2012-01-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0802803881 |
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. -- from publisher description
Jewish Interpretation of the Bible
Title | Jewish Interpretation of the Bible PDF eBook |
Author | Karin Hedner Zetterholm |
Publisher | Fortress Press |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0800697987 |
Although Jewish tradition gives tremendous importance to the Hebrew Bible, from the beginning Jewish interpretation of those scriptures has been practiced with remarkable freedom. Karin Hedner Zetterholm offers a clear and concise introduction to the legal, theological, and historical presuppositions that shaped the dominant stream of rabbinic interpretation, including Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrashim, discussing specific examples of different interpretive methods. She then explores the contours of Jewish biblical interpretation evident in the New Testament and the legacy of ancient traditions in the way different Jewish movements read the Bible today. Students of the history of biblical interpretation and of Judaism will find this an important and engaging resource.
Ancient Readers and their Scriptures
Title | Ancient Readers and their Scriptures PDF eBook |
Author | Garrick Allen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2018-10-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004383379 |
Ancient Readers and their Scriptures explores the various ways that ancient Jewish and Christian writers engaged with and interpreted the Hebrew Bible in antiquity, focusing on physical mechanics of rewriting and reuse, modes of allusion and quotation, texts and text forms, text collecting, and the development of interpretative traditions. Contributions examine the use of the Hebrew Bible and its early versions in a variety of ancient corpora, including the Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, and Rabbinic works, analysing the vast array of textual permutations that define ancient engagement with Jewish scripture. This volume argues that the processes of reading and cognition, influenced by the physical and intellectual contexts of interpretation, are central aspects of ancient biblical interpretation that are underappreciated in current scholarship.
The Spirit Says
Title | The Spirit Says PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Herms |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 2021-10-25 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3110689294 |
The Spirit Says offers a stunning collection of articles by an influential assemblage of scholars, all of whom lend considerable insight to the relationship between inspiration and interpretation. They address this otherwise intractable question with deft and occasionally daring readings of a variety of texts from the ancient world, including—but not limited to—the scriptures of early Judaism and Christianity. The thrust of this book can be summed up not so much in one question as in four: o What is the role of revelation in the interpretation of Scripture? o What might it look like for an author to be inspired? o What motivates a claim to the inspired interpretation of Scripture? o Who is inspired to interpret Scripture? More often than not, these questions are submerged in this volume under the tame rubrics of exegesis and hermeneutics, but they rise in swells and surges too to the surface, not just occasionally but often. Combining an assortment of prominent voices, this book does not merely offer signposts along the way. It charts a pioneering path toward a model of interpretation that is at once intellectually robust and unmistakably inspired.
Reopening the Word
Title | Reopening the Word PDF eBook |
Author | Marie Noonan Sabin |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0195143590 |
In Reopening the Word, Marie Sabin argues that Mark's gospel represents an early and evolving Christianity, which shaped its theological discourse out of the forms familiar to early Judaism.