A Teacher for All Generations : Essays in Honor of James C. VanderKam.

These essays honor James C. VanderKam on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and twentieth year on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame. Essays from an international group of scholars address various topics in Second Temple Judaism and biblical studies.

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Main Author: Mason, Eric F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : BRILL, 2011
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Volume One; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; James C. Vanderkam-A Teacher for all Generations; Publications of James C. Vanderkam (Through 2010); Ph. D. Dissertations Directed by James C. VanderKam (Through 2010); Part One The Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East; Configuring the Text in Biblical Studies; The Relevance of Textual Theories for the Praxis of Textual Criticism; Sea, Storm, Tragedy, and Ethnogenesis: Living the Blues and (Re)Building Community in Post-Katrina America and Early Israel.
  • Cain's Legacy: The City and Justice in the Book of GenesisThe Biblical Manumission Laws: Has the Literary Dependence of H on D Been Demonstrated?; The History of Pentecontad Time Units (I); The Egyptian Goddess Ma'at and Lady Wisdom in Proverbs 1-9: Reassessing their Relationship; From Name to Book: Another Look at the Composition of the Book of Isaiah with Special Reference to Isaiah 56-66; LXX Isaiah or Its Vorlage: Primary "Misreadings" and Secondary Modifications.
  • Isaiah and the King of As/Syria in Daniel's Final Vision: On the Rhetoric of Inner-Scriptural Allusion and the Hermeneutics of "Mantological Exegesis"The Parallel Editions of the Old Greek and Masoretic Text of Daniel 5; Daniel and the Narrative Integrity of His Prayer in Chapter 9; Part Two Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls; Qumran: Caves, Scrolls, and Buildings; Digital Qumran: Virtual Reality or Virtual Fantasy?; Seven Rules for Restoring Lacunae; Collecting Psalms in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls; L'épilogue de 4QMMT revisité
  • Identifying Reuse of Scripture in the Temple Scroll: Some Methodological ReflectionsBiblical Antecedents of the Kinship Terms in 1QSa; Leviticus Outside the Legal Genre; The Interpretation of Scriptural Isaiah in the Qumran Scrolls: Quotations, Citations, Allusions, and the Form of the Scriptural Source Text; The Status and Interpretation of Jubilees in 4Q390; Runner, Staff, and Star: Interpreting the Teacher of Righteousness through Scripture; Who is the Teacher of the Teacher Hymns? Re-Examining the Teacher Hymns Hypothesis Fifty Years Later.
  • Re-Placing Priestly Space: The Wilderness as Heterotopia in the Dead Sea ScrollsVolume Two; Contents; Abbreviations; Part Three Early Judaism; Tobit as Righteous Sufferer; The Growth of Belief in the Sanctity of Mount Gerizim; Peton Contests Paying Double Rent on Farmland (P. Heid. Inv. G 5100): A Slice of Judean Experience in the Second Century b.c.e. Herakleopolite Nome; Ascents to Heaven in Antiquity: Toward a Typology; Eternal Writing and Immortal Writers: On the Non-Death of the Scribe in Early Judaism; The Rabbis' Written Torah and the Heavenly Tablets.