Studies in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity.

The 24 papers in this volume cover a wide range of topics, all of them concerning the religious world of Judaism and Christianity in the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Byzantine era.

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Main Author: Horst, Pieter Willem van der
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : BRILL, 2014
Series:Ancient Judaism and early Christianity.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The site of Adam's tomb
  • Bitenosh's orgasm (1QapGen 2:9-15)
  • At Abraham's table : early Jewish interpretations of Genesis 18:8
  • Moses' father speaks out
  • Philo and the problem of God's emotions
  • Two short notes on Philo
  • Philosophia epeisaktos : some notes on Josephus, Ant. 18:9
  • Biblical quotations in Judaeo-Greek inscriptions
  • Did the gentiles know who Abraham was?
  • The provenance of 2 Enoch 69-73 : Jewish or Christian?
  • Greek philosophical elements in some Judaeo-Christian prayers
  • Mystical motifs in a Greek synagogal prayer?
  • A Qedushat ha-Yom in Greek
  • The Jews in Ancient Phrygia
  • Judaism in Asia Minor
  • Samaritan origins according to the Paralipomena Jeremiae
  • The myth of Jewish cannibalism : a chapter in the history of antisemitism
  • Porphyry on Judaism : some observations
  • A short note on the Doctrina Jacobi nuper baptizati
  • Consolation from prison : Mara bar Sarapion and Boethius
  • Cyrus : a forgotten Christian poet
  • "Without God" : some notes on a Greek expression
  • The omen of sneezing in pagan antiquity
  • Pious long-sleepers in pagan, Jewish and Christian antiquity.