Contents
VOLUME 1
Publications of John J. Collins
Between Athens and Jerusalem, on the Wings of a Dove?
Susan Ackerman
The Social Location of the Scribe in the Second Temple Period
Samuel L. Adams
Heraclitus’s Homeric Problems and Midrash Genesis Rabbah:
Comparisons and Contrasts
Philip Alexander
The Identification of the “Wicked Priest” Reconsidered: The Case
for Hyrcanus II
Kenneth Atkinson
What’s in a Name? Naming the Unnameable in Philo and John
Harold W. Attridge
Redactor or Rabbenu? Revisiting an Old Question of Identity
Joel S. Baden
Old Testament Ethics: Story or Style?
John Barton
Future Food and Future Feasting: Tracing the Idea of the Meal in
the World to Come in Qumran Literature
Claudia D. Bergmann
Casting Lots and Distributing Territories: The Hellenistic
Background of the Book of Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon
Katell Berthelot
Authority and Propaganda—The Case of the Potter’s Oracle
Stefan Beyerle
How Jesus Became Uncreated
Gabriele Boccaccini
Thrēskeia in 4 Maccabees
Daniel Boyarin
The Visualisation of the Sacred at Qumran
George J. Brooke
The Wisdom of the Nations and the Law of Israel: Genealogies of
Ethnic Difference in Ben Sira and the Mekhilta
Joshua Ezra Burns
Zechariah, Zerubbabel, and Zemah: Ideological Development in Early
Postexilic Judah
Laura Carlson
The Divine Assembly in Genesis 1–11
Richard J. Clifford
The Enochs of Genesis 4 and 5 and the Emergence of the Apocalyptic
Enoch Tradition
John Day
Genre Analysis and Early Christian Martyrdom Narratives: A
Proposal
Michal Beth Dinkler
The Disappearing God in Ezekiel the Tragedian
Robert Doran
Scent of a Woman: The Influence of Lady Wisdom on 2 Maccabees
7:20–29
Antonios Finitsis
Preserving the Cult of Yhwh in Judean Garrisons: Continuity from
Pharaonic to Ptolemaic Times
Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley
“If a Case is Too Baffling for You to Decide . . .” (Deuteronomy
17:8–13): Between Constraining and Expanding Judicial Autonomy in
the Temple Scroll and Early Rabbinic Scriptural Interpretation
Steven D. Fraade
Of Doves, Fish, and Goddesses: Reflections on the Literary,
Religious, and Historical Background of the Book of Jonah
Eckart Frahm
Fire and Water? Apocalyptic Imagination and Hellenistic Worldview
in 2 Peter
Jörg Frey
Where’s Enoch? The Mythic Geography of the Qumran Book of
Giants
Matthew Goff
Josephus and Jewish Ethnicity
Erich S. Gruen
Cutting the Cord with the Familiar: What Makes 4Q265 Miscellaneous
Rules Tick?
Charlotte Hempel
The Dream of a Perfect Text: Textual Criticism and Biblical
Inerrancy in Early Modern Europe
Ronald Hendel
“I Am the Judge”: Judgment in the Apocalypse of Abraham
Matthias Henze
Mother Zion in Baruch 4:5–5:9 and 2 Baruch 1–12: A Study of
Different Models of Intertextuality
Karina Martin Hogan
Scribal Innovation and the Book of Tobit: A Long Overdue
Discussion
Naomi S. S. Jacobs
What is “Serekh ha-Yahad (S)”? Thinking About Ancient Manuscripts
as Information Processing
Jutta Jokiranta
Deity and Divine in the Hebrew Bible and in the Dead Sea
Scrolls
Reinhard G. Kratz
Simeon and Levi’s Attack on Shechem, or: The Mystery of MS C of the
Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
James Kugel
What Really Troubled Andronikos? A Note on P.Polit.Iud. 1
Rob Kugler
Who were the Advisers of the King? A Comparative Study of Royal
Consultants in Mesopotamia and in Israel
Helge S. Kvanvig
Solomon in the Garden of Eden: Autonomous Wisdom and the Danger of
Discernment
Peter T. Lanfer
VOLUME 2
Inner- and Extra-Jewish Polemics: The Parting of the Way Once
Again
Armin Lange
“Ask What You Wish”: The Intersection between Economic Freedom and
Cosmopolitanism in 1 Esdras
Kyong-Jin Lee
The Place of the Early Printed Editions of Josephus’s Antiquities
and War (1470–1534) in the Latin Textual Tradition
David B. Levenson and Thomas R. Martin
Conceptualizing Spirit: Supernatural Meteorology and Winds of
Distress in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Ingrid E. Lilly
Covenantal Nomism and the Hebrew Bible
Timothy H. Lim
From Zedekiah to the Messiah: A Glimpse at the Early Reception of
the Sprout
Christl M. Maier
Ethnicity and Essentialism in and about Ezekiel’s Tragedy
Stewart Moore
Perfecting Translation: The Greek Scriptures in Philo of
Alexandria
Hindy Najman and Benjamin G. Wright
The Community Rule or Rules for the Communities? Contextualizing
the Qumran Serakhim
James Nati
The Thanksgiving Hymns of 1QHa and the Construction of the Ideal
Sage through Liturgical Performance
Judith H. Newman
Beautiful Theories: Approaching Deut 21:1–9 as Ritual Performance
and Narrative Medium
Susan Niditch
Desires Crossing Boundaries: Romance and History in Josephus’s
Antiquities
Maren R. Niehoff
Lost Historical Traditions: Between Josephus and the Rabbis
Vered Noam
Defects, Holiness, and Pollution in Biblical Cultic Texts
Saul M. Olyan
Anthropology, Pneumatology, and Demonology in Early Judaism: The
Two Spirits Treatise (1QS 3:13–4:26) and Other Texts from the Dead
Sea Scrolls
Mladen Popović
Les Esséniens et la croyance à la résurrection : de l’eschatologie
zoroastrienne aux notices de Josèphe et d’Hippolyte
Émile Puech
Metacritical Thoughts on “Transcendence” and the Definition of
Apocalypse
Rebecca Raphael
The Passive Qal in the Hebrew of the Second Temple Period,
especially as Found in the Wisdom of Ben Sira
Eric D. Reymond
A Twentieth-Century Irishman’s First Century Palestine: George
Moore’s The Brook Kerith
Zuleika Rodgers
Blake, Enoch, and Emerging Biblical Criticism
Christopher Rowland
The Origins of the Book of Isaiah
Konrad Schmid
The Poetics of Abjection in Psalm 44
Carolyn J. Sharp
The End of Military Campaigns: Gamala and Masada in The Jewish War
of Josephus
Gregory E. Sterling
“I Will Speak . . . with My Whole Person in Ecstasy”:
Instrumentality and Independence in the Sibylline Oracles
Olivia Stewart
Airing the High Priest’s Dirty Laundry: Understanding the Imagery
and Message of Zechariah 3:1–7
Ryan E. Stokes
Thrice Nahum 3:8–10: MT, LXX, and 4Q385a 17 ii—New Proposals
Eibert Tigchelaar
Textual Criticism of Hebrew Scripture in the 20th Century
Emanuel Tov
The Role of Charity in the Testament of Job
Jonathan R. Trotter
The Samaritan and Masoretic Pentateuch: Text and
Interpretation(s)
Eugene Ulrich
Masada World Heritage Site: Josephus the Narrator Defeated
Jan Willem van Henten
Mastema in the Qumran Literature and the Book of Jubilees
James C. VanderKam
Women, Worship, Wilderness, and War: Celibacy and the Constructions
of Identity in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Cecilia Wassen
Resonances of Jeremiah in Daniel 9
Robert R. Wilson
The Angel’s Self-Revelation in Tobit 12
Géza G. Xeravits
Peace from the Ashes: Commemorating the Wars in the East, the
Centre, and the West of the Roman Empire during the “Long Year of
the Four Emperors” (68–70 CE)
Jürgen K. Zangenberg
Hu Ezra Alah mi-Bavel: Ezra as an Exemplar of Babylonian
Superiority in Rabbinic Literature
Shlomo Zuckier
Index
Joel Baden, Ph.D. (2007), Harvard University, is Professor of
Hebrew Bible at Yale Univerity. He is the author of The Composition
of the Pentateuch (Yale, 2012) and The Historical David (HarperOne,
2014), among many other books and articles.
Hindy Najman, Ph.D. (1998), Harvard University, is Oriel and Laing
Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at Oxford
University. Among her many publications are Seconding Sinai (Brill,
2003) and Losing the Temple and Recovering the Future (Cambridge,
2014).
Eibert Tigchelaar, Ph.D. (1994), University of Groningen, is
Research Professor in the Research Unit of Biblical Studies at
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is the co-author of The Dead Sea
Scrolls Study Edition (Brill, 1997-1998), and the author of To
Increase Learning for the Understanding Ones (Brill, 2001).
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