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Biblical figures outside the Bible / edited by Michael E. Stone and Theodore A. Bergren.

Contributor(s): Stone, Michael E, 1938- | Bergren, Theodore A
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : Trinity Press International, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: xiii, 433 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1563382474 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible. Old Testament -- Biography | Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism | Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism | Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Criticism, interpretation, etcDDC classification: 220.9/2 LOC classification: BS571 | .B53 1998Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-401) and indexes.
Contents:
Adam and Eve in the "Life of Adam and Eve" / Gary A. Anderson -- The gnostic Seth / John D. Turner -- Enosh and his generation revisited / Steven D. Fraade -- From son of Adam to second god: transformations of the Biblical Enoch / Philip S. Alexander -- Noah in early Jewish literature / Devorah Dimant -- Abraham the convert: a Jewish tradition and its use by the apostle Paul / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Melchizedek in early Judaism, Christianity, and Gnosticism / Birger A. Pearson -- Jacob's son Levi in the Old Testament pseudepigrapha and related literature / Marinus de Jonge and Johannes Tromp -- The portrayal of Joseph in Hellenistic Jewish and early Christian literature / Harm W. Hollander -- Baruch: his evolution from scribe to apocalyptic seer / J. Edward Wright -- Talking with God and loosing his head: extrabiblical traditions about the prophet Ezekiel / Benjamin G. Wright -- The prophet Ezekiel in Islamic literature: Jewish traces and Islamic adaptions / Aviva Schussman -- Ezra and Nehemiah square off in the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha / Theodore A. Bergren.

Adam and Eve in the "Life of Adam and Eve" / Gary A. Anderson -- The gnostic Seth / John D. Turner -- Enosh and his generation revisited / Steven D. Fraade -- From son of Adam to second god: transformations of the Biblical Enoch / Philip S. Alexander -- Noah in early Jewish literature / Devorah Dimant -- Abraham the convert: a Jewish tradition and its use by the apostle Paul / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Melchizedek in early Judaism, Christianity, and Gnosticism / Birger A. Pearson -- Jacob's son Levi in the Old Testament pseudepigrapha and related literature / Marinus de Jonge and Johannes Tromp -- The portrayal of Joseph in Hellenistic Jewish and early Christian literature / Harm W. Hollander -- Baruch: his evolution from scribe to apocalyptic seer / J. Edward Wright -- Talking with God and loosing his head: extrabiblical traditions about the prophet Ezekiel / Benjamin G. Wright -- The prophet Ezekiel in Islamic literature: Jewish traces and Islamic adaptions / Aviva Schussman -- Ezra and Nehemiah square off in the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha / Theodore A. Bergren.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-401) and indexes.

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