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The "other" in Second Temple Judaism : essays in honor of John J. Collins / edited by Daniel C. Harlow [and others].

Contributor(s): Collins, John J. (John Joseph), 1946- | Harlow, Daniel C
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2011Description: xxxix, 502 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780802866257 (cloth : alk. paper); 0802866255 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Gentiles -- Congresses | Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. -- Congresses | Other (Philosophy) -- Congresses | Bible. Apocrypha -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses | Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses | Dead Sea scrolls -- Congresses | Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses | Hellenism -- CongressesDDC classification: 296.3/909014 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : "Showing the wisdom of what he has learned" : the scholarly contributions of John J. Collins -- Part I. The Hebrew Bible and Its Reception : -- Israel's election and the other in biblical, Second Temple, and rabbinic thought / Joel S. Kaminsky -- God's other : the intractable problem of the gentile king in Judean and early Jewish literature / Carol A. Newsom -- The original sin of the Canaanites / Katell Berthelot -- Defining and controlling others within : hair, identity, and the Nazirite vow in a Second Temple context / Susan Niditch -- Otherworldly music and the other sex / Susan Ackerman -- How good was Ruth's Hebrew? : ethnic and linguistic otherness in the book of Ruth / Timothy H. Lim -- The other in Haggai and Zechariah 1-8 / Antonio Finitsis -- When the king is the other : Nebuchadnezzar's Hibernian cousin / Naomi S. Jacobs -- Part II. Wisdom : -- Elusive wisdom and the other nations in Baruch / Karina Martin Hogan -- The lady vanishes : wisdom in Ben Sira and Daniel / Shannon Burkes Pinette -- "The foolish nation that dwells in Shechem" : Ben Sira on Shechem and the other peoples in Palestine / Matthew Goff -- Poverty and otherness in Second Temple instructions / Samuel L. Adams -- Transcending death : the reasoning of the "others" and afterlife hopes in Wisdom 1-6 / Daniel J. Harrington -- Part III. Apocalypticism : -- The apocalyptic other / Lorenzo DiTommaso -- Apocalypticism as the rejected other : wisdom and apocalypticism in early Judaism and early Christianity / Sean Freyne -- The we and the other in the worldview of 1 Enoch, the Dead Sea scrolls, and other early Jewish texts / George W. E. Nickelsburg -- Monsters and the crippled cosmos : construction of the other in Fourth Ezra / Rebecca Raphael -- Idolatry and alterity : Israel and the nations in the Apocalypse of Abraham / Daniel C. Harlow -- Part IV. The Dead Sea Scrolls : -- Religious epistemology and the history of the Dead Sea scrolls community / Shane Berg -- The wicked priest revisited / James C. VanderKam -- Poetry of the heavenly other : angelic praise in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice / Eric D. Reymond -- "At the crossroads" : anti-Samaritan polemic in a Qumran text about Joseph / Esther Chazon with Yonatan Miller -- Part V. Jews among Greeks and Romans : -- Romans, Jews, and Christians on the names of the Jews / Martin Goodman -- Jews and Greeks as philosophers : a challenge to otherness / Erich S. Gruen -- The persecution of Judeans by Antiochus IV : the significance of "ancestral laws" / Robert Doran -- Constructing Jewish identity in Ptolemaic Egypt : the case of Artapanus / Patricia D. Ahearne-Kroll -- Dispelling an illusion of otherness? : judicial practice in the Heracleopolis papyri / Robert A. Kugler

Based on a conference held Apr. 4-5, 2008 at Amherst College.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : "Showing the wisdom of what he has learned" : the scholarly contributions of John J. Collins -- Part I. The Hebrew Bible and Its Reception : -- Israel's election and the other in biblical, Second Temple, and rabbinic thought / Joel S. Kaminsky -- God's other : the intractable problem of the gentile king in Judean and early Jewish literature / Carol A. Newsom -- The original sin of the Canaanites / Katell Berthelot -- Defining and controlling others within : hair, identity, and the Nazirite vow in a Second Temple context / Susan Niditch -- Otherworldly music and the other sex / Susan Ackerman -- How good was Ruth's Hebrew? : ethnic and linguistic otherness in the book of Ruth / Timothy H. Lim -- The other in Haggai and Zechariah 1-8 / Antonio Finitsis -- When the king is the other : Nebuchadnezzar's Hibernian cousin / Naomi S. Jacobs -- Part II. Wisdom : -- Elusive wisdom and the other nations in Baruch / Karina Martin Hogan -- The lady vanishes : wisdom in Ben Sira and Daniel / Shannon Burkes Pinette -- "The foolish nation that dwells in Shechem" : Ben Sira on Shechem and the other peoples in Palestine / Matthew Goff -- Poverty and otherness in Second Temple instructions / Samuel L. Adams -- Transcending death : the reasoning of the "others" and afterlife hopes in Wisdom 1-6 / Daniel J. Harrington -- Part III. Apocalypticism : -- The apocalyptic other / Lorenzo DiTommaso -- Apocalypticism as the rejected other : wisdom and apocalypticism in early Judaism and early Christianity / Sean Freyne -- The we and the other in the worldview of 1 Enoch, the Dead Sea scrolls, and other early Jewish texts / George W. E. Nickelsburg -- Monsters and the crippled cosmos : construction of the other in Fourth Ezra / Rebecca Raphael -- Idolatry and alterity : Israel and the nations in the Apocalypse of Abraham / Daniel C. Harlow -- Part IV. The Dead Sea Scrolls : -- Religious epistemology and the history of the Dead Sea scrolls community / Shane Berg -- The wicked priest revisited / James C. VanderKam -- Poetry of the heavenly other : angelic praise in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice / Eric D. Reymond -- "At the crossroads" : anti-Samaritan polemic in a Qumran text about Joseph / Esther Chazon with Yonatan Miller -- Part V. Jews among Greeks and Romans : -- Romans, Jews, and Christians on the names of the Jews / Martin Goodman -- Jews and Greeks as philosophers : a challenge to otherness / Erich S. Gruen -- The persecution of Judeans by Antiochus IV : the significance of "ancestral laws" / Robert Doran -- Constructing Jewish identity in Ptolemaic Egypt : the case of Artapanus / Patricia D. Ahearne-Kroll -- Dispelling an illusion of otherness? : judicial practice in the Heracleopolis papyri / Robert A. Kugler

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