Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings

This volume addresses two pivotal questions surrounding the composition of 1Maccabees.

Professor Maurice Gilbert SJ is widely acknowledged as one of the leading authorities on biblical wisdom literature, in particular the Book of Ben Sira and the Wisdom of Solomon, on which he has produced many publications.

What accounts for the seemingly atypical pattern of scriptural exegesis that Paul uses to interpret Exodus 34 in 2 Cor 3:7-18?

Although in Second Temple literature we find a variety of songs concerned with the future of Jerusalem, little attempt has been made to analyse these comparatively as a generic group.

Professor Moshe Bar-Asher, Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University and long-time president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, has published more than 200 articles and sixteen books and edited aboout 90 books and collections.

The volume publishes papers read at the tenth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2013.

Rabbinic hermeneutics in ancient Judaism reflects this multifaceted world of the text and of reality, seen as a world of reference worth commentary.

In the Hebrew Bible, war is a prominent topic which is dealt with in both legal and narrative texts.

Western biblical studies have tended to follow either faith-based theological approaches or value-free historical-critical methods.

Long neglected by scholars, the Dead Sea scrolls rewriting Samuel-Kings shed precious light on the ancient Jewish interpretation of these books.

This book employs cognitive linguistics to determine the foundational elements of the ancient Israelites' concept of teaching as reflected in the text of the Hebrew Bible and Ben Sira.

At this point of the scholarly debate on the nature of Second Temple pseudepigraphy, one may ask why another look at the problem is needed.

The Book of Judith has aroused a great deal of scholarly interest in the last few decades.

This volume addresses two pivotal questions surrounding the composition of 1Maccabees.

Although in Second Temple literature we find a variety of songs concerned with the future of Jerusalem, little attempt has been made to analyse these comparatively as a generic group.

This volume discusses various conceptions of family and kinship in the context of deuterocanonical literature.

The phrase "e;Daughter of Zion"e; is in recent Bible translations often rendered "e;Daughter Zion"e;.

This monograph is an investigation of Yahwistic votive practice during the Hellenistic period.

Professor Maurice Gilbert SJ is widely acknowledged as one of the leading authorities on biblical wisdom literature, in particular the Book of Ben Sira and the Wisdom of Solomon, on which he has produced many publications.

Professor Moshe Bar-Asher, Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University and long-time president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, has published more than 200 articles and sixteen books and edited aboout 90 books and collections.

The present volume is one of the first to concentrate on a specific theme of biblical interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls, namely the book of Genesis.

In addition to three scrolls containing the Book of Joshua, the Qumran caves brought to light five previously unknown texts rewriting this book.

The Jehuite Dynasty ruled more than ninety years (841-747 BCE) in the Kingdom of Israel, the longest dynasty in the history of the Northern Kingdom.

The present volume contains papers delivered at the International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, held at the Sapientia College of Theology, Budapest, Hungary, 14-16 May, 2009.

This work examines the relationship of the speeches of Wisdom to one another and with the rest of Proverbs 1-9.

Ben Sira lived in an era when Hellenistic influences continued to spread in Palestine.