"This volume presents a collection of studies offering fresh scholarly insights into various Second Temple texts, encompassing apocalyptic themes and text-critical challenges. The volume illuminates the intricate dynamics of Second Temple literature and their potential historical and theological implications for the development of Christianity and Judaism in the first century"--
This volume presents fresh scholarly insights into numerous Second Temple texts, encompassing apocalyptic themes and text-critical challenges. Contributions from renowned scholars illuminate the intricate dynamics of Second Temple literature and their potential historical and theological implications for the development of Christianity and Judaism in the first century.
The contributors first consider the revelatory dimensions of texts, including an examination of Moses's transformation in the Animal Apocalypse, which presents a provocative rejoinder to the notion of Enochian opposition to covenantal theology. Further essays engage the divine polemic against Apollo found within the Sibylline Oracles, as well as an exploration of prophetic declarations regarding the establishment of God's kingdom on earth. The role of Deuteronomic theology in shaping Second Temple Jewish eschatology is also examined, as well as the role of the Messiah in bringing salvation to both Jews and gentiles in the Psalms of Solomon, culminating in an engagement with the historical and textual complexities of Luke 3:23 and the baptism of Jesus.
This volume provides fresh scholarly insight into numerous Second Temple texts, encompassing apocalyptic themes and text-critical challenges.Muu info
This volume provides fresh scholarly insight into numerous Second Temple texts, encompassing apocalyptic themes and text-critical challenges.
Preface
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
1. The Cartography of Origins: The Fragments of Artapanus and Colonial
Foundations in Hellenistic Egypt - Scott Harris, Knox College, USA
2. Moses Among the Archangels: The Angelification of Moses and Other
Prominent Biblical Figures in Enochic Tradition - Daniel Schumann, Eberhardt
Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
3. Does Jubilees Attest to the Noahide Laws? Reassessing a Common Scholarly
Claim - Benjamin Frostad, McMaster University, Canada
4. The Psalms of Solomon 1718 in the Context of End-Time Redemption of
Israel - Frantiek Ábel, Independent Scholar, Slovakia
5. The Sibyls Kingdom - Craig A. Evans, The Bible Seminary, USA
6. A Sibylline Oracle and a Sibling Goddess: Another Polemic against Apollo -
Jeffrey Stone, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, USA
7. The Testament of Solomon: A Parabiblical Text in Its Culture and
Historical Context - Felix Albrecht, Niedersächsische Akademie der
Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Germany
8. The Apocryphon of Ezekiel: An Intertextual Study of a Fragmentary
Pseudepigraphon - Sarah Roberts, Independent Scholar, USA
9. Light from the Luminous Teaching of the East: The Ur-Text of Luke 3:23
and the Baptism of Jesus at Twelve - Roy D. Kotansky, Independent Scholar,
USA
Index of References
Index of Authors
Craig A. Evans is Distinguished Research Professor at The Bible Seminary, Katy, Texas, USA.
Marc Grønbech-Dam is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Vanguard University of Southern California, USA.
