Targum Chronicles and Its Place Among the Late Targums
Targum Chronicles and Its Place Among the Late Targums

Author: Leeor Gottlieb

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-06-08

Total Pages: 599

ISBN-13: 900441763X

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Targum Chronicles and Its Place Among the Late Targums heralds a paradigm shift in the understanding of many of the Jewish-Aramaic translations of individual biblical books and their origins. Leeor Gottlieb provides the most extensive study of Targum Chronicles to date, leading to conclusions that challenge long-accepted truisms with regard to the origin of Targums. This book’s trail of evidence convincingly points to the composition of Targums in a time and place that was heretofore not expected to be the provenance of these Aramaic gems of biblical interpretation. This study also offers detailed comparisons to other Targums and fascinating new explanations for dozens of aggadic expansions in Targum Chronicles, tying them to their rabbinic sources.

Diversity and Rabbinization
Diversity and Rabbinization

Author: Gavin McDowell

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2021-04-30

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1783749962

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This volume contains Hebrew and Syriac text. Please, check that your e-reader supports texts set in left-to-right direction before purchasing the epub and azw3 editions of the book. This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period. Drawing on available textual and material evidence, the fourteen essays presented here, written by leading experts in their fields, span a significant chronological and geographical range and cover material that has not yet received sufficient attention in scholarship. The volume is divided into four parts. The first focuses on the vantage point of the synagogue; the second and third on non-rabbinic Judaism in, respectively, the Near East and Europe; the final part turns from diversity within Judaism to the process of "rabbinization" as represented in some unusual rabbinic texts. Diversity and Rabbinization is a welcome contribution to the historical study of Judaism in all its complexity. It presents fresh perspectives on critical questions and allows us to rethink the tension between multiplicity and unity in Judaism during the first millennium CE. L’École Pratique des Hautes Études has kindly contributed to the publication of this volume.

Targums and Rabbinic Literature
Targums and Rabbinic Literature

Author: Zondervan,

Publisher: Zondervan Academic

Published: 2024-09-10

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 0310495741

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Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies is a multivolume series that seeks to introduce key ancient texts that form the cultural, historical, and literary context for the study of the New Testament. Each volume will feature introductory essays to the corpus, followed by articles on the relevant texts. Each article will address introductory matters, provenance, summary of content, interpretive issues, key passages for New Testament studies and their significance. Neither too technical to be used by students nor too thin on interpretive information to be useful for serious study of the New Testament, this series provides a much-needed resource for understanding the New Testament in its first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman context. Produced by an international team of leading experts in each corpus, Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies stands to become the standard resource for both scholars and students. Volumes include: Apocrypha and the Septuagint Old Testament Pseudepigrapha The Dead Sea Scrolls The Apostolic Fathers Philo and Josephus Greco-Roman Literature Targums and Early Rabbinic Literature Gnostic Literature New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

Studies in the Language of Targum Canticles
Studies in the Language of Targum Canticles

Author: Paul R. Moore

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-06-20

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 9004515704

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Targum Canticles, composed in the dialectally eclectic idiom of Late Jewish Literary Aramaic (LJLA), had immense historic popularity among Jewish communities worldwide. In this work, Paul R. Moore thoroughly analyses several of the Targum’s grammatical peculiarities overlooked by previous studies. Through this prism, he considers its literary influences, composition, and LJLA as a precursor of the highly eccentric Aramaic of the 13th century Spanish cabalistic masterpiece, The Zohar. The study includes transcriptions and analysis of the previously unpublished of fragments of the Targum from the Cairo Geniza, and what is possibly its earliest, known translation into Judaeo-Arabic.

A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity
A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity

Author: A. J. Berkovitz

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2023-06-20

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1512824194

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The Bible shaped nearly every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient world, from activities as obvious as attending synagogue to those which have lost their scriptural resonance in modernity, such as drinking water and uttering one's last words. And within a scriptural universe, no work exerted more force than the Psalter, the most cherished text among all the books of the Hebrew Bible. A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity clarifies the world of late ancient Judaism through the versatile and powerful lens of the Psalter. It asks a simple set of questions: Where did late ancient Jews encounter the Psalms? How did they engage with the work? And what meanings did they produce? A. J. Berkovitz answers these queries by reconstructing and contextualizing a diverse set of religious practices performed with and on the Psalter, such as handling a physical copy, reading from it, interpreting it exegetically, singing it as liturgy, invoking it as magic and reciting it as an act of piety. His book draws from and contributes to the fields of ancient Judaism, biblical reception, book history and the history of reading.

The Hebrew Revelation, James and Jude
The Hebrew Revelation, James and Jude

Author: Justin J. Van Rensburg

Publisher: Hebrew Scriptures Institute | HebrewGospels.com

Published: 2024-02-06

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0648639711

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[Sabbath: please don't purchase on Sabbath (friday evening - saturday evening).] Order this book from www.HebrewGospels.com/books and save 20% with promo code: 20%OFF Discover the Hebrew Book of Revelation! - Complete English translation from Hebrew. - Vowel-pointed Hebrew transcript for easy study. - Bonus: includes the same for James and Jude! - Based on Hebrew manuscripts discovered in India. - Extensive evidence of authenticity, including unique agreements with the most ancient Greek manuscripts. - Can we learn anything from the Hebrew Revelation? Absolutely! Consider the following intriguing questions: - Was Revelation originally written in Hebrew or Greek? - What is the Hebrew title for the Book of Revelation? - Is Yeshua (Jesus) the 'Alpha and Omega'? - Are there added words and phrases in the Greek Revelation? - Are there mistranslations in the Greek Revelation? - How can the 'tree of life' grow on both sides of the river? - Was the Creator's name translated into Greek as Theos? - Do these Hebrew manuscripts quote from the Old Testament more than the Greek version? Read this book to find the answers to the above questions, based on clear evidence from Hebrew manuscripts!

Judaism in Late Antiquity
Judaism in Late Antiquity

Author: Jacob Neusner

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9789004101296

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In two volumes, leading American, Israeli, and European specialists in the history, literature, theology, and archaeology of Judaism offer factual answers to the two questions that study of any religion in ancient times must raise. The first is, what are the sources written and in material culture that inform us about that religion? The second is, how do we understand those sources in the reconstruction of the history of various Judaic systems in antiquity. The historical relationship of Judaism with nascent Christianity in New Testament times is also treated.

Judaism in Late Antiquity 1. The Literary and Archaeological Sources
Judaism in Late Antiquity 1. The Literary and Archaeological Sources

Author: Jacob Neusner

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-11-02

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 9004293981

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This volume introduces the sources of Judaism in late antiquity to scholars in adjacent fields, such as the study of the Old and New Testaments, Ancient History, the ancient Near East, and the history of religion. In two volumes, leading American, Israeli, and European specialists in the history, literature, theology, and archaeology of Judaism offer factual answers to the two questions that the study of any religion in ancient times must raise. The first is, what are the sources — written and in material culture — that inform us about that religion? The second is, how have we to understand those sources in reconstructing the history of various Judaic systems in antiquity. The chapters set forth in simple statements, intelligible to non-specialists, the facts which the sources provide. Because of the nature of the subject and acute interest in it, the specialists also raise some questions particular to the study of Judaism, dealing with its historical relationship with nascent Christianity in New Testament times. The work forms the starting point for the study of all the principal questions concerning Judaism in late antiquity and sets forth the most current, critical results of scholarship.

A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism
A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism

Author: Matthias Henze

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2012-01-09

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 0802803881

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Presents eighteen commissioned articles on biblical exegesis in early Judaism, covering the period after the Hebrew Bible was written and before the beginning of rabbinic Judaism. -- from publisher description