Jewish cultural encounters in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world /

Jewish cultural encounters in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world /

The essays in this volume originate from the Third Qumran Institute Symposium held at the University of Groningen, December 2013. Taking the flexible concept of "cultural encounter" as a starting point, the essays in this volume bring together a panoply of approaches to the study of variou...

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Corporate Author: Qumran Institute Symposium

Other Authors: Popović, Mladen., Schoonover, Myles., Vandenberghe, Marijn.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2017.

Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 178.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004327917.

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Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > Congresses.
Dead Sea scrolls > Congresses.
Jews > Mediterranean Region > History > Congresses.
Jews > Middle East > History > Congresses.
Judaism > Mediterranean Region > History > Congresses.
Judaism > Middle East > History > Congresses.

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Call Number: DS135.M43

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Ancient Jewish Cultural Encounters and a Case Study on Ezekiel /
  • Mladen Popović
  • Taming Egypt: The Impact of Persian Imperial Ideology and Politics on the Biblical Exodus Account /
  • Konrad Schmid
  • Exchange, Replacement, or Acceptance? Two Examples of Lending Deities among Ethnic Groups in Elephantine /
  • Bob Becking
  • Netting Marduk? The Concept of Hidden Transcripts and the Transfer of Cultural Knowledge from Mesopotamian to Judean Texts /
  • Jonathan Stökl
  • The Prayer of Nabonidus in the Light of Hellenistic Babylonian Literature /
  • Caroline Waerzeggers
  • Levels of Meaning and Textual Polysemy in Akkadian and Hebrew Exegetical Texts /
  • Uri Gabbay
  • "Judaism" and "Hellenism": Martin Hengel's Work in Perspective /
  • Jörg Frey
  • Choosing Between Papyrus and Skin: Cultural Complexity and Multiple Identities in the Qumran Library /
  • George J. Brooke
  • What Does India Have to Do with Jerusalem? Ben Sira, Language, and Colonialism /
  • Benjamin G. Wright
  • Hybridity, Hydrology, and Hidden Transcript: Sirach 24 and the Judean Encounter with Ptolemaic Isis Worship /
  • Judith H. Newman
  • Reflections on the Cultural Encounter between the Jews and the Greeks and Romans in Jewish Coin Iconography of the Hellenistic-Roman Period /
  • Anne Lykke
  • Philo's Greek Scriptures and Cultural Symbiosis /
  • Hindy Najman
  • "I Wish Those Who Unsettle You Would Mutilate Themselves!" (Gal 5:12): Circumcision and Emasculation in the Letter to the Galatians /
  • J. Cornelis de Vos
  • Rabbis and Romanization: A Review Essay /
  • Ishay Rosen-Zvi
  • Subversion and Subculture: Jewish Time-Keeping in the Roman Empire /
  • Sacha Stern
  • Elijah's Cave in Haifa: Whose Holy Site is this Anyway? /
  • Tal Ilan
  • Index of Modern Authors
  • Index of Ancient Sources.