The Origins of the Canon of the Hebrew Bible, An Analysis of Josephus and 4 Ezra.
In The Origins of the Canon of the Hebrew Bible: An Analysis of Josephus and 4 Ezra , Juan Carlos Ossandón Widow examines the thorny question of when, how, and why the collection of twenty-four books that today is known as the Hebrew Bible was formed. He carefully studies the two earliest testimonie...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
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Leiden, Boston:
Brill,
2018.
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Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
186.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353275.
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Call Number: BS1135 .O87 2018
| Summary: | In The Origins of the Canon of the Hebrew Bible: An Analysis of Josephus and 4 Ezra , Juan Carlos Ossandón Widow examines the thorny question of when, how, and why the collection of twenty-four books that today is known as the Hebrew Bible was formed. He carefully studies the two earliest testimonies in this regard-Josephus' Against Apion and 4 Ezra-and proposes that, along with the tendency to idealize the past, which leads to consider that divine revelation to Israel has ceased, an important reason to specify a collection of Scriptures at the end of the first century CE consisted in the need to defend the received tradition to counter those that accepted more books. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9789004381612 |