The Aramaic Levi Document

Edition, Translation, Commentary
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13785-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Official Aramaic, Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE), Englisch, Syriac, Band 19, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 667 g

Reihe: Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha

The Aramaic Levi Document is a collection of larger and smaller fragments identified in Aramaic, Greek and Syriac. The discovery of Aramaic fragments among at Qumran confirmed its antiquity and it is now considered to be one of the oldest Jewish works outside the Hebrew Bible. It presents surprising ideas about the priesthood, sacrifice, wisdom and ideals of piety.
Greenfield, Stone and Eshel, each expert in their field, have for the first time presented this work as a single coherent whole (as far as the fragments allow). As well as the original texts, they have translated the book into English and written an extensive and detailed commentary as well as an introduction. Indexes, Concordances of Greek and Aramaic words complete the study. This book will move the study of this pivotal document to a new level.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenfield, Jonas C

Stone, Michael

Eshel, Esther

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Apokryphen, Pseudepigraphen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction
1. The Witnesses
2. Principles of Present Work
The Present Work
The Apparatus of Variants
The Data Block and Versification
Parallels
The Translation
3. The Original Order of ALD
4. The Date and Provenance of ALD
5. Notes on Language of ALD
6. Testaments and Other Associated Works from Qumran
Texts Related to the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
Other “Testament” Texts
The Testament of Qahat and the Visions of Amram
An Apocryphal Text Apparently Related to ALD
7. Some Specific Aspects of ALD
TPL 4:2 and ALD
The Two Spirits
Sapiential Characteristics of the Priesthood
Levi’s Special Role in ALD
Levi in TPL 8:14
The Travels of Levi and Jacob in ALD and TPL
The Sacrificial Ordinances and Measures
1. The Sacrificial Ordinances
2. The Metrological List in 9:17–18
Postscript
Critical Signs and Abbreviations
Journals and Publications
Citations of Dead Sea Scrolls
Appendix

Text & Translation
Commentary
Unplaced Fragments
Aramaic Concordance
Greek Concordance

Bibliography
Indexes

ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES
1. Codicological Layout of the Geniza Manuscript
2. Cambridge Ms ms T.S. 16, fol. 94 recto
Columns Cambridge a, f and e
3. Cambridge Ms ms T.S. 16, fol. 94 verso
Columns Cambridge d, c and b
4. Bodleian Ms Heb. c. 27 recto
Columns Bodleian b and a
5. Bodleian Ms Heb. c. 27 verso
Columns Bodleian d and c
6. Genealogical Table

Über Autor(innen)

Michael E. Stone, Ph.D. (1965) in Near Eastern Languages, Harvard University is Professor of Gail Levin de Nur Professor of Comparative Religion and Armenian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on Second Temple period literature, Adam and Eve literature and Armenian texts including The Legend of Adam's Contract with Satan (2002), and Album of Armenian Paleography (2002).
Esther Eshel, Ph.D. (2000) in Bible, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, is a Senior Lecturer at the Bible department of Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan. She had published extensively on the Dead Sea Scrolls as part of the Second Temple period Literature and on Semitic Epigraphy of the First and Second Temple Periods.