Exploring the Scripturesque

Jewish Texts and Their Christian Contexts
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17010-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 137, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 686 g

Reihe: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism

These essays span about a third of a century and include both previously published and some unpublished studies by Robert A. Kraft which focus on interfaces between Jewish materials and the worlds in which they were transmitted and/or perceived, especially Christian contexts. The initial section on general context and methodology is followed by several detailed studies by way of example. The final section touches on some related issues involving Philonic and other texts. The primary concern is with "scripturesque" materials and traditions, whether they later became canonical or not, that seem to have been respected as “scriptural” by some individuals or communities in the period prior to (or apart from) the development of an exclusivistic canonical consciousness in some Jewish and Christian circles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kraft, Robert Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Bibelwissenschaften: Sachbuch, Erbauung, Didaktik

Über Autor(innen)

Robert A. Kraft, PhD (1961) in History and Philosophy of Religion (Christian Origins) from Harvard University, is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His CV and publications are readily available on his web site -- http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html.