Golden Calf Traditions in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38675-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Themes in Biblical Narrative

The seventeen studies in Golden Calf Traditions in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam explore the biblical origins of the golden calf story in Exodus, Deuteronomy, and 1 Kings, as well as its reception in a variety of sources: Hebrew Scriptures (Hosea, Jeremiah, Psalms, Nehemiah), Second Temple Judaism (Animal Apocalypse, Pseudo-Philo, Philo, Josephus), rabbinic Judaism, the New Testament (Acts, Paul, Hebrews, Revelation) and early Christianity (among Greek, Latin, and Syriac writers), as well as the Qur’an and Islamic literature. Expert contributors explore how each ancient author engaged with the calf traditions—whether explicitly, implicitly, or by clearly and consciously avoiding them—and elucidate how the story was used both negatively and positively for didactic, allegorical, polemical, and even apologetic purposes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mason, Eric F

F Lupieri, Edmondo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

1 The Calf Episodes in Exodus and Deuteronomy: A Study in Inner-Biblical Interpretation

Robert A. Di Vito

2 The “Sin” of Jeroboam

Ralph W. Klein

3 Do the Books of Hosea and Jeremiah Know of a Sinai/Horeb Golden Calf Story?

Pauline A. Viviano

4 The Golden Calf in the Historical Recitals of Nehemiah 9 and Psalm 106

Richard J. Bautch

5 Did the Sheep Worship the Golden Calf? The Animal Apocalypse’s Reading of Exodus 32

Daniel Assefa and Kelley Coblentz Bautch

6 Philo of Alexandria’s Interpretations of the Episode of the Golden Calf

Thomas H. Tobin, S.J.

7 When Silence is Golden: The Omission of the Golden Calf Story in Josephus

Gregory E. Sterling

8 Leaders without Blemish: Pseudo-Philo’s Retelling of the Biblical Golden Calf Story

John C. Endres, S.J.

with the assistance of Peter Claver Ajer

9 Paul and the Calf: Texts, Tendencies, and Traditions

Alec J. Lucas

10 “They Made a Calf”: Idolatry and Temple in Acts 7

Joel B. Green

11 Traces of the Golden Calf in the Epistle to the Hebrews

Eric F. Mason

12 A Beast and a Woman in the Desert, or the Sin of Israel: A Typological Reflection

Edmondo Lupieri

13 “A Good Argument to Penitents”: Sin and Forgiveness in Midrashic Interpretations of the Golden Calf

Devorah Schoenfeld

14 Anti-Judaism and Pedagogy: Greek and Latin Patristic Interpretations of the Calf Incident

Wesley Dingman

15 Justin Martyr and the Golden Calf: Ethnic Argumentation in the New Israel

Andrew Radde-Gallwitz

16 The Incident of the Golden Calf in Pre-Islamic Syriac Authors

Andrew J. Hayes

17 “A Calf, a Body that Lows”: The Golden Calf from Late Antiquity to Classical Islam

Michael E. Pregill

Abstract and Keywords

Über Autor(innen)

Eric F. Mason, Ph.D. (2005), University of Notre Dame, is Professor and Julius R. Mantey Chair of Biblical Studies at Judson University, Elgin, Illinois. His research focuses on Hebrews, the Catholic Epistles, and various aspects of Second Temple Judaism.

Edmondo F. Lupieri, Lic. (1973), Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy, is the John Cardinal Cody Endowed Chair in Theology and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Loyola University Chicago. His most recent book is Una sposa per Gesù (Carocci, 2017).