From Revelation to Canon

Studies in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-04-11557-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 62, 604 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 1220 g

Reihe: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism

From Revelation to Canon is a collection of essays that offers studies of texts, traditions, and themes from the Hebrew Bible and from the extra-biblical literature of the second-temple period.
Included in it are studies of apocalypticism, the high priesthood, calendars and festivals, and a series of essays on aspects of 1 Enoch and the Book of Jubilees. There is also a previously unpublished essay on the development of a canon of scripture in Judaism.
The volume gathers in one place, papers that were originally published in several journals, volumes of essays, and Festschriften.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Vanderkam, James C

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

James C. VanderKam, Ph.D. (1976), Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literature, Harvard University, is John A. O'Brien Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at the University of Notre Dame. His main publications are The Dead Sea Scrolls Today (Eerdmans, 1994) and The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (Brill, 1998, 1999).