The testaments of the twelve patriarchs /
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is of especial interest to students of early Judaism and Christianity, though this importance is not always recognized. This collection preserves extra-biblical traditions about the sons of Jacob, it reflects a moral worldview of Jews and Christians around the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sheffield, England :
Sheffield Academic Press,
©2001.
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Colección: | Guides to Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is of especial interest to students of early Judaism and Christianity, though this importance is not always recognized. This collection preserves extra-biblical traditions about the sons of Jacob, it reflects a moral worldview of Jews and Christians around the turn of the era, and it casts light on its authors' eschatological imagination. Robert A. Kugler introduces the student to the Testaments' contents, their relationship to other texts of the era, textual witnesses and sources, and rehearses the debate regarding authorship, compositional history and. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (122 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-111) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9780567625151 056762515X 1283201283 9781283201285 9786613201287 6613201286 |