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Jewish cultural encounters in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world /

"The essays in this volume originate from the Third Qumran Institute Symposium held at the University of Groningen, December 2013. Taking the flexible concept of "cultural encounter" as a starting point, the essays in this volume bring together a panoply of approaches to the study of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Qumran Institute Symposium Groningen, Netherlands
Otros Autores: Popović, Mladen (Editor ), Schoonover, Myles (Editor ), Vandenberghe, Marijn (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Colección:Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 178.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Chapter 1 Ancient Jewish Cultural Encounters and a Case Study on Ezekiel; Chapter 2 Taming Egypt: The Impact of Persian Imperial Ideology and Politics on the Biblical Exodus Account; Chapter 3 Exchange, Replacement, or Acceptance? Two Examples of Lending Deities among Ethnic Groups in Elephantine; Chapter 4 Netting Marduk? The Concept of Hidden Transcripts and the Transfer of Cultural Knowledge from Mesopotamian to Judean Texts; Chapter 5 The Prayer of Nabonidus in the Light of Hellenistic Babylonian Literature.
  • Chapter 6 Levels of Meaning and Textual Polysemy in Akkadian and Hebrew Exegetical TextsChapter 7 "Judaism" and "Hellenism": Martin Hengel's Work in Perspective; Chapter 8 Choosing Between Papyrus and Skin: Cultural Complexity and Multiple Identities in the Qumran Library; Chapter 9 What Does India Have to Do with Jerusalem? Ben Sira, Language, and Colonialism; Chapter 10 Hybridity, Hydrology, and Hidden Transcript: Sirach 24 and the Judean Encounter with Ptolemaic Isis Worship.
  • Chapter 11 Reflections on the Cultural Encounter between the Jews and the Greeks and Romans in Jewish Coin Iconography of the Hellenistic-Roman PeriodChapter 12 Philo's Greek Scriptures and Cultural Symbiosis; Chapter 13 "I Wish Those Who Unsettle You Would Mutilate Themselves!" (Gal 5:12): Circumcision and Emasculation in the Letter to the Galatians; Chapter 14 Rabbis and Romanization: A Review Essay; Chapter 15 Subversion and Subculture: Jewish Time-Keeping in the Roman Empire; Chapter 16 Elijah's Cave in Haifa: Whose Holy Site is this Anyway?; Index of Modern Authors.