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The formation of the Jewish canon /

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before its fixation. Timothy Lim here presents a complete account of the formation of the canon in ancient Judaism from the emergence of the Torah in the Persian period to the fi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lim, Timothy H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Colección:Anchor Yale Bible reference library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Modern and ancient views of the canon
  • The emergence of the canon reconsidered
  • The earliest canonical lists and notices
  • The Torah in the Persian and early Hellenistic periods
  • The letter of Aristeas and its early interpreters
  • The wisdom of Jesus ben Sira and 2 Maccabees
  • The Dead Sea scrolls and authoritative scriptures
  • The holy books of the Essenes and Therapeutae
  • Canon in the Gospels and Pauline letters
  • The formation of the Jewish canon
  • Appendix 1: Some modern canons
  • Appendix 2: Early canonical lists
  • Appendix 3: Bryennios and Epiphanius lists
  • Appendix 4: Extra-canonical Jewish writings and the Pauline letters
  • Appendix 5: Scriptural references in Sirach 44:50.