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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2013]
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| Serier: | Anchor Yale Bible reference library.
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vkx5p |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 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.