"In Ancient Judaism: New Visions and Views Michael Stone examines a broad range of basic issues in the study of Second Temple Judaism and calls for a radical rethinking of approaches to Jewish history. Stone challenges scholars and students to question theologically conditioned histories of ancient Judaism devised by later orthodoxies, whether Jewish or Christian, and to acknowledge religious experience as a major factor in the composition and transmission of ancient religious documents. He urges readers to look above and beyond the spectacles of tradition and cultural memory that too often distort their understanding of the ancient past. Addressing an assortment of topics regarding the authorship, transmission, and interpretation of the canonical Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, apocryphal and pseudepigraphic literature, and more, Stone's Ancient Judaism underscores the stunning complexity of both the raw data and the resulting picture of Judaism in antiquity."--Publisher description

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Stone, Michael E.

Eerdmans Books For Young Readers

United States, United States of America

STIFF WRAPS, FR, 2011

до 2011-08

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Includes bibliographical references (p.195-226) and indexes.

Ancient Judaism: New Visions and Views / Michael E. Stone 1
Contents 6
Preface 10
Abbreviations 12
1. Our Perception of Origins: New Perspectives on the Context of Christian Origins 16
The Time and Place 16
Spectacles of Orthodoxy 19
The Sources and Their Transmission 31
What Comes Next? 40
Apocryphal Traditions and Their Transmission 44
2. Adam and Enoch and the State of the World 46
Introductory Remarks: The Problem 46
The Priestly-Noachic Tradition: Qahat 48
Aramaic Levi Document and Qahat 51
4Q542 Testament of Qahat 53
Teaching Descended from Noah 54
Book(s) of Noah 57
The Priestly-Noah Tradition in the Qumran Library 62
The Enochic Axis 66
Axis of Adam and Eve 67
Implications of Adam and Enoch 72
3. Apocalyptic Historiography 74
Periodization and Pattern: 70 Years and 4 Kingdoms 75
Typological Numbers 84
Origins of lewish Eschatology 90
The Nature of the Jewish Apocalypses and Deuteronomic Ideas 94
Historical Order and Transcendence 98
Division of History into Fixed Parts 99
Typology as Structuring 100
Vaticinium ex eventu about past history and Vaticinium about the rest 101
Transformations 102
4. Visions and Pseudepigraphy 105
Scholars' Attitudes to Apocalypses as Visions 106
Religious Experience in Scholarly Analysis 110
Religious Experience in 4 Ezra 111
The Significance of "Ezra's" Vision 117
The Four Objections Reconsidered 118
"Ezra" and the Author: Vision and Cultural Language 120
Pseudepigraphy 124
Pseudepigraphy in General 125
Pseudepigraphy in the Apocalypses 126
The Pseudepigraphic Figure of Enoch 128
Explanations of Pseudepigraphy 131
Pseudepigraphy and the Normative Written Tradition 132
Pseudepigraphy and Social Matrix 135
5. Bible and Apocrypha 137
The Makeup of the Hebrew Bible 137
The Torah and the Prophets 139
Associated Problems 142
Torah 142
Prophets 143
Social Role 144
Evolution of the Concept of Canon 144
Status of Torah 145
Revelation was Multiform in the Period of the Second Temple 146
Tradition History 148
First Conclusions 148
Conclusions 1: The Privileged Position of the Torah 153
Conclusions 2: The Idea of Canon 154
The Dead Sea Scrolls, Canon, and Codicology 155
The Date of the Greek Translation of the Torah 159
"Rewritten Bibles" and the Torah 161
Authoritative Books at Qumran 163
Conclusions 164
6. Multiform Transmission and Authorship 166
The Issue of Textual Clusters 166
The Adam Literature 169
The Esdras and Sedrach Literature 176
The Elijah Apocryphon 181
Patterns and Contexts of Authoring 183
7. The Transmission of Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha 187
Sources Transmitted in Continuous Tradition 188
The "Rediscovery" of Apocryphal Literature 189
The Book of Asaph the Physician and Medieval Transmission 191
Ancient Jewish Greek Translations 194
Translation, Composition, and Jewish Greek Style 196
Christian Transmission 197
Modern Scholarship and Future Challenges 201
Bibliography 210
Index of Subjects and Names 242
Index of Ancient Sources 254
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Ancient Judaism questions a broad range of basic assumptions made by students of Second Temple Judaism and calls for a radical rethinking of approaches to Jewish history studies. Michael Stone challenges theologically conditioned histories of ancient Judaism devised by later orthodoxies, whether Jewish or Christian, and he stresses the importance of understanding religious experience as a major factor in the composition of ancient religious documents. Addressing the Dead Sea Scrolls and apocalyptic literature as well as recent theories, Stone emphasizes the stunning complexity of both the raw data and the resulting picture of Judaism in antiquity. -- Amazon

2011-08-31