A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
Alexander Kulik, Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo DiTommaso, David Hamidovic, and Michael E. Stone
Abstract
The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus not as an artificial collection of reconstructed texts—a body of hypothetical originals—but rather from the perspective of the preserved materials, exa ... More
The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus not as an artificial collection of reconstructed texts—a body of hypothetical originals—but rather from the perspective of the preserved materials, examined in their religious, social, and political contexts. It also considers the other, non-Christian, channels of the survival of early Jewish materials, including rabbinic, Gnostic, Manichaean, and Islamic. This unique project brings together scholars from many different fields in order to map the trajectories of early Jewish texts and traditions among diverse later cultures. It also provides a comprehensive and comparative introduction to this new field of study while bridging the gap between scholars of early Judaism and of medieval Christianity.
Keywords:
Jewish,
Christian,
tradition,
transmission,
reception,
Hellenistic,
Roman,
pseudepigrapha,
Josephus,
Philo
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780190863074 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2019 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190863074.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Alexander Kulik, editor
Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gabriele Boccaccini, editor
Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, University of Michigan
Lorenzo DiTommaso, editor
Professor of Religions and Cultures, Concordia University Montréal
David Hamidovic, editor
Professor of Jewish Apocryphal Literature and History of Judaism in Antiquity, University of Lausanne
Michael E. Stone, editor
Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religions and Armenian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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