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Book Synopsis“Genizat Germania” is a project at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz focused on the search for and analysis of Hebrew and Aramaic binding fragments found in the books and files of archives and libraries. In recent years this systematic search has revealed several hundred new fragments, including some rare Talmudic, Midrashic and liturgical fragments. The new discoveries both in Germany and elsewhere in Europe have broadened the knowledge of Jewish literature in the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. This volume collects the papers of international scholars which cover recent discoveries in Germany, the “European Genizah” or fragments found in Italy, Poland, Great Britain and Austria, the approaches of similar projects in Austria and the Czech Republic, as well as an extensive bibliography.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction Andreas Lehnardt PART I STUDIES IN 'GENIZAT GERMANIA' Puzzling the Past: Reconstructing a Ma_zor from Receipt Wrappings Saskia Donitz Images Tell a Tale of Place and Time: A Methodological Study of Artwork in Service of Context Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig Reconstructing Manuscripts: The Liturgical Fragments from Trier Elisabeth Hollender Makulierte hebraische Handschriften in Eberhardsklausen-eine bibliotheks- und literaturgeschichtliche Untersuchung Marco Brosch The Discovery of Medieval Targum and Ma_zor Fragments in Freiberg/Saxony Andreas Kunz-Lubcke PART II STUDIES IN THE "EUROPEAN GENIZAH" Hebraische Dokumente und Geschichtsquellen in der "Europaischen Geniza" Abraham David Calamus or Chisel: On the History of the Ashkenazic Script Edna Engel An Early Ashkenazi Fragment of the Babylonian Talmud from the Czartoryski Museum in Cracow Judith Olszowy-Schlanger New Fragments of Unknown Biblical Commentaries from the "European Genizah" Simcha Emanuel 385 Printed Books of the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Bound with Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts in the Estense Library in Modena Mauro Perani with the cooperation of Emmanuela Mongardi and Ezra Chwat Commentaries on the Azharot and other Liturgical Poems Found in the Bibliotheca Civica of Alessandria Saverio Campanini Ein neues Fragment zu Sifre Devarim Michael Krupp PART III EUROPEAN PROJECTS Genizat Austria: The "Hebrew Manuscripts and Fragments in Austrian Libraries" Project Josef Oesch Hebrew Manuscript Fragments in the Czech Republic: A Preliminary Report Daniel Polakovic PART IV BIBLIOGRAPHY Bibliography of the "European Genizah" Andreas Lehnardt

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Book SynopsisThe lore of the supposed magic and medical virtue of stones goes back to the Babylonians and peaks out in the lapidary literature of the Middle Ages. The famous work of Marbode of Rennes, which made lapidaries a very popular type of medieval scientific literature, was translated into numerous vernacular languages. The Jewish tradition, missing a particular lapidary literature of its own, absorbed non-Jewish works like that of Marbode. Several Anglo-Norman Marbode translations could be identified as the main source of the present edited Hebrew lapidary Ko’aḥ ha-Avanim, written by Berakhyah Ben Natronai ha-Nakdan around 1300. The edition is accompanied by an English translation, a source study, and a linguistic analysis of the Romance, mostly Anglo-Norman, terms featuring within the text in Hebrew spelling.Table of ContentsContents Introduction The Author Literary Activity Sefer Ko"a.h ha-Avanim (On the Virtue of the Stones) The Source(s) of Sefer Ko"a.h ha-Avanim (On the Virtue of the Stones) The Critical Edition of Sefer Ko"a.h ha-Avanim Supplements Text and Translation Supplement A: Comparative Table Supplement B:The Ko’a.h ha-Avanim in Its French Context: Romance and Latin Terms and Sources Introduction Lexicological Commentary on the Romance and Latin Terms Berakhyah’s Sources Tables of the Sources Alphabetical Glossaries Hebrew—French/Latin/Greek Glossary French/Latin—Hebrew Glossary Greek—Hebrew Glossary

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Book SynopsisThe Book of Ben Sira comes to us in a bewildering variety of ancient textual forms. Each version shows how the book was received and interpreted in a new situation and by another community of readers. The present volume contains studies by some of the best specialists in this field of research. Each of the ancient text forms of Ben Sira—Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, and Latin—is studied in its proper context and analysed in regard to what explains the typical changes it contains.Table of ContentsPreface HEBREW TEXTS OF BEN SIRA An Alternative Hebrew Form of Ben Sira: the Anthological Manuscript C Jeremy Corley Reconstructions and Retroversions: Chances and Challenges to the Hebrew Ben Sira Text Pancratius C. Beentjes Wordplay in the Hebrew to Ben Sira Eric D. Reymond Animal Imagery in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sirach Nuria Calduch-Benages GREEK VERSIONS OF BEN SIRA Translation Greek in Sirach in Light of the Grandson’s Prologue Benjamin G. Wright III The Literary Attainment of the Translator of Greek Sirach J. K. Aitken Le métier de scribe — un métier différent : quelques réflexions à partir de la version grecque de Siracide 38–39 Françoise Vinel SYRIAC VERSIONS OF BEN SIRA Ben Sira in the Syriac Tradition Wido van Peursen Archaic Elements in the Syriac Version of Ben Sira Jan Joosten Christian Features in the Peshitta Text of Ben Sira: the Question of Dependency on the Syriac New Testament Robert J. Owens LATIN VERSIONS OF BEN SIRA The Old Latin Version of Sirach: Editio Critica and Textual Problems Anthony J. Forte La version latine de Ben Sira : état de la question, essai de classement thématique des . additions Thierry Legrand HERMENEUTICAL AND THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES The Additions to Ben Sira and the Book’s Multiform Textual Witness Jason Gile L’espérance post-mortem dans les différentes versions du Siracide Jean-Sébastien Rey La prière de Ben Sira dans les manuscrits hébreux et dans les versions anciennes Maria Carmela Palmisano La sagesse dans les béatitudes de Ben Sira : étude du texte de Si 51,13–30 et de Si 14,20–15,10 Émile Puech Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors

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Book SynopsisBooks and writing, according to Jacques Derrida, are always concerned with questions of life and death. Nowhere is this more true than regarding the heavenly book motif, which plays an important role in early Judeo-Christian literature, and particularly in apocalypses. This book identifies four sub-types of the motif—the books of life, deeds, fate, and action—and examines their development and function primarily in Jewish and Christian apocalypses. It argues that the overarching function of the motif is to signify life and death for those inscribed: earthly life and death in its early appearances and eternal destiny in later texts. The first full-length analysis of the heavenly book motif in English, this study highlights a vital element of the genre apocalypse.Table of Contents1. Introduction. State of the Question 2. “But if Not, Blot Me Out of the Book” Earthly and Heavenly Books in the Hebrew Scriptures up to Daniel 3. “Everyone Who Is Found Written in the Book” the Heavenly Book of Life in Daniel, the Dead 4. “And Books Were Opened” the Heavenly Book of Deeds in Daniel and other Second Temple Literature 5. “It Has Been Written and Ordained” Heavenly Tablets and the Book of Fate in Jubilees, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other Second Temple Literature 6. “Who Is Worthy to Open the Scroll?” the Adaptation of the Motif in the New Testament 7. “But Not Like the Books of This World” the Heavenly Book in Christian Literature of the 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe last major volume of articles devoted to the topic of prayer and poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls comprised a collection of articles presented at a conference in the year 2000 (Liturgical Perspectives: Prayer and Poetry in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls). This collection reflects the state of research in the field broadly and on specific prayers and poetic texts found among the Dead Sea Scrolls; it also offers new insights into topics on which Eileen Schuller has written extensively.Table of ContentsForeword A. Reinhartz, “Eileen Schuller: An Appreciation Bibliography of Eileen M. Schuller General Studies G. Brooke, The Theological Function of Prayer in the Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts. E. Chazon, Tradition and Innovation in Sectarian Religious Poetry. J. Collins, Prayer and the Meaning of Ritual in the Dead Sea Scrolls. D. Falk, Petition and Ideology in the Dead Sea Scrolls.” E. Tov, The Background of the Different Stichometric Arrangements of Poetry in the Judean Desert texts. Special Topics M. Boda, Perspectives on Priests in Haggai-Malachi. D. Dimant, David’s Youth in the Qumran Context (11QPsa 28:3–12). L. DiTommaso, Penitential Prayer and Apocalyptic Eschatology in Second Temple Judaism. I. Frölich, Healing With Psalms. J. Newman, Liturgical Imagination in the Composition of Ben Sira. C. Newsom, Flesh, Spirit, and the Indigenous Psychology of the Hodayot. J. VanderKam, Rebekah’s Patriarchal Prayers. J. Zilm, Multi-coloured Like Woven Works: Gender, Ritual Clothing, and Praying With the Angels in the Dead Sea Scrolls and The Testament of Job. Textual Studies M. Abegg, 4Q215a, ‘A Poetic Eschatological Work'. P. Flint, Interpreting the Poetry of Isaiah at Qumran: Theme and Function in the Sectarian Scrolls. C. Korting, Jerusalem, City of God (4Q380 1 i 1–11): Praise that Counteracts Lament. R. Kratz, 'Blessed be the Lord and Blessed be His Name Forever:’ Psalm 145 in the Masoretic Psalter and in the Psalms Scroll 11Q5. R. Kugler, A Note on Lev 26:41, 43; 4Q434 1 ii 3 and 4Q504 1–2 recto 5–6; and 1QS 8:3 (par. 4Q259 2:12): On Human Agency in the Divine Economy at Qumran.

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Book SynopsisThe Hebrew Bible in Fifteenth-Century Spain: Exegesis, Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts investigates the relationship between the Bible and the cultural production of Iberian societies between the anti-Jewish riots of 1391 and the Expulsion of 1492. During this turbulent and transformative period, the Bible intersected with virtually all aspects of late medieval Iberian culture: its languages of expression, its material and artistic production, and its intellectual output in literary, philosophical, exegetic, and polemical spheres. The articles in this cross-cultural and interdisciplinary volume present instantiations of the Hebrew Bible’s deployment in textual and visual forms on diverse subjects (messianic exegesis, polemics, converso liturgy, Bible translation, conversion narrative, etc.) and utilize a broad range of methodological approaches (from classical philology to Derridian analysis).Table of ContentsIntroduction Jonathan P. Decter and Arturo Prats I. Literature and Art Weeping Over Rachel´s Tomb: Literary Reelaborations of a Midrashic Motif in Medieval and Early Modern Spain Luis M. Girón Negrón The First Murder: Picturing Polemic c. 1391 Tom Nickson Sephardic Illuminated Bibles: Jewish Patrons and Fifteenth-Century Christian Ateliers Andreina Contessa II. Jewish Exegesis Abarbanel’s Exegetical Subversion of Maimonides’ ‘Aqedah: Transforming a Knight of Intellectual Virtue into a Knight of Existential Faith James Diamond ‘From My Flesh I Envision God’: Shem Tov Ibn Shaprut´s Exegesis of Job 19:25-27 Libby Garshowitz Messianic Interpretation of the Song of Songs in Late-Medieval Iberia Maud Kozodoy III. Uses of Christian Exegesis Pro-Converso Apologetics and Biblical Exegesis Claude B. Stuczynski A Father´s Bequest: Augustinian Typology and Personal Testimony in the Conversion Narrative of Solomon Halevi / Pablo de Santa María Ryan Szpiech IV. Liturgy and Translation The Liturgy of Portuguese Conversos Asher Salah The Relationship between Ladino Liturgical Texts and Spanish Bibles Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald Translation and the Invention of Renaissance Jewish Culture: The Case of Judah Messer Leon and Judah Abravanel Aaron W. Hughes

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Book SynopsisIn this volume twelve contributions discuss the relevance, accuracy, potential, and possible alternatives to a literary reading of ancient Jewish writings, especially the Hebrew Bible. Drawing on different academic fields (biblical studies, rabbinic studies, and literary studies) and on various methodologies (literary criticism, rhetorical criticism, cognitive linguistics, historical criticism, and reception history), the essays form a state-of-the-art overview of the current use of the literary approach toward ancient Jewish texts. The volume convincingly shows that the latest approaches to a literary reading can still enhance our understanding of these texts.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a collection of essays written in honour of Martin G. Abegg from a range of contributors with expertise in Second Temple Jewish literature in reflection upon Prof. Abegg’s work. These essays are arranged according to four topics that deal with various aspects of text, language and interpretation of the Qumran War Scroll, and concepts of war and peace in Second Temple Jewish literature. The contents of the volume are divided into the following four main sections: (1) The War Scroll, (2) War and Peace in the Hebrew Scriptures, (3) War and Peace in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and (4) War and Peace in early Jewish and Christian texts and interpretation.Trade ReviewWhat is particularly impressive about this volume is the depth of analysis and treatment it achieves. First, the collection of essays dealing specifically with the War Scroll comprise a truly unique treatment on the topic, as there are very few volumes in recent years which deal specifically with the War Scroll. Each essay represents a substantive and nuanced presentation on a manuscript which, in my opinion, is ripe for fresh engagement. Second, the volume brings together in one location a wide-ranging collection of essays on violence, war, and peace in the ideological landscape of the late Second Temple period. It is here that this volume is an indispensable work for those interested in how and why these issues take textual and ideological shape within the late Second Temple period, both within Qumran and without. Mike DeVries, Ancient Jew Review, March 2017Table of ContentsDorothy M. Peters, Introduction Emanuel Tov, From Concordance to Concordance: Martin G. Abegg’s Work on Computerizing and Concordancing the Dead Sea Scrolls Jason Kalman, From “The War Scroll” to A Preliminary Edition of the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls THE WAR SCROLL George J. Brooke, Text, Timing and Terror: Thematic Thoughts on the War Scroll in Conversation with the Writings of Martin G. Abegg, jr. Robert D. Holmstedt and John Screnock, Writing a Descriptive Grammar of the Syntax and Semantics of the War Scroll: The Noun Phrase as Proof of Concept Anthony R. Meyer, The “Mysteries of God” in the Qumran War Scroll Kipp Davis, “There and Back Again”: Reconstruction and Reconciliation of the War Texts of 4QMilḥamaa (4Q246a–c) Dongshin Dohnson Chang, Priestly Covenants in 1QM and 1QSb Robert Kugler, The War Rule Texts and a New Theory of the People of the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Brief Thought Experiment WAR AND PEACE IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS Alex Jassen, Violent Imaginaries and Practical Violence in the War Scroll Brian Schultz, The Naval Battle in the Qumran War Texts John Kampen, Wisdom, Poverty, and Non-Violence in Instruction Dorothy M. Peters and Esther Eshel, Cutting Off Shechem: Levi and His Sword in the Rylands Genizah Fragment of the Aramaic Levi Document James E. Bowley, Prophecy, False Prophecy, and War in the Dead Sea Scrolls Daniel K. Falk, Prayer, Liturgy and War Ian Werrett in collaboration with Stephen Parker, Purity in War: What is it Good for?   WAR AND PEACE IN EARLY JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN TEXT AND INTERPRETATION Torleif Elgvin, Violence, Apologetics, and Resistance: Hasmonaean Ideology and Yaḥad Texts in Dialogue Craig A. Evans, Jesus, Satan and Holy War in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls Kyung S. Baek, The Sword-in-the-Mouth of Jesus the King: Declarations of War and Peace in the Gospel of Matthew Michael O. Wise, Papyrus Ḥever 30 and the Bar Kokhba Revolt Steve Delamarter, The Cave 11 Psalm Scroll (11Q5) and the Textual History of Ethiopic Psalm 151: Memory and Interpretation of David as Anointed Warrior

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Book SynopsisIn a career spanning over fifty years, the questions Jacob Neusner has asked and the critical methodologies he has developed have shaped the way scholars have come to approach the rabbinic literature as well as the diverse manifestations of Judaism from rabbinic times until the present. The essays collected here honor that legacy, illustrating an influence that is so pervasive that scholars today who engage in the critical study of Judaism and the history of religions more generally work in a laboratory that Professor Neusner created. Addressing topics in ancient and Rabbinic Judaism, the Judaic context of early Christianity, American Judaism, World Religions, and the academic study of the humanities, these essays demarcate the current state of Judaic and religious studies in the academy today.Trade Review"The compilation of essays in Neusner’s honor is, among other things, a wonderful testament to his most important and innovative scholarly claims.” --Dov Weiss, The University of Illinois, RRJ 19 (2016) 147-172.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Jacob Neusner’s Legacy of Learning, William S. Green, Alan J. Avery-Peck, Bruce Chilton, Gary G. Porton The Amoraic Agenda in Bavli Rosh Hashanah: A Generational Analysis, Alan J. Avery-Peck Women and Gender in Jacob Neusner’s Writings, Judith R. Baskin “It is time to act for the Lord:” In Appreciation of Midrash Samuel, Craig A. Evans Tent of Meeting as bet ulpana: Temple as Torah in the Targums of Israel, Paul V.M. Flesher Talmudic Stories about Angry and Annoyed Rabbis, Joel Gereboff Judaism Evolving: An Experimental Preliminary Translation, William Scott Green “The Weaver of Midrash in Performance:” Notes to an Oral-Performative Translation of Sifre Devarim, Martin S. Jaffee The “Neusnerian Turn” in Method and the End of the Wissenschaft as We Knew It, Peter J. Haas Israelite Religion in the Light of Hebrew Epigraphy: The Inscriptions from Kuntillet 'Ajrud, Baruch A. Levine How the Rabbis Imagined Sarah: A Preliminary Study of the Feminine in Genesis Rabbah, Gary G. Porton Varieties of Religious Visualizations, Tzvee Zahavy Vayavo Ya’acov Shalem, Herbert Basser The Platform of Mark’s Gospel, Its Aramaic Sources and Mark’s Achievement, Bruce Chilton Embodied Judaism, Emplaced Judaism, David Kraemer Jesus Talks Back, Amy-Jill Levine Parting of the Ways that Never Parted: Judaism and Christianity in the Work of Jacob Neusner, Elliot R. Wolfson The American Jewish Holocaust “Myth” and “Negative Judaism:” Jacob Neusner’s Contribution to American Judaism, Shaul Magid Intentionality and Meaning, Robert Berchman Another Prophetic Paradigm: Moses in Sufi Verse, Th. Emil Homerin The Formative Period of Islam and the Documentary Approach: A Prolegomenon, Aaron W. Hughes Transcendent Education: Immortality and the Liberal Arts, Roger Brooks

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Book SynopsisThis work offers a seminal research into Arabic translations of the Pentateuch. It is no exaggeration to speak of this field as a terra incognita. Biblical versions in Arabic were produced over many centuries, on the basis of a wide range of source languages (Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, or Coptic), and in varying contexts. The textual evidence for this study is exclusively based on a corpus of about 150 manuscripts, containing the Pentateuch in Arabic or parts thereof.Trade Review'Ronny Vollandt’s Arabic Versions of the Pentateuch is without a doubt the most important study of the Bible in Arabic to appear in recent decades. He combines close textual study of the earliest Arabic version of the Pentateuch, translated from the Syriac Peshitta in the early ninth century CE, with a masterful overview of Arabic Bible translations in general and their importance for the history of the largely Jewish and Christian communities in which they were produced. The book is a ground-breaking contribution to a long neglected area of study that is crucial to the history of the relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Vollandt prepares the way for future scholars of the Bible in Arabic in many ways, one of the most important of them being his careful listing and description of all the available manuscripts of the Pentateuch in Arabic translation, scattered in libraries around the world or available in digitized form. His method of analyzing the Arabic translators’ technique of translation is masterful and sets a new standard for this exacting task, which, when well done, tells the historian much about the circumstances in synagogue or church life in which the translation was produced. Vollandt’s Arabic Versions of the Pentateuch is a must-read for any future scholar who would study the Arabic translation of a biblical book and one hopes that his success will inspire a new generation to discover the joys and benefits of Arabic Bible research'. - Sidney H. Griffith, Institute of Christian Oriental Research, The Catholic University of America, Washington 'Vollandt has succeeded admirably in his goal of arguing for the importance and relevance of the Arabic versions in biblical scholarship, and it is hoped that he and others will build on this work by engaging in similar studies of other sections of the Bible. Brill’s recently launched Biblia Arabica series, of which this is the second volume to appear, will serve as an excellent forum for such future efforts'. - John Kaltner, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee [Review published by RBL © 09/2016 by the Society of Biblical Literature]Table of ContentsTABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE CHAPTER ONE - PREVIOUS SCHOLARSHIP: CONCERNS AND LIMITATIONS CHAPTER TWO - “A CLEAR LANGUAGE THAT ORDINARY PEOPLE UNDERSTAND”: THE LINGUISTIC BACKGROUND The Melkites The Syriac Orthodox Church The Church of the East The Copts Jewish Communities The Samaritans CHAPTER THREE - THE RISE OF ARABIC TRANSLATIONS Melkite Translations West- and East-Syriac Translations Coptic Translations Mozarabic Translations Jewish Translations Early Non-Saadianic Translations The Tafsīr of Saadiah Gaon Qaraite Translations Samaritan Translations CHAPTER FOUR - MUSLIMS AND THEIR USE OF THE ARABIC PENTATEUCH ʿAlī ibn Rabban Ibn Qutayba Al-Ṭabarī Ibn Ḥazm CHAPTER FIVE - THE ARABIC PENTATEUCH IN EARLY PRINTED BOOKS The Constantinople Polyglot Pentateuchus Mosis Arabicè The Paris Polyglot The London Polyglot Biblia Sacra Arabica (1671–73) CHAPTER SIX - SUMMARY CHAPTER SEVEN - INTRODUCTION The Manuscripts Textual affinities Text Divisions CHAPTER EIGHT - TRANSLATION TECHNIQUE Syntax Word Order Coordinate clauses Subordinate clauses Conditional clauses Interrogative clauses Moods Infinitives Participles Negation The Vocative Summary Vocabulary Use of cognates Transliterations Homophonic roots Islamic vocabulary Alternative translations Lexical consistency Names The lexical representation of anthropomorphisms Summary Particles The accusative marker ܬܝ The accusative marker -ܠ The particle of being ܬܝܐ The particles of similitude ܬܘܟܐ , ܟܝܐ , and ܟܝܐ The particle of possession -ܝܕ The particle ܐܗ Prepositions Summary Style Additions Omissions Substitutions Summary CHAPTER NINE - CONCLUSION APPENDICES Inventory of manuscripts ArabHeb: Translations from the Hebrew ArabSyr: Translations from the Syriac ArabSyr_Hex: Translations from the Syro-Hexapla ArabGreek: A Translation from the Greek ArabCopt: Translations from the Coptic manuscripts based on prints Unidentified or not accessible Text Divisions BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisIn The Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls Ken M. Penner determines whether Qumran Hebrew finite verbs are primarily temporal, aspectual, or modal. Standard grammars claim Hebrew was aspect-prominent in the Bible, and tense-prominent in the Mishnah. But the semantic value of the verb forms in the intervening period in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were written has remained controversial. Penner answers the question of Qumran Hebrew verb form semantics using an empirical method: a database calculating the correlation between each form and each function, establishing that the ancient author’s selection of verb form is determined not by aspect, but by tense or modality. Penner then applies these findings to controversial interpretations of three Qumran texts.

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Book SynopsisThe Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the Concept of a Library presents twelve articles by renowned experts in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran studies. These articles explore from various angles the question of whether or not the collection of manuscripts found in the eleven caves in the vicinity of Khirbet Qumran can be characterized as a “library,” and, if so, what the relation of that library is to the ruins of Qumran and the group of Jews that inhabited them. The essays fall into the following categories: the collection as a whole, subcollections within the overall corpus, and the implications of identifying the Qumran collection as a library.Table of ContentsPart 1 - General Studies Devorah Dimant, “The Library of Qumran in Recent Scholarship” Årstein Justnes, “On Being a ‘Librarian’: Labels, Categories, and Classifications” Part 2 - The Greco-Roman Context Monica Berti, “Greek and Roman Libraries in the Hellenistic Age” Corrado Martone, “The Qumran Library and Other Ancient Libraries: Elements for a Comparison” Ian Werrett, “Is Qumran a Library?” Part 3 - The Collection as a Whole and the Question of a Library Sidnie White Crawford, “The Qumran Collection as a Scribal Library” Stephen Reed, “The Linguistic Diversity of Texts found at Qumran” Mladen Popović, “The Ancient ‘Library’ of Qumran between Urban and Rural Culture” Stephen Pfann, “The Ancient Library or Libraries of Qumran: The Specter of Cave 1Q” Part 4 - Collections within the Collection: Specific Evidence for a Library? Helen R. Jacobus, “Calendars in the Qumran Collection” Daniel Machiela, “The Aramaic Scrolls: Coherence and Context in the Library of Qumran” Implications for the Identification of the Qumran Collection as a Library Armin Lange, “The Qumran Library in Context: The Canonical History and Textual Standardization of the Hebrew Bible in Light of the Qumran Library”

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Book SynopsisJeremiah’s Scriptures focuses on the composition of the biblical book of Jeremiah and its dynamic afterlife in ancient Jewish traditions. Jeremiah is an interpretive text that grew over centuries by means of extensive redactional activities on the part of its tradents. In addition to the books within the book of Jeremiah, other books associated with Jeremiah or Baruch were also generated. All the aforementioned texts constitute what we call “Jeremiah's Scriptures.” The papers and responses collected here approach Jeremiah’s scriptures from a variety of perspectives in biblical and ancient Jewish sub-fields. One of the authors' goals is to challenge the current fragmentation of the fields of theology, biblical studies, ancient Judaism. This volume focuses on Jeremiah and his legacy.Trade Review"Some of the contributors raise fundamental, and for certain readers undoubtedly unsettling, issues about the historical figure of Jeremiah, the nature of the interpretational process from which it emerged and the continuation of this process beyond the canonical forms in which it has been preserved. The editors, for their part, are to be congratulated for their efforts towards bringing scholars into dialogue with one another. Finally, it should not go unnoticed that they invited both established and upcoming scholars to contribute to the volume, which allows for new perspectives on some well-known problems." - H. Debel, in: Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses (2018)Table of ContentsContents Part 1: Hebrew Bible 1 Exegesis, Expansion, and Tradition-Making in the Book of Jeremiah Robert R. Wilson 2 A New Understanding of the Book of Jeremiah. A Response to Robert R. Wilson Georg Fischer 3 Ancient Editing and the Coherence of Traditions within the Book of Jeremiah and throughout the .נביאים A Response to Robert R. Wilson Florian Lippke 4 Prophets, Princes, and Kings: Prophecy and Prophetic Books according to Jeremiah 36 Friedhelm Hartenstein 5 King Jehoiakim’s Attempt to Destroy the Written Word of God (Jeremiah 36). A Response to Friedhelm Hartenstein Lida Panov 6 Scribal Loyalty and the Burning of the Scroll in Jeremiah 36. A Response to Friedhelm Hartenstein Justin J. White 7 The Nature of Deutero-Jeremianic Texts Christl M. Maier 8 The “Deuteronomistic” Character of the Book of Jeremiah. A Response to Christl M. Maier Thomas Römer 9 A Gap between Style and Context? A Response to Christl M. Maier Laura Carlson 10 Deutero-Jeremianic Language in the Temple Sermon. A Response to Christl M. Maier William L. Kelly 11 Formulaic Language and the Formation of the Book of Jeremiah Hermann-Josef Stipp 12 Mysteries of the Book of Jeremiah: Its Text and Formulaic Language. A Response to Hermann-Josef Stipp Georg Fischer 13 What Does “Deuteronomistic” Designate? A Response to Hermann-Josef Stipp Elisa Uusimäki 14 Less than 300 Years. A Response to Hermann-Josef Stipp Fabian Kuhn 15 Why Jeremiah? The Invention of a Prophetic Figure Reinhard G. Kratz 16 Was Jeremiah Invented? The Relation of an Author to a Literary Tradition. A Response to Reinhard G. Kratz Bernard M. Levinson 17 The Question of Prophetic “Authenticity.” A Response to Reinhard G. Kratz Olivia Stewart 18 Jeremiah: The Prophet and the Concept. A Response to Reinhard G. Kratz Zafer Tayseer Mohammad Part 2: Ancient Jewish Literature 19 Confessing in Exile: The Reception and Composition of Jeremiah in (Daniel and) Baruch Judith H. Newman 20 Scribal Culture of the Hebrew Bible and the Burden of the Canon:Human Agency and Textual Production and Consumption in Ancient Judaism. A Response to Judith H. Newman Mladen Popović 21 The Meanings of the Jerusalem Temple in Baruch. A Response to Judith H. Newman Zhenshuai Jiang 22 Text Reception and Conceptions of Authority in Second Temple Contexts. A Response to Judith H. Newman Phillip M. Lasater 23 The Use and Function of Jeremianic Tradition in 1 Enoch: The Epistle of Enoch in Focus Loren T. Stuckenbruck 24 Jeremiah, Deuteronomy and Enoch. A Response to Loren T. Stuckenbruck John J. Collins 25 Is Enoch also among the (Jeremianic) Prophets? A Response to Loren T. Stuckenbruck Ryan C. Stoner 26 Jeremiah’s Scriptures in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Growth of a Tradition Eibert Tigchelaar 27 Modelling Jeremiah Traditions in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Response to Eibert Tigchelaar George J. Brooke 28 New Material or Traditions Expanded? A Response to Eibert Tigchelaar Anja Klein 29 Unities and Boundaries across the Jeremianic Dead Sea Scrolls. A Response to Eibert Tigchelaar James Nati 30 Jeremiah, Baruch, and Their Books: Three Phases in a Changing Relationship Matthias Henze and Liv Ingeborg Lied 31 The Reception of a Reception: The Influence of 1 Baruch on the Structure of 5 Ezra. A Response to Matthias Henze and Liv Ingeborg Lied Veronika Hirschberger 32 Textual and Material Contexts. A Response to Matthias Henze and Liv Ingeborg Lied Nathalie LaCoste 33 Retelling the Story of Exile: The Reception of the Jeremiah Tradition in 4 Baruch in the Perspective of the Jewish Diaspora Jens Herzer 34 The Eagle and the Basket of Figs in 4 Baruch. A Response to Jens Herzer Robin D. Young 35 The Development of the Jeremiah Figure in 2 Baruch and 4 Baruch. A Response to Jens Herzer Boyeon Briana Lee 36 Jeremiah as Mystagogue: Jeremiah in Philo of Alexandria Gregory E. Sterling 37 Philo and Jeremiah: A Mysterious Passage in De Cherubim. A Response to Gregory E. Sterling René Bloch 38 Jeremiah as Hierophant: Jeremiah in Philo of Alexandria. A Response to Gregory E. Sterling Franz Tóth 39 “I am the Man”: The Afterlife of a Biblical Verse in Second Temple Times James Kugel Part 3: Early Christian and Rabbinic Literature 40 The Reception of Jeremiah and the Impact of Jeremianic Traditions in the New Testament: A Survey Jörg Frey 41 Jeremiah in the Book of Revelation. A Response to Jörg Frey Adela Yarbro Collins 42 The Jeremianic Covenant Theology and its Impact in the Gospel of Matthew. A Response to Jörg Frey Veronika Niederhofer 43 The Commissioning of Paul: Light from the Prophet Jeremiah on the Self-Understanding of the Apostle? Lutz Doering 44 The Apostle Paul in the Prophetic Matrix of Jeremiah. A Response to Lutz Doering Kipp Davis 45 Like a Priest Exposing His Own Wayward Mother: Jeremiah in Rabbinic Literature Ishay Rosen-Zvi 46 Jeremiah in Rabbinic Theology and Baruch in Rabbinic Historiography. A Response to Ishay Rosen-Zvi Shlomo Zuckier 47 Probing the Rabbis’ Criticism and Silence with Regard to Jeremiah. A Response to Ishay Rosen-Zvi Jordash Kiffiak Author Index Ancient Sources Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a collection of fresh essays in honor of Professor John T. Townsend. It focuses on the interpretation of the common Jewish and Christian Scripture (the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament) and on its two off-shoots (Rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament), as well as on Jewish-Christian relations. The contributors, who are prominent scholars in their fields, include James L. Crenshaw, Göran Eidevall, Anne E. Gardner, Lawrence M. Wills, Cecilia Wassen, Robert L. Brawley, Joseph B. Tyson, Eldon J. Epp, Yaakov Elman, Rivka Ulmer, Andreas Lehnardt, Reuven Kimelman, Bruce Chilton, and Michael W. Duggan. “an engaging and impressive scholarly work.” - Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 81.3 (2019)Trade Review“an engaging and impressive scholarly work.” - Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College, in: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 81.3 (2019)Table of ContentsAbbreviations List of Contributors Part One: The Man and the Book 1. An Introduction, Isaac Kalimi 2. Biography and Bibliography of John T. Townsend, Isaac Kalimi Part Two: Hebrew Bible and Its Interpretation 3. Divine Vulnerability: Reflections on the Binding of Isaac (Genesis 22), James L. Crenshaw 4. Shifting Emphasis: Examples of Early and Modern Reception of the Book of Amos, Göran Eidevall 5. Interpreting the Writing on the Wall in Daniel 5, Anne E. Gardner Part Three: New Testament and Its Interpretation 6. The Jewishness of the Gospel of Mark, Lawrence M. Wills 7. Jesus’ Work as a Healer in Light of Jewish Purity Laws, Cecilia Wassen 8. The Ἰουδαῖοι in the Gospel of John, Robert L. Brawley 9. Acts, the “Parting of the Ways,” and the Use of the Term “Christians”, Joseph B. Tyson 10. Early Christian Attitudes toward ‘Things Jewish’ as Narrated by Textual Variants in Acts: A Case Study of the D-Textual Cluster, Eldon J. Epp Part Four: Talmudic and Midrashic Studies 11. Some Aspects of Interreligious Polemic in the Babylonian Talmud, Yaakov Elman 12. Egyptian Motifs in Late Antique Mosaics and Rabbinic Texts, Rivka Ulmer 13. The Binding Fragments of Midrash Tanhuma (Buber) from the Municipal Library of Trier, Andreas Lehnardt Part Five: Jewish – Christian Relationship 14. “We Love the God Who Loved Us First”: The Second Blessing of the Shema Liturgy, Reuven Kimelman 15. Jewish Mysticism, Nostra Aetate, and Renewal in Judaism and Christianity, Bruce Chilton 16. Hanukkah and Community Identity in 1-2 Maccabees and John, Michael W. Duggan Index of Authors Index of Scripture

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Book SynopsisEnglish: In Die biblisch-hebräische Partikel נָא Peter Juhás addresses the function of the much-debated particle -nā in Biblical Hebrew from the point of view of the most important ancient Bible translations. German: In der vorliegenden Monographie untersucht Peter Juhás die Funktion der viel diskutierten biblisch-hebräischen Partikel -nā im Lichte der wichtigsten antiken Bibelübersetzungen.Trade ReviewJuhás has been admirably careful and thorough in executing the task he undertook. Anyone wishing to contribute to the na' debate in future could do well to use this book as a starting point. Apart from Juhás's examination of how the particle was rendered in other languages, his detailed tables of occurrences in various parts of the Hebrew Bible, and his coverage of the history of the debate, make the book an excellent basis for studying the issue. More generally, the book holds much interest for any scholar concerned with the problems of translating ancient languages. - Geoffrey Sampson (University of Essex), on: linguistlist.org (February 2018).Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Nersēs and the Dormition  Theological Terminology  Some Patristic Sources  Conclusion  Manuscripts of Nersēs’ Commentary on the Dormition  The Dormition in Armenian Bibles  Nersēs and His Biblical Commentaries  Life of Nersēs from the 1736 Edition  Memorial of the 1736 Edition Translation of Nersēs’ Commentary with Notes  Note to the Armenian Text  Nersēs’ Own Introduction  Nersēs’ Commentary on the Dormition  Variant Text of C in § 112 Nersēs’ Armenian Text of the Dormition Bibliography Index of Biblical Quotations and Allusions General Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume is offered as a tribute to George Brooke to mark his sixty-fifth birthday. It has been conceived as a coherent contribution to the question of textuality in the Dead Sea Scrolls explored from a wide range of perspectives. These include material aspects of the texts, performance, reception, classification, scribal culture, composition, reworking, form and genre, and the issue of the extent to which any of the texts relate (to) social realities in the Second Temple period. Almost every contribution engages with Brooke’s own remarkably wide-ranging, incisive, and innovative research on the Scrolls. The twenty-eight contributors are colleagues and students of the honouree and include leading scholars alongside promising new voices from across the field.Trade Review"It is approapriate that, in honouring such an influential figure, this excellent volume is itself a landmark publication in Qumran studies that will inform the field for years to come." - Paul Middleton, in: Journal for the Study of the New Testament "The volume constitutes a Festschrift in the best sense, since the authors not only refer to Brooke's publications, but also build on his ideas and interests. In this case, this does not present a challenge: besides being enormous, Brooke's literary production is constantly relevant and ever inspirational.... Let us hope that this volume - which undoubtedly wull be used by Qumran specialists - will find its way into the hands of a wider scholarly audience as well." - Hanna Vanonen, in: Dead Sea Discoveries, 2019

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Book SynopsisBinding Fragments of Tractate Temurah and the Problem of Lishana ’Aḥarina offers a critical edition of an important Talmud manuscript of tractate Temurah discovered in the library of New York University. Addressing the unique Lishana ’Aḥarina (“alternative version”) phenomenon present in this tractate, the present volume suggests a new approach for understanding the editing and transmission of tractate Temurah. This volume also includes a thorough discussion of the conservation and treatment of the manuscript fragments, a codicological and paleographical analysis of the fragments, and a synopsis of the entire first chapter of this tractate. The present work is relevant for study of the redaction and transmission of tractate Temurah and the Babylonian Talmud, as well as for the study of Hebrew binding fragments.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Plates Introduction Lishana ’Aḥarina  Early Views on Lishana ’Aḥarina  Jacob Nachum Halevy Epstein  Eliezer Shimshon Rosenthal  Additional Discussions of Lishana ’Aḥarina  New Observations from a Reexamination of the Evidence  Towards a New Theory of Tractate Temurah  Lishana ’Aḥarina: The Evidence of Medieval Sources  Conclusions The Conservation of Six Talmudic Manuscript Fragments from the Bindings of Three Early 17th Century Choral Books  Anne Hillam, Laura McCann, and Marvin J. Taylor  Figures 1–6 A Codicological and Paleographical Analysis of the Sabbateni Hebrew Binding Fragments — Bavli Temurah Chapter 1  Edna Engel  A Proposed Model of the Original Manuscript’s Layout  Codicological and Scribal Graphic Features  Scribal Graphic Features (Figure 17)  Script  Conclusions  Figures 7–25 Edition of the Manuscript with Critical Notes  Synopsis of the lishana ’aḥarina on Temurah 6a Synopses of NYU Manuscript of BT Temurah, Chapter 1  Synopsis 1: Frag. 1 Recto, Col. 1 [Septimus Rear Board Front 007; Plates 1 & 2] Temurah 3b  Synopsis 2: Frag. 1 Recto, Col. 2 [Septimus Rear Board Front 007; Plates 1 & 2] Temurah 3b  Synopsis 3: Frag. 1 Verso, Col. 1 [Septimus Rear Board Reverse 008; Plates 3 & 4] Temurah 4a  Synopsis 4: Frag. 1 Verso, Col. 2 [Septimus Rear Board Reverse 008; Plates 3 & 4] Temurah 4b  Synopsis 5: Frag. 2 Verso, Col. 1 [Septimus Front Board Reverse 006; Plates 7 & 8] Temurah 5a  Synopsis 6: Frag. 2 Verso, Col. 2 [Septimus Front Board Reverse 006; Plates 7 & 8] Temurah 5a  Synopsis 7: Frag. 2 Recto, Col. 1 [Septimus Front Board Front 005; Plates 5 & 6] Temurah 5b  Synopsis 8: Frag. 2 Recto, Col. 2 [Septimus Front Board Front 005; Plates 5 & 6] Temurah 5b  Synopsis 9: Frag. 3 Recto, Col. 1 [Tenor Front Board Front 009; Plates 9, 10, & 25] Temurah 5b  Synopsis 10: Frag. 3 Recto, Col. 2 [Tenor Front Board Front 009; Plates 9 & 10] Temurah 6a  Synopsis 11: Frag. 3 Verso, Col. 1 [Tenor Front Board Reverse 010; Plates 11 & 12] Temurah 6b–6a  Synopsis 12: Frag. 3 Verso, Col. 2 [Tenor Front Board Reverse 010; Plates 11, 12, & 26] Temurah 6b  Synopsis 13: Frag. 4 Recto, Col. 1 [Tenor Rear Board Front 011; Plates 13 & 14] Temurah 9b  Synopsis 14: Frag. 5 Recto, Col. 1 [Cantus Rear Board Front 003; Plates 17 & 18] Temurah 9b  Synopsis 15: Frag. 4 Recto, Col. 2 [Tenor Rear Board Front 011; Plates 13 & 14] Temurah 9b–10a  Synopsis 16: Frag. 5 Recto, Col. 2 [Cantus Rear Board Front 003; Plates 17 & 18] Temurah 10a  Synopsis 17: Frag. 4 Verso, Col. 1 [Tenor Rear Board Reverse 012; Plates 15 & 16] Temurah 10a–10b  Synopsis 18: Frag. 5 Verso, Col. 1 [Cantus Rear Board Reverse 004; Plates 19 & 20] Temurah 10b  Synopsis 19: Frag. 4 Verso, Col. 2 [Tenor Rear Board Reverse 012; Plates 15 & 16] Temurah 10b  Synopsis 20: Frag. 5 Verso, Col. 2 [Cantus Rear Board Reverse 004; Plates 19 & 20] Temurah 10b  Synopsis 21: Frag. 6 Verso, Col. 1 [Cantus Front Board Reverse 002; Plates 23 & 24] Temurah 12b–13a  Synopsis 22: Frag. 6 Verso, Col. 2 [Cantus Front Board Reverse 002; Plates 23 & 24] Temurah 13a  Synopsis 23: Frag. 6 Recto, Col. 1 [Cantus Front Board Front 001; Plates 21 & 22] Temurah 13b  Synopsis 24: Frag. 6 Recto, Col. 2 [Cantus Front Board Front 001; Plates 21 & 22] Temurah 13b Bibliography Index

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