2010 catalog
Biblical Studies
Dear Scholar, Welcome to Brill’s Biblical Studies catalog 2010. This year, we are especially pleased to inform you of the new series Linguistic Biblical Studies, which is dedicated to the development and promotion of linguistically informed study of the Bible in its original languages. Biblical studies has greatly benefited from modern theoretical and applied linguistics, but stands poised to benefit from further integration of the two fields of study. We are also proud to announce the publication of the Handbook of the Historical Jesus. Drawing on first-class scholarship from around the world, the four large volumes of the Handbook offer a unique assembly of leading experts presenting their approaches to the historical Jesus, as well as a thorough and wide-ranging compilation of original studies on a broad variety of topics pertaining to Jesus research and adjacent areas. If you would also like to receive the Religious Studies catalog, you can download the catalog from brill.nl/downloads. If you prefer a printed copy, please send an e-mail to marketing@brill.nl. To keep up with developments throughout the year, and to receive special discount opportunities and free trial offers, be sure to subscribe to Brill’s Biblical Studies & Religious Studies e-bulletin. You will find details on how to do this on our website at brill.nl/e-bulletins. To search our full list of available titles, please visit brill.nl. Yours sincerely, Dominique de Roo Marketing Manager marketing@brill.nl
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Contents 2 Major Reference Works 9 Old Testament Studies 17 Ancient Near East & Egypt 21 Dead Sea Scrolls 26 Gnosticism & Manichaeism See page 46
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30 Judaism 43 Religion in Late Antiquity 47 Biblical Studies 50 New Testament 58 Early Christianity
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Major Reference Works
Religion Past and Present Encyclopedia of Theology and Religion Edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning, Bernd Janowski and Eberhard Jüngel
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Religion Past and Present (RPP) is a complete, updated English translation of the 4th edition of the definitive encyclopedia of religion worldwide: the peerless Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (RGG). Including the latest developments in research, Religion Past and Present encompasses a vast range of subjects connected with religion. This great resource, now at last available in English, continues the tradition of deep knowledge and authority relied upon by generations of scholars in religious, theological, and biblical studies. Religion Past and Present indisputably belongs to the small class of essential reference works.
Volume 6 (Hea-Jog)
Volume 8 (Mai-Nas)
Volume 7 (Joh-Mah)
Volume 9
• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 14690 7 • Cloth (cxi + 739 pp) • List price EUR 259.- / US$ 299.-
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- RGG has been a standard reference work since the publication of the first edition in 1908. - Strongly international, cross-cultural and ecumenical, written by over 3,000 authors from 88 countries - Covers an unparalleled breadth of subject matter in theological and biblical studies - Up-to-date research and bibliographies make it an indispensable resource for all levels of users - Interdisciplinary articles cover a wide range of topics from history, archaeology, liturgy, law, bible, music, visual arts, politics, social sciences, natural sciences, ethics, and philosophy. - The 4th edition of RGG, the basis of the RPP translation, includes hundreds of new entries on Eastern religions and other religious subjects. The editors of RPP have added a number of articles and revised others for a global English-speaking readership. - Short definitions and cross-references enable quick and easy searching - Over 15,000 entries and 8 million words - 13 volumes and an index - Completion scheduled for 2013
Major Reference Works
Religion Past and Present Online brill.nl/rppo
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• Published since 2009 • E-ISSN 1877-5888 Options • Annual subscription • Outright Purchase with annual installment fee RPP Online will include ALL 13 volumes of the print edition and is automatically updated whenever a new volume has been published (2 volumes annually). biblical studies
Religion Past and Present (RPP) Online is the online version of the updated English translation of the 4th edition of the definitive encyclopedia of religion worldwide: the peerless Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (RGG). This great resource, now at last available in English and Online, continues the tradition of deep knowledge and authority relied upon by generations of scholars in religious, theological, and biblical studies. Religion Past and Present indisputably belongs to the small class of essential reference works.
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- Strongly international, cross-cultural and ecumenical, written by over 3,000 authors from 88 countries - RGG has been a standard reference work since the publication of the first edition in 1908 - Covers an unparalleled breadth of subject matter in theological and biblical studies - Up-to-date research and bibliographies make it an indispensable resource for all levels of users - Interdisciplinary articles cover a wide range of topics from history, archaeology, liturgy, law, bible, music,visual arts, politics, social sciences, natural sciences, ethics, and philosophy - Over 15,000 entries and 8 million words - Abstracts drawn from a wide range of journals in various languages - Covers an array of complementary disciplines - Continually updated with new entries
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Major Reference Works
Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus – 4 Volume Set
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Edited by Tom Holmén and Stanley E. Porter
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• December 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 16372 0 (set: 4 volumes) • Hardback (c. 3300 pp) • List price EUR 899.- / US$ 1329.-
A hundred years after A. Schweitzer’s Von Reimarus zu Wrede, the study of the historical Jesus is again experiencing a renaissance. Ongoing since the beginning of the 1980’s, this renaissance has produced an abundance of Jesus studies that also displays a welcome diversity of methods, approaches and hypotheses. The Handbook of the Study of the Historical Jesus is designed to create a means to handle the diversity and abundance. Drawing from first-class scholarship throughout the world, the four large volumes of the Handbook offer a unique assembly of leading experts presenting their approaches to the historical Jesus, as well as a thought-out compilation of original studies on a large variety of topics pertaining to Jesus research and adjacent areas.
New Series: The New Testament Gospels in their Judaic Contexts Bruce D. Chilton and Darrell Bock Visit brill.nl/ntgjc
A Comparative Handbook to the Gospel of Mark Comparisons with Pseudepigrapha, the Qumran Schrolls, and Rabbinic Literature Edited by Bruce D. Chilton, Darrell Bock, Daniel Gurtner, Jacob Neusner and Lawrence Schiffman
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17973 8 • Hardback (xii, 596 pp.) • List price EUR 167.- / US$ 247.• The New Testament Gospels in their Judaic Contexts, 1
This comparative handbook is intended to provide scholars of the New Testament with detailed, systematic and accurate resources concerning the Judaic context of the gospel of Mark. It aims to serve as a powerful tool to assist the reader - and commentator - in understanding and commenting on the gospel of Mark. Introductions are provided to help with issues of dating and the development of the literatures concerned. Possible interpretations are also presented, where suitable.
Major Reference Works
Lexicon Gregorianum Volume 8 Band VIII (ράβδος-συναποπέτομαι) Friedhelm Mann
• December 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 16701 8 • Cloth • List price EUR 299.- / US$ 425.-
The result of more than three decades of dedicated scholarly research by the Forschungsstelle Gregor von Nyssa (Münster), the Lexicon Gregorianum constitutes the most comprehensive Greek-German dictionary ever of the language used by Gregory of Nyssa. It is, and will be for the foreseeable future, the only dictionary available specifically addressing the vocabulary of late Classical Greek. Far from being a simple word list this seminal reference work documents Gregory’s complete vocabulary, taking account of the syntax, meaning and connotations of every occurrence of a key word in his writings. The complete Lexicon will comprise 9 volumes, totaling more than 13,000 entries. Each volume will consist of ca. 600 three-column pages.
The Dead Sea Scrolls Concordance, Volume 3 The Biblical Texts from the Judaean Desert
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 18235 6 • Cloth (792 pp.) • List price EUR 275.- / US$ 399.-
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The Dead Sea Scrolls Concordance volume 3 for the first time indexes all of the biblical materials which have been found in a wide range of Judaean Desert sites. It provides a convenient index to the 276 biblical scrolls published in the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series and elsewhere. This keyword-in-context concordance, prepared by Martin G. Abegg, Jr., James E. Bowley and Edward M. Cook contains a new and consistent linguistic analysis of all the words found in the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls. The total number of entries totals nearly 95,000 words. Every entry includes the keyword with its context. All keywords have an English translation, and the Hebrew and Aramaic sections are organized in alphabetical order rather than by verbal root, which makes the concordance easier to consult for the non-specialist. This concordance to the biblical texts from the Judaean Desert is the third of a series of three. Volume one consists of concordances to the non-biblical texts from Qumran and the second volume will index all the non-biblical texts from sites other than Qumran.
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Martin Abegg, James Bowley and Edward Cook
Major Reference Works
International Review of Biblical Studies Internationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete Edited by Bernhard Lang Visit brill.nl/irbs
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International Review of Biblical Studies Volume 55 (2008-2009)
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Bernhard Lang
• March 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18134 2 • Paperback (xii, 530 pp.) • List price EUR 142.- / US$ 201.• International Review of Biblical Studies, 55
Formerly known by its subtitle “Internationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete”, the International Review of Biblical Studies has served the scholarly community ever since its inception in the early 1950’s. Each annual volume includes approximately 2,000 abstracts and summaries of articles and books that deal with the Bible and related literature, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, Non-canonical gospels, and ancient Near Eastern writings. The abstracts – which may be in English, German, or French - are arranged thematically under headings such as e.g. “Genesis”, “Matthew”, “Greek language”, “text and textual criticism”, “exegetical methods and approaches”, “biblical theology”, “social and religious institutions”, “biblical personalities”, “history of Israel and early Judaism”, and so on. The articles and books that are abstracted and reviewed are collected annually by an international team of collaborators from over 300 of the most important periodicals and book series in the fields covered.
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Volume 54 (2007-2008) Bernhard Lang
• April 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17254 8 • Paperback (xii, 556 pp.) • List price EUR 145.- / US$ 206.• International Review of Biblical Studies, 54
Major Reference Works
Linguistic Bibliography Bibliographie Linguistique Edited by Sijmen Tol and Hella Olbertz Visit brill.nl/lb
ISSN 0378-4592
The Linguistic Bibliography / Bibliographie Linguistique is the annual bibliography of linguistics published by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists under the auspices of the International Council of Philosophy and Humanistic Studies of UNESCO. With a tradition of more than fifty years, the Linguistic Bibliography is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field. It covers all branches of linguistics, both theoretical and descriptive, from all geographical areas, including less known and extinct languages, with particular attention to the many endangered languages of the world. Up-to-date information is guaranteed by the collaboration of over forty contributing specialists from all over the world. With over 20,000 titles arranged according to a detailed state-of-the-art classification, the Linguistic Bibliography remains the standard reference book for every scholar of language and linguistics. biblical studies
• September 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17486 3 • Cloth (c.1400) • List price EUR 499.- / US$ 739.• Linguistic Bibliography, 2005-2008
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Willem Adelaar, University of Leiden, the Netherlands Peter Austin, SOAS/ELAP, London, United Kingdom Bernard Comrie, MPI/EVA, Leipzig, Germany and University of California Santa Barbara, USA William Croft, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA Christian Lehmann, University of Erfurt, Germany
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• Published since 2009 • E-ISSN 1574-129X Options • Annual subscription • Outright purchase with annual installment fee
The Linguistic Bibliography Online is an essential linguistic reference tool that is unique in its field. It provides over 260.000 bibliographical references to scholarly publications in linguistics. It covers all disciplines of theoretical linguistics, both general and language specific, from all geographical areas, including less-known and extinct languages, with particular attention to the many endangered languages of the world. It is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field.
Up-to-date information is guaranteed by the collaboration of some forty contributing specialists from all over the world. With annually around 20.000 records added, the Linguistic Bibliography remains the standard reference work for every scholar of linguistics.
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Major Reference Works
Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series Edited by Alexander Lubotsky For more information please visit brill.nl/ieed The Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series publishes the results of a major Leiden University project identifying and describing the common lexical heritage of the Indo-European languages. Under the supervision of Alexander Lubotsky, an international team of historical linguists has for more than a decade researched, collected and integrated a growing corpus of linguistic data. The data is published in a series of etymological dictionaries and will be concluded by the publication of a large IndoEuropean Etymological Dictionary, deemed as a successor of Julius Pokorny’s standard work published in 1959.
Etymological Dictionary of Greek Robert Beekes A must-have research tool that should be on every classicist’s desk. biblical studies
The first comprehensive etymological dictionary of Greek in the English language
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• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17418 4 • Hardback (xlxiv, 1808 pp. (in 2 volumes)) • List price EUR 399.- / US$ 590.• Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, 10
Greek is among the most intensely and widely studied languages known. Since the publication of the last etymological dictionary of Greek, both the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, and our knowledge of the Greek substrate have led to numerous, often surprising new insights into the history and formation of the Greek vocabulary. This dictionary is a treasure trove covering 2000 years of Ancient Greek: from Mycenaean via Homer and the classical period to lexicographers, such as Hesychius (5th century A.D.). It consists of 7500 entries with thoroughly revised etymologies. Each entry gives clear information about the origin of the Greek word and its first date of attestation. It further provides all etymologically relevant variants, dialectal forms, derivatives, compounds, and bibliographical references. This dictionary is a truly indispensable tool for those in search of a deeper knowledge of the Greek vocabulary, its history and, therewith, a better understanding of the language.
Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon Hrach Martirosyan
• November 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17337 8 • Hardback (xvi, 988 pp.) • List price EUR 199.- / US$ 297.• Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, 8
As an Indo-European language, Armenian has been the subject of etymological research for over a hundred years. There are many valuable systematic handbooks, studies and surveys on comparative Armenian linguistics. Almost all of these works, with a few exceptions, mostly concentrate on Classical Armenian and touch the dialects only sporadically. Nonliterary data taken from Armenian dialects have largely remained outside of the scope of Indo-European etymological considerations. This book provides an up-to-date description of the Indo-European lexical stock of Armenian with systematic inclusion of dialectal data. It incorporates the lexical, phonetic, and morphological material in the Armenian dialects into the etymological treatment of the Indo-European lexicon. In this respect it is completely new.
Old Testament Studies
Vetus Testamentum, Supplements Edited by Hans Barstad Visit brill.nl/vts
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The Supplements to Vetus Testamentum series covers the whole range of Old Testament study, including Septuaginta studies, Ugaritic research relevant to the study of the Old Testament, Hebrew studies, studies in ancient Israelite history and society, and studies in the history of the discipline. There are both monographs and collective volumes, the latter including the Proceedings of the Triennial International Congresses of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament.
Isaiah in Context Studies in Honour of Arie van der Kooij on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday Michaël van der Meer, Percy van Keulen, Wido Th. van Peursen and Bas Ter Haar Romeny biblical studies
• June 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18657 6 • Cloth with dustjacket (xx, 468 pp.) • List price EUR 152.- / US$ 216.• Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 138
The present volume contains a collection of essays on the Book of Isaiah offered as a tribute to Arie van der Kooij on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, which coincides with his retirement as Professor of Old Testament at Leiden University. The twenty-four contributions, written by leading scholars in the field of Old Testament studies, focus on the Book of Isaiah within the context of Hebrew and ancient near-eastern writings, particularly those from the Neo-Assyrian period, as well as on the book’s reception history , particularly in its Greek and Syriac translations. Together these studies offer a rich and original contribution to the study of the Book of Isaiah in its Hebrew, Aramaic, Assyrian, Greek, Syriac, and Dutch contexts.
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The Exemplary Torah Student in Psalm 119 Kent Reynolds
• June 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18268 4 • Hardback with dustjacket (xv, 249 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 146.• Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 137
Despite extensive study of the poetic features of Psalm 119, the conceptions it advocates and its contribution to developing Judaism have not been well understood; indeed some scholars have dismissed the psalm as containing little more than wearisome repetition. Reynolds distinguishes between the psalmist and the speaker within the psalm. The psalmist portrays the speaker as an exemplary Torah student and thereby promotes the contemplation of Torah as a facet of ethical instruction. Using this new perspective, Reynolds contributes a fresh and coherent understanding of the ideas in Psalm 119. He explains the function of its length and highlights its emphasis on Torah study that became axiomatic in Rabbinic Judaism.
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The Septuagint’s Translation of the Hebrew Verbal System in Chronicles Roger Good
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 15158 1 • Cloth with dustjacket (xiv, 300 pp.) • List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.• Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 136
This book is the first detailed investigation of the translation of the Hebrew verbs of Chronicles into Greek, especially from the perspective of two diachronic developments: that of the Hebrew verbal system and that of the trend toward a more literal translation of the Bible. The translation provides a view of the Hebrew verbal system in the Hellenistic period (approx. 150 BCE) as part of the continuum in the development of the Hebrew verbal system from classical biblical Hebrew to Mishnaic Hebrew. The translation also testifies to the trend in the process of the translation of the Bible from the freer (but still literal) translation of the Pentateuch and Samuel/Kings to the slavishly literal translation of Aquila.
Genesis, Isaiah and Psalms biblical studies
A Festschrift to honour Professor John Emerton for his eightieth birthday Edited by Katherine Dell, Graham Davies and Yee von Koh
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• April 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18231 8 • Hardback (xx, 261 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 146.• Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 135
Genesis, Isaiah and Psalms are three key texts in the Hebrew Bible and represent the lifelong interests of Professor John Emerton, Emeritus Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge, for whom this volume is written on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. The contributors have all enjoyed academic relationships with John over the years and represent a truly international group. The contributions include comparison of biblical texts with ancient Near Eastern counterparts and evaluation of them in the light of archaeology. They include intertextual work on a literary level, and traditional literary-historical approaches to texts. Many move beyond the Hebrew Bible itself to consider other texts and versions or to draw out interpretations of texts by scholars ancient and modern - and even by novelists. The result is a refreshing group of articles that indicate the broad range of approaches that characterize the discipline of Old Testament study in the present day.
The Biblical Qumran Scrolls Transcriptions and Textual Variants Edited by Eugene Ulrich
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 18038 3 • Hardback with dustjacket (xvi, 796 pp.) • List price EUR 135.- / US$ 199.• Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 134
The Biblical Qumran Scrolls presents all the Hebrew biblical manuscripts recovered from the eleven caves at Qumran. It provides a transcription of each identifiable fragment in consecutive biblical order together with the textual variants it contains. These manuscripts antedate by a millennium the previously available Hebrew manuscripts. They are the oldest, the best, and the most authentic witnesses to the texts of the Scriptures as they circulated in Jerusalem and surrounding regions at the time of the birth of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. The purpose is to collect in a single volume all the biblical editions originally published in a wide variety of books and articles.
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Archaeology of the Books of Samuel The Entangling of theTextual and Literary History Edited by Philippe Hugo and Adrian Schenker
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17957 8 • Hardback (xx, 304 pp.) • List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.• Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 132
The books of Samuel are a key link in the history of the biblical text in so much as they are found at a crossroad where different textual traditions encounter each other (MT, LXX, Qumran). Recent research tends to consider that the textual criticism has to take into account the literary aspects which characterise the most ancient transmission of the text. This assessment asks a variety of new exegetical questions considered in this volume: Does the comparative analysis of the textual witnesses permit proving the existence of distinct literary editions? Which are the criteria to deem the literary nature of the variants? Which ideological and theological motives governed the modifications of a previous text? Is it possible to establish a relative chronology between the putative editions? The study of the most ancient history of the text opens an archeology of the monument that are the books of Samuel. The search for their ancient foundations and the bringing to light of later modifications, the consideration both of the restorations and of the ruins of the textual edifice all throw new light on the final construct and its theological significance.
Stéphanie Anthonioz
Homeland and Exile Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of Bustenay Oded Edited by Gershon Galil, Mark Geller and Alan Millard
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17889 2 • Hardback with dustjacket (xxiv, 648 pp.) • List price EUR 177.- / US$ 262.• Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 130
This volume is a scholarly tribute to Bustenay Oded’s distinguished career from some of the many contemporaries, colleagues, and former students who not only admire, and keep being inspired by his achievements, but who also count him as a friend. The title points to the remarkable span of Bustenay Oded ‘s research and research interests. Accordingly, the Festschrift’s thirty original contributions deal with a wide range of topics, focusing on the Assyrian Empire, as well as on the Hebrew Bible and other cultural contents.
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• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17898 4 • Hardback with dustjacket (xxiv, 688 pp.) • List price EUR 188.- / US$ 278.• Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 131
This book investigates a corpus of royal inscriptions and literary texts, with special emphasis on those that are mythological and biblical, stretching over several millennia from the early days of Sumer to the Biblical period, in order to determine the ways in which the concept of water was used, in particular the way it functions in the political and theological ideology of the time. Three literary motifs are the object of a careful study : the crossing of water, the flood and the water of abundance. Though their study shows diversity in evolution, transmission and reception, it appears that their function is common at the heart of the Mesopotamian political theology of royal mediation.
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L’eau, enjeux politiques et théologiques, de Sumer à la Bible
Old Testament Studies
The Books of Kings Sources, Composition, Historiography and Reception Edited by Baruch Halpern and André Lemaire
• September 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17729 1 • Hardback with dustjacket • List price EUR 177.- / US$ 262.• Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 129
This collaborative commentary on, or dictionary of, Kings, explores cross-cutting aspects of Kings ranging from the analysis of its composition, historically regarded, to its transmission and reception. Ample attention is accorded sources, figures and peoples who play a part in the book. The commentary deals with Kings’ treatment in translation and role in later ancient literature. While our comments do not proceed verse by verse, the volume furnishes guidance, from contributors highly qualified to advance contemporary discussion, on the book’s historical background, its literary intentions and characteristics, and on themes and motifs central to its understanding, both of itself and of the world from which it arose. This volume functions as a meta-commentary, offering windows into the secondary literature, but assembling data more fully than is the case in individual commentaries.
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The Origin of the Samaritans Magnar Kartveit
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• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17819 9 • Cloth with dustjacket (416 pp.) • List price EUR 130.- / US$ 185.• Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 128
Many Bible readers will think that chapter 17 of the second book of Kings refers to the origin of the Samaritans. This understanding of the chapter has its earliest attestation in the works of Josephus. The present book evaluates the methods often used for finding the origin of the Samaritans, makes an assessment of well known and new material, and ventures into some uncharted territory. It is suggested that the moment of birth of the Samaritans was the construction of the temple on Mount Gerizim. This happened in the first part of the fourth century b.c.e. in accordance with the original commandment of Moses in Deut 27:4.
Septuagint and Reception Johann Cook
• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17725 3 • Cloth with dustjacket (xiv, 414 pp) • List price EUR 140.- / US$ 200.• Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 127
A new association for the study of the Septuagint was formed in South Africa recently. The present collection is a compilation of papers delivered at the first conference of this association, as well as other contributions. The volume addresses issues touching on the Septuagint in the broad sense of the word. This includes the Old Greek text (Daniel, Proverbs, Psalms and Lamentations) as well as the reception of the LXX (NT, Augustine and Jerome, etc.). A few contributions that may be regarded as miscellanea are nevertheless related to matters Septuagintal (Aristeas, Peshitta, Eunochos).
Old Testament Studies
Finding Meaning in the Text Translation Technique and Theology in the Septuagint of Amos Edward Glenny
• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17638 6 • Cloth with dustjacket (xvi, 306 pp) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.• Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 126
This book offers a thorough analysis of the translation technique and theology of LXX-Amos, which will be valuable for those studying LXX-Amos and for those doing textual criticism in the Hebrew text of Amos. It analyzes the literalness of the translation, the rendering of difficult and unknown words, and the rendering of visually ambiguous phenomena, like homonyms, homographs, and word divisions. The evidence suggests the translator worked from a text very similar to the MT. He reveals his biases as he struggles with the difficult and obscure sections of his source text. He exhibits an anti-Syrian and anti-Samaritan bias as well as interest in Gentiles, eschatology, and messianism.
The Invasion of Sennacherib in the Book of Kings Paul S. Evans
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• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17596 9 • Cloth with dustjacket (xiv, 230 pp.) • List price EUR 97.- / US$ 138.• Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 125
The invasion of Sennacherib in 701 BCE is a classic issue for both biblical scholars and historians alike. Extant Assyrian, Biblical and even Greek texts all refer to Sennacherib and many different theories have been put forward in attempts to understand the relationship between these various accounts. Despite the rise of new literary-rhetorical criticism in biblical studies, studies tackling the problem of Sennacherib’s invasion have been dominated by historical-critical work on the issue and have virtually ignored rhetorical methodology. Against this trend, this book employs both traditional historical-critical methods and newer rhetorical methods in an effort to utilize the biblical texts in a historical reconstruction of this famous Assyrian assault on ancient Judah.
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A Source-Critical and Rhetorical Study of 2 Kings 18-19
Old Testament Studies
Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies Edited by Bob Becking Visit brill.nl/ots
ISSN 0169-7226
Scholarly studies on linguistic, textual, historical and theological topics pertaining to the Old Testament.
Cantos and Strophes in Biblical Hebrew Poetry II Psalms 42–89
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P. van der Lugt
• January 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18200 4 • Cloth with dustjacket (xiv, 566 pp.) • List price EUR 167.- / US$ 247.• Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies, 57
This volume deals with the poetic framework and material content of the Second and Third Books of the Psalter (Psalms 42-72 and 73-89). It is a continuation of the Psalms Project started in OTS 53 (2006). Formal and thematic devices demonstrate that the psalms are composed of a consistent pattern of cantos (stanzas) and strophes. The formal devices include quantitative balance on the level of cantos in terms of the number of verselines, verbal repetitions and transition markers. A quantitative structural approach also helps to identify the focal message of the poems. Introductions to the design of biblical poetry and the rhetorical centre of the psalms conclude this massive study. The third volume, dealing with the Fourth and Fifth Books of the Psalter (Psalms 90-106 and 107-151), is in preparation.
A Plague of Texts?
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A Text-Critical Study of the So-Called ‘Plagues Narrative’ in Exodus 7:14–11:10 Bénédicte Lemmelijn
• April 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17235 7 • Cloth with dustjacket (xii, 384 pp.) • List price EUR 130.- / US$ 185.• Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies, 56
Prior to any attempt to study a text at the literary level, the textual material itself has to be carefully established. It is for this reason that the present volume is devoted to a detailed text-critical study of the ‘physical’ text of the ‘Plagues Narrative’ in Exod. 7:14–11:10. In the first chapter, the author formulates a number of prolegomena relating to textual criticism as a discipline, the extant textual material, the terminology employed and the methodological model that serves as the basis of this study. In the second chapter, data provided by the various textual forms of the ‘Plagues Narrative’ in Exod. 7:14–11:10, namely MT, LXX, SamP, 4QpaleoExod m, 4QpaleoGen-Exod l, 2QExoda, 4QExodc, 4QGen-Exoda and 4QExodj, are registered and described. The extant textual versions themselves are presented in the form of a synopsis, added as an appendix to this book. The third and final chapter offers the text-critical evaluation of all ‘text-relevant’ variants.
Old Testament Studies
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This series is devoted to the study of the LXX, textual criticism, manuscript witnesses and other versions, as well as its literature, historical milieu, and thought. “Cognate studies” refers mainly to the Jewish apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the Hellenistic
period, and the subsequent development of this literature in Judaism and early Christianity. The series is cosponsored by the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS).
XIII Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, Ljubljana, 2007 Edited by Melvin Peters
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Ezekiel A Commentary based on Iezekiēl in Codex Vaticanus John Olley
• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17713 0 • Cloth (x, 589 pp.) • List price EUR 170.- / US$ 241.• Septuagint Commentary Series
This work is the first major commentary to focus on the text of LXX Ezekiel in any modern language. Rather than seeing LXX mainly as a text-critical resource with variants to be explained, this commentary, as part of the Septuagint Commentary Series, examines a specific manuscript in its own right as a document used by Greek readers unfamiliar with Hebrew. Included are transcription and English translation of Codex Vaticanus, the oldest extant manuscript of the whole book, and a detailed commentary that also compares the earlier P967 and the Masoretic Text where they differ. Another major new contribution is the utilisation of the sense-delimitation (paragraphs) of Codex Vaticanus itself, exploring how this influences reading of the text.
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• June 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 16917 3 • Hardback (xi, 365 pp.) • List price EUR 126.- / US$ 179.• SBL - Septuagint and Cognate Studies, 55
This book represents the current state of Septuagint studies as reflected in papers presented at the triennial meeting of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS). In method, content, and approach, the proceedings published in this volume demonstrate the vitality of interest in Septuagint studies and the dedication of the authors— established scholars and promising younger voices—to their diverse subjects. This edition of the proceedings continues an established tradition of publishing volumes of essays from the international conferences of the IOSCS.
Old Testament Studies
New Series: Studies on the Children of Abraham Edited by Antii Laato, David Thomas and Camilla Adang Visit brill.nl/stca
ISSN 2210-4720
The book series “Studies on the Children of Abraham” focuses on the three Abrahamic Religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Its aim is to publish academic works devoted to relations between these religions, both historical and theological, including
confrontations and peaceful encounters. Monographs, textual studies and conference collections are welcome.
Encounters of the Children of Abraham from Ancient to Modern Times
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Edited by Antii Laato and Pekka Lindqvist
• October 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18728 3 • Hardback • Studies on the Children of Abraham, 1
Christianity, Judaism and Islam - the Children of Abraham - constitute the spiritual foundations of Western civilization. They affect the interactions of entire nations and of individuals, however, their history is often understood as one of conflict and controversy. The present volume, while documenting certain historical phases and places where interreligious controversies have taken place, stresses that the history and theological traditions are so rich, they even give positive encouragement for present encounters between the Abrahamic religions. The history is not merely one of conflict, but also one of co-existence and dialogue. The book contains 16 contributions by scholars from various fields of religious studies. It should appeal to anyone interested in interreligious encounters.
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Studies in Ancient Magic and Divination Edited by Tzvi Abusch, Ann Guinan, Nils Heeßel, Francesca Rochberg and Frans Wiggermann Visit brill.nl/samd
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In the Path of the Moon Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy Francesca Rochberg
Culture and History of the Ancient Near East Edited by Eckart Frahm, Randall Garr, Baruch Halpern, T.P.J. Hout, Thomas Schneider and Irene Winter ISSN: 1566-2055
Since 1982, the Culture and History of the Ancient Near East series has become a primary forum for studying all aspects of ancient Near Eastern civilizations. Across a chronological and geographical swath, it covers religion, history, language,
literature, thought, science, art & visual culture, and architecture. The series demands high scholarly standards and innovative approaches. It publishes monographs and collected volumes in English, French, and German.
On Art in the Ancient Near East – 2 Volume set Irene J. Winter This two volume work is a collection of articles spanning the distinguished career of Irene J. Winter. The articles represent a cross-section of Winter’s study of visual culture in the ancient Near East and cover the time period from the third to the first millennium BCE, with excursions into the contemporary. These two works will be useful to scholars and students interested in art history, cultural studies, architecture, archaeology, language, and ethnography of ancient Mesopotamia and its surrounding areas. Each volume may be purchased separately or as a set.
• November 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17500 6 • Hardback (Vol. 1 xiv, 640 pp, Vol. 2 xiv, 542 pp) • List price EUR 270.- / US$ 400.• Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, 34
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• June 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18389 6 • Hardback (xxii, 445 pp.) • List price EUR 152.- / US$ 216.• Studies in Ancient Magic and Divination, 6
Celestial divination, in the form of omens from lunar, planetary, astral, and meteorological phenomena, was central to Mesopotamian cuneiform scholarship and science from the late second millennium BCE into the Hellenistic period. Beyond the boundaries of ancient Mesopotamia, the ideas, texts, and traditions of Babylonian celestial divination are traceable in Hellenistic sciences and philosophies. This collection of essays investigates features of Babylonian celestial divination with special focus on those aspects that influenced later GrecoRoman astronomy, astrology, and theories of signs. A multi-faceted collection of philological, historical, and philosophical investigations, In the Path of the Moon offers Assyriologists, Classicists, and historians of ancient science a wide-ranging series of studies unified around the theme of Babylonian celestial divination’s legacy.
Ancient Near East & Egypt
• October 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 17645 4 • Hardback • List price EUR 125.- / US$ 185.• Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, 24
El-Ahwat, A Fortified Site Of The Early Iron Age Near Nahal ‘Iron, Israel Excavations 1993-2000 Edited by Adam Zertal
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The excavations at el-Ahwat constitute a unique and fascinating archaeological undertaking. The site is the location of a fortified city dated to the early Iron Age (ca. 1220–1150 BCE), hidden in a dense Mediterranean forest in central Israel, near the historic ’Arunah pass. Discovered in 1992 and excavated between 1993 and 2000, the digs revealed an urban “time capsule” erected and inhabited during a short period of time (60–70 years), with no earlier site below or subsequent one above it. This report provides a vivid picture of the site, its buildings, and environmental economy as evinced by the stone artifacts, animal bones, agricultural installations, and iron forge that were uncovered here. The excavators of this site suggest in this work that the settlement was inhabited by the Shardana Sea-Peoples, who arrived in the ancient Near East at the end of the 13th century BCE and settled in northern Canaan. In weighing the physical evidence and the logic of the interpretation presented herein, the reader will be treated to a new and compelling archaeological and historical challenge.
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Cuneiform Monographs Edited by Tzvi Abusch, Mark Geller, Stefan Maul and Frans Wiggermann For more information please visit brill.nl/cumo The series Cuneiform Monographs has rightly been called the ‘flagship’ of STYX Publications, now owned by Brill. It presents the reader with a number of outstanding monographs, each of an outstanding quality and tasteful presentation. Brill is happy to call your attention to the following important titles from the
recent past which may have escaped your notice earlier, and certainly deserve a wide audience. For a full list, please contact Brill’s Customer Service Department at cs@brill.nl, or visit our website at www.brill.nl
The Seal of the Sanga On the Old Babylonian sangas of Šamaš of Sippar-Jaḫrūrum and SipparAmnānum Michel Tanret
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17958 5 • Hardback (xvi, 308 pp) • List price EUR 114.- / US$ 169.• Cuneiform Monographs, 40
This study assembles and examines all available documentation on the first and second sangas of Šamaš of the Ebabbar temple in Old Babylonian Sippar as well as on those in the Edikuda temple in neighbouring Sippar-Amnānum. Their succession, family links and the length of their careers are discussed and newly completed drawings of their seals are provided, described and analyzed. The author addresses the evolving patterns of sealing and the changes in the seal legends, which yield information on the growing influence of the Marduk circles and thus of the kings of Babylon. The seal stones have been reconstructed from the impressions and conclusions are drawn concerning the choice of seal scenes by the different sangas as well as the use of family seals.
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The Buried Foundation of the Gilgamesh Epic The Akkadian Huwawa Narrative Daniel E. Fleming and Sara J. Milstein
• February 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 17848 9 • Hardback (xx, 228 pp.) • List price EUR 93.- / US$ 132.• Cuneiform Monographs, 39
The Akkadian Gilgamesh Epic, perhaps the most famous of Mesopotamian literature, has been considered the artistry of one author inspired by Sumerian tales. Specialists have assumed that all the earliest evidence (ca. 1800-1700 BCE) reflects this creative unity. Deep contrasts in characterization and narrative logic, however, distinguish the central adventure to defeat the monster Huwawa from what precedes and follows it. The Huwawa narrative stands on its own, so that the epic must have been composed from this prior Akkadian composition. Recognition of the tale embedded in the epic allows each block of material to be understood on its own terms. Such literary-historical investigation from contemporary texts is new to Assyriology and may produce important results when applied to other Mesopotamian writing.
Neo-Babylonian Court Procedure
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• April 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17496 2 • Hardback (xviii, 338 pp.) • List price EUR 120.- / US$ 170.• Cuneiform Monographs, 38
Even though scholars have known of Neo-Babylonian legal texts almost since Assyriology’s very beginnings, no comprehensive study of court procedure has been undertaken. This lack is particularly glaring in light of studies of court procedure in earlier periods of Mesopotamian history. With these studies as a model, this book begins by presenting a comprehensive classification of the text-types that made up the “tablet trail” of records of the adjudication of legal disputes in the Neo-Babylonian period. In presenting this text-typology, it considers the texts’ legal function within the adjudicatory process. Based on this, the book describes the adjudicatory process as it is attested in private records as well as in records from the Eanna at Uruk.
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Shalom Holtz
Ancient Near East & Egypt
SBL - Writings from the Ancient World Visit brill.nl/waw
ISSN 1570-7008
This series presents readable translations of ancient Near Eastern texts that date from the beginning of Sumerian civilization to the age of Alexander. The series is designed to provide access to the important roots of western civilizations.
The translations meet the needs of teachers, historians, legal scholars, and literary critics, as well as general readers and students.
The Libyan Anarchy Inscriptions from Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period
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Robert K. Ritner
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 13774 5 • Hardback (xx, 622 pp.) • List price EUR 184.- / US$ 262.• SBL - Writings from the Ancient World, 21
Contemporary with the Israelite kingdom of Solomon and David, the Nubian conqueror Piye (Piankhy), and the Assyrian Assurbanipal, Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period is of critical interest not only to Egyptologists but also to biblical historians, Africanists, and Assyriologists. Spanning six centuries and as many dynasties, the turbulent era extended from approximately 1100 to 650 B.C.E. This volume, the first extensive collection of Third Intermediate Period inscriptions in any language, includes the primary sources for the history, society, and religion of Egypt during this complicated period, when Egypt was ruled by Libyan and Nubian dynasties and had occasional relations with Judah and the encroaching, and finally invading, Assyrian Empire. It includes the most significant texts of all genres, newly translated and revised. This volume will serve as a source book and companion for the most thorough study of the history of the period, Kitchen’s The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt.
Letters from the Hittite Kingdom
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Harry A. Hoffner Jr.
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 14683 9 • Hardback (xviii, 450 pp.) • List price EUR 146.- / US$ 216.• SBL - Writings from the Ancient World, 15
This is the first book-length collection in English of letters from the ancient kingdom of the Hittites. All known well-preserved examples, including the important corpus of letters from the provincial capital of Tapikka, are reproduced here in romanized transcription and English translation, accompanied by introductory essays, explanatory notes on the text and its translation, and a complete description of the rules of Hittite correspondence compared with that of other ancient Middle Eastern states. Letters containing correspondence between kings and their foreign peers, between kings and their officials in the provinces, and between these officials themselves reveal rich details of provincial administration, the relationships and duties of the officials, and tantalizing glimpses of their private lives. Matters discussed include oversight of agriculture, tax liabilities, litigation, inheritance rights, defense against hostile groups on the kingdom’s periphery, and consulting the gods by means of oracular procedures.
Dead Sea Scrolls
Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desert Emanuel Tov
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17949 3 • Hardback with dustjacket (viii, 140 pp.) • List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.-
Many details in the inventory list of the texts found in the Judaean Desert have altered since their initial publication by E. Tov in DJD XXXIX (2002) 27–114. Such changes were inserted in some twenty-five percent of the lines of the database, and this information is now presented to the public at the end of the publication procedure of the DJD series. The updating reflects corrections made to imprecisely recorded details, the data published in the last DJD volumes, inscribed archeological evidence not recorded previously, new fragments, changed names, new identifications and arrangements of fragments, updated bibliography, etc. The volume also contains an updated version of the categorized list of biblical texts from the various sites in the Judaean Desert.
The Dead Sea Scrolls, A Full History Weston Fields
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Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah Edited by Florentino García Martínez Visit brill.nl/stdj
ISSN 0169-9962
Scholarly translation and evaluation of Biblical texts from the papyrii and manuscripts of Wadi Qumran and the Dead
Sea Scrolls, and related bibliographic, linguistic, cultural and historical aspects of ancient Judaism and early Christianity.
The Dead Sea Scrolls Transmission of Traditions and Production of Texts Edited by Sarianna Metso, Hindy Najman and Eileen Schuller
• July 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18584 5 • Cloth with dustjacket • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 146.• Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 92
biblical studies
• November 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17581 5 • Hardback with dustjacket (592 pp.) • List price EUR 78.- / US$ 99.-
Who discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls? When and where were they discovered? How were they saved? Who bought them and who paid for them? Who has them now and who owns them? Will more be discovered? Have all the scrolls been published? Are some still hidden away? Were there conspiracies to suppress some scrolls? Preceded by The Dead Sea Scrolls, A Short History, The Dead Sea Scrolls, A Full History, vol. 1, is the first of a projected two volumes offering a more complete account of the discovery of the scrolls and their history over the past 60 years since the first scrolls were discovered in a cave near the Dead Sea.
How were Jewish texts produced and transmitted in late antiquity? What role did scribal practices play in the shaping of both scriptural and interpretive traditions, which are—as the Scrolls show so decisively—intimately intertwined? How were texts assembled from a variety of earlier sources, both oral and written? Why were they often attributed to pseudonymous authors from the remote past such as Moses and David? How did the composers of these texts understand the enterprise in which they were engaged? This volume furthers current debates about Qumran Scribal Practice and the transmission of traditions in Jewish Antiquity. It is published with the conviction that the transmission of traditions and the details of scribal practices—so often treated separately—should be considered in conversation with each other.
Dead Sea Scrolls
Qumran Cave 1 Revisited Texts from Cave 1 Sixty Years after Their Discovery: Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the IOQS in Ljubljana Edited by Daniel K. Falk, Sarianna Metso, Donald W. Parry and Eibert J.C Tigchelaar
• July 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18580 7 • Cloth with dustjacket • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 153.• Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 91
This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the sixth meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, held in 2007 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on the topic “Qumran Cave 1 Revisited: Reconsidering the Cave 1 Texts Sixty Years after Their Discovery.” While the opening paper assesses theories about the character of Qumran Cave 1 in relation to the other Qumran caves, all other papers discuss texts from Cave 1, in particular six of the seven large scrolls found there in 1947: the two Isaiah scrolls, the Rule of the Community, the War Scroll, the Thanksgivings Scroll, and the Genesis Apocryphon. Many papers revisit those texts in light of the corresponding versions found in Cave 4.
The Dead Sea Scrolls biblical studies
Texts and Context Edited by Charlotte Hempel
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• June 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 16784 1 • Cloth with dustjacket • List price EUR 162.- / US$ 230.• Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 90
• June 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18505 0 • Cloth with dustjacket • List price EUR 119.- / US$ 169.• Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 89
This volume presents the proceedings of an international conference of the same title held at the University of Birmingham in 2007. The contributors are drawn from the ranks of leading international specialists in the field writing alongside promising younger scholars. The volume includes studies on the contribution of the Scrolls to Second Temple Jewish history, the archaeological context, the role of the temple and its priesthood, as well as treatments on selected texts and issues. These proceedings offer a timely and up to date assessment of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the material remains unearthed at Qumran in their wider context and not infrequently challenge prevailing lines of interpretation.
The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60 Scholarly Contributions of New York University Faculty and Alumni Edited by Lawrence Schiffman and Shani Tzoref This volume constitutes the proceedings of the March 7, 2008 Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies at New York University, dedicated to “The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60: The Scholarly Contributions of NYU Faculty and Alumni.” These studies offer a sampling of the extensive research conducted by three generations of NYU faculty, students, and alumni, in a range of domains pertaining to the scrolls and documents discovered in the Judean Desert since 1947, including Hebrew language, religious thought, and law.
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Otherworldly and Eschatological Priesthood in the Dead Sea Scrolls Joseph L. Angel
• April 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18145 8 • Cloth with dustjacket (xiv, 382 pp.) • List price EUR 126.- / US$ 179.• Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 86
Departing from scholarship dedicated to the socio-historical realities of priesthood at Qumran, this book explores, in two parts, the most pervasive literary representations of priesthood in the Dead Sea Scrolls as a reflection of the religious worldview of the Qumran community and broader segments of Second Temple society. Part one compares depictions of otherworldly priesthood in non-sectarian and sectarian documents. Part two examines the historical and traditional roots of portrayals of messianic/eschatological priesthood. The study reveals a fresh understanding of the integral role of priestly imagery in the tension-filled eschatological identity of the Qumran community. It concludes with a consideration of the relationship of the evidence treated to the phenomenon of democratization of priestly holinesses in rabbinic Judaism and Christianity.
Echoes from the Caves: Qumran and the New Testament
Text, Thought, and Practice in Qumran and Early Christianity Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Jointly Sponsored by the Hebrew University Center for the Study of Christianity, 11-13 January, 2004 • June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17524 2 • Cloth with dustjacket (xiv, 326 pp.) • List price EUR 119.- / US$ 169.• Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 84
Edited by Ruth Clements and Daniel R. Schwartz The 13 papers comprising this volume represent the fruits of the first Orion Center Symposium devoted to the comparison of the Dead Sea and early Christian texts. The authors reject the older paradigm which configured the similarities between Qumran and early Christian literature as evidence of “influence” from one upon the other. They raise fresh methodological possibilities by asking how insights from each of these two corpora illuminate the other, and by considering them as parallel evidence for broader currents of Second Temple Judaism. Topics addressed include specific exegetical and legal comparisons; prophecy, demonology, and messianism; the development of canon and the rise of commentary; and possible connections between the Gospel of John and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17696 6 • Cloth with dustjacket (vi, 349 pp) • List price EUR 119.- / US$ 169.• Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 85
In spite of the amount of literature on the relationship between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, no consensus among the scholars has emerged as yet on how to explain both the similarities and the differences among the two corpora of religious writings. This volume contains a revised form of the contributions to an “experts meeting” held at the Catholic University of Leuven on December 2007 dedicated to explore the relationship among the two corpora and to understand both the commonalities and the differences between the two corpora from the perspective of the common ground from which both corpora have developed: the Hebrew Bible.
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Dead Sea Scrolls
Expectations of the End A Comparative Traditio-Historical Study of Eschatological, Apocalyptic and Messianic Ideas in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament Albert Hogeterp
• April 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17177 0 • Cloth with dustjacket (xvi, 570 pp.) • List price EUR 162.- / US$ 231.• Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 83
Since a fuller range of Qumran sectarian and not clearly sectarian texts and recensions has recently become available to us, its implications for the comparative study of eschatological, apocalyptic and messianic ideas in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the New Testament need to be explored anew. This book situates eschatological ideas in Qumran literature between biblical tradition and developments in late Second Temple Judaism and examines how the Qumran evidence on eschatology, resurrection, apocalypticism, and messianism illuminates Palestinian Jewish settings of emerging Christianity. The present study challenges previous dichotomies between realized and futuristic eschatology, wisdom and apocalypticism and provides many new insights into intra-Jewish dimensions to eschatological ideas in Palestinian Judaism and in the early Jesus-movement.
Northern Lights on the Dead Sea Scrolls biblical studies
Proceedings of the Nordic Qumran Network 2003-2006 Edited by Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Torleif Elgvin, Cecilia Wassen, Hanne von Weissenberg and Mikael Winninge
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• March 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17163 3 • Cloth with dustjacket (xiv, 314 pp.) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.• Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 80
Structured by four important themes, the book discusses various aspects pertaining to the interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The first theme is comprised by a number of essays that deal with different aspects of textual interpretation of particular Qumran writings. The second theme centers on the question of historical referentiality. How can the purported referentiality of particular Qumran writings be used in order to reconstruct an underlying historical reality? The third theme includes essays that pertain to different dimensions concerning the methodology of interpretation. The fourth theme focuses on problems relating to the textual reconstruction of specific Qumran texts. In the final section of the book, the perspective is widened to other writings outside the more specific Qumran context.
The Dead Sea Genesis Apocryphon A New Text and Translation with Introduction and Special Treatment of Columns 13-17 Daniel Machiela
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 16814 5 • Cloth with dustjacket (348 pp.) • List price EUR 114.- / US$ 170.• Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 79
The so-called Genesis Apocryphon (1Q20) from Qumran Cave 1 has suffered from decades of neglect, due in large part to its poor state of preservation. As part of a resurgent scholarly interest in the Apocryphon, and its prominent position among the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls, this volume presents a fresh transcription, translation, and exstenive textual notes drawing on close study of the original manuscript, all available photographs, and previous publications. In addition, a detailed analysis of columns 13-15 and their relation to the oft-cited parallel in the Book of Jubilees reveals a number of ways in which the two works differ, thereby highlighting several distinctive features of the Genesis Apocryphon. The result is a reliable text edition and a fuller understanding of the message conveyed by this fragmentary but fascinating retelling of Genesis.
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Conquering the World The War Scroll (1QM) Reconsidered Brian Schultz
• March 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 16820 6 • Cloth with dustjacket (iv, 458 pp.) • List price EUR 152.- / US$ 216.• Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 76
Unique in its genre and content, the War Scroll (1QM) presents a vision of an impending eschatological war. Although originally interpreted as being the product of a single author from the Qumran Sect, the composition’s inconsistencies quickly led to the view that it is in fact an eclectic document with an elaborate compositional history. Yet all such theories were formulated prior to the publication of War Scroll-like texts from Caves 4 and 11. A careful reexamination of the War Scroll suggests instead that what began as a primitive and cohesive composition from the Hellenistic period about a two-stage conquest of the world was eventually updated in order to fit the new historical realities faced by the sectarians under Roman rule.
The Dead Sea Scrolls Concordance, Volume 3 The Biblical Texts from the Judaean Desert
For more information on this title, see chapter Major Reference Works, p. 5.
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Gnosticism and Manichaeism
Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies Edited by Johannes van Oort and Einar Thomassen Visit brill.nl/nhms
ISSN 0929-2470
Formerly the Nag Hammadi Studies Series, which included the now complete Coptic Gnostic Library, this series - a world leader in its field - now includes study tools and monographs on a broad range of topics in the fields of Gnostic and Manichaean studies.
• August 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18026 0 • Hardback • List price EUR 174.- / US$ 247.• Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 73
Titles include The Spiritual Seed (Einar Thomassen), The Gospel of Judas in Context (M. Scopello), Nag Hammadi Bibliography 1995-2006 (D.M. Scholer), and New Light on Manichaeism (J. D. BeDuhn)
Images of Rebirth Cognitive Poetics and Transformational Soteriology in the Gospel of Philip and the Exegesis on the Soul Hugo Lundhaug
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This book offers fresh readings of the Gospel of Philip (NHC II.3) and the Exegesis on the Soul (NHC II.6) from new theoretical and historical perspectives. Eschewing the category of “Gnosticism” and challenging common categorisations, the book analyses the preserved Coptic texts as coherent Christian compositions contemporary with the production and use of the Nag Hammadi Codices. A methodological framework based on Cognitive Poetics is outlined and applied to illuminate how the texts present a soteriology of transformation through religious rituals and practices using complex conceptual and intertextual blends with important polemical and paraenetic functions. The analysis highlights the use of metaphors and allusions in (re-)interpretations of authoritative Scripture, ritual and dogma. Complete Coptic texts and translations are included.
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The Paraphrase of Shem (NH VII,1) Introduction, Translation and Commentary Michel Roberge
• May 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18202 8 • Hardback • List price EUR 86.- / US$ 122.• Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 72
This book presents the first comprehensive interpretation of the Paraphrase of Shem, Codex VII,1 in the Coptic Nag Hammadi Library. The lenghty introduction discusses the literary genre of the treatise, its plan and system, its situation among the Gnostic systems, its provenance and date. The translation sets out the text in paragraphs, with headings and subheadings. A short commentary follows the translation. The analysis of the system shows that the author is working from a model of the universe, whose principles have been drawn from Stoicism and Middle Platonism. While dipping into the springs of the major Sethian and Valentinian systems, the author follows his own way and offers an original system, anticipating in many respects Manichaeism.
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The Codex Judas Papers Proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex Held at Rice University, Houston Texas, March 13-16, 2008 Edited by April D. DeConick
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 18141 0 • Hardback (xxxii, 640 pp.) • List price EUR 180.- / US$ 256.• Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 71
This book contains the proceedings from the Codex Judas Congress, the first international conference held to discuss the newly-restored Tchacos Codex. Given that the Tchacos Codex is a newly-conserved ancient book of Christian manuscripts which had yet to be discussed collaboratively by a body of scholars, the research conducted and published within this book by the members of the Codex Judas Congress is nothing less than a landmark in Gnostic studies. Scholars address issues of identity and community, portraits of Judas, astrological lore, salvation and praxis, text and intertext, and manuscript matters. Although the contributions show a variety of interpretations of the Tchacos texts, several points of agreement emerge, including the assessment that the Codex belonged to early Christians in conflict with other Christians who belonged to the apostolic or conventional church.
Biblical Argument in Manichaean Missionary Practice Jacob Albert van den Berg
Manichaeism and Its Legacy J. Kevin Coyle
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17574 7 • Hardback (cccxlviii, 24 pp.) • List price EUR 126.- / US$ 179.• Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 69
This volume reproduces nineteen chapters and articles published between 1991 through 2008, on Manichaeism, and its contacts with Augustine of Hippo, its most famous convert and also best-known adversary. The contents are divided into four parts: perceptions of Mani within the Roman Empire, select aspects of Manichaean thought, women in Manichaeism, and Manichaeism and Augustine. Though these chapters and articles reproduce their originals, adjustments have been made to include cross-referencing, newer editions, and the like, all with the aim of rendering them more accessible to a new readership among those who follow the fortunes of Mani’s religion in the Roman Empire and/or the “Manichaean” aspects of Augustine of Hippo.
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• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 18034 5 • Hardback (xii, 244 pp.) • List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.• Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 70
The use and appreciation of Scripture by the Manichaeans is a field of research with many unanswered questions. This study offers an investigation into the role of the Bible in the writings of the important Manichaean missionary Addas Adimantus (flor. ca. 250 CE), one of Mani’s first disciples. A major part of the book is dedicated to the reconstruction of the contents of his Disputationes, in which writing Adimantus attempted to demonstrate that the Old and New Testaments are absolutely irreconcilable. The most important source in this connection is Augustine, who refuted a Latin translation of Adimantus’ work. A thorough analysis of the contents of the Disputationes brings to the fore that Adimantus was a Marcionite prior to his going over to Mani’s church.
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The Case of Adimantus and Augustine
Gnosticism and Manichaeism
Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence Tuomas Rasimus
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17323 1 • Hardback (ccclvi, 20 pp.) • List price EUR 119.- / US$ 169.• Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 68
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Valentinian Ethics and Paraenetic Discourse Determining the Social Function of Moral Exhortation in Valentinian Christianity Philip L. Tite
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This book offers a new understanding of Sethianism and the origins of Gnosticism by examining the mythology in and social reality behind a group of texts to which certain leaders of the early church occasionally attached the label ‘Ophite.’ In the unique Ophite mythology, which rewrites the Genesis paradise story and is attested, for example, in Irenaeus’ Adversus haereses 1.30, The Apocryphon of John and On the Origin of the World, the snake’s advice to eat of the tree of knowledge is considered positive, the creator and his angels are turned into demonic beasts and the true Godhead is presented as an androgynous heavenly projection of Adam and Eve. It is argued that Hans-Martin Schenke’s influential model of the ‘Sethian system’ only reveals part of a larger whole to which the Ophite material belongs as an important and organic component.
• August 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17507 5 • Hardback (xvi, 368 pp.) • List price EUR 126.- / US$ 179.• Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 67
Offering a fresh assessment of the presence and function of paraenesis within Valentinianism, this book places Valentinian moral exhortation within the context of early Christian moral discourse. Like other early Christians, Valentinians were not only interested in ethics, but used moral exhortation to discursively shape social identity. Building on the increasing recognition of ethical and communal concerns reflected in the Nag Hammadi sources, this book advances the discussion by elucidating the social rhetoric within, especially, the Gospel of Truth and the Interpretation of Knowledge. The social function of paraenesis is to persuade an audience through social re-presentation. The authors of these texts discursively position their readers, and themselves, within engaging moments of narrativity. It is hoped that this study will encourage greater integration of research between those working on the Nag Hammadi material and those studying early Christian paraenetic discourse.
Pentadic Redaction in the Manichaean Kephalaia Timothy Pettipiece
• March 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17436 8 • Hardback (xii, 242 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 147.• Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 66
Discovered in 1929, the Manichaean Kephalaia have opened up an important window on the early development of Manichaean doctrine. This study identifies a significant redactional tendency whereby the compilers of the text sought to clarify ambiguities in “canonical” Manichaean tradition by means of five-part numerical series. This discovery challenges the conventional wisdom of Manichaean scholarship, which has long maintained that, since Mani recorded his own teachings in a series of what later became canonical writings, Manichaean doctrines were transmitted relatively unchanged from the master to successive generations of disciples. Since this assumption is now called into question, it now becomes necessary to re-evaluate received notions about the shape of both the Manichaean “canon” and “tradition.”
Gnosticism and Manichaeism
Nag Hammadi Bibliography 1995-2006 1995-2006 David Scholer and Susan Wood
• November 2008 • ISBN 978 90 04 17240 1 • Hardback (xviii, 278 pp. ) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 158.• Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 65
This is the third volume of the immensely useful Nag Hammadi Bibliography, the first volume of which covered 1948–1969 and was the first publication in the Nag Hammadi Studies series. The second volume covered 1970–1994. This third volume provides a complete integration of Supplements II/1–II/8 to the Bibliography as published in Novum Testamentum 1998–2008, with additions and corrections. This latest update contains 3,063 entries, with the set of three volumes containing 11,580 entries. Nag Hammadi and Gnostic studies continue to be of critical importance for the study of ancient religions in the Graeco-Roman world and for the study of the world of early Christianity, and the present bibliography provides an indispensable reference tool for work in these fields.
New Light on Manichaeism Edited by Jason BeDuhn
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• March 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17285 2 • Hardback (xviii, 304 pp.) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.• Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 64
New Light on Manichaeism provides the latest discoveries and insights into the Manichaean religion throughout its more than one thousand year history, ranging from glimpses into the life and thought of Mani himself, to developments in doctrine and practice in the religion’s North African, Iranian, Central Asian, and Chinese settings. The volume includes contributions from the leading scholars in the field, offering new reconstructions of Manichaean literary and artistic productions, and innovative analyses of the religious, social, and political dynamics that shaped the rise and fall of this world religion.
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Papers from the Sixth International Congress on Manichaeism
Judaism
SBL - Early Judaism and Its Literature Visit brill.nl/ejl
ISSN: 1569-3597
This series publishes works on the history, culture, and literature of early Judaism. The chronological scope of the series roughly encompasses Judaism of the Second Temple (post-exilic Judaism from the Persian period up to the decline of the Jewish state in the late first and early second centuries CE).
The literary corpus comprehended by the series includes, but is not limited to, Hellenistic Jewish authors, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Jewish apocrypha and pseudepigrapha. Work on rabbinic literature that deals with Second Temple Judaism will also be considered.
The Sicarii in Josephus’s Judean War Rhetorical Analysis and Historical Observations
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Mark Brighton
• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 16920 3 • Hardback (xiv, 186 pp.) • List price EUR 93.- / US$ 132.• SBL - Early Judaism and Its Literature, 27
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This book offers a comprehensive study of the Sicarii in Josephus’s Judean War. Detailed rhetorical analyses are provided not only for the Masada narrative, where Josephus tells how the Sicarii famously committed suicide, but also for all other places in War where their activities are described or must be inferred from the context. The study shows how Josephus adopted the Sicarii in his narrative to develop and bring to a resolution several major themes in War. In a departure from the classical proposal that the Sicarii were an armed and fanatical off-shoot of the Zealots, this work concludes that from a historical perspective, “Sicarii” was a somewhat fluid term used to describe Jews of the Judean revolt who were associated with acts of violence against their own people for religious/political ends.
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The “mysteries” of Qumran Mystery, secrecy, and esotericism in the Dead Sea scrolls Samuel I. Thomas
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 16923 4 • Hardback (xviii, 311 pp.) • List price EUR 119.- / US$ 169.• SBL - Early Judaism and Its Literature, 25
This volume provides a new interpretation of the functions of “mystery” language and secrecy in the Qumran scrolls. The texts preserved and composed at Qumran by the apocalyptic group known as the Yaḥad display an interest in revelation, interpretation, and ritual practice, and attest to the active cultivation of esoteric arts such as astrology and astronomy, physiognomy, and therapeutic “magic.” Much like its Babylonian priestly-scribal counterparts, the Yaḥad fostered and guarded its “mysteries”—its store of special knowledge available only to the elect—and used “mystery” terminology (especially raz) to claim authority and to erect social boundaries around themselves as the “men of the vision” and the “house of holiness.” The “Mysteries” of Qumran offers an in-depth semantic analysis of relevant terminology and integrates social-scientific and intellectual-history approaches in focusing on an important motif in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Judaism
Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity Edited by Cilliers Breytenbach and Martin Goodman Visit brill.nl/ajec
ISSN 1871-6636
Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity began in 1976, as Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums with the publication of M. Hengel’s Die Zeloten. The series, which includes monographs and collections of essays, covers a range of topics, typically focusing on areas of mutual influence or points
of controversy between Judaism and Christianity in the first centuries CE. Recent titles published in the series have included important studies of Josephus, of the Jewish background of Paul’s writings, and of the historical Jesus within his Jewish context.
Kaiphas. Der Hohepriester jenes Jahres Geschichte und Deutung Rainer Metzner
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Text and Context Dan Jaffé The question of the origins of Christianity is a theme still discussed in historical research. This book investigates the relations between the Rabbinic Judaism and the Primitive Christianity. It studies the factors of influences, the polemics in the texts and factors of mutual conceptions between two new movements: Rabbinical Judaism and Primitive Christianity. Finally it offers an analysis of the perception of Christianity in the corpus of talmudic literature.
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Studies in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity
• July 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18410 7 • Hardback (xvi, 248 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 146.• Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 74
biblical studies
• June 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18524 1 • Hardback (xviii, 482 pp.) • List price EUR 162.- / US$ 230.• Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 75
The high priest Caiaphas is one of the important figures in biblical history who received little attention or sympathy in the judgement of posterity. Since the time of the old church the highest representative of the Jewish society in the time of Jesus was assessed as a wicked enemy of Jesus and the leading apostles in Jerusalem. This image obscures the religious and political efficiency of a man, who worked with great success in his office for a long period of eighteen years. What do we know about the historical Caiaphas? And what is the image of this man in the New Testament and afterwards? The present study tries to answer these questions in view of the history, the exegesis and the reception history.
Judaism
Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature Rabbinic Thought in the Light of Modern Economics - Third Revised Edition Roman Ohrenstein and Barry Gordon
• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17462 7 • Hardback (xviii, 234 pp.) • List price EUR 94.- / US$ 130.-
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Violence, Scripture, and Textual Practice in Early Judaism and Christianity Edited by Ra’anan S. Boustan, Alex P. Jassen and Calvin J. Roetzel
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This lucidly written study is unique in that there is no book extant by an economic historian that discusses Talmudic economics in the light of modern economics. Its major focus is on the intricate debates, statements and principles that were forged by the Talmudic Rabbis. This ancient storehouse of learning includes a wealth of economic knowledge of modern sophistication. The book taps these “economic treasures” by way of analytic inquiry. The authors, both economic historians and economists, through their study of the original dialectics in the Talmud, were able to discern a wide range of macro- and micro-economic ideas of major significance. These concepts when viewed from either a contemporary or a modern perspective, display an extraordinary degree of insight and sophistication. Indeed, sections of the Talmud and the reflections of subsequent commentators on those passages, embody a wealth of economic thought that was later to become significant in the reasoning of political economists, or of their professional academic successors.
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 18028 4 • Paperback (xii, 288 pp.) • List price US$ 49.- / EUR 33.-
This volume analyzes the various and overlapping discourses of “religious violence” that emerged within Jewish and Christian culture in the Roman world. Toward this end, the nine papers collected here address both the presence of violence within the authoritative scriptural traditions of early Judaism and Christianity and the redeployment of these older traditions to represent, legitimate, and indeed sacralize violence. Individual papers focus on the specific social and historical contexts from which these texts emerged, while the volume as a whole highlights the patterns of textual practice shared across social and religious boundaries. Throughout, the dynamic interplay between text, tradition, and violence in early Jewish and Christian culture is located within the broad landscape of Roman imperial society.
Judaism
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism Edited by Hindy Najman, Benjamin Wright and Florentino García Martínez Visit brill.nl/jsjs
ISSN 1384-2161
The Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplement Series provides a forum for the publication of scholarly works on all aspects of Judaism from the Persian period through Late Antiquity. The scope of the Supplement Series corresponds to the scope of the journal. Volumes may be devoted to literary, socio-historical,
religio-historical or theological themes, and may be written from any methodological perspective. Volumes of essays are welcome, provided that they have a coherent theme. Volumes dealing with the influence of Judaism on early Christianity also fall within the scope of the series.
What is Good, and What God Demands Normative Structures in Tannaitic Literature Tzvi Novick
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Other Worlds and Their Relation to This World Early Jewish and Ancient Christian Traditions Edited by Tobias Nicklas, Joseph Verheyden, Erik M.M. Eynikel and Florentino Garcia Martinez Is there a future after death and how does this future look like? What kind of life can we expect, and in what kind of world? Is there another, hopefully better world than the one where we live? The articles collected in this volume, all written by leading experts in the field, deal with the question how ancient Jewish and Christian authors describe “otherworldly places and situations”, they ask why various forms of texts were created to address the questions above, how these texts functioned, and how they have to be understood. It is shown how ancient descriptions of the “otherworld” are taking over and reworking existing motifs, forms and genres, but also that they mirror concrete problems, ideas, experiences, and questions of their authors and the first readers.
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• September 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18626 2 • Cloth with dustjacket List price US$ 185.-/€ 130.• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 143
biblical studies
• October 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18758 0 • Cloth with dustjacket List price US$ 146.-/€ 103.• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 144
The normative rhetoric of tannaitic literature (the earliest extant corpus of rabbinic Judaism) is predominantly deontological. Prior scholarship on rabbinic supererogation, and on points of contact with Greco-Roman virtue discourse, identify non-deontological aspects of tannaitic normativity. However, these two frameworks overlook the tense and productive intersection of deontological with non-deontological, the first because supererogation defines itself against obligation, and the second because the Greco-Roman comparate discourages serious treatment of law-like elements. This book addresses ways in which alternative normative forms entwine with the core deontological rhetoric of tannaitic literature. This perspective exposes, inter alia, echoes of the post-biblical wisdom tradition in tannaitic law, the rich polyvalence of the category mitzvah, and telling differences between the schools of Akiva and Ishmael.
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Studies in the Book of Wisdom Edited by Geza G. Xeravits and Joszef Zsengeller The volume publishes papers delivered at the International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books (Pápa, Hungary). This conference dealt with the Book of Wisdom. As such, this was one of the most extended discussions of the Book of Wisdom that has ever taken place at a scholarly meeting. The volume contains articles on the traditions and theology of the Book of Wisdom, and demonstrates its relationship with the contemporary literature of early Judaism and Middle Platonic thought. • June 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18612 5 • Cloth with dustjacket (x, 234 pp.) • List price EUR 97.- / US$ 138.• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 142
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Authoritative Scriptures in Ancient Judaism Edited by Mladen
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• June 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18530 2 • Cloth with dustjacket (x, 400 pp.) • List price EUR 130.- / US$ 185.• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 141
Popović
Many scholars of the Second Temple period have replaced the concept of canonization by that of canonical process. Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls has been crucial for this new direction. Based on this new evidence taxonomic terms like biblical, nonbiblical or parabiblical seem anachronistic for the period before 70 C.E. The notion of authoritative Scriptures plays an important part in the new paradigm of canonical process, but it has not yet been sufficiently reflected upon and is in need of clarification. Why were some texts more authoritative than others? For whom and in what contexts were texts authoritative? And what are our criteria to determine to what extent a text was authoritative? In short, what do we mean by “authoritative”? This volume focuses on specific texts or corpora of texts, and approaches the notion of authoritative Scriptures from sociological, cultural and literary perspectives.
The Return of the Repressed Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer and the Pseudepigrapha Rachel Adelman
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17049 0 • Hardback with dustjacket (x, 352 pp.) • List price EUR 121.- / US$ 179.• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 140
This study analyzes mythic narratives, found in the 8th century midrashic text Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer (PRE), that were excluded, or ‘repressed’, from the rabbinic canon, while preserved in the Pseudepigrapha of the Second Temple period. Examples include the role of the Samael (i.e. Satan) in the Garden of Eden, the myth of the Fallen Angels, Elijah as zealot, and Jonah as a Messianic figure. The questions are why these exegetical traditions were excluded, in what context did they resurface, and how did the author have access to these apocryphal texts. The book addresses the assumptions that underlie classic rabbinic literature and later breaches of that exegetical tradition in PRE, while engaging in a study of the genre, dating, and status of PRE as apocalyptic eschatology.
Judaism
Wisdom’s Root Revealed Ben Sira and the Election of Israel Greg Goering
• September 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 16579 3 • Cloth with dustjacket (xvi, 313 pp.) • List price EUR 114.- / US$ 169.• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 139
This monograph interprets the theme of election in the book of Sirach. Previous scholarship has often understood Ben Sira’s worldview to be dualistic, and has approached the sage’s correlation of Wisdom and Torah as either a nationalization of Wisdom or a universalization of Torah. By probing Ben Sira’s ideas about election, this book suggests that Ben Sira does not collapse the traditional sapiential dichotomy wisdom/folly into a dualistic worldview, and that his understanding of the relation between Wisdom and Torah proves to be far more subtle than previous interpretations have allowed. The study demonstrates that the concept of election enables a profitable discussion of the relation of Wisdom and Torah in the thought of this pivotal Second Temple sage.
History and Geographic Distribiution Ben-Zion Rosenfeld
Exploring the Scripturesque Jewish Texts and their Christian Contexts Robert Alan Kraft
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17010 0 • Cloth with dustjacket (x, 288 pp.) • List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 137
These essays span about a third of a century and include both previously published and some unpublished studies by Robert A. Kraft which focus on interfaces between Jewish materials and the worlds in which they were transmitted and/or perceived, especially Christian contexts. The initial section on general context and methodology is followed by several detailed studies by way of example. The final section touches on some related issues involving Philonic and other texts. The primary concern is with “scripturesque” materials and traditions, whether they later became canonical or not, that seem to have been respected as “scriptural” by some individuals or communities in the period prior to (or apart from) the development of an exclusivistic canonical consciousness in some Jewish and Christian circles.
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• August 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17838 0 • Hardback with dustjacket (x, 322 pp.) • List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 138
This book analyses the data about Torah centers and rabbinic activity in Palestine during Mishnaic and Talmudic times, 70–400 CE—the Roman and early Byzantine periods. The research is an interdisciplinary inquiry. It encompasses rabbinic literature as well as archeology, geography, and sociology, thus enriching the discussion of the history and scope of rabbinic activity in the different regions of Palestine. Arranged in chronological order, the book highlights the changes generated by historical events, in particular the relocation of rabbinic centers following the upheaval of the Bar Kokhba Revolt. In spite of this upheaval, Torah centers continued to develop in Palestine for several hundred years, until the end of the period under discussion.
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Torah Centers and Rabbinic Activity in Palestine 70 - 400 C.E.
Judaism
The New Testament and Rabbinic Literature Edited by Reimund Bieringer, Florentino García Martínez, Didier Pollefeyt and Peter Tomson
• November 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17588 4 • Cloth with dustjacket (xxiv, 544 pp.) • List price EUR 163.- / US$ 241.• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 136
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The Alexandrian Riots of 38 C.E. and the Persecution of the Jews. A Historical Reconstruction Sandra Gambetti
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The present book brings together the contributions of the foremost specialists on the relationship of the New Testament and Rabbinic Literature. It contains the proceedings of a Symposium held at the K.U.Leuven in January 2006. The contributors, from different European countries as well as from Israel, present in detail the history of rabbinical scholarship by Christian scholars and deal with the main issues in the study of rabbinic materials. As could be expected, much attention is given to halakhic issues, but literary questions in Midrash, Targum and Mystical Literature are also dealt with. All contributions are in English, and the volume is completed with a very large “cumulative bibliography” which will enhance its usefulness.
• September 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 13846 9 • Cloth with dustjacket • List price EUR 114.- / US$ 169.• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 135
Scholars have read the Alexandrian riots of 38 CE according to intertwined dichotomies. The Alexandrian Jews fought to keep their citizenship - or to acquire it; they evaded the payment of the poll-tax - or prevented any attempts to impose it on them; they safeguarded their identity against the Greeks - or against the Egyptians. Avoiding that pattern and building on the historical reconstruction of the experience of the Alexandrian Jewish community under the Ptolemies, this work submits that the riots were the legal and political consequence of an imperial adjudication against the Jews. Most of the Jews lost their residence never to recover it again. The Roman emperor, the Roman prefect of Egypt and the Alexandrian citizenry - all shared responsibilities according to their respective and expected roles.
Manières de penser dans l’Antiquité méditerranéenne et orientale Mélanges offerts à Francis Schmidt par ses élèves, ses collègues et ses amis Edited by Christophe Batsch and Madalina Vârtejanu-Joubert
• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17518 1 • Cloth with dustjacket (vi, 294 pp.) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 134
Francis Schmidt’s works in various fields of religious studies (mainly ancient Judaism), can be characterized by three words: historiography, anthropological history, and comparatism. In that respect he placed himself in the continuation of previous French scholars, such as Maurice Halbwachs or Pierre Vidal-Naquet. Francis Schmidt also played an essential role in transmitting to a new generation of scholars the complex issues and debates concerning the Dead Sea scrolls and Qumranic research. The papers offered in this volume share all the same interest in ancient religions and the methodological devices previously mentioned. They offer a rare example of a large comparatism between Assyrian, Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian approaches of some essential social or intellectual issues, by some of the most competent specialists in each field.
Judaism
Sustain Me With Raisin-Cakes Pesikta deRav Kahana and the Popularization of Rabbinic Judaism Rachel Anisfeld
• April 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 15322 6 • Cloth with dustjacket (xii, 220 pp.) • List price EUR 97.- / US$ 138.• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 133
History and literature come together in a new way in this study of the midrashic collection Pesikta deRav Kahana. The book combines the findings of rabbinic historians and early Christianity scholars with a close reading of this midrashic text on its own and in relation to the tannaitic midrashim which preceded it. The rich picture that emerges suggests that PRK, in its new homiletical and aggadic stance, develops a religious language more appealing and accessible to the masses, an outreach language meant to win rabbinic popularity. Exploring issues of power and rhetoric, the book also places PRK’s outreach language into the cultural context of the imperialism of Roman Christian homily.
Past Renewals
Hindy Najman
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• March 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18046 8 • Cloth with dustjacket (xxii, 278 pp.) • List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 053
How did ancient Jewish authors claim authority for their interpretations? How, after the “end of prophecy”, could they claim the authority of revelation? Whom did one have to be, or aspire to be, in order to merit authority? Hindy Najman addresses these questions through close readings of ancient Jewish texts, e.g., Ezra-Nehemiah, Philo of Alexandria, 4Ezra, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Jubilees. In Seconding Sinai (Brill, 2003), Najman reconceived pseudepigraphy, developing the idea of a Mosaic discourse that comprised a series of ancient texts attributed to Moses. Here she develops the broader notion of a discourse tied to a founder, situating practices of pseudepigraphy and authoritative interpretation within a variety of ways of seeking perfection in ancient Judaism.
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Interpretative Authority, Renewed Revelation and the Quest for Perfection in Jewish Antiquity
Judaism
Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture Edited by Paul V.M. Flesher Visit brill.nl/sais
ISSN 1570-1336
This series aims to publish quality, scholarly monographs on interpretations of the Hebrew Bible done in the Aramaic language, primarily within Judaism. The main focus will be on the translations of Scripture in Aramaic called Targums, texts
classified as Rewritten Bible such as those found at Qumran, and Aramaic midrashic interpretations of Scripture. Christian works written in Palestinian Aramaic will also be included.
Targums and the Transmission of Scripture into Judaism and Christianity
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Robert Hayward
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17956 1 • Hardback (xv, 432 pp.) • List price EUR 135.- / US$ 200.• Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture, 10
This collection of seventeen previously published essays and two hitherto unpublished articles examines strategies adopted by ancient Aramaic translators of the Hebrew Bible in their attempts to transmit the meaning of Scripture to their own generations. The intricate interpretations of Targum Pseudo-Jonathan feature prominently: analysis of them suggests a date for the substance of this Targum rather earlier than is commonly assumed. The biblical exegesis of Jerome (ca. 342-420 CE) often reflects Targumic interpretation of Scripture: as well as helping to date items of Jewish interpretation, Jerome’s writings also witness to continuing close contacts between Christians and Jews at a crucial stage in the history of both communities. The essays also demonstrate the relationship of the Targums both to other Rabbinic texts and to early translations of the Bible like Septuagint; the versions of Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion; and the Peshitta.
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Alternative Targum Traditions The Use of Variant Readings for the Study in Origin and History of Targum Jonathan Alberdina Houtman and Harry Sysling
• September 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17842 7 • Hardback (xiv, 304 pp.) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.• Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture, 9
The present study explores the possibility of using variant readings of the Targum of the Prophets to get a better insight into the origin and history of Targum Jonathan. The focus is on two sorts of variant readings: the Tosefta Targums and the targumic quotations in rabbinic and medieval Jewish literature. The chapter on the Tosefta Targums concentrates on variants from the book of Samuel. The chapter on the targumic quotations includes quotations of all the Prophets in early Jewish literature. In the Appendix a full list is given of all quotations of Targums of the Prophets presently known. The book is useful for the study of the genesis of Targum Jonathan as well as for its later developments.
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The Verbal System of the Aramaic of Daniel An Explanation in the Context of Grammaticalization Tarsee Li
• March 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17514 3 • Hardback (xvi, 199 pp) • List price EUR 93.- / US$ 132.• Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture, 8
This book explains the verbal system of the Aramaic of Daniel in the context of current research on grammaticalization, which, though first mentioned by Meillet in 1912, did not flourish until the beginning of the 1980’s, and has only more recently been applied to the study of Ancient Near Eastern languages. Although various aspects of the Aramaic of Daniel have been subject of numerous studies, including a few exhaustive studies on the verbal system in the last century, it remains among the most difficult to explain. The explanation offered here is coherent with the historical development of Aramaic as well as the observable tendencies in the development of human languages in general.
Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics Visit brill.nl/ssl
ISSN 0081-8461 disciplines as descriptive linguistics, comparative linguistics, socio-linguistics et cetera all fall within the scope of the series. While studies of individual aspects of individual languages are accepted on a selective basis, the series specifically includes monographs, collaborative volumes, and reference works of wider scopes.
The Verbal System in Late Enlightenment Hebrew Lily Kahn
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17733 8 • Hardback (x, 310 pp.) • List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.• Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 55
This book constitutes the first detailed corpus-based analysis of the verbal morphology and syntax employed in the Eastern European Maskilic (Jewish Enlightenment) Hebrew prose fiction written between 1857 and 1881. This verbal system exhibits biblical, rabbinic and medieval elements as well as unprecedented features and similarities to Israeli Hebrew and Yiddish. The first section of the work offers a selective examination of maskilic verbal morphology, while the second section constitutes a thorough examination of the functions of the verbal conjugations and the third section surveys selected features of verbal syntax. The work fills a serious gap in the Hebrew philological literature and will therefore be of great relevance to students and scholars of diachronic Hebrew language and linguistics.
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The distinct traits shared by the Semitic languages determine the essential unity of research in these languages. The Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics series has been a prominent forum for linguistic publications concerning the Semitic languages ever since its foundation in 1967. The series includes both books written in the philological tradition of research and ones applying modern linguistic theories. Such sub-
biblical studies
Edited by T. Muraoka, A.D. Rubin and C.H.M. Versteegh
Judaism
The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Challa Steven Fassberg
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17682 9 • Hardback (xviii, 318 pp.) • List price EUR 126.• Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 54
Aramaic has been spoken uninterruptedly for more than 3000 years, yet a generation from now most Aramaic dialects will be extinct. The study of the Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) dialects has increased dramatically in the past decade as linguists seek to record these dialects before the disappearance of their last speakers. This work is a unique documentation of the now extinct Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Challa (modern-day Çukurca, Turkey). It is based on recordings of the last native speaker of the dialect, who passed away in 2007. In addition to a grammatical description, it contains sample texts and a glossary of the dialect. Jewish Challa belongs to the cluster of NENA dialects known as ‘lishana deni’ and reference is made throughout to other dialects within this group.
biblical studies
Studia Semitica Neerlandica Visit brill.nl/ssn
ISSN 0081-6914
Studia Semitica Neerlandica comprises of studies on the linguistics and literature of one the Semitic languages or the Semitic languages as a whole. Studies on texts written in one of the
Semitic languages or texts that deal with the history and culture of groups speaking a Semitic language also fall within the scope of this series.
From Linguistics to Hermeneutics
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A Functional and Cognitive Approach to Job 12-14 Pierre Van Hecke
• November 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18835 8 • Hardback (ca. 550 pp.) • List price EUR 158.- / US$ 224.• Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 55
Linguistics and hermeneutics are often regarded as two mutually exclusive scholarly disciplines. Recent decades, however, have witnessed the rise of linguistic approaches that take meaning back to the heart of their inquiry and can be fruitful for textual interpretation. This book applies the insights of two such approaches, i.e. functional grammar and cognitive semantics, to the study of Biblical Hebrew with a specific focus on Job 12-14. The result is two-fold. The study offers a detailed linguistic analysis, providing many new insights in the linguistic peculiarities of the text and Biblical Hebrew in general. Moreover, it proposes a fresh exegetical reading of Job’s longest and central speech in the book.
Judaism
The Lexical Field of the Substantives of “Gift” in Ancient Hebrew Francesco Zanella
• June 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 17873 1 • Hardback (ca. 482 pp.) • List price EUR 140.- / US$ 199.• Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 54
This monograph exhaustively investigates the semantic domain of ‘gift’ in Ancient Hebrew, which comprises 28 substantives. The investigation firstly focuses on the syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations that determine the meanings of each individual lexeme and subsequently provides an overall picture of the developments and extensions of the whole lexical field across the different layers of Ancient Hebrew. The investigation sheds new light on the debated issue of the so-called “sectarian” Qumran writings, by demonstrating that they attest to distinctive patterns of lexical organisation that are not found elsewhere in Ancient Hebrew. The appendix finally discusses the feasibility of drawing concept related conclusions on the basis of linguistic data, thus sketching a possible map of the concept of ‘gift’.
Tradition and Transformation in the Book of Chronicles
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• October 2008 • ISBN 978 90 04 17044 5 • Hardback (xiv, 214 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 154.• Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 52
This monograph contributes to a better understanding of the Book of Chronicles. The past forty years have seen a complete transformation in the study of the Book of Chronicles. The former domination of Chronicles by parallel texts in the Books of Samuel and Kings made way for studying the historical, sociological, literary, theological, and ideological aspects of Chronicles in their own right. This book/document is now increasingly recognized as being of major interest to the Second Temple Period. Reading the book of Chronicles, it appears that the Chronicler is constantly transforming Israel’s tradition(s) into a new theological and ideological system. In this study, attention is, therefore, paid both to specific texts, such as 1 Chronicles 17; 21; 2 Chronicles 20; 26, and to particular central themes, such as the special function of Jerusalem, and the peculiar way of how the Chronicler presents prophets, war narratives, and genealogies.
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P.C. Beentjes
Judaism
Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha Edited by Jean-Claude Haelewyck, Johannes Tromp and Henk Jan de Jonge Visit brill.nl/svtp
ISSN 0169-8125
This series publishes authoritative studies of the so-called “Old Testament Pseudepigrapha”, apocalyptic and apocryphal works written by Jews and Christians in the “intertestamental” period and the early centuries of our era.
Selected Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha
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Andrei Orlov
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• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17879 3 • Hardback (xvi, 440 pp.) • List price EUR 146.- / US$ 216.• Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha, 23
This volume is a study of two of the most important Slavonic apocalypses, the Apocalypse of Abraham and 2 Enoch, as crucial conceptual links between the symbolic universes of Second Temple apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism. The study seeks to understand the mediating role of these Slavonic pseudepigraphical texts in the development of Jewish angelological and theophanic traditions from Second Temple apocalypticism to later Jewish Merkabah mysticism attested in the Hekhalot and Shiʿur Qomah materials. The study shows that mediatorial traditions of the principal angels and the exalted patriarchs and prophets played an important role in facilitating the transition from apocalypticism to early Jewish mysticism.
Religion in Late Antiquity
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Edited by Henk Versnel, David Frankfurter and Johannes Hahn Visit brill.nl/rgrw
ISSN 0927-7633
Scholarly monographs on historical, bibliographical and archaeological aspects of Egyptian, Mithraic and Oriental religions in all parts of the Roman Empire and the GraecoRoman world.
Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome Joannis Mylonopoulos
biblical studies
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17930 1 • Hardback (456 pp.) • List price EUR 135.- / US$ 200.• Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 170
The polytheistic religious systems of ancient Greece and Rome reveal an imaginative attitude towards the construction of the divine. One of the most important instruments in this process was certainly the visualisation. Images of the gods transformed the divine world into a visually experienceable entity, comprehensible even without a theoretical or theological superstructure. For the illiterates, images were together with oral traditions and rituals the only possibility to approach the idea of the divine; for the intellectuals, images of the gods could be allegorically transcended symbols to reflect upon. Based on the art historical and textual evidence, this volume offers a fresh view on the historical, literary, and artistic significance of divine images as powerful visual media of religious and intellectual communication.
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A Revised and Expanded English Edition of the Studies by Zijderveld and Van der Burg Feyo Schuddeboom
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17813 7 • Hardback (228 pp.) • List price EUR 97.- / US$ 138.• Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 169
A proper understanding of the words τελετή and ὄργια and the context in which they occur is fundamental to the study of Greek religion. This volume seeks to make a significant portion of the source material available to present-day students of religions in the Graeco-Roman world. The ancient texts are accompanied by English translations. Revised chapters from the seminal works by Zijderveld (1934) and Van der Burg (1939) show a whole range of different contexts in ancient literature, thus arguing against an automatic equation of τελετή and ὄργια with mystery rites. New chapters give an overview of the loanword orgia in Latin poetry, and of τελετή and ὄργια in the epigraphical evidence.
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Religion in Late Antiquity
Magical Practice in the Latin West Papers from the International Conference held at the University of Zaragoza, 30 Sept. – 1st Oct. 2005 Francisco Marco Simón and Richard Gordon
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17904 2 • Hardback (706 pp.) • List price EUR 188.- / US$ 278.• Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 168
How different was the practice of magic in the Latin West from that of the eastern Mediterranean basin? Was it just derivative from Greek practice, or did it have its own originality? The recent discovery of important new curse-tablets in Mainz and in the Fountain of Anna Perenna at Rome has made the question newly topical. This volume contains the first commented editions in English of most of these new texts as well as major surveys of new prayers for justice. Other sections are devoted to the discourse of magic in the West, to the linguistics and aims of cursing, and to the major field of protective and eudaemonic magic up to and including the Visigothic slates and the Celtic loricae. The essays are by well-known scholars in the field as well as by established and younger Spanish scholars.
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SBL - Writings from the Greco-Roman World Visit brill.nl/wgw
ISSN 1569-3600
This series, which is the successor to the former SBL Texts and Translations series, publishes translations of ancient texts that are important for scholars and students of religion and not otherwise readily accessible. Texts may be in any ancient language, with priority given to those that date from the period between Alexander and Justinian. Volumes normally include
the original text and English translation on facing pages, an introduction with bibliography, short explanatory notes that are not as extensive as those in a full commentary, and appropriate indices. The series also publishes selected texts, translations, and studies of ancient texts.
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Iamblichus of Chalcis: The Letters Edited by John Dillon
• April 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 13764 6 • Hardback with dustjacket (xxvi, 119 pp.) • List price EUR 86.- / US$ 123.• SBL - Writings from the GrecoRoman World, 19
Iamblichus is the only Platonist philosopher whose philosophical letters have survived from the ancient world. These nineteen letters, which are translated into English here for the first time, address such topics as providence, fate, concord, marriage, bringing up children, ingratitude, music, and the cardinal virtues, with some letters addressed to students and others to prominent members of Syrian society and the imperial administration. The letters reflect the concerns of popular moral philosophy and illustrate the more public aspects of Iamblichus’s philosophy. This volume provides a useful complement to Iamblichus: On the Mysteries, and On the Pythagorean Way of Life, both published by the Society of Biblical Literature, and will be of interest to students of late antiquity, of Neoplatonic philosophy, and of early Christianity.
Religion in Late Antiquity
SBL - Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplements Visit brill.nl/wgws
ISSN 1877-8534
The Second Church Popular Christianity a.d. 200–400 Ramsay MacMullen
biblical studies
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 16919 7 • Hardback (xii, 210 pp) • List price EUR 93.- / US$ 132.• SBL - Writings from the GrecoRoman World Supplements, 1
Christianity in the century both before and after Constantine’s conversion is familiar thanksto the written sources; now Ramsay MacMullen, in his fifth book on ancient Christianity, considers especially the unwritten evidence. He uses excavation reports about hundreds of churches of the fourth century to show what worshipers did in them and in the cemeteries where most of them were built. What emerges, in this richly illustrated work, is a religion that ordinary Christians, by far the majority, practiced in a different and largely forgotten second church. The picture fits with textual evidence that has been often misunderstood or little noticed. The “first” church—the familiar one governed by bishops—in part condemned, in part tolerated, and in part re-shaped the church of the many. Even together, however, the two constituted by the end of the period studied (AD 400) a total of the population far smaller than has ever been suggested. Better estimates are now made for the first time from quantifiable data, that is, from the physical space available for attendance in places of worship. Reassessment raises very large questions about the place of religion in the life of the times and in the social composition of both churches.
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Religion in Late Antiquity
Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series Edited by Joshua J. Schwartz, Marcel Poorthuis and Freek van der Steen Visit brill.nl/jcp
ISSN: 1388-2074
Jewish and Christian Perspectives publishes studies that are relevant to both Christianity and Judaism. The series includes works relating to the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, the Second Temple period, the Judaeo-Christian polemic (from ancient to modern times), Rabbinical literature relevant to Christianity, Patristics, Medieval Studies and the modern period.
Special interest is paid to the interaction between the religions throughout the ages. Historical, exegetical, philosophical and theological studies are welcomed as well as studies focusing on sociological and anthropological issues common to both religions including archaeology.
Establishing Boundaries Christian-Jewish Relations in Early Council Texts and the Writings of Church Fathers biblical studies
F.J.E. Boddens Hosang
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• March 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18255 4 • Hardback (xii, 204 pp.) • List price EUR 96.- / US$ 136.• Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, 19
This book addresses the ongoing close relations between ordinary Christians and Jews on a daily basis at a time when church leaders were increasingly trying to establish boundaries between Christians and other religious groupings, especially Jews. Until recently, most historical studies of late antique Christian-Jewish relations had been primarily based on the writings of the church fathers.This new study makes use of a new type of source material: fourth to late sixth century council documents in which clear indications are given of the daily relationships between Christians and Jews. The texts from the eastern and western Mediterranean describe contacts between Christianity and Judaism at the level of ordinary people. These contacts remained close for a much longer period than the church leaders would have liked.
The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity Edited by Emmanouela Grypeou and Helen Spurling
• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17727 7 • Hardback (xx, 284 pp.) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.• Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, 18
The ‘Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity’ is a collection of essays examining the relationship between Jewish and Christian biblical commentators. The contributions focus on analysis of interpretations of the book of Genesis, a text which has considerable importance in both Christian and Jewish tradition. The essays cover a wide range of Jewish and Christian literature, including primarily rabbinic and patristic sources, but also apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, Philo, Josephus and Gnostic texts. In bringing together the studies of a variety of eminent scholars on the topic of ‘Exegetical Encounter’, the book presents the latest research on the topic and illuminates a variety of original approaches to analysis of exegetical contacts between the two sets of religious groups. The volume is significant for the light it sheds on the history of relations between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity.
Biblical Studies
Strangely familiar protofeminist interpretations of patriarchal biblical texts Edited by Nancy Calvert-Koyzis and Heather E. Weir
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17793 2 • Hardback (xii, 291 pp.) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.-
Until recently, the voices of women who interpreted the Bible prior to the feminism of the late twentieth century had been largely forgotten. However, the current recovery of these women’s interpretive works reveals writings that seem “strangely familiar” in their anticipation of later feminist approaches to the biblical text and their thematic interest in liberation. In this volume, the contributions of seventeenth- to nineteenth-century women—including Arcangela Tarabotti, Aemelia Lanyer, and Josephine Butler—are addressed in their historical and cultural contexts. Each of these recovered authors worked to liberate women from interpretations of the Bible that proved oppressive to them. Leading feminist biblical scholars assess the works of these forerunners, or protofeminists, in light of contemporary feminist approaches, and the collection as a whole illustrates the significance of these neglected works for reception history, biblical studies, and women’s studies.
Biblical Interpretation Series Visit brill.nl/bins
ISSN: 0928-0731
Publishes contemporary Biblical scholarship and studies of related issues in Biblical interpretation, providing a vehicle for experimental work from a whole range of newer perspectives,
including feminist readings, semiotic and post-structuralist approaches, ecological, psychological and many other types of readings.
Peter Landesmann
• April 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18420 6 • Hardback (vii, 215 pp.) • List price EUR 97.- / US$ 137.• Biblical Interpretation Series, 101
It has been proved that theological essays written in the time of the creation of those images influenced the iconography. The same influence has been traced in historic events of the relevant time. The Christian/Jewish disputations, the persecution of the Talmud, the Puritanism, the Tridentinum, the reflection on the relationship between Jesus and his church, the increasing importance of the attendance of the Sunday mess and many other historical and spiritual sources have been shown as relevant for the concepts of these works of art. Even for small details, as for instance the leaning Jesus at a column, a historic-theological source could be detected.
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Die Darstellung „Der zwölfjährige Jesus unter den Schriftgelehrten“ im Wandel der Zeiten
biblical studies
Edited by Alan Culpepper and Ellen van Wolde
Biblical Studies
Abraham as Spiritual Ancestor A Postcolonial Zimbabwean Reading of Romans 4 Israel Kamudzandu
• March 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18164 9 • Hardback (xii, 265 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 146.• Biblical Interpretation Series, 100
biblical studies
Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an as Literature and Culture Roberta Sabbath
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New Testament commentaries and exegetes have not paid sufficient attention to the context in which Paul’s Epistel to the Romans was crafted. This book written from an African perspective offers a fresh interpretation on a contextualizing reading of Romans and its theology. The argument of the book is that Paul’s construcntion of Abraham as a Spiritual ancestor of “all” faith people was based on his encounter with the Roman Ideology based on Aeneas as the founder of Rome. A juxtaposition of these two canonical ancestors needs to be considered in our 21st multi - ethnic Christian world. Paul’s epitsle is not about how God saves the individual human being; rather the debate between Paul and the Jewish - Christian interlocutor is about how families of people and nations establish a kinship with God and one another. The concern with ancestors is apaque to Western Biblical readers and Christians. This is book helps both Westerners and Africans to value ethnic diversity.
• September 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17752 9 • Hardback (544) • List price EUR 170.- / US$ 241.• Biblical Interpretation Series, 98
Contemporary sacred text scholarship has been stimulated by a number of intersecting trends: a surging interest in religion, sacred texts, and inspirational issues; burgeoning developments in and applications of literary theories; intensifying academic focus on diverse cultures whether for education or scholarship. Although much has been written individually about Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an, no collection combines an examination of all three. Sacred Tropes interweaves Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an essays. Contributors collectively and also often individually use mixed literary approaches instead of the older single theory strategy. Appropriate for classroom or research, the essays utilize a variety of literary theoretical lenses including environmental, cultural studies, gender, psychoanalytic, ideological, economic, historicism, law, and rhetorical criticisms through which to examine these sacred works.
SBL - Ancient Israel and Its Literature Visit brill.nl/ail
ISSN 1878-4895
Solomon’s Vineyard Literary and Linguistic Studies in the Song of Songs Scott Noegel and Gary A. Rendsburg
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 16925 8 • Hardback (xiv, 267 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 147.• SBL - Ancient Israel and Its Literature, 1
This monograph includes four lengthy studies on the Song of Songs, which together identify the northern dialect of the poetry, focus on the literary devices of alliteration and variation, and propose that the composition is akin to medieval Arabic hija’ and tašbīb (or invective) poetic genres, aimed at critiquing the king and his court. The authors conclude that the poem was written during the period of the two monarchies, probably circa 900 B.C.E., somewhere in northern Israel, with the goal of censuring King Solomon and his descendants on the throne in Jerusalem.
Biblical Studies
SBL - Semeia Studies Visit brill.nl/sest
ISSN 1567-200X
This series publishes scholarly monographs and collections of essays representing interdisciplinary biblical studies. Studies employing the methods and perspectives of linguistics, folklore studies, literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, postmodern studies, and other comparable approaches are
invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia Studies publishes volumes reflecting a well-defined method that is appropriate to the biblical material being interpreted.
The Bible and the Hermeneutics of Liberation Edited by Alejandro F. Botta and Pablo R. Andiñach
Edited by Randall C. Bailey, Tat-siong Benny Liew and Fernando Segovia
• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 15117 8 • Hardback (xiv, 398 pp.) • List price EUR 130.- / US$ 185.• SBL - Semeia Studies, 57
Critics from three major racial/ethnic minority communities in the United States—African American, Asian American, and Latino/a American—focus on the problematic of race and ethnicity in the Bible and in contemporary biblical interpretation. With keen eyes on both ancient text and contemporary context, contributors pay close attention to how racial/ethnic dynamics intersect with other differential relations of power such as gender, class, sexuality, and colonialism. In groundbreaking interaction, they also consider their readings alongside those of other racial/ethnic minority communities. The volume includes an introduction pointing out the crucial role of this work within minority criticism by looking at its historical trajectory, critical findings, and future directions.
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They Were All Together in One Place? Toward Minority Biblical Criticism
biblical studies
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 15113 0 • Hardback (xii, 260 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 147.• SBL - Semeia Studies, 59
The same Bible that historically has been invoked to support exploitation is also a source of inspiration for those fighting oppression and injustice. This collection of essays highlights the different receptions that liberationist hermeneutics has found in a number of contemporary contexts. The authors, originating from various countries and continents and nurtured by diverse theological insights, provide regional overviews of liberating struggles and liberation hermeneutics or engage the biblical text from various perspectives, including mujerista and feminist Afrocentric readings. This is an enriching panorama of ideas and readings all centered on the Bible as a key to liberation.
New Testament
Novum Testamentum, Supplements Edited by Margaret Mitchell and David Moessner Visit brill.nl/nts
ISSN 0167-9732
Supplements to Novum Testamentum publishes monographs and collections of essays that make original contributions to the field of New Testament studies. This includes text-critical, philological and exegetical studies, and investigations which
seek to situate early Christian texts (both canonical and noncanonical) and theology in the broader context of Jewish and Graeco-Roman history, culture, religion and literature.
Corinth in Context Comparative Studies on Religion and Society
biblical studies
Edited by Steve Friesen, Dan Schowalter and James Walters
• March 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18197 7 • Hardback (xxvi, 518 pp.) • List price EUR 162.- / US$ 230.• Novum Testamentum, Supplements, 134
This volume is the product of an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Texas at Austin. Specialists in the study of inscriptions, architecture, sculpture, coins, tombs, pottery, and texts collaborate to produce new portraits of religion and society in the ancient city of Corinth. The studies focus on groups like the early Roman colonists, the Augustales (priests of Augustus), or the Pauline house churches; on specific cults such as those of Asklepios, Demeter, or the Sacred Spring; on media (e.g., coins, or burial inscriptions); or on the monuments and populations of nearby Kenchreai or Isthmia. The result is a deeper understanding of the religious life of Corinth, contextualized within the socially stratified cultures of the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
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Corinth in Context – Paperback Edition Comparative Studies on Religion and Society Edited by Steve Friesen, Dan Schowalter and James Walters
• March 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18211 0 • Paperback (xxvi, 518 pp.) • List price EUR 49.- / US$ 73.-
New Testament
The Politics of Peace Ephesians, Dio Chrysostom, and the Confucian Four Books Te-Li Lau
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 18053 6 • Hardback (xvi, 360 pp.) • List price EUR 121.- / US$ 179.• Novum Testamentum, Supplements, 133
Although scholarship has noted the thematic importance of peace in Ephesians, few have examined its political character in a sustained manner throughout the entire letter. This book addresses this lacuna, comparing Ephesians with Colossians, Greek political texts, Dio Chrysostom’s Orations, and the Confucian Four Books in order to ascertain the rhetorical and political nature of its topos of peace. Through comparison with analogous documents both within and without its cultural milieu, this study shows that Ephesians can be read as a politicoreligious letter “concerning peace” within the church. Its vision of peace contains common political elements (such as moral education, household management, communal stability, a universal humanity, and war) that are subsumed under the controlling rubric of the unity and cosmic summing up of all things in Christ.
The Legacy of John Edited by Tuomas Rasimus
The New Isaac Tradition and Intertextuality in the Gospel of Matthew Leroy Huizenga
• September 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17569 3 • Hardback (xx, 340 pp.) • List price EUR 114.- / US$ 169.• Novum Testamentum, Supplements, 131
Gospel scholarship has long recognized that Matthean Christology is a rich, multifaceted tapestry weaving multifold Old Testment figures together in the person of Jesus. It is somewhat strange, therefore, that scholarship has found little role for the figure of Isaac in the Gospel of Matthew. Employing Umberto Eco’s theory of the Model Reader as a theoretical basis to ground the phenomenon of Matthean intertextuality, this work contends that when read rightly as a coherent narrative in its first-century setting, with proper attention to both biblical texts and extrabiblical traditions about Isaac, the Gospel of Matthew evinces a significant Isaac typology in service of presenting Jesus as new temple and decisive sacrifice.
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• October 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17633 1 • Hardback (xii, 412 pp.) • List price EUR 121.- / US$ 179.• Novum Testamentum, Supplements, 132
This volume investigates the early, second-century reception of the Fourth Gospel. This is an era when its fortunes are surrounded by silence and mystery. It was assumed, until quite recently, that Gnostic and other so-called heterodox groups were the first ones to appreciate this gospel, and hence the mainstream Christians avoided using it until Irenaeus rescued it for the church. Lately, this view has been challenged by several scholars for several reasons. The contributions in this volume, written by leading specialists in their respective fields, offer an approachable, fresh, comprehensive and up-to-date view of the second-century reception of John’s Gospel, in a situation where new understandings about various forms of early Christianity and its multiformity have started to emerge.
biblical studies
Second-Century Reception of the Fourth Gospel
New Testament
Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum Visit brill.nl/cri
ISSN: 1877-4970
Originally published in three sections: Section 1 - The Jewish people in the First Century: historical geography, political history, social, cultural and religious life and institutions Section 2 - The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud Section 3 - Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature
The Mystery of God Early Jewish Mysticism and the New Testament
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Christopher Rowland and C.R.A. Morray-Jones
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• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17532 7 • Hardback (687 pp.) • List price EUR 191.- / US$ 272.• Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, 12
This book brings together the perspectives of apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism to illuminate aspects of New Testament theology. The first part begins with a consideration of the mystical character of apocalypticism and then uses the Book of Revelation and the development of views about the heavenly mediator figure of Enoch to explore the importance of apocalypticism in the Gospels and Acts, the Pauline Letters and finally the key theological themes in the later books of the New Testament. The second and third parts explore the character of early Jewish mysticism by taking important themes in the early Jewish mystical texts such as the Temple and the Divine Body to demonstrate the relevance of this material to New Testament interpretation.
New Testament
New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents Edited by Bart D. Ehrman and Eldon Jay Epp Visit brill.nl/ntts
ISSN 0077-8842
New Testament Tools, Studies, and Documents (NTTSD) combines two series, New Testament Tools and Studies (NTTS) and Studies and Documents (SD). The former was founded by Bruce M. Metzger in 1965 and edited by him until 1993, when Bart D. Ehrman joined him as co-editor. The latter series was founded by Kirsopp and Silva Lake in 1935, edited by them until the death of Kirsopp Lake in 1946, then briefly by Silva Lake and Carsten Høeg (1955), followed by Jacob Geerlings (until 1969), by Irving Alan Sparks (until 1993), and finally by Eldon Jay Epp (until 2007). The new
series will promote the publication of primary sources, reference tools, and critical studies that advance the understanding of the New Testament and other early Christian writings and writers into the fourth century. Emphases of the two predecessor series will be retained, including the textual history and transmission of the New Testament and related literature, relevant manuscripts in various languages, methodologies for research in early Christianity. The series will also publish a broader range of studies pertinent to early Christianity and its writings.
The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John, and the Literacy of Jesus
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• April 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17394 1 • Hardback (xvi, 350 pp) • List price EUR 119.- / US$ 169.• New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents, 38
Although consistently overlooked or dismissed, John 8.6, 8 in the Pericope Adulterae is the only place in canonical or non-canonical Jesus tradition that portrays Jesus as writing. After establishing that John 8.6, 8 is indeed a claim that Jesus could write, this book offers a new interpretation and transmission history of the Pericope Adulterae. Not only did the pericope’s interpolator place the story in John’s Gospel in order to highlight the claim that Jesus could write, but he did so at John 7.53–8.11 as a result of carefully reading the Johannine narrative. The final chapter of the book proposes a plausible socio-historical context for the insertion of the story.
biblical studies
Chris Keith
New Testament
Linguistic Biblical Studies Stanley E. Porter Visit brill.nl/lbs
ISSN 1877-7554
This series, Linguistic Biblical Studies, is dedicated to the development and promotion of linguistically informed study of the Bible in its original languages. Biblical studies has greatly benefited from modern theoretical and applied linguistics, but stands poised to benefit from further integration of the two fields of study. Most linguistics has studied contemporary languages, and attempts to apply linguistic methods to study of ancient languages requires systematic re-assessment of their approaches. This series is designed to address such challenges, by providing a venue for linguistically based analysis of the
languages of the Bible. As a result, monograph-length studies and collections of essays in the major areas of linguistics, such as syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and text linguistics, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, comparative linguistics, and the like, will be encouraged, and any theoretical linguistic approach will be considered, both formal and functional. Primary consideration is given to the Greek of the New and Old Testaments and of other relevant ancient authors, but studies in Hebrew, Coptic, and other related languages will be entertained as appropriate.
Verbal Aspect in the Book of Revelation biblical studies
The Function of Greek Verb Tenses in John’s Apocalypse
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David L. Mathewson
• August 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18668 2 • Hardback (vi, 206 pp.) • List price EUR 93.- / US$ 131.• Linguistic Biblical Studies, 4
The book of Revelation is well-known for its grammatical infelicities. More specifically, Revelation exhibits apparently “odd” use of Greek verb tenses. Most attemtps to describe this “odd” use of verb tenses start with the assumption that Greek verb tenses are primarily temporal in meaning. In order to explain Revelation’s apparent violation of these temporal values, scholars have proposed some level of semitic influence from the Hebrew tense system as making sense of this “odd” use of tenses. However, recent research into verbal aspect, which calls into question this temporal orientation, and suggests that Greek verb tenses grammaticalize aspect and not time, has opened up new avenues for explaining the Greek verb tense usage in Revelation. This book applies verbal aspect theory to tense usage in Revelation and focuses on how the tenses, as communicating verbal aspect, function within sections of Revelation.
Paul’s Gospel in Romans A Discourse Analysis of Rom 1:16-8:39 Jae Hyun Lee
• April 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 17963 9 • Hardback (xviii, 582 pp.) • List price EUR 146.- / US$ 216.• Linguistic Biblical Studies, 3
This book offers a fresh approach to Paul’s gospel. Applying linguistic discourse analysis to Romans 1:16-8:39, it helps the reader to gain a comprehensive understanding of the argumentative structure and contents of the gospel of Paul. As well as revealing the two underlying descriptive frameworks that Paul uses to explain his gospel about God’s salvation the interactive framework between God and humans, and the ‘two-realm’ framework - this book demonstrates that Paul’s gospel consists of one ‘peak point’ that shows the central role of Jesus, and two ‘sub-peaks’ elucidating salvation.
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Mark’s Memory Resources and the Controversy Stories (Mark 2:1-3:6) An Application of the Frame Theory of Cognitive Science to the Markan Oral-Aural Narrative Yoon-Man Park
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17962 2 • Hardback (xx, 344 pp.) • List price EUR 114.- / US$ 169.• Linguistic Biblical Studies, 2
This book is a study of the New Testament using the insights of modern linguistics. Its principal concern, above all, is to examine how the Gospel of Mark, produced in an oral-aural culture, may be illuminated by frame theory from cognitive linguistics, a linguistic theory in which the meaning of a word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph and thematic unit can only be properly understood against the background of a particular body of knowledge and assumptions. The reason this theory is particulary useful for understanding Mark’s ancient text is because as an oral-aural narrative it heavily relies on human memory (cognitive) resources; and so the cognitive theory leads us into a better understanding of ways in which the text is communicated in terms of cognitive processing.
Verbal Aspect in Theory and Practice Toshikazu Foley
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• September 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17865 6 • Hardback (xxiv, 449 pp.) • List price EUR 152.- / US$ 216.• Linguistic Biblical Studies, 1
This study integrates three independent subjects—translation theory, Mandarin aspect, and Greek aspect—for the purpose of formulating a working theory applicable to translating the Bible. The primary objectives are defined in terms of grammatical translation of Greek aspect into Mandarin aspect at the discourse level. A historical overview of the Chinese Bible is provided as a way of introducing major translation issues related to linguistic, conceptual, and logistical challenges. The proposed theory provides the translator with a powerful tool, which is tested in two sample passages from John 18–19 and 1 Corinthians 15. Provided, also, are critical reviews of over sixty Chinese Bible versions, Nestorian, Manichaean, Catholic documents, and a translation written according to the proposed theory.
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Biblical Translation in Chinese and Greek
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Pauline Studies Stanley E. Porter Visit brill.nl/past
ISSN 1572-4913
This series of volumes of essays by a variety of different scholars is edited by the well-known scholar Stanley Porter. It offers an important contribution to New Testament scholarship in general, and particularly to Pauline scholarship, by uniquely focusing upon major areas of Pauline studies in order to
throw new light on many different aspects of the man and his work. Pauline Studies constitutes a basic resource for all those interested in Paul, including New Testament scholars, scholars of early Christianity, and ancient historians.
Paul and the Ancient Letter Form
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Edited by Stanley E. Porter and Sean A.
• March 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18163 2 • Hardback (xiv, 370 pp.) • List price EUR 126.- / US$ 179.• Pauline Studies, 6
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Throughout the last century, there has been continuous study of Paul as a writer of letters. Although this fact was acknowledged by previous generations of scholars, it was during the twentieth century that the study of ancient letter-writing practices came to the fore and began to be applied to the study of the letters of the New Testament. This volume seeks to advance the discussion of Paul’s relationship to Greek epistolary traditions by evaluating the nature of ancient letters as well as the individual letter components. These features are evaluated alongside Paul’s letters to better understand Paul’s use and adaptations of these traditions in order to meet his communicative needs.
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Paul: Jew, Greek, and Roman Edited by Stanley E. Porter
• December 2008 • ISBN 978 90 04 17159 6 • Hardback (xiv, 370 pp.) • List price EUR 120.- / US$ 184.• Pauline Studies, 5
What does it mean to study Paul the Apostle as Jew, Greek, and Roman? The framing of the question exposes the fact that the distinctions themselves involve a complex of ethnic, social, and cultural designations. Paul is both a complicated individual of the ancient world, because he combines in his one personage features of life in each of these cultural-ethnic (and even religious) areas of the ancient world, and one of many people of that world who evidenced such complexity. This volume, Paul: Jew, Greek, and Roman, explores a number of the important and diverse cultural, ethnic, and religious dimensions of the multi-faceted background of Paul the Apostle. Some of the treatments are focused and specific, while others range over the broad issues that go to making up the world of the Apostle.
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Texts and Editions for New Testament Study Stanley E. Porter and Wendy Porter Visit brill.nl/tent
ISSN 1574-7085
Texts and Editions for New Testament Study is designed to offer texts and editions, with commentary and comment, of important sources for the study of the New Testament and its world. Primary sources are envisioned as a mainstay of the series, in which documents that enlighten and support New Testament
• September 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18265 3 • Hardback • List price EUR 99.- / US$ 141.• Texts and Editions for New Testament Study, 5
Early Christian Manuscripts Examples of Applied Method and Approach Edited by Thomas J. Kraus and Tobias Nicklas For the reconstruction of early Christianity, the lives of early Christians, their world of ideas, their ways of living, and their literature. Early Christian manuscripts - documents and literary texts - are pivotal archaeological artefacts. However, the manuscripts often came to us in fragmentary conditions, incomplete or with gaps and missing lines. Others appear to form a corpus, belong to an archive, or are connected with each other as far as theme or purpose are concerned. The present collection comprises of nine essays about individual or a set of certain manuscripts. With their essays the authors aim to present special approaches to early Christian manuscripts and, consequently, demonstrate methodically how to deal with them. The scope of topics ranges from the reconstruction of fragmentary manuscripts to the significance of amulets and from the discussion of individual fragments to the handling of the known manuscripts of a specific Christian text or a whole archive of papyri.
Critical Edition, Introduction and Commentary Paul Foster Since its discovery in 1886/87 there has been no full-scale English language treatment of The Gospel of Peter. This book rectifies that gap in scholarship by discussing a range of introductory issues and ebates in contemporary scholarship, providing a new critical edition of the text and a comprehensive commentary. New arguments are brought forward for the dependence of the Gospel of Peter upon the synoptic gospels. The theological perspectives of the text are seen as reflecting second century popular Christian though. This passion account is viewed as a highly significant window into the way later generations of Christians received and re-wrote traditions concerning Jesus.
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The Gospel of Peter
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• September 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18094 9 • Hardback • Texts and Editions for New Testament Study, 4
study are published in definitive, accessible and informative editions, often with supporting commentary. Collections of essays and monographs that focus upon these types of important sources are also welcome, as they advance the scholarly discussion.
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Gregorii Nysseni Opera Edited by W. Jaeger and H. Langerbeck Visit brill.nl/gno
Opera exegetica In Genesim, Volume 1 Gregorii Nysseni In Hexaemeron Hubertus R. Drobner
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This is the first critical edition of Gregory of Nyssa’s In Hexaemeron based on all known manuscripts, introduced by a complete discussion of the textual transmission and accompanied by extensive annotations on the biblical, classical and patristic sources, and indices.
• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 13315 0 • Cloth (ocxxiv, 105 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 147.• Gregorii Nysseni Opera, 4/1
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The Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture publishes books on the study of religion, on an international and high scholarly level. Jerusalem is a major center for the study of monotheistic religions, or “religions of the book”. The recent creation of a Center for the Study of Christianity in Jerusalem has added a
significant emphasis on Christianity. Studies of other religions, like Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Chinese religion, as well as anthropological studies of religious phenomena will be included in the book series.
Syriac Idiosyncrasies Theology and Hermeneutics in Early Syriac Literature
• July 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18498 5 • Hardback (viii, 188 pp.) • List price EUR 86.- / US$ 123.• Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 11
The study of early Syriac Christianity has for decades been steadily expanding, yet its scope still lags way behind that of research relating to Greek and Latin Christianity. One of the intriguing and understudied topics here is the nature of Syriac Christianity’s autonomous identity in late antiquity. This question is intrinsically connected to its genesis from an indigenous Christian Aramaic background as well as its interaction with the neighboring Jewish milieu. This volume unearthes some of the idiosyncracies -- mainly pertaining to trinitarian theology, christology and hermeneutics -- to be found in early Syriac literature before the onslaught of Greek hegemony. The idiosyncrasies analyzed here offer new insights into the nature of that peculiar brand of early Christianity, confirming a model of an indigenous early Syriac tradition gradually entering into a dynamic interaction with Greek influence.
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Interprétations de Moïse Égypte, Judée, Grèce et Rome Edited by Philippe Borgeaud, Tomas Römer and Youri Volokhine
• November 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17953 0 • Hardback (xiv, 306 pp.) • List price EUR 104.- / US$ 154.• Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 10
The present volume is the result of a team research which gathered biblical scholars, philologists, and historians of religions, on the issue of the multiple «Interpretations of Moses» inherited from the ancient mediterranean cultures. The concrete outcome of this comparative inquiry is the common translation and commentary of the fragments from the works of the mysterious Artapanus. The comparative perspective suggested here is not so much methodological, or thematic. It is first of all an invitation to cross disciplinary boundaries and to take account of the contributions of diverse cultures to the formation of a single mythology, in the case, a Moses mythology. With respect to Judea, Greece, Egypt or Rome, and further more an emerging christianity and its «gnostic» counterpart, the figure of Moses is at the heart of a cross-cultural dialogue the pieces of which, if they can be seperated for the confort of their specific study, mostly gain by being put together.
Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements Edited by J. den Boeft, B.D. Ehrman, J. van Oort, D.T. Runia, C. Scholten, J.C.M. van Winden Visit brill.nl/vcs
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Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language
Scholarly translations, commentary and critical studies of texts and issues relating to early Christianity. 59
Christian Theology and Late-Antique Philosophy in the Fourth Century Trinitarian Controversy Mark DelCogliano
• August 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18332 2 • Hardback (xiv, 302 pp.) • List price EUR 108.- / US$ 153.• Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, 103
Basil of Caesarea’s debate with Eunomius of Cyzicus in the early 360s marks a turning point in the fourth-century Trinitarian controversies. It shifted focus to methodological and epistemological disputes underlying theological differences. This monograph explores one of these fundamental points of contention: the proper theory of names. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Eunomius’s theory as a corrective to previous approaches, contesting the widespread assumption that it is indebted to Platonist sources and showing that it was developed by drawing upon proximate Christian sources. While Eunomius held that names uniquely predicated of God communicated the divine essence, in response Basil developed a “notionalist” theory wherein all names signify primarily notions and secondarily properties, not essence.
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Early Christianity
The Earliest History of the Christian Gathering Origin, Development and Content of the Christian Gathering in the First to Third Centuries Valeriy A. Alikin
• March 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 18309 4 • Hardback (xviii, 342 pp.) • List price EUR 119.- / US$ 169.• Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, 102
Recent research has made a strong case for the view that Early Christian communities, sociologically considered, functioned as voluntary religious associations. This is similar to the practice of many other cultic associations in the Greco-Roman world of the first century CE. Building upon this new approach, along with a critical interpretation of all available sources, this book discusses the social and religio-historical background of the weekly gatherings of Christians and presents a fresh reconstruction of how the weekly gathering originated and developed in both form and content. The topics studied here include the origins of the observance of Sunday as the weekly Christian feast-day, the shape and meaning of the weekly gatherings of the Christian communities, and the rise of customs such as preaching, praying, singing, and the reading of texts in these meetings.
Clement of Alexandria on Trial biblical studies
The Evidence of ‘Heresy’ from Photius’ Bibliotheca Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski
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• March 2010 • ISBN 978 90 04 17627 0 • Hardback (xviii, 186 pp.) • List price EUR 93.- / US$ 132.• Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, 101
Clement of Alexandria (c.150–215 CE) is one of the most significant theologians of the secondcentury, and his work is still the subject of intense academic debate. This book provides a new perspective on Clement’s thought, through a critical examination of the work of one of his critics, Photios (c.820–893 CE). Photios, the Patriarch of Constantinople, based his critique on Clement’s (now lost) treatise ‘Hypotyposeis’, claiming the work contained eight ‘heresies’. The book examines each ‘error’ listed in the 109th codex of Photios’ ‘Bibliotheca’ in depth, using evidence from Clement’s existing work to consider the likely accuracy of Photios’ critique. Focusing on these eight ‘heresies’ offers a unique opportunity to illuminate what in terms of post-Nicene orthodoxy are Clement’s most problematic opinions, setting them in the context of their original philosophical and theological frame.
The Brill Dictionary of Gregory of Nyssa Edited by Lucas Francisco Mateo-Seco and Giulio Maspero
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 16965 4 • Hardback (xxvi, 814 pp.) • List price EUR 173.- / US$ 256.• Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, 99
The Brill Dictionary of Gregory of Nyssa is the fruit of wide-ranging collaboration between experts in Philology, Philosophy, History and Theology. These scholars shared the desire to develop a comprehensive reference work that would help attract more people to the tudy of the ‘Father of Fathers’ and assist them in their work. Gregory of Nyssa’s thought is at once quintessentially classic and modern, as it speaks directly to the contemporary reader. As interest in Gregory has increased along with the number of works devoted to him, the need for a comprehensive introduction and bibliographical reference work has arisen. In order to meet this need, more than forty scholars from various disciplines and perspectives have contributed to this work. In two hundred articles, the Brill Dictionary of Gregory of Nyssa provides a symphonic vision of the studies on Gregory of Nyssa and his thought.
Early Christianity
Martha from the Margins The Authority of Martha in Early Christian Tradition Allie Ernst
• June 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17490 0 • Hardback (xx, 369 pp.) • List price EUR 126.- / US$ 179.• Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, 98
In the popular imagination Martha has become synonymous with the harried housewife, fretting over excessive preparations. The Martha known to early Christians is far removed from this stereotype. Martha was better known for her role in the story of the raising of Lazarus and as apostle and witness of the resurrection. This book gathers and assesses the early traditions about Martha in text, liturgy and iconography. It shows that the significance of Martha has been seriously underestimated and recovers an important and widespread tradition of Martha as apostle and authority figure for early Christians. The analysis of Martha traditions with attention to issues of gender and authority render this book an important contribution to studies on women in early Christianity.
Andrew Itter
The Dyophysite Christology of Cyril of Alexandria Hans van Loon
• April 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17322 4 • Hardback (xvi, 632 pp.) • List price EUR 180.- / US$ 256.• Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, 96
The formula ‘one incarnate nature of the Word of God’ has often been depicted as a summary of Cyril of Alexandria’s (ca 378-444) christology. But no systematic study into his christological works has been published. Besides, there is no consensus regarding the meaning of the key terms and expressions in these works. This book addresses this deficiency by an integral investigation of the archbishop’s christological writings during the first two years of the Nestorian controversy, and comes to the conclusion that his christology is basically dyophysite. This re-appraisal of his christology bears on the understanding of the Council of Chalcedon and on contemporary ecumenical relations, especially those between the Eastern Orthodox and the Oriental Orthodox.
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• March 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17482 5 • Hardback (xx, 256 pp.) • List price EUR 97.- / US$ 138.• Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, 97
The Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria (c.150-215 CE) has received much scholarly debate over whether it can be accorded the role of the third and highest phase of his pedagogy. This was a treatise that promised an account of the true philosophy of Christ set down for Christians seeking higher knowledge of doctrine. This book takes a new approach to deciphering the nature and purpose of these enigmatic books concentrating on the close relationship between method and doctrine, and the number and sequence of the texts as they have come down to us. The outcome is a concise summary of current scholarship on Clement’s method and a fresh picture of how he applies it to the transmission of esoteric doctrines.
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Esoteric Teaching in the Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria
Early Christianity
Angelomorphic Pneumatology Clement of Alexandria and Other Early Christian Witnesses Bogdan Bucur
• May 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17414 6 • Hardback (xxx, 238 pp.) • List price EUR 103.- / US$ 147.• Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, 95
This book discusses the occurrence of angelic imagery in early Christian discourse about the Holy Spirit. Taking as its entry-point Clement of Alexandria’s less explored writings, Excerpta ex Theodoto, Eclogae propheticae, and Adumbrationes, it shows that Clement’s angelomorphic pneumatology occurs in tandem with spirit christology, within a theological framework still characterized by a binitarian orientation. This complex theological articulation, supported by the exegesis of specific biblical passages (Zech 4: 10; Isa 11 : 2-3; Matt 18:10), reworks Jewish and Christian traditions about the seven first-created angels, and constitutes a relatively widespread phenomenon in early Christianity. Evidence to support this claim is presented in the course of separate studies of Revelation, the Shepherd of Hermas, Justin Martyr, and Aphrahat.
God in Early Christian Thought biblical studies
Essays in Memory of Lloyd G. Patterson. Edited by Andrew McGowan, Brian Daley and Timothy Gaden
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• May 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 17412 2 • Hardback (380 pp.) • List price EUR 126.- / US$ 179.• Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, 94
While the diversity of early Christian thought and practice is now generally assumed, and the experiences and beliefs of Christians beyond the works of great theologians increasingly valued, the question of God is perennial and fundamental. These essays, individually modest in scope, seek to address that largest of questions using particular issues and problems, or single thinkers and distinct texts. They include studies of doctrine and theology as traditionally conceived, but also of understandings of God among the early Christians that emerge from study of liturgy, art, and asceticism, and in relation to the social order and to nature itself.
SBL - Early Christianity and Its Literature Visit brill.nl/ecil
ISSN: 1878-4887
John, Jesus, and History, Volume 2 Aspects of Historicity in the Fourth Gospel Edited by Paul Anderson, Felix Just and Tom Thatcher
• December 2009 • ISBN 978 90 04 16916 6 • Hardback (xii, 455 pp.) • List price EUR 152.- / US$ 216.• SBL - Early Christianity and Its Literature, 2
This groundbreaking volume draws together an international group of leading biblical scholars to consider one of the most controversial religious topics in the modern era: Is the Gospel of John—the most theological and distinctive among the four canonical Gospels—historical or not? If not, why does John alone among the Gospels claim eyewitness connections to Jesus? If so, why is so much of John’s material unique to John? Using various methodologies and addressing key historical issues in John, these essays advance the critical inquiry into Gospel historiography and John’s place within it, leading to an impressive consensus and convergences along the way.
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Aramaic Studies Edited by Willem F. Smelik and Bas ter Haar Romeny
For more information visit brill.nl/arst
Edited by Hugh Pyper, University of Sheffield Book Review Editor: Tat-siong Benny Liew, Chicago Theological Seminary • 2010: Volume 18 (in 5 issues) • ISSN 0927-2569 / E-ISSN 1568-5152 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 319.- / US$ 435.E-only: EUR 266.- / US$ 362.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 97.- / US$ 132.This innovative and highly-acclaimed journal accommodates articles on various aspects of current biblical criticism. The articles published either give a practical demonstration of how a particular approach may be instructively applied to a biblical text or texts, or make a productive contribution to the discussion of method. The journal provides a vehicle for the exercise and development of a whole range of newer techniques of interpretation, including feminist readings, semiotic, poststructuralist, reader-response and other types of literary readings, liberation-theological readings, ecological readings, psychological readings, and post-colonial interpretation, among many others. Alongside eclectic issues on various subjects, the journal has published collections of articles on particular thematic issues such as: Reading Gender and Gender Reading; The New Historicism; Negotiating Theology; Beyond the Biblical Horizon; The Bible and the Arts; Virtual History and the Bible; The Bible in Film; and Retellings — The Bible in Literature, Music, Art and Film. For more information see brill.nl/bi
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Aramaic Studies: the leading journal for Aramaic language and literature. The journal brings all aspects of the various forms of Aramaic and their literatures together to help shape the field of Aramaic Studies. The journal, which has been the main platform for Targum and Peshitta Studies for some time, is now also the main outlet for the study of all Aramaic dialects, including the language and literatures of Old Aramaic, Achaemenid Aramaic, Palmyrene, Nabataean, Qumran Aramaic, Mandaic, Syriac, Rabbinic Aramaic, and Neo-Aramaic. Aramaic Studies seeks contributions of a linguistic, literary, exegetical or theological nature for any of the dialects and periods involved, from detailed grammatical work to narrative analysis, from short notes to fundamental research. Reviews, seminars, conference proceedings, and bibliographical surveys are also featured. All contributions submitted to Aramaic Studies are subjected to peer review. While almost every script of the relevant languages can be printed, Aramaic Studies encourages its authors to provide modern translations of quotations in any of these languages for the benefit of a wide readership, including biblical exegetes and historians whose field of expertise is not Aramaic. The bibliographic section is sustained by the Semitic Institute at Kampen and the Peshitta Institute at Leiden.
A Journal of Contemporary Approaches
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• 2010: Volume 8 (in 2 issues) • ISSN 1477-8351 / E-ISSN 1745-5227 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 144.- / US$ 196.E-only: EUR 120.- / US$ 163.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 63.- / US$ 86.-
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Brill’s Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics Editors:
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Sabrina Bendjaballah, CNRS & Université Paris Diderot Jean Lowenstamm, Université Paris Diderot & CNRS Chris Reintges, CNRS & Université Paris Diderot • 2010: Volume 2 (in 1 issue) • ISSN 1876-6633 / E-ISSN 1877-6930 • Institutional subscription rates Electronic only: EUR 113.- / US$ 154.Print only: EUR 124.- / US$ 169.Electronic + Print: EUR 136.- / US$ 185.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 41.- / US$ 56.-
Dead Sea Discoveries A Journal of Current Research on the Scrolls and Related Literature Executive Editors:
Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar, Florida State University, Hindy Najman, University of Toronto, Sarianna Metso, University of Toronto • 2010: Volume 17 (in 3 issues) • ISSN 0929-0761 / E-ISSN 1568-5179 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 248.- / US$ 338.E-only: EUR 207.- / US$ 282.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 100.- / US$ 136.-
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Brill’s Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics is a new peer-reviewed international forum devoted to the descriptive and theoretical study of Afroasiatic languages. The territory of the Afroasiatic family spans a vast area to the South of the Mediterranean, extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Middle East and reaching deep into the heart of Africa. Some of the Afroasiatic languages have been studied for centuries, while others still remain partially or entirely undocumented. In the course of the second half of the 20th century, the constantly increasing qualitative and quantitative contribution of Afroasiatic languages to the elaboration of linguistic theory has met with considerable attention from the linguistic community. The Annual will seek top-level contributions in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, comparative and historical linguistics. Its target audience comprises specialists in Afroasiatic languages and general linguists. For more information see brill.nl/baall
Dead Sea Discoveries is an international journal dedicated to the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and associated literature. The journal is primarily devoted to the discussion of the significance of the finds in the Judean Desert for Biblical Studies, and the study of early Jewish and Christian history. Dead Sea Discoveries has established itself as an invaluable resource for the subject both in the private collections of professors and scholars as well as in the major research libraries of the world. • Discussions on new discoveries from a wide variety of perspectives. • Exchange of ideas among scholars from various disciplines. • Thematic issues dedicated to particular texts or topics. For more information visit brill.nl/dsd
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Journal for the Study of Judaism In the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period Executive Editors:
F. García Martínez, University of Groningen and E.J.C. Tigchelaar, Catholic University of Leuven
For more information see brill.nl/jsj
• 2010: Volume 8 (in 3 issues) • ISSN 1476-8690 / E-ISSN 1745-5197 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 236.- / US$ 322.E-only: EUR 197.- / US$ 268.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 72.- / US$ 98.The Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus provides an international forum for the academic discussion of Jesus within the context of first-century Palestine. The journal is accessible to all who are interested in how this complex topic has been addressed in the past and how it is approached today. The journal investigates the social, cultural and historical context in which Jesus lived, discusses methodological issues surrounding the reconstruction of the historical Jesus, examines the history of research on Jesus and explores how the life of Jesus has been portrayed in the arts and other media. The Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus presents articles and book reviews discussing the latest developments in academic research in order to shed new light on Jesus and his world. For more information visit brill.nl/jshj
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The Journal for the Study of Judaism is a leading international forum for scholarly discussions on the history, literature and religious ideas on Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman period. It provides biblical scholars, students of rabbinic literature, classicists and historians with essential information. Since 1970 the Journal for Study of Judaism has been securing its position as one of the world’s leading journals. The Journal for the Study of Judaism features an extensive book review section as well as a separate section reviewing articles.
Edited by Robert L. Webb Book Review Editor: Michael Daise
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• 2010: Volume 41 (in 5 issues) • ISSN 0047-2212 / E-ISSN 1570-0631 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 341.- / US$ 465.E-only: EUR 197.- / US$ 268.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 124.- / US$ 169.-
Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus
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Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions
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Editor: Chris Woods, Oriental Institute in Chicago Editorial Board: John Baines, Jan Bremmer, David Frankfurter, Brian Schmidt, Seth Sanders and Theo van den Hout • 2010: Volume 10 (in 2 issues) • ISSN 1569-2116 / E-ISSN 1569-2124 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 154.- / US$ 209.E-only: EUR 128.- / US$ 174.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 47.- / US$ 64.-
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The journal focuses on the religions of the area commonly referred to as the Ancient Near East encompassing Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria-Palestine, and Anatolia, as well as immediately adjacent areas under their cultural influence, from prehistoric times onward to the beginning of the common era. JANER thus explicitly aims to include not only the Biblical, Hellenistic and Roman world as part of Ancient Near Eastern civilization but also the impact of its religions on the western Mediterranean. JANER is the only scholarly journal specifically and exclusively addressing this range of topics. In the preserved records of Ancient Near Eastern civilizations religion can be seen pervading practically every aspect of daily life, while it is reflected in multiform and often impressive ways in their art and material culture. Ancient Near Eastern religions are therefore vital not only to our understanding of the cultures of that time and area but also as providing the roots and the background for the religions that were to become three major world creeds. JANER is a peer-refereed journal and is intended to provide an international scholarly forum for studies on all aspects of ancient religions. Beside studies of a more general historical, comparative or methodological nature, contributions can include philological studies aimed at disclosing new material that is considered important for our understanding of ancient religions of the area, as well as articles on religious iconography or architecture. JANER addresses itself to scholars and students of the Ancient Near East and its heritage, as well as to historians of religion in general. For more information see brill.nl/jane
Journal of Greek Linguistics Gaberell Drachman, Brian D. Joseph and Anna Roussou • 2010: Volume 10 (in 2 issues) • ISSN 1566-5844 / E-ISSN 1569-9846 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 192.- /US$ 268.E-Only: EUR 160.- / US$ 218.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 58.- / US$ 79.The Journal of Greek Linguistics (JGL) is a newly established peerreviewed international journal dedicated to the descriptive and theoretical study of the Greek language from its roots in Ancient Greek down to present-day dialects and varieties, including those spoken in Asia Minor, Cyprus, Tsakonia, and the Greek diaspora. It aims to offer a focused outlet for publication of first-class research in Greek Linguistics, broadly construed. JGL’s goal is not only to reach linguists interested in the Greek language but also to engage the linguistics community and Hellenists more generally. The input to JGL will thus comprise any topic relevant to Greek linguistics, in the broadest sense, but with some preference given to material with wider relevance to specific subfields within linguistics proper. The intention is therefore on the one hand to encourage discussions and research that illuminate different aspects – theoretical, historical, and descriptive – of general linguistics using Greek data, and on the other hand to offer innovative solutions to problems and issues specific to the description and analysis of the Greek language. Greek has played a central role in linguistics and the study of language for centuries. JGL will bring the language into a key position in current debate within Linguistics and related fields. For more information visit brill.nl/jgl
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Novum Testamentum
Review of Rabbinic Judaism
An International Quarterly for New Testament and Related Studies
Ancient, Medieval, and Modern (Formerly The Annual of Rabbinic Judaism)
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Edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
C. Breytenbach, Humboldt-University Berlin and J. Thom, University of Stellenbosch
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The Review of Rabbinic Judaism, the first and only journal to focus upon Rabbinic Judaism in particular, will publish principal articles, essays on method and criticism, systematic debates (Auseindersetzungen), occasional notes, long book reviews, reviews of issues of scholarly journals, assessments of textbooks and instructional materials, and other media of academic discourse, scholarly and educational alike. The Review fills the gap in the study of Judaism, which is left by the prevailing division of Rabbinic Judaism among the standard historical periods (ancient, medieval, modern) that in fact do not apply; and by the common treatment of the Judaism in bits and pieces (philosophy, mysticism, law homiletics, institutional history, for example). No journal in “Jewish studies” focuses upon the study of religion, let alone upon the single most important Judaism of all time. For more information see brill.nl/rrj
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Novum Testamentum is a leading international journal devoted to the study of the New Testament and related subjects. It covers textual and literary criticism, critical interpretation, theology and the historical and literary background of the New Testament, as well as early Christian and related Jewish literature. • For over 40 years an unrivalled resource for the subject. • Articles in English, French and German. • Extensive Book Review section in each volume, featuring a large section of related titles.
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• 2010: Volume 13 (in 2 issues) • ISSN 1568-4857 / E-ISSN 1570-0704 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 161.- / US$ 219.E-only: EUR 134.- / US$ 182.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 49.- / US$ 67.-
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Vetus Testamentum
Vigiliae Christianae
A Quarterly Published by the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament
A Review of Early Christian Life and Language
Executive Editor: Jan Joosten, University of Strasbourg Book Review Editor: R.P. Gordon, Cambridge
J.C.M. van Winden, Leiden, J. den Boeft, Free University of Amsterdam and J. van Oort, Utrecht/Nijmegen
• 2010: Volume 60 (in 4 issues) • ISSN 0042-4935 / E-ISSN 1568-5330 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 365.- / US$ 497.E-only: EUR 304.- / US$ 414.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 110.- / US$ 150.Vetus Testamentum is a leading journal covering all aspects of Old Testament study. It includes articles on history, literature, religion and theology, text, versions, language, and the bearing on the Old Testament of archaeology and the study of the Ancient Near East. • Since 1951 generally recognized to be indispensable for scholarly work on the Old Testament. • Articles of interest in English, French and German. • Detailed book review section in every issue. Manuscripts for the Quarterly should be addressed to Prof. A. van der Kooij, books for review to Prof. R.P. Gordon. Contributors in the U.S.A. and Canada are requested to send their manuscripts in the first instance to Prof. Carol A. Newsom For more information see brill.nl/vt
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• 2010: Volume 64 (in 5 issues) • ISSN 0042-6032 / E-ISSN 1570-0720 • Institutional subscription rates E + print: EUR 342.- / US$ 466.E-only: EUR 285.- / US$ 414.• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 104.- / US$ 142.Vigiliae Christianae contains articles and short notes of an historical, cultural, linguistic or philological nature on early Christian literature written after the New Testament, as well as on Christian epigraphy and archaeology. Church and dogmatic history are dealt with as they relate to social history; Byzantine and medieval literature are treated as far as they exhibit continuity with the early Christian period. • Leading journal in its field. • Extensive book review section giving a critical analysis of other titles related to the field. For more information see brill.nl/vc
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