Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/09518207211059490
M. Stone
This article examines the relationship between Enoch’s ontological state and the types of information that are revealed to him. Concentrating on two Enochic works, the Book of the Watchers and the Book of Dream Visions, this question is pursued both internally, that is within the works, and in a comparative fashion. Differences were discerned in the presentation of the seer in these two works.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/09518207211033206
Vincent Hirschi
This article argues that Pseudo-Philo carefully crafted the sequence of events and the speeches in Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum (L.A.B.) 49 so as to create connections with Hannah’s story. Through this, the reader is invited to compare the various reactions of the people with those of Hannah, so that Hannah’s role as an exemplar for the people is highlighted. The two stories follow a similar trajectory of disappointments and encouragements but show a marked contrast in protagonists’ attitudes and relationships to God. Faced with similar trials, Hannah succeeds where the people fail. The article also shows that the elements of L.A.B.’s version of Hannah’s story that are not found in the biblical text are nonetheless inspired by hints present in it, showing that Pseudo-Philo grounded his retelling of the story in a close reading of the text.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/09518207221081475
Ruth Margaret Henderson
Although much has been written on the biblical influences on the Book of Tobit, little scholarly attention has been paid to the similarities between the books of Jonah and Tobit, apart from the common term “great fish.” The following study draws attention to the similarities between these two books in terms of their date, narrative strategy, genre, background, worldview, and ideology, and in particular, their use of the unique term “great fish.” The motif of the fish is of great significance in both books, as it sheds light on the exilic background of both works.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/09518207211059474
J. Coogan
Several Greek catena manuscripts preserve material from Jubilees, offering valuable witness to the largely lost Greek version of the book. Yet how did material from this Second Temple composition become part of a late ancient Christian anthology? This article interrogates the transmission of Jubilees material in catena manuscripts of Genesis. Rather than offering direct witness to Greek manuscripts of Jubilees, this material had already been appropriated and restructured before the compilers of catena manuscripts collected and reorganized it around the textual frame of Greek Genesis. Two conduits account for the availability of this material: the use of Jubilees among late ancient chronographers and a widespread genealogical tradition, derived from Jubilees, that names the wives of biblical patriarchs. In late antiquity, the Book of Jubilees often circulated not as a unified composition but as individual units which were assimilated into other structuring frameworks, whether the schemata of chronographers or the (margins of) the Greek Bible itself. The late ancient reception of Jubilees thus foreshadows the atomism of modern text-critical appropriations. The conclusions of this article invite similar exploration for other Second Temple texts.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/09518207211041310
M. Stone
In this paper, I seek to isolate and seek out criteria for understanding the social functioning of esotericism in the period of the Second Temple. In addition to clarifying what is meant by “esoteric,” several other terms are considered: mystery and secret being the chief among them. The understanding of the terminology in studies of Western esotericism is investigated from a comparative perspective. The outcome of this research is then confronted with some esoteric groups of the Second Temple Period such as Therapeutai and Essenes. For the Essenes, the advantage of having both insider and outsider reports of their activity is stressed.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/09518207211032881
Shlomo Zuckier
Within the Hebrew Bible, the phrase reah nihoah (ריח ניחוח), “a pleasing smell,” appears frequently throughout accounts of sacrifice, referring in a most literal sense to the smell of an offering burnt on the altar and offered up “to the Lord.” Throughout multiple Second Temple Jewish texts, both the incidence and meaning of this term shift considerably. Some texts essentially erase the term from sacrificial discourse; others “spiritualize” it, employing reah nihoah in contexts other than physical sacrifices; yet others conflate the “pleasing smell” language with other sacrificial technical terms such as “acceptability” and “atonement.” This article examines the manifold shifts in meaning of reah nihoah in Ancient Jewish texts, considering various biblical translations, Hellenistic works, materials from Qumran, and New Testament texts. After considering how these texts interpret the biblical reah nihoah, it considers possible impetuses for this shift as well as its ramifications.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/09518207211032888
D. Olson
This two-part article presents new evidence and proposals for the original names of the wicked angels listed in 1 En. 69:4–15 and an interpretation of the passage in light of the new proposals. Nine names (plus one additional term) are involved. Contrary to the assertions of most scholars, the names have been remarkably well preserved in the Ethiopic text, and the purpose of the whole is best explained in light of the anti-Babylonian polemic proposed by Henryk Drawnel as the driving force behind the similar angel listings in 1 En. 7–8.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/09518207221075316
Angela Standhartinger
Whereas many of the so-called Jewish Pseudepigrapha still wait for a critical edition, the Life of Adam and Eve—or the Apocalypse of Moses, as the Greek version is captioned in some manuscripts—has received more than three critical editions in recent years. While the question which manuscript or version comes closest to the original form of the story is still under debate, this article argues that the manifold manuscript tradition opens a window into an ancient discussion on Satan’s, Eve’s, and Adam’s role in the story of their expulsion from Paradise. I will concentrate my discussion on Eve’s account of the story in GLAE 15–30 and LLAE 45–60. The three texts differ in their representation of gender roles in Eve’s own account of the fall. None of these versions only exonerates or denigrates Eve, nor is one with the most emancipatory potential easily identified. All three texts, however, document a constant discussion on Eve’s role in Paradise.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/09518207211059475
J. Zurawski
The Wisdom of Solomon is a text intensely concerned with epistemological questions. What is true knowledge? Where does it come from? What’s its purpose? How does one attain it? In each of its parts, Wisdom can be seen directly and clearly tackling these types of problems. The Wisdom of Solomon is also a text deeply and frustratingly ambiguous. Is this some kind of embarrassing irony, a text so intent on delving into the nature and purpose of understanding ultimately unable to be understood? This study looks at how the ambiguity, surely present at several places throughout the book, is, in fact, rhetorically crafted and designed to guide to the reader to greater clarity and understanding. There is, then, no conflict between the stated purpose of the text, to lead the reader to wisdom and knowledge, and the means by which the author does so. The ambiguity and the epistemology of the Wisdom of Solomon are, in the end, inseparable.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/09518207211058998
J. Zurawski, K. Hogan
The following is the second special issue of the Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha (JSP) devoted to studies of the Wisdom of Solomon, edited by Karina Martin Hogan and Jason Zurawski. The collection of papers largely derives from three sessions of the Wisdom and Apocalypticism program unit of the Society of Biblical Literature focused on the important first-century text: “The Wisdom of Solomon at the Crossroads of Wisdom, Apocalypticism, and Philosophy” (2018, Denver); “Knowledge and the Cosmos in the Wisdom of Solomon” (2019, San Diego); and “The Wisdom of Solomon” (2020, online). The first four articles, by Emma Wasserman, Benjamin Wold, Bradley Gregory, and Mark Giszczak, were published in the September 2021 issue. And we are very pleased to present the following four studies, fine examples of the current critical study of this influential text, and we would like to thank Matthias Henze, editor of JSP, for the opportunity and for all of the guidance he has graciously offered in getting out and presenting what we hope will be an important contribution to the study of the Wisdom of Solomon. Karina Martin Hogan in her article, “Ahistorical Interpretation of the Torah Narratives in the Wisdom of Solomon,” tackles one of the more debated questions in the history of research on the text, the confounding lack of proper nouns or precise character descriptions in the final nine chapters of the book. Hogan calls into question the traditional designation of this section as the “Book of History,” as the Torah narrative is presented not as a record of historical events but rather as a mythos, as paradigmatic stories designed to educate. Hogan closely examines three examples—the first Antithesis (11:1–14), the
以下是由Karina Martin Hogan和Jason Zurawski编辑的《伪典研究杂志》(JSP)专门研究所罗门智慧的第二期特刊。这些论文主要来自圣经文学学会智慧与启示项目单元的三次会议,重点关注第一世纪的重要文本:“所罗门在智慧、启示和哲学的十字路口的智慧”(2018年,丹佛);《所罗门智慧中的知识与宇宙》(2019年,圣地亚哥);《所罗门的智慧》(2020,在线)。由Emma Wasserman, Benjamin Wold, Bradley Gregory和Mark Giszczak撰写的前四篇文章发表在2021年9月号上。我们很高兴为大家介绍以下四篇研究,这是当前对这篇有影响力的文本进行批判性研究的好例子,我们要感谢JSP的编辑马蒂亚斯·亨泽,感谢他提供的机会以及他所提供的所有指导我们希望这些研究将对所罗门智慧的研究做出重要贡献。卡琳娜·马丁·霍根(Karina Martin Hogan)在她的文章《所罗门智慧中的托拉叙事的非历史解读》(a - historical Interpretation of Torah Narratives in the Wisdom of Solomon)中,解决了历史上对该文本的研究中一个更有争议的问题,即该书最后九章缺乏专有名词或精确的人物描述,令人困惑。霍根对传统上将这一部分称为“历史之书”的说法提出了质疑,因为《托拉》的叙述不是作为历史事件的记录,而是作为神话,作为旨在教育的范例故事。霍根仔细研究了三个例子——第一个反题(11:1-14)
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