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Cosmos and Creation

by Michael W. Duggan

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: de Gruyter
  • 15.8 x 23.2 x 2.8 cm

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This volume contains essays by some of the leading scholars in the study of the Jewish religious ideas in the Second Temple period, that led up to the development of early forms of Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. Close attention is paid to the cosmological ideas to be found in the Ancient Near East and in the Hebrew Bible and to the manner in which the translators of the Hebrew Bible into Greek reflected the creativity with which Judaism engaged Hellenistic ideas about the cosmos and the creation. The concepts of heaven and divine power, human mortality, the forces of nature, combat myths, and the philosophy of wisdom, as they occur in 2 Maccabees, Ben Sira, Wisdom of Solomon and Tobit, are carefully analysed and compared with Greek and Roman world-views. There are also critical examinations of Dead Sea scroll texts, early Jewish prayers and Hebrew liturgical poetry and how they these adopt, adapt and alter earlier ideas. The editors have included appreciations of two major figures who played important roles in the study of the Second Temple period and in the history and development of the ISDCL, namely, Otto Kaiser and Alexander Di Lella, who died recently and are greatly missed by those in the field.
Cosmos and Creation and Jews, Bible and Prayer: Essays on Jewish Biblical Exegesis and Liturgical Notions
Jews, Bible and Prayer: Essays on Jewish Biblical Exegesis and Liturgical NotionsCosmos and Creation

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    de Gruyter

  • Published

    February 2020

  • Weight

    772g

  • Dimensions

    15.8 x 23.2 x 2.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9783110676969

  • ISBN-10

    3110676966

  • Eden Code

    5111479

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