01889nam a2200181Ia 4500 230822s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97890041701009004170103 eng BS1700 .K73 2009 Kraft, Robert A. Exploring the scripturesque : Jewish texts and their Christian contexts / Robert Alan Kraft Leiden ; Boston : E. J. Brill, 2009 ix, 313 p. ; 25 cm. Supplements to the journal for the study of Judaism, 137 General context and methodology. The pseudepigrapha in Christianity ; The pseudepigrapha and Christianity, revisited : setting the stage and framing some central questions ; Christian transmission of Greek Jewish scriptures : a methodological probe ; The weighing of the parts : pivots and pitfalls in the study of early Judaisms and their early Christian offspring ; Combined review : The Old Testament pseudepigrapha, edited by James H. Charlesworth; The apocryphal Old Testament, edited by H.F.D. Sparks -- Selected specific studies. Reassessing the "recensional problem" in Testament of Abraham ; "Ezra" materials in Judaism and Christianity ; Towards assessing the Latin text of "5 Ezra" : the Christian connection ; Enoch and written authorities in Testaments of the 12 patriarchs ; The Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila and its echoes of Judaism -- Some related studies. Pliny on Essenes, Pliny on Jews ; Philo on Seth, Philo on Enoch ; Philo's treatment of the number seven in On creation ; Philo and the Sabbath crisis : Alexandrian Jewish politics and the dating of Philo's works ; Tiberius Julius Alexander and the crisis in Alexandria according to Josephus. Bible. New Testament Relation to the Old Testament.Bible. Old Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc.Bible. New Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc. 45593 45593