The Bible and Hellenism: Greek Influence on Jewish and Early Christian Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367871789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 320 str.

Thomas L. Thompson; Philippe Wajdenbaum

Opis

The Bible and Hellenism takes up one of the most pressing and controversial questions of Bible Studies today: the influence of classical literature on the writing and formation of the Bible.

Spis treści

Introduction: Making Room for Japheth, Thomas L. Thompson and Philippe Wajdenbaum 
Part I: A Mediterranean or Ancient Near Eastern Context?
1. Ancient Historiography, Biblical Stories and Hellenism, Emanuel Pfoh
2. Editing the Bible: Alexandria or Babylon? Etienne Nodet, o.p.
3. Greek Evidence for the Hebrew Bible, Russell E. Gmirkin
4. The Philistines as Intermediaries Between the Aegean and the Near East, Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò
5. Narrative Reiteration and Comparative Literature: Problems in Defining Dependency, Thomas L. Thompson
Part II: Greek-Jew or Jew-Greek?
6. Stranger and City Girl: An isomorphism between Genesis 24 and Homer's Odyssey 6-13, Yaakov S. Kupitz
7. Hesiod’s Heroic Age and the Biblical Period of the Judges, Philippe Guillaume
8. Sex, Violence and State Formation in Judges 19-21, Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme
9. Israel, the Antithesis of Hellas: Enslavement, Exile and Return in the Greek Solon Tradition and the Hebrew Bible, Flemming A.J. Nielsen
Part III: Fleets from Kittim (Num. 24:24) – Roman-Era Texts
10. The Books of the Maccabees and Polybius, Philippe Wajdenbaum
11. Text and Commentary: The Pesharim of Qumran in the Context of Hellenistic Scholarship, Reinhard G. Kratz
12. Josephus in the Tents of Shem and Japheth: The Status of Ancient Authors in Josephus’ Treatise Against Apion 1.1-218, Ingrid Hjelm
13. Recognition Scenes in the Odyssey and the Gospels, John Taylor
14. Hesiod’s Theogony and the Book of Revelation 4, 12, and 19-20, Bruce Louden

O autorze

Thomas L. Thompson is Professor Emeritus, University of Copenhagen, whose many works include The Messiah Myth: The Near Eastern Roots of Jesus and David. Philippe Wajdenbaum is Lecturer at the University of Brussels and author of Argonauts of the Desert: Structural Analysis of the Hebrew Bible.