Cosmos and Creation: Second Temple Perspectives

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Cosmos and Creation

Second Temple Perspectives

Edited by: Michael W. Duggan , Renate Egger-Wenzel and Stefan C. Reif

Volume 2019 in the series Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110677041

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Michael W. Duggan, Calgary, Canada.
Renate Egger-Wenzel, Salzburg, Austria.
Stefan C. Reif, Cambridge, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Zum Gedenken an Otto Kaiser (1924–2017) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
In Memory of Alexander A. Di Lella (1929–2019) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Heaven: Use, Function and Content of a Cosmic Concept Stefan Beyerle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Does κτίστης Mean “Creator”? The Lexeme κτι- and Its Implications in the Greek-Hellenistic Context Barbara Schmitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Cosmos and Creation in Job 38 (Septuagint) Markus Witte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Cosmic Events in the First and Last Additions to the Greek Text of the Book of Esther Kristin De Troyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
“Bless the Lord, Winter Cold and Summer Heat”. Cosmos and Creation in Greek Daniel 3:52–90 Pancratius C. Beentjes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Epiphanies: Cosmic Transcendence in 2 Maccabees Michael W. Duggan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
“Gold from Heaven” in 2 Maccabees Renate Egger-Wenzel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Creation and Humanity in the Book of Ben Sira Severino Bussino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Polarities in Creation (Sir 33:7–15) Núria Calduch-Benages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
A Theology of the Creator and His Creation in Sir 42:15–25 Otto Mulder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Creation and Cosmos in Greek Sirach 18:1–10 Jeremy Corley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Cosmos and Empire in the Wisdom of Solomon William Horbury Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Creation and History in the Structure of the Book of Wisdom. ἡ κτίσις … ὑπηρετοῦσα (Wis 16:24) Angelo Passaro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Philosophical Ideas about Cosmos and Creation in the Book of Wisdom Martina Kepper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
God’s Conflict with the Chaos Monster in the Book of Tobit Francis M. Macatangay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Cosmological Origins and Creation in 4QInstruction Helen Cashell-Moran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
The Work of Creation in Early Rabbinic Prayers and Benedictions Stefan C. Reif Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Ben Sira 42–50: An Antecedent of the Seder ‘Avodah Poems? Dalia Marx Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Biographies of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
Index of References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Jewish and Hebrew Studies, Biblical Literature, and Biblical Theology
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 439
Keywords: Cosmos; Creation; Hellenism; Second Temple Judaism

eBook

Published: February 10, 2020
ISBN: 9783110677041

Hardcover

Published: February 10, 2020
ISBN: 9783110676969