Fountains of Wisdom: In Conversation with James H. Charlesworth

by Gerbern S. Oegema (Editor), Loren T. Stuckenbruck (Editor), Henry W. Morisada Rietz (Editor)

Overview

Leading international contributors on biblical texts, including the New Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls, intersect with the work of James H. Charlesworth and examine Charlesworth's vast contribution to the field of biblical studies, honoring the work of one of the most significant biblical scholars of his generation.

Divided into five sections, this volume begins with a section on the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament texts, with particular focus on the Gospel of John and Jesus studies. The contexts of these texts are considered, with a focus on the Greco-Roman and Jewish worlds, and the varying intersections between texts and the worlds that created them. The contributors then focus on the most significant body of Charlesworth's work, the apocrypha/pseudepigrapha and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the journey concludes with an assessment of the history of scholarship on the core areas addressed across the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567701312
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/18/2023
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x 1.19(d)

About the Author

Gerbern S. Oegema is Professor of Biblical Studies at McGill University, Canada.

Loren T. Stuckenbruck is Professor of New Testament at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.

Henry W. Morisada Rietz is Professor of Religious Studies at Grinnell College, USA.

Table of Contents

Preface
A Selection of Major Works by James H. Charlesworth
Contributors
I. Hebrew Bible and New Testament
1. The Interpretation of Genesis 4:10 in Early Jewish Literature - John R. Levinson, SMU Perkins School of Theology, USA
2. Abraham et l'abrahamisme: Mythe ou réalité? - Simon C. Mimouni, École Pratique des Hautes Études, France
3. Hebrews, the Aqedah, and Early Scriptural Interpretation - C.D. Elledge, Gustavus Adolphus College, USA
4. The Etymology of Belial Once Again: A Case of Tabooistic Deformation? - Brent A. Strawn, Duke Divinity School, USA
5. Just What We Need: Another Allusion in Luke 1? - John B.F. Miller, McMurry University, USA
6. Repentance and Turning as a Unified Motif in Luke-Acts - Kindalee Pfremmer De Long, Pepperdine University, USA
7. Do Mark 16:9-20 and John 7:53-8:11 Belong in Our Bibles? A Case Study in the Intersection of Textual Criticism and Canonical Considerations - Loren L. Johns, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, USA
8. Reconsidering the Poor: A Fresh Translation of Matthew 5:3 - Johan Ferreira, Melbourne School of Theology, Australia
9. Christology in John's Crucifixion Quotations - Michael A. Daise, College of William & Mary, USA
10. Touching the Risen Jesus: Did Jesus Allow Thomas to Do What He Refused to Mary? - Lidija Novakovic, Baylor University, USA
11. Who Is My Brother? Study of the Term adelfós in the Acts of the Apostles - Claire Pfann, University of the Holy Land, Israel
12. How Much of Israel will be saved-a Remnant or all of Israel? A fresh look at Romans 9-11 - Stephen J. Pfann, University of the Holy Land, Israel
13. Jesus Tradition, Christian Creeds, and the New Testament Canon - Lee Martin McDonald, Acadia Divinity College, Canada
II. Greco-Roman and Jewish World
14. When Ontology Meets Eschatology: A Platonized Reading of Deuteronomy 28:1-14 - Gregory E. Sterling, Yale Divinity School, USA
15. On John the Baptist at the Jordan River: Geohistorical and Archaeological Considerations - Shimon Gibson, UNC Charlotte, USA
16. Greco-Roman and Jewish Historiography as Backdrop for the Gospels - Darrell L. Bock, Dallas Theological Seminary, USA
17. From, To, In, and Through Caesarea: Herod's Imperial City as Significant Narrative Setting and Literary Linking Device in the Acts of the Apostles - Jonathan E. Soyars, Westminster College, Cambridge, UK
18. Metatron and Naar: Combining Titles and Rev 3:21 as a Probable Riddle-Solver - Konstantinos Th. Zarras, University of Macedonia, Macedonia
19. Some Considerations on Ethics in Early Jewish Theologies and the New Testament - Gerbern S. Oegema, McGill University, Canada
III. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
20. The Pseudepigrapha and Second Temple Judaism - John J. Collins, Yale Divinity School, USA
21. Enoch's Prayer for Rescue from the Flood: 1 Enoch 83-84, with a New Translation and Notes - Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
22. Cain and the Example of the Birds - Christfried Böttrich, University of Greifswald, Germany
23. Die Bedeutung der Assumptio Mosis für die Erforschung des frühen Christentums - Jan Dochhorn, University of Durham, UK
24. Neither Deuteronomic nor Priestly: The Psalms of Solomon as the Original Answer of Learned Scribes to the Wickedness of High Priest - Patrick Pouchelle, Centre Sèvres, Paris, France
IV. Dead Sea Scrolls
25 Contextual Textual Errors in 1QISa a : How the Scribe Was Impacted by His Textual Environment - Donald W. Parry, Brigham Young University, USA
26. Psalmenhandschriften in den Qumrantexten - Hermann Lichtenberger, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
27. 'Luxury Scrolls' from the Judean Desert - Emanuel Tov, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
28. Qumran Readings in Agreement with the Septuagint against the Masoretic Text. Part Four: 2 Samuel - Corrado Martone, University of Turin, Italy
29. When Prophecy Fails: Apocalyptic Schemes for Dating the 'Appointed Time of the End' in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jesus Movement - James D. Tabor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
30. Science Fiction in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Case of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Nephilim - Helen R. Jacobus, University of Manchester, UK
V. History of Scholarship
31. Of Moses, Mountains, and Models: Joseph Smith's Book of Moses in Dialogue with the Greek Life of Adam and Eve - David Calabro, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, USA
32. Paul Fiebig's Reply to Arthur Drews on the Miracles of Jesus and Apollonius of Tyana - Craig A. Evans, Houston Baptist University, USA
33. The Contribution of Italian Scholarship on Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century - Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA
Indices
Index of Authors
Index of Passages
Index of Subjects

Editorial Reviews

"The essays [the contributors] have produced to honor their teacher and colleague are a smorgasbord of scholarly delights. This book belongs in every theological library. Its essays will be valued by both beginning and experienced biblical scholars, and it is a fitting tribute to someone who exemplifies the best in biblical scholarship." - The Bible Today

“Framed as a letter from the editors to the honoree, Fountains of Wisdom exhibits the kind of academic exchange and dialogue that characterizes Professor Charlesworth's career. Each essay engages some aspect of his monumental and wide-ranging contributions to the fields of Hebrew Bible and New Testament, Greco-Roman and Jewish world, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, and more. As a Festscrhift this is a fitting tribute to a scholar whose four decades of work have shaped much of the conversation within these disciplines. As a collection of essays it contains important contributions by an international group of thirty-four talented women and men speaking to essential topics with a wide breadth of scholarly inquiry.” —Daniel M. Gurtner, Centre for the Study of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity, St Mary's University, UK

“It is a pleasure to commend this volume in which a formidable line up of writers have produced essays on various aspects of Second Temple Judaism, in conversation with and in honor of James Charlesworth, who has made such major, fundamental contributions to the field.” —James Claire VanderKam, University of Notre Dame, USA

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