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The Influence of 1 Enoch on the New Testament
Explore how 1 Enoch likely shaped the language, imagery, and theology of the New Testament, from the Gospels' Son of Man to Revelation's final judgmen...
The Primordial History: Genesis 1–11 and the Ancient Near East
Explore key narratives in Genesis 1–11, from creation to Babel, compared with their Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Sumerian counterparts to reveal how Is...
Melammu: Divine Radiance in the Ancient Near East and Biblical Traditions
Explore how Melammu, the awe-inspiring radiance of gods and kings in ancient Mesopotamia, originated in the overwhelming brightness of the sun and sta...
How the Dead Sea Scrolls Anticipate the New Testament
Explore theological and social concepts in the Dead Sea Scrolls that are similar to the theology, language, and practices later described in the New T...
Some Differences Between the Septuagint and Masoretic Traditions
Explore how the two most influential text traditions, the Septuagint and the Masoretic Text, each shaped, expanded, and condensed their inherited text...
Paul the Rabbi
Explore how Paul's methods of reading scripture, reasoning, arguing, and telling stories anticipate the techniques later expanded and codified in rabb...
The Solar and Lunar Calendar Debate
Explore how communities debated whether the sun or the moon should govern the festival year, from the solar calendar of 1 Enoch and Jubilees through t...
King Josiah at the Center of Israel's History
Explore how Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings use distinct Deuteronomic language and literary structure that converges on Josiah's reform, suggesting...
The World Tree in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Traditions
Explore how the image of a great tree at the center of the world was inherited from Mesopotamian myth into the Hebrew Bible and reshaped by later Jewi...
The Influence of Philo of Alexandria
Explore how the first-century Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria read the Torah through Greek philosophy, and how the concepts he developed influe...
Revelation and Its Literary Siblings
Explore how the book of Revelation shares its visions, angels, beasts, and cosmic judgment with an entire family of Jewish apocalyptic texts written i...
Protecting Widows, Orphans, and the Poor
Explore how the social obligation to protect the most vulnerable members of society evolved from ancient Near Eastern culture into the Hebrew Bible, p...
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Borrowing Authority from Established Texts
How Citation, Allusion, and Rewriting Ground New Claims in Established Traditions
Be Wary of Sensationalism
Why the Fantastical Imagery of Second Temple Texts Belongs to Their World
Reading the Final Form and Reading Its History
What Each Approach Brings Into View in a Familiar Text
Be Wary of Minimalism and Maximalism
Avoiding Extremes When Discovering New and Unusual Texts
How Biblical Authors Identified Their Quotations
Citation Formulas in Second Temple Jewish, Christian, and Rabbinic Literature
Intertextuality and Rewritten Scripture
A Controversial Intersection between Copying and Creating
Intertextuality and Reception History
The Intersection of Similar Concepts
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A More Perfect Torah: At the Intersection of Philology and Hermeneutics in Deuteronomy and the Temple Scroll
Levinson, Bernard M. • Penn State University Press • 2013
Covenant In Daniel And The Dead Sea Scrolls: An Exposition Of Daniel 9-12 And Selected Sections Of The Damascus Document (CD), Community Rule (1QS), Hymns Scroll (1QHa) And War Scroll (1QM)
Linington, Silvia Anneliese • University of South Africa • 2014
"Danielic Influence at the Intersection of Matthew and the Dead Sea Scrolls" in Anders Runesson and Daniel M. Gurtner, Ed., Matthew Within Judaism: Israel and the Nations in the First Gospel
Gurtner, Daniel M. • Society of Biblical Literature • 2019
Greek Gospels and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls: Compositional, Conceptual, and Cultural Intersections
Perrin, Andrew B. • De Gruyter • 2020
Households, Sects, and the Origins of Rabbinic Judaism
Sivertsev, Alexei M. • Brill • 2005
Intertextual Discourse and the Problem of God: The Intersection of the Speeches of Job and Deuteronomy
Swinney, James Kipp • Abiline Christian University • 2016
The Theology, Halakhah, Politics, and Esotericism of the DSS Essene Sect Compared with Normative Rabbinic Practices and that of the Second Temple Sadducees
Levy, David B. • Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Convention of the Association of Jewish Libraries • 2008
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