A Teacher for All Generations: Essays in Honor of James C. Vanderkam (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)

Cover......Page 1
Volume One
......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 20
List of Contributors......Page 24
Abbreviations......Page 28
James C. Vanderkam-A Teacher for all Generations......Page 38
Publications of James C. Vanderkam (Through 2010)......Page 44
Ph.D. Dissertations Directed by James C. VanderKam (Through 2010)......Page 72
Part One The Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East......Page 74
Configuring the Text in Biblical Studies......Page 76
The Relevance of Textual Theories for the Praxis of Textual Criticism......Page 96
Sea, Storm, Tragedy, and Ethnogenesis: Living the Blues and (Re)Building Community in Post-Katrina America and Early Israel......Page 110
Cain’s Legacy: The City and Justice in the Book of Genesis......Page 122
The Biblical Manumission Laws: Has the Literary Dependence of H on D Been Demonstrated?......Page 138
The History of Pentecontad Time Units (I)......Page 166
The Egyptian Goddess Ma‘at and Lady Wisdom in Proverbs 1–9: Reassessing their Relationship......Page 186
From Name to Book: Another Look at the Composition of the Book of Isaiah with Special Reference to Isaiah 56–66......Page 206
LXX Isaiah or Its Vorlage: Primary “Misreadings” and Secondary Modifications......Page 224
Isaiah and the King of As/Syria in Daniel’s Final Vision: On the Rhetoric of Inner-Scriptural Allusion and the Hermeneutics of “Mantological Exegesis”......Page 242
The Parallel Editions of the Old Greek and Masoretic Text of Daniel 5......Page 274
Daniel and the Narrative Integrity of His Prayer in Chapter 9......Page 292
Part Two Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls......Page 324
Qumran: Caves, Scrolls, and Buildings......Page 326
Digital Qumran: Virtual Reality or Virtual Fantasy?......Page 348
Seven Rules for Restoring Lacunae......Page 358
Collecting Psalms in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls......Page 370
L’épilogue de 4QMMT revisité......Page 382
Identifying Reuse of Scripture in the Temple Scroll: Some Methodological Reflections......Page 414
Biblical Antecedents of the Kinship Terms in 1QSa......Page 432
Leviticus Outside the Legal Genre......Page 452
The Interpretation of Scriptural Isaiah in the Qumran Scrolls: Quotations, Citations, Allusions, and the Form of the Scriptural Source Text......Page 462
The Status and Interpretation of Jubilees in 4Q390......Page 480
Runner, Staff, and Star: Interpreting the Teacher of Righteousness through Scripture......Page 502
Who is the Teacher of the Teacher Hymns? Re-Examining the Teacher Hymns Hypothesis Fifty Years Later......Page 522
Re-Placing Priestly Space: The Wilderness as Heterotopia in the Dead Sea Scrolls......Page 542
Volume Two
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Contents......Page 570
Abbreviations......Page 576
Part Three Early Judaism......Page 586
Tobit as Righteous Sufferer......Page 588
The Growth of Belief in the Sanctity of Mount Gerizim......Page 604
Peton Contests Paying Double Rent on Farmland (P.Heid.Inv. G 5100): A Slice of Judean Experience in the Second Century b.c.e. Herakleopolite Nome......Page 632
Ascents to Heaven in Antiquity: Toward a Typology......Page 648
Eternal Writing and Immortal Writers: On the Non-Death of the Scribe in Early Judaism......Page 668
The Rabbis’ Written Torah and the Heavenly Tablets......Page 684
Demons of Change: The Transformational Role of the Antagonist in the Apocalypse of Abraham......Page 696
Sefer Zerubbabel and Popular Religion......Page 716
Part Four Studies on Enoch and Jubilees......Page 730
Enmeduranki and Gilgamesh: Mesopotamian Figures in Aramaic Enoch Traditions......Page 732
The Parables of Enoch and the Manuscripts from Qumran......Page 750
The Social Setting of the Parables of Enoch......Page 764
1 Enoch 73:4–8 and the Aramaic Astronomical Book......Page 782
Reflections on Sources behind the Epistle of Enoch and the Significance of 1 Enoch 104:9–13 for the Reception of Enochic Tradition......Page 800
On the Importance of Being Abram: Genesis Apocryphon 18, Jubilees 10:1–13:4, and Further Thoughts on a Literary Relationship......Page 810
The Genre of the Book of Jubilees......Page 832
A Note on Divine Names and Epithets in the Book of Jubilees......Page 852
Revisiting the Rebekah of the Book of Jubilees......Page 860
Judah and Tamar in Jubilees 41......Page 878
Enoch and Jubilees in the Canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church......Page 894
Part Five The New Testament and Early Christianity......Page 914
Aspects of Matthew’s Use of Scripture in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls......Page 916
Surprises from Law and Love: In Tribute to Dr. James C. Vanderkam......Page 934
The Meaning of Εὐαγγέλιον in the Inscriptiones of the Canonical Gospels......Page 952
One Ethiopian Eunuch is Not the End of the World: The Narrative Function of Acts 8:26–40......Page 978
“Sit at My Right Hand”: Enthronement and the Heavenly Sanctuary in Hebrews......Page 996
Christians and the Public Archive......Page 1012
Three Apocryphal Fragments from Armenian Manuscripts......Page 1034
Index of Ancient Sources......Page 1042
Index of Modern Authors......Page 1087