Empsychoi Logoi- Religious Innovations in Antiquity: Studies in Honour of Pieter Willem Van Der Horst

Contents
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Abbreviations......Page 10
Preface......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
PART ONE.
 CONTEXTS......Page 26
'Judenthum', 'Griechenthum' and 'Christenthum' as Parameters in Early Nineteenth-Century Jewish Political Thinking (I.E. Zwiep)......Page 28
Explaining Change in Judaism in Late Antiquity (M. Goodman)......Page 44
The End of Sacrifice: Religious Mutations of Late Antiquity (G.G. Stroumsa)
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Worshipping the Visible Gods: Conflict and Accommodation in Hellenism, Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity (D.T. Runia)
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PART TWO.
 THE IMPACT OF THE INDIVIDUAL......Page 88
Ammianus Marcellinus' Judgement of Julian's Piety (J. den Boeft)......Page 90
A quodam Persa exstiterunt: Re-Orienting Manichaean Origins (A. de Jong)......Page 106
The Letter of Mara bar Sarapion: Some Comments on its Philosophical and Historical Context (A. Merz and T. Tieleman)......Page 132
John the Baptist According to Flavius Josephus, and his Incorporation in the Christian Tradition (J. Tromp)......Page 160
The Panegyris in Jerusalem: Responses to Herod's Initiative ( Josephus, Antiquities 15.268–291) (J.W. van Henten)......Page 176
PART THREE.
 GROUP DYNAMICS AS AGENTS OF RELIGIOUS CHANGE......Page 200
Sabbath at Elephantine: A Short Episode in the Construction of Jewish Identity (B. Becking)......Page 202
The Opponents in the Johannine Epistles: Fact or Fiction? (M.J.J. Menken)......Page 216
Is there a Heresy that Necessitated Jude's Letter? (G. Van Oyen)......Page 236
Jewish Monotheism and Christian Origins (B.J. Lietaert Peerbolte)......Page 252
The Didache Redefining its Jewish Identity in View of Gentiles Joining the Community (H. van de Sandt)
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Bereshit Bara Elohim: Bereshit Rabba, Parashah 1, Reconsidered (P. Schafer)......Page 292
PART FOUR.
 NEW TEXTS, NEW READINGS......Page 316
Manichaean Elements in an Early Version of the Virgin Mary's Assumption (R. van den Broek)......Page 318
Interpretative Thetas in the Strasbourg Empedocles (J. Mansfeld & K. Algra)......Page 342
'Our Righteous Brethren': Refl ections on the Description of the Righteous Ones according to the Greek Revelation of Peter (Akhm. 2) (T. Nicklas)......Page 354
The Evil Inclination in the Dead Sea Scrolls, with a Re-edition of 4Q468i (4QSectarian Text?) (E. Tigchelaar)......Page 372
A Greek Letter from Syria (K.A. Worp)......Page 383
PART FIVE.
 JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN TEXTS IN COMPARISON......Page 390
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Heliodorus in the Temple and Paul on the Road to Damascus (J.N. Bremmer)......Page 392
The Untold End: 2 Maccabees and Acts (H. Lichtenberger)......Page 410
The Fate of the Wicked: Second Death in Early Jewish and Christian Texts (A. Houtman and M. Misset-van de Weg)......Page 430
'Why do the Nations Conspire?': Psalm 2 in Post-Biblical Jewish and Christian Traditions (G. Rouwhorst and M. Poorthuis)......Page 450
PART SIX.
 THE DEVELOPMENT OF JEWISH LITERATURE......Page 480
The Composition of Prayers and Songs in Philo's De Vita Contemplativa (J.H. Newman)......Page 482
Life and Death in Pseudo-Phocylides (K.-W. Niebuhr)......Page 494
The Phrase 'Good Works' in Early Judaism: A Universal Code for the Jewish Law? (E. Ottenheijm)......Page 510
The LXX Translation of Esther: A Paraphrastic Translation of MT or a Free Translation of a Rewritten Version? (E. Tov)......Page 532
The Hidden Reference: the Role of EDOM in Late Antique and Early Medieval Jewish Hymnography (W.J. van Bekkum)......Page 552
PART SEVEN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE......Page 570
Rearranging the 'House of God': A New Perspective on the Pastoral Epistles (J. Herzer)......Page 572
Prayer as Theological Reflection: The Function of Prayer in Ephesians (G.E. Sterling)
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Reflections on the Apocryphal Gospels as Supplements (G. Mussies)......Page 622
List of Contributors......Page 638
Index......Page 642