Religions in Antiquity: Essays in Memory of Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough (Studies in the History of Religions)

Table of Contents......Page 4
Foreword......Page 8
In Memoriam / Morton Smith, Columbia University......Page 10
An Appreciation / Samuel Sandmel, Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati......Page 12
Memoir / Alan Mendelson, University of Chicago......Page 27
I. A POSTHUMOUS PAPER......Page 30
Paul and the Hellenization of Christianity / Erwin R. Goodenough with A. Thomas Kraabel......Page 32
II. BIBLICAL STUDIES......Page 78
On the Presence of God in Biblical Religion / Baruch A. Levine, Brandeis University......Page 80
The Celebration of the Feast of Booths according to Zech. xiv 16-21 / Walter Harrelson, Vanderbilt University......Page 97
Psalm 118: The Song of the Citadel / Harry S, May, University of Tennessee, Nashville......Page 106
Psychological Study of the Bible / Frederick C. Grant, Union Theological Seminary, New York......Page 116
Rome in the East / Morton S. Enslin, Bryn Mawr College......Page 134
God's Agent in the Fourth Gospel / Peder Borgen, University of Bergen, Norway......Page 146
The Samaritan Origin of the Gospel of John / George Wesley Buchanan, Wesley Theological Seminary......Page 158
The Earliest Hellenistic Christianity / Robin Scroggs, Dartmouth College......Page 185
The Purpose of the Hellenistic Patterns in the Epistle to the Hebrews / Robert S. Eccles, De Pauw University......Page 216
New Testament and Gnostic Christology / Carsten Colpé, Gottingen University......Page 236
Jewish Influences on the "Heliand" / Gilles Quispel, Utrecht University......Page 253
III, APOCRYPHA AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHA......Page 260
The Prayer of Joseph / Jonathan Z. Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara......Page 262
The Concept of the Messiah in IV Ezra / Michael Stone, Hebrew University, Jerusalem......Page 304
IV. HISTORY OF JUDAISM......Page 322
On the Shape of God and the Humanity of Gentiles / Morton Smith, Columbia University......Page 324
The Facade of Herod's Temple, an attempted Reconstruction / M. Avi-Yonah, Hebrew University, Jerusalem......Page 336
Hellenizations in Josephus' Portrayal of Man's Decline / Louis H. Feldman, Yeshiva College......Page 349
Moses as God and King / Wayne A. Meeks, Indiana University......Page 367
Studies in Cynicism and the Ancient Near East: the Transformations of a Chria / Henry A. Fischel, Indiana University......Page 385
"Not by Means of an Angel and not by Means of a Messenger" / Judah Goldin, Yale University......Page 425
Freedom within Obedience to the Torah / Robert M. Montgomery, Ohio Wesleyan University......Page 438
Rabbis and Community in Thitd-Century Babylonia / Jacob Neusner, Brown University......Page 451
V. SYMBOLISM AND HISTORY OF RELIGIONS......Page 474
Notes on the Symbolism of the Arrow / Mircea Eliade, University of Chicago......Page 476
The "Significance" of Symbols: A Hypothesis Tested with Relation to Egyptian Symbols / Beatrice L. Goff, Yale University......Page 489
The Waters of Life: Some Reflections on Zionist Water Symbolism / V. W. Turner, Cornell University......Page 519
ΝΟΜΟΣ ΦΥΣΕΩΣ: The Concept of Natural Law in Greek Thought / Helmut Koester, Harvard University......Page 534
A Sabazios Inscription from Sardis / Sherman E. Johnson, Church Divinity School of the Pacific......Page 555
Heavenly Enthronement and Baptism, Studies in Mandaean Baptism / Geo Widengren, Uppsala University......Page 565
Problems in the Study of Iranian Religions / Richard N. Frye, Harvard University.......Page 597
Religionswissenschaft revisited / Willard Gurdon Oxtoby, Yale University......Page 604
On the Universality of Symbols / Paul Friedman, M.D., PhD., New York City......Page 623
VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 633
A Bibliography of the Writings of Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough / A. Thomas Kraabel, University of Minnesota......Page 635
Biblical Index......Page 647
General Index......Page 655