Above, Below, Before, and After

Martha Himmelfarbs Forschung hat Wissenschaftler dazu veranlasst, das, was wir über die Entstehungsgeschichte des Judentums und des Christentums zu wissen glaubten, noch einmal zu hinterfragen. Basierend auf ihrer Forschung, bietet dieser Band Beiträge über die Rezeption und Transformation jüdischer und christlicher Texte und Traditionen, über die Grenzen von Sprache, Kultur und Religion hinaus.Ra'anan Boustan/David Frankfurter/Annette Yoshiko Reed: Tours by the Light of Martha Himmelfarb

I. Rethinking Second Temple Judaism
Annette Yoshiko Reed : Hellenistic Judaism beyond Judaism and Hellenism – Benjamin G. Wright : Ben Sira and Cat Stevens: Raising Sons to Stand in the River of Tradition – Steven Fraade : Leadership in the Damascus Document and Related Texts: A Tale of Two Titles - Aryeh Amihay : Social Distancing: Between Sectarianism and Unity in Second Temple Judaism

II. At the Intersections of Judaism and Christianity
John Marshall : Jewish? Judean? Naming John's Apocalypse – Elaine Pagels : »The Innumerable Multitude«: Converted or Coerced? – Abraham Jacob Berkovitz : On Mechanics and Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis: Revelation, Gentiles, and Psalm 29 in Tannaitic Midrash – Peter Schäfer : O Felix Culpa: Curse and Blessing of the Expulsion from Paradise – Hayim Lapin : Amulo of Lyon, the Two Messiahs, and the Dissemination of Rabbinic Culture – William Adler : »Should We Pay Heed to Those Who Say that Jesus was Appointed as a Priest by the Jews?«: Michael Glycas's Refutation of the »Secret Codex« in Tiberias

III. Priesthoods and Liturgies in Transformation
Richard Bauckham : Priests and Levites in the Jerusalem Necropolis – Michael D. Swartz : Priests and Strangers: The Role of the Laity in Yerushalmi Yoma – Ophir Münz-Manor : Singing Rabbis? Reconsidering the Relationships between Rabbinic Literature and Piyyut – Mika Ahuvia : A Woman of Valor in the Late Antique Synagogue – David Frankfurter : Heavenly Liturgy and Its Materialization in Early Coptic Magical Texts

IV. Material Texts
Annemarie Luijendijk : »Embalm Them with Cedar Oil«: Maintenance of Manuscripts with Oil of Cedar – Nicola Denzey Lewis : Reconsidering the Logic of Nag Hammadi's Codex II – John Reeves : 'Otot Ha-Mashiah (Signs of the Messiah) According to Ms. Oxford Bodl. Or. 135: A Transcription and Translation

V. Apocalyptic Afterlives
Elena Dugan : On Late Ancient Readers of 1 Enoch: Suspected, Suspicious, and Supposed – James Vanderkam : Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer and the Book of Jubilees – Sarit Kattan Gribetz : The Abraham Discords: Eschatology and Ancestry in Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer's Binding of Isaac – David Stern : An Apocalyptic Scroll – Ra'anan Boustan : Hekhalot Literature, Scholastic Ritual, and Intercessory Prayer in Midrash Mishle – Gideon Bohak : Divination and Eschatology in Late Antique Judaism