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This volume, a tribute to John J. Collins by his friends, colleagues, and students, includes essays on the wide range of interests that have occupied John Collins’s distinguished career.
|VOLUME 1
|Publications of John J. Collins
|Between Athens and Jerusalem, on the Wings of a Dove?
|Susan Ackerman
The Social Location of the Scribe in the Second Temple Period
|Samuel L. Adams
Heraclitus’s Homeric Problems and Midrash Genesis Rabbah: Comparisons and Contrasts
|Philip Alexander
The Identification of the “Wicked Priest” Reconsidered: The Case for Hyrcanus II
|Kenneth Atkinson
What’s in a Name? Naming the Unnameable in Philo and John
|Harold W. Attridge
Redactor or Rabbenu? Revisiting an Old Question of Identity
|Joel S. Baden
Old Testament Ethics: Story or Style?
|John Barton
Future Food and Future Feasting: Tracing the Idea of the Meal in the World to Come in Qumran Literature
|Claudia D. Bergmann
Casting Lots and Distributing Territories: The Hellenistic Background of the Book of Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon
|Katell Berthelot
Authority and Propaganda—The Case of the Potter’s Oracle
|Stefan Beyerle
How Jesus Became Uncreated
|Gabriele Boccaccini
Thrēskeia in 4 Maccabees
|Daniel Boyarin
The Visualisation of the Sacred at Qumran
|George J. Brooke
The Wisdom of the Nations and the Law of Israel: Genealogies of Ethnic Difference in Ben Sira and the Mekhilta
|Joshua Ezra Burns
Zechariah, Zerubbabel, and Zemah: Ideological Development in Early Postexilic Judah
|Laura Carlson
The Divine Assembly in Genesis 1–11
|Richard J. Clifford
The Enochs of Genesis 4 and 5 and the Emergence of the Apocalyptic Enoch Tradition
|John Day
Genre Analysis and Early Christian Martyrdom Narratives: A Proposal
|Michal Beth Dinkler
The Disappearing God in Ezekiel the Tragedian
|Robert Doran
Scent of a Woman: The Influence of Lady Wisdom on 2 Maccabees 7:20–29
|Antonios Finitsis
Preserving the Cult of Yhwh in Judean Garrisons: Continuity from Pharaonic to Ptolemaic Times
|Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley
“If a Case is Too Baffling for You to Decide . . .” (Deuteronomy 17:8–13): Between Constraining and Expanding Judicial Autonomy in the Temple Scroll and Early Rabbinic Scriptural Interpretation
|Steven D. Fraade
Of Doves, Fish, and Goddesses: Reflections on the Literary, Religious, and Historical Background of the Book of Jonah
|Eckart Frahm
Fire and Water? Apocalyptic Imagination and Hellenistic Worldview in 2 Peter
|Jörg Frey
Where’s Enoch? The Mythic Geography of the Qumran Book of Giants
|Matthew Goff
Josephus and Jewish Ethnicity
|Erich S. Gruen
Cutting the Cord with the Familiar: What Makes 4Q265 Miscellaneous Rules Tick?
|Charlotte Hempel
The Dream of a Perfect Text: Textual Criticism and Biblical Inerrancy in Early Modern Europe
|Ronald Hendel
“I Am the Judge”: Judgment in the Apocalypse of Abraham
|Matthias Henze
Mother Zion in Baruch 4:5–5:9 and 2 Baruch 1–12: A Study of Different Models of Intertextuality
|Karina Martin Hogan
Scribal Innovation and the Book of Tobit: A Long Overdue Discussion
|Naomi S. S. Jacobs
What is “Serekh ha-Yahad (S)”? Thinking About Ancient Manuscripts as Information Processing
|Jutta Jokiranta
Deity and Divine in the Hebrew Bible and in the Dead Sea Scrolls
|Reinhard G. Kratz
Simeon and Levi’s Attack on Shechem, or: The Mystery of MS C of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
|James Kugel
What Really Troubled Andronikos? A Note on P.Polit.Iud. 1
|Rob Kugler
Who were the Advisers of the King? A Comparative Study of Royal Consultants in Mesopotamia and in Israel
|Helge S. Kvanvig
Solomon in the Garden of Eden: Autonomous Wisdom and the Danger of Discernment
|Peter T. Lanfer
VOLUME 2
|Inner- and Extra-Jewish Polemics: The Parting of the Way Once Again
|Armin Lange
“Ask What You Wish”: The Intersection between Economic Freedom and Cosmopolitanism in 1 Esdras
|Kyong-Jin Lee
The Place of the Early Printed Editions of Josephus’s Antiquities and War (1470–1534) in the Latin Textual Tradition
|David B. Levenson and Thomas R. Martin
Conceptualizing Spirit: Supernatural Meteorology and Winds of Distress in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
|Ingrid E. Lilly
Covenantal Nomism and the Hebrew Bible
|Timothy H. Lim
From Zedekiah to the Messiah: A Glimpse at the Early Reception of the Sprout
|Christl M. Maier
Ethnicity and Essentialism in and about Ezekiel’s Tragedy
|Stewart Moore
Perfecting Translation: The Greek Scriptures in Philo of Alexandria
|Hindy Najman and Benjamin G. Wright
The Community Rule or Rules for the Communities? Contextualizing the Qumran Serakhim
|James Nati
The Thanksgiving Hymns of 1QHa and the Construction of the Ideal Sage through Liturgical Performance
|Judith H. Newman
Beautiful Theories: Approaching Deut 21:1–9 as Ritual Performance and Narrative Medium
|Susan Niditch
Desires Crossing Boundaries: Romance and History in Josephus’s Antiquities
|Maren R. Niehoff
Lost Historical Traditions: Between Josephus and the Rabbis
|Vered Noam
Defects, Holiness, and Pollution in Biblical Cultic Texts
|Saul M. Olyan
Anthropology, Pneumatology, and Demonology in Early Judaism: The Two Spirits Treatise (1QS 3:13–4:26) and Other Texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls
|Mladen Popović
Les Esséniens et la croyance à la résurrection : de l’eschatologie zoroastrienne aux notices de Josèphe et d’Hippolyte
|Émile Puech
Metacritical Thoughts on “Transcendence” and the Definition of Apocalypse
|Rebecca Raphael
The Passive Qal in the Hebrew of the Second Temple Period, especially as Found in the Wisdom of Ben Sira
|Eric D. Reymond
A Twentieth-Century Irishman’s First Century Palestine: George Moore’s The Brook Kerith
|Zuleika Rodgers
Blake, Enoch, and Emerging Biblical Criticism
|Christopher Rowland
The Origins of the Book of Isaiah
|Konrad Schmid
The Poetics of Abjection in Psalm 44
|Carolyn J. Sharp
The End of Military Campaigns: Gamala and Masada in The Jewish War of Josephus
|Gregory E. Sterling
“I Will Speak . . . with My Whole Person in Ecstasy”: Instrumentality and Independence in the Sibylline Oracles
|Olivia Stewart
Airing the High Priest’s Dirty Laundry: Understanding the Imagery and Message of Zechariah 3:1–7
|Ryan E. Stokes
Thrice Nahum 3:8–10: MT, LXX, and 4Q385a 17 ii—New Proposals
|Eibert Tigchelaar
Textual Criticism of Hebrew Scripture in the 20th Century
|Emanuel Tov
The Role of Charity in the Testament of Job
|Jonathan R. Trotter
The Samaritan and Masoretic Pentateuch: Text and Interpretation(s)
|Eugene Ulrich
Masada World Heritage Site: Josephus the Narrator Defeated
|Jan Willem van Henten
Mastema in the Qumran Literature and the Book of Jubilees
|James C. VanderKam
Women, Worship, Wilderness, and War: Celibacy and the Constructions of Identity in the Dead Sea Scrolls
|Cecilia Wassen
Resonances of Jeremiah in Daniel 9
|Robert R. Wilson
The Angel’s Self-Revelation in Tobit 12
|Géza G. Xeravits
Peace from the Ashes: Commemorating the Wars in the East, the Centre, and the West of the Roman Empire during the “Long Year of the Four Emperors” (68–70 CE)
|Jürgen K. Zangenberg
Hu Ezra Alah mi-Bavel: Ezra as an Exemplar of Babylonian Superiority in Rabbinic Literature
|Shlomo Zuckier