The Aqedah at the End of the First Century of the Common Era: Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum, 4 Maccabees, Josephus’ Antiquities, 1 Clement

Updated by: 
Shlomi Efrati
Research notes: 
Reader Checked 19/06/2013 SE
Reference type: 
Journal Article
Author(s): 
Huizenga, Leroy Andrew
year: 
2010
Full title: 

The Aqedah at the End of the First Century of the Common Era: Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum, 4 Maccabees, Josephus’ Antiquities, 1 Clement

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
Volume: 
20
Pages: 
105-133
Abstract: 

The history of the development of traditions of the Aqedah is contested. Most discussion has centered on rabbinic and targumic texts, which has led certain scholars to engage in significant anachronism and others to see the Aqedah as a late development. In either case, other pertinent texts often suffer substantial neglect and misinterpretation. This article examines significant aspects of the Aqedah in documents composed and received in the later first century CE, seeking to do interpretive justice to their particular presentations of the Aqedah and showing that all significant aspects of the Aqedah were established by the end of the first century CE.

Primary Texts: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha: 
Composition / Author: 
Biblical Antiquities
Passage: 
18
Composition / Author: 
Biblical Antiquities
Passage: 
32
Composition / Author: 
Biblical Antiquities
Passage: 
40
URL: 
http://jsp.sagepub.com/content/20/2/105.full.pdf+html
Label: 
17/01/2011
Record number: 
18 508