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Ancient Readers and their Scriptures
Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity
Series: - Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, Volume: 107
Ancient Readers and their Scriptures explores the various ways that ancient Jewish and Christian writers engaged with and interpreted the Hebrew Bible in antiquity, focusing on physical mechanics of rewriting and reuse, modes of allusion and quotation, texts and text forms, text collecting, and the development of interpretative traditions.
Contributions examine the use of the Hebrew Bible and its early versions in a variety of ancient corpora, including the Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, and Rabbinic works, analysing the vast array of textual permutations that define ancient engagement with Jewish scripture. This volume argues that the processes of reading and cognition, influenced by the physical and intellectual contexts of interpretation, are central aspects of ancient biblical interpretation that are underappreciated in current scholarship.
Contributions examine the use of the Hebrew Bible and its early versions in a variety of ancient corpora, including the Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, and Rabbinic works, analysing the vast array of textual permutations that define ancient engagement with Jewish scripture. This volume argues that the processes of reading and cognition, influenced by the physical and intellectual contexts of interpretation, are central aspects of ancient biblical interpretation that are underappreciated in current scholarship.
Garrick V. Allen, Ph.D. (2015, St Andrews) is Lecturer in New Testament at Dublin City University and Research Associate at the School of Ancient and Modern Cultures and Language, University of Pretoria. He is the author of The Book of Revelation and Early Jewish Textual Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2017). John Anthony Dunne, Ph.D. (2016, St Andrews) is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Bethel Seminary (St. Paul, MN). He is the author of Persecution and Participation in Galatians (Mohr Siebeck, 2017).
Contributors
Introduction
âGarrick V. Allen and John Anthony Dunne
Reading the Hebrew Bible in Jewish and Christian Antiquity
âWilliam A. Tooman
1 What Did Ben Siraâs Bible and Desk Look Like?
âLindsey Arielle Askin
2 Creation as the Liturgical Nexus of the Blessings and Curses in 4QBerakhot
âMika S. Pajunen
3 The Qumran Library and the Shadow it Casts on the Wall of the Cave
âJonathan D.H. Norton
4 Exegetical Methods in the New Testament and âRewritten Bibleâ: A Comparative Analysis
âSusan E. Docherty
5 Scriptural Quotations in the Jesus Tradition and Early Christianity: Textual History and Theology
âMartin Karrer
6 The Return of the Shepherd: Zechariah 13:7â14:6 as an Interpretive Framework for Mark 13
âPaul Sloan
7 The Hybrid Isaiah Quotation in Luke 4:18â19
âJoseph M. Lear
8 A Single, Huge, Aramaic Spoken Heretic: Sequences of Adamâs Creation in Early Rabbinic Literature
âWillem Smelik
9 The Variant Reading ××× / ××× of Psalm 139:16 in Rabbinic Literature
âDagmar Börner-Klein
10 Jewish and Christian Exegetical Controversy in Late Antiquity: The Case of Psalm 22 and the Esther Narrative
âAbraham Jacob Berkovitz
11 What does âReadingâ have to do with it? Ancient Engagement with Jewish Scripture
âGarrick V. Allen and John Anthony Dunne
Introduction
âGarrick V. Allen and John Anthony Dunne
Reading the Hebrew Bible in Jewish and Christian Antiquity
âWilliam A. Tooman
Part 1: Reading Scripture in the Second Temple Period
1 What Did Ben Siraâs Bible and Desk Look Like?
âLindsey Arielle Askin
2 Creation as the Liturgical Nexus of the Blessings and Curses in 4QBerakhot
âMika S. Pajunen
3 The Qumran Library and the Shadow it Casts on the Wall of the Cave
âJonathan D.H. Norton
Part 2: The New Testament and Practices of Reading and Reusing Jewish Scripture
4 Exegetical Methods in the New Testament and âRewritten Bibleâ: A Comparative Analysis
âSusan E. Docherty
5 Scriptural Quotations in the Jesus Tradition and Early Christianity: Textual History and Theology
âMartin Karrer
6 The Return of the Shepherd: Zechariah 13:7â14:6 as an Interpretive Framework for Mark 13
âPaul Sloan
7 The Hybrid Isaiah Quotation in Luke 4:18â19
âJoseph M. Lear
part 3: Reading Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism
8 A Single, Huge, Aramaic Spoken Heretic: Sequences of Adamâs Creation in Early Rabbinic Literature
âWillem Smelik
9 The Variant Reading ××× / ××× of Psalm 139:16 in Rabbinic Literature
âDagmar Börner-Klein
10 Jewish and Christian Exegetical Controversy in Late Antiquity: The Case of Psalm 22 and the Esther Narrative
âAbraham Jacob Berkovitz
part 4: Reading Retrospective
11 What does âReadingâ have to do with it? Ancient Engagement with Jewish Scripture
âGarrick V. Allen and John Anthony Dunne
All interested in ancient biblical interpretation; textual scholarship on the Septuagint, Hebrew Bible, and New Testament; inner-biblical exegesis and OT in the NT studies; biblical studies