Cosmos and Creation Second Temple Perspectives 1st Edition by Stefan Duggan, Renate Egger-Wenzel, Stefan Reif ISBN 978-3110676969 3110676966

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ISBN 10:  3110676966

ISBN 13: 978-3110676969  

Author: Stefan C. Duggan, Renate Egger-Wenzel,  Stefan C. Reif

This volume contains essays by some of the leading scholars in the study of the Jewish religious ideas in the Second Temple period, that led up to the development of early forms of Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. Close attention is paid to the cosmological ideas to be found in the Ancient Near East and in the Hebrew Bible and to the manner in which the translators of the Hebrew Bible into Greek reflected the creativity with which Judaism engaged Hellenistic ideas about the cosmos and the creation. The concepts of heaven and divine power, human mortality, the forces of nature, combat myths, and the philosophy of wisdom, as they occur in 2 Maccabees, Ben Sira, Wisdom of Solomon and Tobit, are carefully analysed and compared with Greek and Roman world-views. There are also critical examinations of Dead Sea scroll texts, early Jewish prayers and Hebrew liturgical poetry and how they these adopt, adapt and alter earlier ideas. The editors have included appreciations of two major figures who played important roles in the study of the Second Temple period and in the history and development of the ISDCL, namely, Otto Kaiser and Alexander Di Lella, who died recently and are greatly missed by those in the field.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction

2. In memory of Otto Kaiser (1924-2017)

3. In Memory of Alexander A. Di Lella (1929-2019)

4. Stefan Beyerle
   Heaven: Use, Function and Content of a Cosmic Concept

5. Barbara Schmitz
   Does κίστις Mean “Creator”? The Lexeme κτι- and Its Implications in the Greek-Hellenistic Context

6. Mark White
   Cosmos and Creation in Job 38 (Septuagint)

7. Kristin De Troyer
   Cosmic Events in the First and Last Additions to the Greek Text of the Book of Esther

8. Pancratius C. Legs
   “Bless the Lord, Winter Cold and Summer Heat” Cosmos and Creation in Greek Daniel 3:52-90

9. Michael W. Duggan
   Epiphanies: Cosmic Transcendence in 2 Maccabees

10. Renate Egger-Wenzel
    “Gold from Heaven” in 2 Maccabees

11. Severino Bussino
    Creation and Humanity in the Book of Ben Sira

12. Núria Calduch-Benages
    Polarities in Creation (Sir 33:7-15)

13. Otto Mulder
    A Theology of the Creator and His Creation in Sir 42:15-25

14. Jeremy Corley
    Creation and Cosmos in Greek Sirach 18:1-10

15. William Horbury
    Cosmos and Empire in the Wisdom of Solomon

16. Angelo Passaro
    Creation and History in the Structure of the Book of Wisdom or creation … servant (Wis 16:24)

17. Martina Kepper
    Philosophical Ideas about Cosmos and Creation in the Book of Wisdom

18. Francis M. Macatangay
    God’s Conflict with the Chaos Monster in the Book of Tobit

19. Helen Cashell-Moran
    Cosmological Origins and Creation in 4QInstruction

20. Stefan C. Reif
    The Work of Creation in Early Rabbinic Prayers and Benedictions

21. Dalia Marx
    Ben Sira 42-50: An Antecedent of the Seder ‘Avodah Poems?

22. Biographies of Authors

23. Index of References

24. Index of Authors

25. Index of Subjects

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