Papers by Didier Pollefeyt
BRILL eBooks, Jul 10, 2014
This publication has been typeset in the multilingual "Brill" typeface. With over 5,100 character... more This publication has been typeset in the multilingual "Brill" typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, ipa, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface.
Collationes: Vlaams tijdschrift voor theologie en pastoraal, 2006
BRILL eBooks, Oct 16, 2017
Peeters Publishers eBooks, Apr 26, 2019
BRILL eBooks, 2010
On a personal note, I can say that rabbinic literature is a field that was too little explored du... more On a personal note, I can say that rabbinic literature is a field that was too little explored during my training as a biblical exegete. Once I entered the doctoral program, however, the relevance and richness of this literature soon became undeniable for the study of the Bible and related topics. Therefore, the expert colloquium at our faculty was an excellent opportunity to get an overview of the developments and areas within the field of rabbinic literature and its importance for New Testament scholarship. Divided over two days, the fifteen lectures were grouped in four large topical areas: "State of the Art," "Methodology," "Halakha," and "Language and Literature." After the welcoming address and opening of the colloquium by Didier Pollefeyt, President of Institutum Iudaicum, the Interuniversity Center for the Academic Study of Judaism in Belgium, and Jan Willem van Henten from the Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion (NOSTER), Peter Tomson chaired the first session of the symposium. William Horbury had the honour of introducing the audience to the topic of the symposium. In his lecture "The New Testament and Rabbinic Study: A Historical Sketch" he provided an overview of New Testament interpretation in the light of rabbinic tradition. Although this kind of interpretation only became a distinct field of research in the seventeenth century, already in the third century the interest in Jewish literature and tradition in Christian biblical study was stimulated through controversies between the two religions. This resulted in the practice of confronting the New Testament with Jewish tradition, which also regularly evoked resistance. At the end of the Middle Ages (15th-16th centuries), rabbinic material was prominent in the commentary tradition of New Testament parts of early printed Bibles. The renaissance of Greek was accompanied by an efflorescence of post-Biblical Hebrew study among non-Jews. The Christian Hebraists of the 17th and 18th centuries created the environment which resulted in the work of, for instance, Strack and Billerbeck. Like in ancient times, the application of the rabbinic tradition to the New Testament
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Papers by Didier Pollefeyt