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This Survey Chart was created for Dr. Andreas Köstenberger and the biblical backgrounds Ph.D. seminar at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary for Second Temple Jewish and Greco-Roman literature. This chart surveys the key literature, historical timeline, and information surrounding the Second Temple period as well as offers a select bibliography for each section for further research. This 234 page survey chart is divided into nine major sections: Second Temple History, Greek OT (LXX), OT Apocrypha, OT Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo and Josephus, Targums and Rabbinical Literature, NT Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and Greco-Roman literature.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, 2002
Loren T. Stuckenbruck and Daniel M Gurtner, eds. T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2019.
Despite growing recognition that early Jewish culture was far broader than the Bible, the biblical retains its hegemony in the study of early Jewish literature. Often, non-biblical materials are read either as proto-biblical, para-biblical, or biblical interpretation, assimilated into an evolutionary narrative with Bible as the telos. But ancient Jewish literature and culture are far more than proto-biblical. Through a case study of psalmic texts and Davidic traditions, this article illustrates how removing biblical lenses reveals a more vibrant picture of the resources and interests of early Jews. First, it discusses evidence showing that despite a common perception about its popularity, the “Book of Psalms” was not a concrete entity or well-defined concept in Second Temple times. Instead, we find different genres of psalm collection with widely varied purposes and contents, and a cultural consciousness of psalms as an amorphous tradition. Second, it demonstrates how David was remembered as an instructor and founder of temple and liturgy, rather than a biblical author, a notion that, despite common assumptions, is not actually attested in Hellenistic and early Roman sources. Third, it reconsiders two Hellenistic texts, 4QMMT and 2 Maccabees, key sources in the study of the canonical process that both mention writings linked with David. While their value to the study of the canon has been challenged, the assumption that they use “David” to mean “the Psalms” has remained largely unquestioned. But when we read without assuming a biblical reference, we see a new David, and the possibility that the ancient writers were alluding to other discourses associated with him – namely, his exemplary, liturgical, and calendrical legacy – that better fit their purposes. Early Jews were not marching toward the biblical finish line, but lived in a culture with diverse other traditions and concerns that cannot always be assimilated into the story of scripture. Recognizing this fact allow us to see Second Temple literature more clearly on its own terms.
Hidden in Plain Sight, Part I: The Development of the Canon, 2019
I examine the history of the term canon and its use as a list of books making up the bible. This preprint is a section from a book I've written on the Apocrypha: "Hidden in Plain Sight." The book is available from Amazon.com. <https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692747915>
490 years Scheme in the Qumran Scrolls
Michaël N. van der Meer, "The Reception History of Joshua in the Septuagint and Contemporary Documents," in Die Septuaginta-Geschichte, Wirkung, Relevanz, ed. Martin Meiser, Michaela Geiger, Siegfried Kreuzer, Marcus Sigismund, WUNT 405 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018), 431-463, 2018
In this paper the reception of the book of Joshua as reflected in the Old Greek version is placed within the context of contemporary interpretations of the figure and book of Joshua in the Persian, Ptolemaic, Seleucid, Hasmonean, Julio-Claudan and Flavian periods. Attention is given to passages in Ben Sira, Eupolemos, 1 and 2 Maccabees, the Qumran Joshua Apocryphon, 4QTestimonia, the Testaments of Moses, Philo, Acts, Hebrews, 2 Baruch, 4 Ezra, Sibylline Oracles, Josephus and Pseudo-Philo. Particularly the latter two rewritten versions show interesting parallels and contrasts with the Old Greek version of Joshua, when it comes to the role of warfare and attitude to foreign powers. It is argued that a historical and contextual approach instead of an inner-biblical approach to reception history helps to explain the early reception history and even late redaction history of that biblical book.
Commentaries on the Book of Ruth
Academia Letters, 2021
Tornar a Educação Inclusiva, 2009
Bulletin de l'APERA n°3, 2024
LA FAMILIA Y SU CULTURA EN PUEBLOS DE ORIGEN QUECHUA AIMARAS, 2024
STUDY OF THE HYDROUS ETHANOL PURIFICATION STAGE: SIMULATION AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS EXTRACTIVE DISTILLATION USING DWSIM SIMULATOR (Atena Editora), 2024
US-China Competition and the South China Sea Disputes, 2018
International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 2018
Research Square (Research Square), 2023
The American Journal of Pathology, 2011
Revista Mexicana De Psicologia, 2014
Journal of the Medical Sciences, 2018
Journal of Reproduction & Infertility, 2020
Online Learning, 2011