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Of Scribes and Sages: Early Jewish Interpretation and Transmission of Scripture, Vol. 2 »

Authors: Craig A. Evans
ISBN-13: 9780567084477, ISBN-10: 0567084477
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Introduction	1
	Being seen and not heard : the interpretation of Genesis 4:8	4
	Creation in Ezekiel's Merkabah : Ezekiel 1 and Genesis 1	14
	Images of David in early Judaism	33
	The recontextualization of Old Greek Daniel I	47
	The cosmology of P and theological anthropology in the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira	69
	'It overflows like the Euphrates with understanding' : another look at the relationship between law and wisdom in Sirach	114
	The relationship of eschatology to esoteric wisdom in the Jewish pseudepigraphal apocalypses	122
	Herod the Great as Antiochus Redivivus : reading the Testament of Moses as an anti-Herodian composition	134