{"title":"Armenian Philonic Corpus","authors":"A. Terian","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0016","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter accounts for the nearly one-fifth of the extant works of Philo that have reached us by way of a sixth-century Armenian translation, including substantial parts of QG and QE as well as the complete “dialogues” with Tiberius Julius Alexander. The Armenian corpus also includes works the Greek of which is extant, and these provide a valuable control over the Greek text, having been translated in a predominantly interlinear fashion from a text that predates the extant Greek manuscripts. The chapter concludes with a brief survey of the Philonic influence on medieval Armenian authors, focusing on certain works by Gregory of Narek (d. 1003) as an example.","PeriodicalId":240988,"journal":{"name":"A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116769318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Early Jewish Liturgical Texts","authors":"F. Siegert","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0018","url":null,"abstract":"This is the first complete overview, in English, of what is known as having happened in Greek-speaking synagogues of pre-rabbinic times. Teaching religion and morals by interpreting a sacred text read to the public beforehand, was an innovation due to diaspora Judaism and unknown to other cults of Antiquity. And even though there was a ban on writing down prayers lest they fall in the hands of magicians, some have been found on papyrus that may be incantations (which is a reason for writing); others have been written down by Christians, be it literally, be it in a free composition, from hearing in the synagogues. The synagogue service has always been open to the public. Thus the origins of Christian worship may be studied here.","PeriodicalId":240988,"journal":{"name":"A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133216357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Slavonic","authors":"A. Kulik","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"The corpus of Jewish literature of the Second Temple period is represented in the Slavonic tradition by biblical pseudepigrapha (especially of apocalyptic genre) and Josephus. The extant Slavonic manuscripts containing these documents belong to the period spanning the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. However, in some cases their language enables us to date the earliest of their proto-texts reliably to the tenth to eleventh centuries. Like the majority of early Slavonic writings, all the texts in the corpus under discussion have been translated from Greek, and most of these translations were produced in South Slavia. Some of these texts have been preserved uniquely in Slavonic, while others have parallel versions in non-Slavonic languages. Some texts must be faithful rendering of ancient originals. Other texts in their present form are products of medieval Byzantine or Slavonic reworking. The differentiation between ancient and medieval materials is not always easy to make.","PeriodicalId":240988,"journal":{"name":"A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132964121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The Pseudepigrapha Crescent” and a Taxonomy of How Christians Shaped Jewish Traditions and Texts","authors":"J. Charlesworth","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0026","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter I introduce the concept of “the Pseudepigrapha Crescent” and share a perception that many early Jewish traditions and texts escaped the destruction of ancient Palestine in 70 and 135/6 CE and were preserved on the fringes of Rome’s influence. Also, some compositions, like Fifth Maccabees, were created freely from ancient traditions that may be “Jewish” or “Christian” or a mixture of these complex traditions. I also suggest a taxonomy of how such traditions and texts were altered by Christians as the manuscripts were copied from 70 CE to about the fourteenth century CE. This chapter thus introduces numerous subjects for discussions.","PeriodicalId":240988,"journal":{"name":"A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121641304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Reception and Interpretation of “Old Testament” Figures in Literature and Art from Antiquity through the Reformation: Studies, 1983–2018","authors":"L. Ditommaso","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0027","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a comprehensive bibliography of studies on Adam, Moses, Joseph, and other figures from the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the thirty-five years since the publication of Charlesworth’s two-volume Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. It focuses on the reception and interpretation of these figures in both literature and art from the antiquity through the Reformation. It is limited to survey-style studies and comprehensive works rather than those that examine a biblical figure in a single text or work of art, and in this respect is meant to serve as a gateway to advanced research.","PeriodicalId":240988,"journal":{"name":"A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125815156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Greek","authors":"William A. Adler","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Christian authors and scribes are mainly responsible for the relatively intact survival of the writings of Philo and Josephus, along with the scattered fragments from various other Hellenistic Jewish apologists, commentators, historians, and poets. Byzantine Christianity is also a valuable witness to the Greek text of Second Temple parabiblical writings. Among other things, Christian authors found in these sources insights into the meaning of the biblical text, confirmation of the truth and antiquity of Christian teachings, and raw material for historiography.\u0000Christian authors and scribes are mainly responsible for the relatively intact survival of the writings of Philo and Josephus, along with scattered fragments from Jewish apologists, commentators, historians, and poets of the Hellenistic age. Clement, Origen, and Eusebius of Caesarea (among others) found in these sources confirmation of the truth and antiquity of Christian teachings, and raw material for historiography. While official categorization of parabiblical works from Second Temple Judaism as “apocrypha” may have eroded confidence in their authority, it did not ensure their demise. As late as the 12th century, Byzantine chroniclers and commentators continued to cite approvingly from the Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees.","PeriodicalId":240988,"journal":{"name":"A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134449350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Syriac","authors":"Sergey Minov","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The corpus of Jewish literature of the Second Temple period is represented in the Syriac tradition by biblical pseudepigrapha (especially of apocalyptic genre) and Josephus. The extant Syriac manuscripts containing these documents belong to the period spanning the sixth to the twentieth centuries. Like the majority of not originally Syriac writings, many texts in the corpus under discussion have been translated from Greek. Some of these texts have been preserved uniquely in Syriac, while others have parallel versions in other languages of Christian Orient. Some texts must be faithful renderings of ancient originals. Other texts in their present form are products of late antique or medieval reworking in Greek or Syriac. Differentiating between ancient and medieval, as well as between Jewish and Christian, materials is not always easy.","PeriodicalId":240988,"journal":{"name":"A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127141574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minor Jewish Hellenistic Authors","authors":"F. Siegert","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"The Jewish writings presented here are only known from Christian excerpts: Aristobulus, Demetrius, Eupolemus, the dramatist Ezekiel, and others. Of particular interest is Jason of Cyrene, the author behind what has become the 2nd Book of Maccabees in the Christian Septuagint, in which the Maccabean warriors had to lend their name and their fame to a group of previously anonymous martyrs. His original writing can be reconstructed to some degree. Special attention is drawn to authors, male and female, of technical treatises on matters other than religious, that is law, beginnings of natural sciences, and rhetorics.","PeriodicalId":240988,"journal":{"name":"A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114995380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Armenian","authors":"M. Stone","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents the Jewish Old Testament apocryphal tradition that was transmitted in Armenian and other such works, created in Armenian drawing on biblical and apocryphal tradition. The Jewish works were translated from Greek and Syriac, and the question of Armenian knowledge of Hebrew is discussed. The works attributed to “Books” and “Secret Books of the Jews” are discussed, as well as Canon Lists. Well-known pseudepigrapha are presented, including Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, Joseph and Asenath, 4 Ezra, Life of Adam and Eve, Vitae Prophetarum and other such writings. Embroidered Bible writings, typical of the Armenian tradition, are considered, and the scholarly elaborations on lists of questions, genealogy, and objects or events are examined.","PeriodicalId":240988,"journal":{"name":"A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132591647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Georgian","authors":"J. Gippert","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Within the 1500 years of Georgian literacy, Jewish literature of the Second Temple period is represented by biblical apocrypha and pseudepigrapha as well as a translation of Josephus’s Antiquitates. Among the former, it is especially the ancient versions of Wisdom, Sirach, and the Apocalypsis of Ezra (IV Ezra), preserved in the Oshki-Bible of 978 CE, that deserve special interest. Beyond, the Georgian tradition is comparatively rich in apocryphal texts that are related to Genesis, including two versions of the Vita Adae and various adaptations of the Caverna Thesaurorum. Whereas some of these texts are of noteworthy age (eleventh to fifteenth centuries) and based on Greek or Armenian models, some others such as the Historia de Melchisedech are late translations from Russian (eighteenth to nineteenth centuries). Josephus’s Antiquitates were mostly translated from Greek by the Hellenizing school of Gelati (eleventh to twelfth centuries); chapters 16 to 20 were added in the nineteenth century on a Russian basis.","PeriodicalId":240988,"journal":{"name":"A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130386392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}