{"title":"Rabbinic and Post-Rabbinic Jewish","authors":"M. Himmelfarb","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Of all the Jewish literature of the Second Temple period, only one work, the book of Daniel, reaches us because Jews chose to transmit it. The other Second Temple texts we know were transmitted to us by Christians or were not transmitted at all but found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Yet later Jewish literature provides evidence that medieval Jews had access to a variety of texts and traditions from the Second Temple period beyond Daniel. No single mode of transmission can account for all of the examples of later knowledge of Second Temple texts. In some instances, there is a compelling case for ongoing Jewish transmission, whereas in others borrowing back from Christians is the best explanation.","PeriodicalId":240988,"journal":{"name":"A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission","volume":"10 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":"134089318","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":"Manichaean","authors":"J. C. Reeves","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Mani and the initial generations of his followers were readers and transmitters of biblically affiliated apocryphal and pseudepigraphical writings. This essay briefly discusses the various ways that Mani and his followers encountered, expropriated, adapted, and reformulated a wide range of Jewish and Christian parascriptural writings for their own communal purposes. It is also suggested that what might appear to be hostility toward the Jewish Bible is in fact a nuanced critique of how “ancestral scriptures” were misunderstood or, in some cases, even deliberately distorted, by their present-day custodians. It is hoped that the present chapter will stimulate further comparative work and contributions to the study of Manichaeism and its biblical affiliations.","PeriodicalId":240988,"journal":{"name":"A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission","volume":"67 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":"130318408","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}