Empsychoi Logoi- Religious Innovations in Antiquity: Studies in Honour of Pieter Willem Van Der Horst

671 Pages·2008·2.65 MB·English

by  Alberdina Houtman

Empsychoi Logoi
Religious Innovations in Antiquity
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Ancient Judaism and
Early Christianity
Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken
Judentums und des Urchristentums
Founding Editor
Martin Hengel (Tübingen)
Executive Editors
Cilliers Breytenbach (Berlin)
Martin Goodman (Oxford)
Editorial Board
Friedrich Avemarie (Marburg), Pieter W. van der Horst
(Utrecht), Tal Ilan (Berlin), Tessa Rajak (Reading),
Daniel R. Schwartz (Jerusalem), Seth Schwartz
(New York)
VOLUME 73
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Empsychoi Logoi—Religious
Innovations in Antiquity
Studies in Honour of Pieter Willem van der Horst
Edited by
Alberdina Houtman, Albert de Jong,
and Magda Misset-van de Weg
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2008
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Foreign churches in St. Petersburg and their archives, 1703–1917 / edited by
Pieter Holtrop and Henk Slechte.
p. cm. — (Brill’s series in church history ; v. 29)
Proceedings of a congress held in Oct. 2003 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-16260-0 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Saint Petersburg (Russia) —
Church history. I. Holtrop, P. N. II. Slechte, C. H. III. Title. IV. Series.
BR938.S25F67 2007
274.7'2107—dc22
2007029955
ISSN 1871-6636
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations .............................................................................. ix
Preface ......................................................................................... xv
Introduction ................................................................................ xvii
PART ONE
CONTEXTS
‘Judenthum’, ‘Griechenthum’ and ‘Christenthum’ as
Parameters in Early Nineteenth-Century Jewish Political
Thinking .................................................................................. 3
I.E. Zwiep
Explaining Change in Judaism in Late Antiquity ..................... 19
M. Goodman
The End of Sacrifi ce: Religious Mutations of Late Antiquity ... 29
G.G. Stroumsa
Worshipping the Visible Gods: Confl ict and Accommodation
in Hellenism, Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity ..... 47
D.T. Runia
PART TWO
THE IMPACT OF THE INDIVIDUAL
Ammianus Marcellinus’ Judgement of Julian’s Piety ................. 65
J. den Boeft
A quodam Persa exstiterunt: Re-Orienting Manichaean Origins .... 81
A. de Jong
The Letter of Mara bar Sarapion: Some Comments on its
Philosophical and Historical Context .................................... 107
A. Merz and T. Tieleman
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John the Baptist According to Flavius Josephus, and his
Incorporation in the Christian Tradition ............................... 135
J. Tromp
The Panegyris in Jerusalem: Responses to Herod’s Initiative
(Josephus, Antiquities 15.268–291) ........................................... 151
J.W. van Henten
PART THREE
GROUP DYNAMICS AS AGENTS OF RELIGIOUS CHANGE
Sabbath at Elephantine: A Short Episode in the Construction
of Jewish Identity .................................................................... 177
B. Becking
The Opponents in the Johannine Epistles: Fact or Fiction? ..... 191
M.J.J. Menken
Is there a Heresy that Necessitated Jude’s Letter? ..................... 211
G. Van Oyen
Jewish Monotheism and Christian Origins ................................ 227
B.J. Lietaert Peerbolte
The Didache Redefi ning its Jewish Identity in View of
Gentiles Joining the Community ............................................ 247
H. van de Sandt
Bereshit Bara Elohim: Bereshit Rabba, Parashah 1,
Reconsidered ........................................................................... 267
P. Schäfer
PART FOUR
NEW TEXTS, NEW READINGS
Manichaean Elements in an Early Version of the
Virgin Mary’s Assumption ...................................................... 293
R. van den Broek
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Interpretative Thētas in the Strasbourg Empedocles .................. 317
J. Mansfeld & K. Algra
‘Our Righteous Brethren’: Refl ections on the Description of
the Righteous Ones according to the Greek Revelation of
Peter (Akhm. 2) ......................................................................... 329
T. Nicklas
The Evil Inclination in the Dead Sea Scrolls, with a
Re-edition of 4Q468i (4QSectarian Text?) ........................... 347
E. Tigchelaar
A Greek Letter from Syria ......................................................... 358
K.A. Worp
PART FIVE
JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN TEXTS IN COMPARISON
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Heliodorus in the
Temple and Paul on the Road to Damascus ......................... 367
J.N. Bremmer
The Untold End: 2 Maccabees and Acts .................................. 385
H. Lichtenberger
The Fate of the Wicked: Second Death in Early Jewish and
Christian Texts ........................................................................ 405
A. Houtman and M. Misset-van de Weg
‘Why do the Nations Conspire?’: Psalm 2 in Post-Biblical
Jewish and Christian Traditions ............................................. 425
G. Rouwhorst and M. Poorthuis
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PART SIX
THE DEVELOPMENT OF JEWISH LITERATURE
The Composition of Prayers and Songs in Philo’s De Vita
Contemplativa ............................................................................. 457
J.H. Newman
Life and Death in Pseudo-Phocylides ............................................. 469
K.-W. Niebuhr
The Phrase ‘Good Works’ in Early Judaism: A Universal Code
for the Jewish Law? ................................................................ 485
E. Ottenheijm
The LXX Translation of Esther: A Paraphrastic Translation
of MT or a Free Translation of a Rewritten Version? ......... 507
E. Tov
The Hidden Reference: the Role of EDOM in Late Antique
and Early Medieval Jewish Hymnography ............................ 527
W.J. van Bekkum
PART SEVEN
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
Rearranging the ‘House of God’: A New Perspective on the
Pastoral Epistles ...................................................................... 547
J. Herzer
Prayer as Theological Refl ection: The Function of Prayer in
Ephesians ................................................................................ 567
G.E. Sterling
Refl ections on the Apocryphal Gospels as Supplements ........... 597
G. Mussies
List of Contributors .................................................................... 613
Index ........................................................................................... 617
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ABBREVIATIONS
AAA.A Acta Academiae Aboensis, Ser.A
AB Anchor Bible Series
ABD Anchor Bible Dictionary
ABRL Anchor Bible Reference Library
AGJU Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des
Urchristentums
AJEC Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
AJP American Journal of Philology
ALGHJ Arbeiten zur Literatur und Geschichte des hellenistischen
Judentums
ANET Ancient Near Eastern Texts
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt
AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament
ASE Annali di storia dell’esegesi
ATANT Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testa-
ments
BARev Biblical Archaeology Review
BASOR The Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BASP Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
BBB Bonner Biblische Beiträge
BBET Beiträge zur biblischen Exegese und Theologie
BETL Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium
BI Biblical Interpretation
Bib Biblica
BibS(F) Biblische Studien (Freiburg, 1895–)
BICS Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies
BIS Biblical Interpretation Series
BK Bibel und Kirche
BN Biblische Notizen
BSR Brown Studies in Religion
BWANT Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament
BZAR Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische
Rechtsgeschichte
BZAW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissen-
schaft
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