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DeuterocanonicalandCognateLiterature Yearbook2020/2021 Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook 2020/2021 Edited by Núria Calduch-Benages, Jeremy Corley, Michael W. Duggan, and Renate Egger-Wenzel Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Edited by Stefan Beyerle and Matthew Goff ISBN978-3-11-070219-4 e-ISBN(PDF)978-3-11-070545-4 e-ISBN(EPUB)978-3-11-070547-8 ISSN1614-3361 LibraryofCongressControlNumber: 2021942537 BibliographicinformationpublishedbytheDeutscheNationalbibliothek TheDeutscheNationalbibliothekliststhispublicationintheDeutscheNationalbibliografie; detailedbibliographicdataareavailableontheInternetathttp://dnb.dnb.de. ©2021WalterdeGruyterGmbH,Berlin/Boston Typesetting:bsixinformationexchangeGmbH,Braunschweig Printingandbinding:CPIbooksGmbH,Leck www.degruyter.com Acknowledgements The International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Litera- ture (ISDCL) held its biennial meeting in July 14–18, 2019 at the Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Studies at Greifswald (Germany). More than thirty schol- ars from ten countries in Europe, Israel, North and South America as well as South Africa gathered for the 2019 ISDCL meeting, hosted by Stefan Beyerle. This collection of essays documents most of the talks of the meeting on the topic of “Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature.” We thankallcolleagueswhocontributedwiththeiressaystothisvolume.Wealso thanktheDeutscheForschungsgemeinschaftforitssignificantfinancialsupport. Furthermore, the conference was financially supported by the Foundation Al- friedKruppInstituteforAdvancedStudiesGreifswald.AttheInstitute,Dr.Chris- tian Suhm, its Academic Coordinator, together with Nadine Bauerfeind and DennisGelinek,M.A.,didatremendousjobmakingtheconferencesuchasuc- cessandbyprovidingastimulatingacademicatmosphereattheInstitute.Antje Arens,TheresaPaulandMichaelVogt,secretaryandresearchassistantsatthe Faculty of Theology (Greifswald University), helped immensely with the pro- cessesoforganizingandmakingtheconferencehappen.Lastbutnotleast,we thank Marielis Adami, Dr. Alessandro Casagrande, Dr. Christoph Krasemann, AnnaLast,EmilyOlsenandHannahSiryforproofreadingandtheindices. Greifswald(Germany)andTallahassee,FL(USA) September,2021 StefanBeyerleandMatthewGoff https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110705454-201 – In Memory of Géza G. Xeravits (1971 2019) GézaG.XeravitswasanextraordinaryHungarianscholarinthefieldofOldTes- tament and Early Judaism. He was interested in Antiquity in general, and in Jewishstudiesinparticular.Hewasalwaysabletoconnectwithhisaudiences, studentsandfriendsbymeansofhisbrilliantintellectualandentertainingper- sonality. He was born in Budapest on February 20, 1971, and died after a long strugglewithAmyotrophicLateralSclerosis(ALS)inZsámbékonSeptember27, 2019. Géza Xeravits graduated from the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Bu- dapest.HisfirstpositionwasalectureshipattheSaintAthanazGreekCatholic Seminary, Nyíregyháza. He did his Ph.D. in Theology at the University of Groningen(2002).From2002–2009,hewasAssistantProfessorandProfessorat the Reformed Theological Academy, Pápa. From 2009–2015, he was Professor andChairattheDepartmentofBible,SapientiaCollegeofTheology,Budapest. From 2015–2018, he was Professor of Old Testament at Selye J. University, Komárno(Slovakia).InhislastyearhewasresearchprofessorattheTheologi- calFacultyoftheKároliGáspárReformedUniversity,Budapest. HismainfieldofstudywastheQumrancommunity,andthegroup’slitera- tureandtheologicalthinking.MorebroadlyhewasinterestedintheOldTesta- ment, especially the Book of Isaiah and the Book of Psalms on the one hand, and the so-called deuterocanonical literature on the other. Later his interest turnedtotherepresentationsofbiblicalthemesinlateantiquesynagogueart. His first book on the scriptural interpretation of the Qumran community waspublishedalreadybeforehisgraduationin1995.HefoundedtheHungarian BiblicaljournalStudiaBiblicaAthanasianaofwhichhewaseditorinchiefuntil hisdeath.HereceivedseveralscholarshipsthatallowedhimtostudyinLeuven andGroningen.HewasthedoctoralstudentoftheheadoftheQumranInstitute of Groningen, Florentino García Martínez, in the Netherlands, where he wrote hisdissertationwhichwaspublishedbyBrill.1DuringhisworkinPápahewas theco-founderandsecretaryoftheShime’onCentrefortheStudiesofHellenistic andRomanAgeJudaismandChristianity.Atthisinstituteheeditedthebookse- riesSimeonBooks,DeuterocanonicaandHorizonts.Hismaininitiativewasorga- nizingaseriesofinternationalconferencesondeuterocanonicalbooksinHun- gary. The proceedings of these ten conferences were published by Brill and de Gruyter. After becoming ordained as a deacon at the Saint Maurice Monastery 1 King, Priest, Prophet. Positive Eschatological Protagonists of the Qumran Library. STDJ 47. LeidenandBoston:Brill,2003. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110705454-202 VIII InMemoryofGézaG.Xeravits(1971–2019) (Bakonybél) in 2006, he founded the academic book series of the Monastery (Lectio divina). He completed his habilitation2 at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 2008 and as a result he became a full professor at Pápa. He be- came a member of the international advisory panel of the International Society fortheStudyofDeuterocanonicalandCognateLiterature(ISDCL)andmemberof theadvisoryboardofreviewsofthejournalBiblischeNotizen. AfterhisemploymentattheSapientiaCollegeofTheologyasprofessorand chair of Biblical Studies, in 2009 he founded the book series of the chair (Bib- liatudományiTanszékKiadványai),whichproducedtwelvevolumes.In2010he waselectedasthevicepresidentoftheHungarianSocietyofHebraists,aposi- tionwhichhehelduntilhisdeath.DuringhisworkattheSelyeJánosUniversity starting in 2015 he was awarded a scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsge- meinschaft (DFG), as a result of which he published his monograph: “Take Courage,OJerusalem…”:StudiesinthePsalmsofBaruch4–5(deGruyter2015). AsarecognitionofhisscholarlyworkhereceivedtheJózsefSchweitzerMemo- rial Prizein 2017. During his workat Károli University he preparedthe volume ofhiscollectedessaysFromQumrantotheSynagogues:SelectedStudiesonAn- cientJudaism(deGruyter2019).Hewasabletoenjoythepleasureofitspublica- tionbeforehisdeath. Nexttohisspecificallyscholarlywork,hetookpartextensivelyinorganiz- ingandguidingpilgrimjourneystotheHolyLand,andtocountriesofancient Christianity like Georgia, Armenia and Ethiopia. As an intellectual distillation ofhispilgrimageshepublishedthreebooks.3Fromhislastbookseries:Onthe Edges of Christianity A kereszténység szegélyein which was planned to discuss Armenia,EthiopiaandGeorgia,onlytheportiononArmeniawasfinished;and the manuscript is not yet published. During his teaching at Pápa he even climbed the Himalayas in Nepal. Through the mixture of his intellectual talent andtherecognitionofhispersonalachievements,hislecturesandfriendlydis- cussions with him became superlatively enjoyable intellectual pilgrimages for thestudentsandprofessorswhoworkedwithhim. 2 Könyvtár a pusztában bevezetés a holt-tengeri tekercsek nem-bibliai irodalmába. Deutero- canonica Subsidia 1. Bevezetések. Pápa: PRTA-L’Harmattan, 2008. Later published with somechangesandredactioninGerman:GézaG.Xeravits/PeterPorzig.EinführungindieQum- ranliteratur.DieHandschriftenvomTotenMeer.BerlinandBoston:deGruyter,2015. 3 Jeruzsálem—aFöldköldöke.Szentvárosok,szentkörzetekTibettőlEtiópiáig.Budapest:L’Har- mattan—Agra,2012(Jerusalem—theNaveloftheEarth:HolyCities,HolyDistrictsfromTibetto Ethiopia); Zsidó és keresztény szent helyek a késő-ókori Palesztinában. Budapest: Agra, 2016 (Jewish and Christian Holy Places of Palestine in Late Antiquity); Egy nap Jézus nyomában: AzOlajfák-hegyétőlaSzentSírig.Budapest:BiblicalMuseumBudapest,2017(ADayintheFoot- stepsofJesus:FromtheMountofOlivestotheHolySepulcher). InMemoryofGézaG.Xeravits(1971–2019) IX Asaninternationalscholar,hewrote17books,edited25volumesandpub- lished 113 academic papers in Hungarian and international journals and books.4 Géza Xeravits took part in the discussions during the Budapest conference in2017thathelpedplantheISDCLconferencethatproducedthepapersforthe presentvolume.Dedicatingthisvolumetothememoryofhislifeandwork,we thank God for the academic and intellectual richness we received from discus- sionswithGézaXeravitsandfromreadinghisscholarship.Hewrote:“‘Whydo youlookforthelivingamongthedead?’—askstheangel.Buthecouldask:why doyoulookforthelightinthedarkness?,orthewinneramongthelosers?This message shouts loudly into the closed greyness of our loneliness, it lights into thedarknessofourbleakness,itopensourgravesandleadstolife.”5 JózsefZsengellér 4 Forafullbibliographyseehttps://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication?cond=authors;in;10011978& cond=category.mtid;eq;1&&page=1&labelLang=eng.Forfulltextsofpublicationssee:https:// selyeuni.academia.edu/GezaXeravits. 5 Krisztusköztünk…!GondolatokaSzentírásról.Budapest:L’Harmattan,2009,33.Hisstagger- ing last thoughts written by means of a computer able to read the motion of his eyes was published some days before his death: “My all is living” (“Mindenem él”), Embertárs 93 (2019):203–15.
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