Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation from Second Temple Literature Through Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity - Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Jointly Sponsored by the Hebrew University Center for the Study of Christianity, 22-24 February, 2011

Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation presents fourteen papers delivered at the Thirteenth Orion Center International Symposium, which trace the development of interpretive traditions found in Second Temple texts through later interpretive contexts.

About the author

Menahem Kister, Ph.D. (1994), Hebrew University, is a Professor in the Hebrew University Departments of Bible and Talmud.. He has published widely on the Dead Sea Scrolls and related texts and is the editor of The Qumran Scrolls and Their World.

Hillel I. Newman, Ph.D. (1997), Hebrew University, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History, University of Haifa. He has authored The Ma'asim of the People of the Land of Israel: Halakhah and History in Byzantine Palestine.

Michael Segal, Ph.D. (2004), Hebrew University, is an Associate Professor in the Hebrew University Department of Bible, and Editor of the University's Bible Project. He has authored The Book of Jubilees: Rewritten Bible, Redaction, Ideology and Theology.

Ruth A. Clements, Th.D. (1997), Harvard University Divinity School, is Head of Publications for the Orion Center and coeditor of New Approaches to the Study of Biblical Interpretation in Judaism of the Second Temple Period and in Early Christianity.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ruth Clements (Editor), Menahem Kister (Editor), Hillel Newman (Editor), Michael Segal (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.11.2015
• EAN: 9789004274082
• ISBN: 978-90-04-27408-2
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 244 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 795 g
• Series: Studies on the Texts of the De
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism