Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xxxvi, 578 pp.

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BRILL

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English

Biographical note

Martin Goodman (DPhil 1980, Oxford) is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford. He has published extensively on the political, social and religious history of the Jews in the Roman empire, including his Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations (Penguin, 2007).

George H. van Kooten (PhD 2001, Leiden) is Professor of New Testament & Early Christianity at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on the Greco- Roman context of the New Testament, including the opening chapter of The Routledge Companion to Early Christian Thought (Routledge, 2010).

Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten (PhD 1990, Amsterdam) is Associate Professor of Old Testament & Early Judaism at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on the reception history of biblical texts, especially in early Judaism including Primaeval History Interpreted: The Rewriting of Genesis 1–11 in the Book of Jubilees (Brill, 2000).

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All those interested in Biblical Studies, Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity, Early Islam, Abrahamic Religions and their respective Umwelts, as well as ancient historians and classicists.

Contributors: Ed Noort, Jacques van Ruiten, Mladen Popovic, Pieter van der Horst, Jan Bremmer, Phoebe Makiello, Abraham Bos, Martin Goodman, Birgit van der Lans, Moshe Lavee, Florentino García Martínez, Ronit Nikolsky, Wout van Bekkum, Joanna Weinberg, George van Kooten, Albert Hogeterp, Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Bas van Os, Johan Leemans, Anthony Hilhorst, Augustine Casiday, W.J. Aerts, Gerald Hawting, and Fred Leemhuis.

€112.00$156.00

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9789004242326

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The Figure of Solomon in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Tradition

Edited by Joseph Verheyden, Catholic University of Leuven

This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference on Solomon that was held at the University of Leuven in 2009 and discussed various aspects of this multifaced character as he appears in Jewish, early Christian, and Islamic tradition.

€105.00$144.00

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ISBN13:

9789004216792

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The Day of Atonement

Edited by Thomas Hieke, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz and Tobias Nicklas, University of Regensburg

The “Day of Atonement” in Leviticus 16 had a formative influence on Judaism and Christianity. The essays in this volume form a representative cross section of the history of reception of Leviticus 16 and the tradition of the Yom ha-Kippurim.

€106.00$137.00

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ISBN13:

9789004192522

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Cain and Abel in Text and Tradition

€133.00$172.00

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9789004170186

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The Significance of Sinai

Edited by: George J. Brooke, Hindy Najman, Loren T. Stuckenbruck. Editorial Assistance: Eva Mroczek, Brauna Doidge and Nathalie Lacoste

The essays in this volume disclose how Sinai, its location, the scriptural narratives about it, and the content of the revelation received there, are variously read by Deuteronomy, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Paul, Josephus, rabbinic literature, art and philosophy.

€133.00$172.00

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ISBN13:

9789004165649

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The Prestige of the Pagan Prophet Balaam in Judaism, Early Christianity and Islam

Edited by George H. van Kooten & Jacques van Ruiten

In this book the ambiguous reception is traced which the pagan prophet Balaam received in Judaism, early Christianity and Islam.

€110.00$142.00

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9789004164246

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Israel in the Wilderness

edited by Kenneth Pomykala

This collection of essays examines how stories from the biblical narrative of Israel in the Wilderness (Exodus 16-Deuteronomy 34) were interpreted by later Jewish and Christian writers (ca. 400 BCE-500 CE) as they sought to speak to their own circumstances.

€100.00$130.00

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9789004153981

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The Revelation of the Name YHWH to Moses

Edited by George H. van Kooten

In this book the varied and important reception is traced which the story of the revelation of YHWH’s name to Moses received in Judaism, early Christianity, and the pagan Graeco-Roman world.

€100.00$130.00

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ISBN13:

9789004142350

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The Creation of Heaven and Earth

Edited by George H. van Kooten

This volume is about significant re-interpretations of the ‘creation of heaven and earth’ as narrated in Genesis 1. The contents and contexts of these later interpretations extend through Early Judaism, Christianity, ancient myth and philosophy right up till the modern discussion about design in ...

€89.00$115.00

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9789004140486

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Sodom's Sin

Edited by Ed Noort and Eibert Tigchelaar

This volume presents an overview of Jewish, Christian and Islamic receptions of the Genesis 18-19 story of Sodom. The subjects range from inner-biblical reception, Dead Sea Scrolls, the Martyrdom of Pionius, and Koran commentaries, to Peter Damian and Marcel Proust.

€100.00$130.00

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9789004126688

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The Fall of the Angels

Edited by Christoph Auffarth and Loren T. Stuckenbruck assisted by Alexandra Wisniewski

Fall of the Angels focuses on a biblical tradition whose significance has been recognised, elaborated and explored in literature and art outside the Bible. Its extensive influence on religion and culture during the last two millenia is reflected in the wide variety of interpretations of this ...