The Figure of Solomon in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Tradition

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

vi, 274 pp. 12 illus.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Joseph Verheyden, Dr. Theol. (1987), KU Leuven, is Professor of New Testament Studies at that university. He has published and edited monographs and articles on the exegesis and the reception history of the NT. He recently co-edited W. Petersen's Collected Essays on the Diatessaron (Brill 2012).

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All interested in the exegesis and the reception history of the Bible in Jewish, early Christian, and Islamic tradition

Isaac Kalimi, The Rise of Solomon in the Ancient Israelite Historiography

Pekka Särkiö, Solomon in History and Tradition

Wolfgang Zwickel, Der Tempel Salomos im Kontext der Ikonographie und der archäologischen Funde

Joseph Verheyden, Josephus on Solomon

Pablo A. Torijano, Solomon and Magic

Gerhard Langer, Solomon in Rabbinic Literature

Albert L.A. Hogeterp, King Solomon in the New Testament and Jewish Tradition

Tobias Nicklas, Christus und die Oden Salomos

Peter Busch, Solomon as a True Exorcist: The Testament of Solomon in Its Cultural Setting

Jacques van der Vliet, Solomon in Egyptia Gnosticism

Witold Witakowski and Ewa Balicka-Witakowska, Solomon in Ethiopian Tradition

Jules Janssens, The Ikhwan as-Safa’ on King-Prophet Solomon

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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.

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Cain and Abel in Text and Tradition

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9789004188433

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Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites

edited by Martin Goodman, George van Kooten & Jacques van Ruiten

Jews, Christians and Muslims describe elements of their origins with close reference to the narrative of Abraham, including the complex story of Abraham's relations with Hagar. This volume sketches the significance of this narrative in the three traditions.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 ...

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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.

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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 ...