New approaches to the study of biblical interpretation in Judaism of the Second Temple period and in early Christianity : proceedings of the Eleventh 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, 9-11 January, 2007 - Orion Center for the Study of The Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature. International Symposium 2007); Anderson, Gary A., 1955-; Clements, Ruth; Satran, David (2013)
Some considerations on the categories "Bible" and "Apocrypha" / Michael E. Stone -- pt. 1. Interpretation in context. "For from Zion shall come forth Torah" (Isaiah 2:3): biblical paraphrase and the exegetical background of Susanna / Michael Segal -- Different traditions or emphases? The image of God in Philo's De opificio mundi / Gregory E. Sterling -- The implied audience of the Letter of James / Maren R. Niehoff -- James on faith and righteousness in the context of a broader Jewish exegetical discourse / Serge Ruzer -- pt. 2. Comparative studies. You will have treasure in heaven / Gary A. Anderson -- Allegorical interpretations of biblical narratives in rabbinic literature, Philo, and Origen : some case studies / Menahem Kister -- Hermeneutics of holiness : Syriac-Christian and rabbinic constructs of holy community and sexuality / Naomi Koltun-Fromm -- The parallel lives of early Jewish and Christian texts and art : the case of Isaac the martyr / Ruth A. Clements -- pt. 3. Interpretive trajectories. Didymus the Blind and the philistores : a contest over historia in early Christian exegetical argument / Richard A. Layton -- Exegeting the eschaton : Dionysius the Areopagite and the Apocalypse / Sergio La Porta.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- Congresses; Bible -- Hermeneutics -- Congresses