Hebrew Bible/Old testament. : the history of its interpretation / / Volume I, : From the beginnings to the Middle Ages (until 1300). : Part I, : Antiquity : / edited by Magne Saebø ; contributors, John Barton [and twenty six others].

• Superior document: Hebrew Bible / Old Testament ; v.1.1
• TeilnehmendeR: Sæbø, Magne,; Barton, John, 1948-; Förderungsund Beihilfefond Wissenschaft der VG Wort,; Norges forskningsråd,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, [Germany] : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: German
• Series: Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (849 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Table of Contents

Cover; Tilte Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Preface; Historiographical Problems and Challenges: A Prolegomenon By Magne Sæb0, Oslo; A. Beginnings of Scriptural Interpretation ; 1. Inner-Biblical Exegesis By Michael Fishbane, Chicago; 1. Introduction; 2. Scribal Interpretation; 3. Legal Exegesis; 4. Aggadic Exegesis; 5. Mantological Exegesis; 2. The Interpretative Significance of a Fixed Text and Canon of the Hebrew and the Greek Bible; 2.1. The History and Significance of a Standard Text of the Hebrew Bible By Emanuel Tov, Jerusalem; 1. The Prehistory and History of a Standard Text

1.1. The History of Research1.2. A New Description; 2. The Nature and Significance of a Standard Text; 2.2. The Significance of a Fixed Canon of the Hebrew Bible By John Barton, Oxford; 1. The Concept of Canon and the Question of Date; 2. Implications of the Growth of 'Scripture'; 3. Implications of the Closing of the Canon; 2.3. The Interpretative Character and Significance of the Septuagint Version By John W.Wevers, Toronto; 0. Terminology; 1. The Question of'Interpretative Character; 2. Differences in Length of Some Hebrew and Greek Texts; 3. Different Translators and Recensions

4. Different Groups of Renderings5. The General Interpretative Character of Greek Pentateuch; 6. The Specific Character of Genesis in the Septuagint; 3. Early Jewish Biblical Interpretation in the Qumran Literature By Johann Maier, Cologne; 1. Introduction; 1.1. 'The Bible and Qumran'; 1.2. Research on the Subject; 2. Torah; 2.1. Torah and Pentateuch; 2.2. The Verb drs and the Midrash; 2.3. Priestly Authority; 3. The Teacher of Righteousness and the Qumranic Claims to Authority; 3.1. "Enactor of Justice" and "Prophet like Moses"; 3.2. Torah and Prophets

4. Questions Regarding the Chronological Relationship of Torah Traditions5. Interpretation of Non Legal Texts; 6. Pesher; 4. Early Jewish Interpretation in a Hellenistic Style By Folker Siegert, Münster; 1. Homer and Moses. Hellenistic Art of Interpretation and the Jewish Bible; 1.1. Classical Texts Outdated; 1.2. Plato's Ban of Homer and the Uses of Allegorical Interpretation; 1.3. The Theological Basis of the Stoic Interpretation of Homer; 1.4. A Note on Alexandrian Homeric Philology; 1.5. Homer at School. Greek Handbooks of Interpretation and Their Terminology

1.6. Alternatives to Allegorism: A Note on Platonic Symbolism and on Vergilian Typology1.7. The Jews' Situation in a Greek World. Their Apologetic Interests; 2. The Epistle ofAristaeus: A Hermeneutic Programme; 2.1. Author, Place, Date, and Nature of the Epistle; 2.2. The Contents. Hellenistic and Jewish Components; 2.3. The Epistle's Theological Basis for the Interpretation of Scripture; 2.4. The Author's Bible and the Texts Referred to; 2.5. The High Priest Eleazar's Hermeneutical Rules; 2.6. The Reception of the Epistle of Aristaeus; 2.7. Results and Questions; 3. Aristobulus

3.1. Place, Date, and Character of Aristobulus'Work