The study of early Judaism and early Christianity has been revolutionised by new evidence from a host of sources: the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Pseudepigrapha, the New Testament Apocrypha, the Nag Hammadi writings and related texts, and new papyrus and amulet discoveries. Now scholars have entered the “next generation” of scholarship, where these bodies of evidence are appreciated in conversation with each other and within the contexts of the wider Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman cultures from the fourth century BCE to the fourth century CE.

This volume features chapters from leading scholars who approach the study of early Judaism and early Christianity from this synthetic approach. The chapters engage in an inter-generational and international dialogue among the past, present and future generations of scholars, and also among European, North-American, African and South-American scholars and their various methodologies and approaches –- linguistic, historical or comparative. Among the chapters are contributions by Professors James Charlesworth (Princeton), André Gagné (Concordia) and Loren Stuckenbruck (Munich), as well as papers from researchers from North America, Europe, South America and Africa.

Lorenzo DiTommaso is Professor or Religion at Concordia University, Canada.

Gerbern S. Oegema is Professor of Biblical Studies at McGill University, Canada.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Foreword and Introduction: Lorenzo DiTommaso, Concordia University, Canada, and Gerbern S. Oegema, McGill University, Canada.
1.The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Thirty Years Later: James H. Charlesworth, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA.
2. 4QEnc (4Q204) Column I: A New Reconstruction: Bronson Brown-De Vost, Brandeis University, USA.
3. The Only Prophet Left: Prophecy in 4 Ezra: Jason Ford, Rice University, USA.
4. What is Gnosticism? Reassessing the Nomenclature: André Gagné, Concordia University, Canada.
5. Bulls and Cows in the Animal Apocalypse of 1 Enoch: Zhenya Gurina-Rodriguez, Brite Divinity School, USA
6. Redemption from the Ashes: Repositioning the Temple in Early Christian and Rabbinic Thought: Andrew W. Higginbotham, Hebrew Union, Cincinnati, USA.
7. Sovereignty and the State of Exception in 3 Maccabees and Late-Ptolemaic Asylia Decrees: Andrew Keddie, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
8. "The Quest for Origins: Jewish Perspectives on the Source of the Nile in the Exodus Narratives of Egypt." Nathalie LaCoste, University of Toronto, Toronto.
9.Et in Aqedah ego: Satan at the Sacrifices of Isaac and Jesus: Gavin McDowell, École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne), France.
10. Mending the Fractures of Genesis: Strategies of Harmonization in the Book of Jubilees: Brett Maiden, Emory University, USA.
11. The Transmission of Jubilees: Reevaluating the Textual Basis: Matthew P. Monger, Norwegian School of Theology, Norway.
12. Compositional Technique in the Temple Scroll: Creative Interpretation and Integrative Interpretation in the Passover Legislation: James Nati, Yale University, USA.
13. Jewish or Christian? Early or Late? The Challenge of Dealing with Christian Apocryphal Literature Today: Pierluigi Piovanelli, University of Ottawa, Canada.
14. Hellish Rhetoric: The Pedagogical Function of the Underworld in 4Q184: Ross P. Ponder, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
15. Interpretations of Abraham's Circumcision in Early Christianity and Genesis Rabbah: Malka Z. Simkovich, Brandeis University, USA.
16. Tributaries to the New Text-Critical Edition of 1 Enoch: Loren T. Stuckenbruck, University of Munich, Germany.
17. Afterword: Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA.
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