New Vistas on Early Judaism and Christistianity From Enoch to Montreal and Back

includes index and biblioraphy

The old testament pseudepigrapha - Thirty years later ................3 1. Early jewish Texts and traditions Enoch 1: A comparison of two translations ..........25 Iron age heroes and Enochic Giants ..........41 Bulls, Cows and the Tragic Fate of the females at The Eschaton ..............85 Confined by Mountains of Metal .............99 Compositional Technique in the temple scroll: Creative interpretation and integrative Interpretation in the Passover legislation ...............112 Hellish Rhetoric: The Pedagogical Function of the Underworld in 4q184.................131 The Transmission of Jubilees: Reevaluating the Textual Basis ..........................................................153 Mending the Fractures of Genesis : Strategies of Harmonization in the Book of Jubilees ..............172 Ptolemaic sovereignty and the political unconscious of 3 Maccabees ...................193 Belial in the dead sea scrolls ....................217 Flatterers, whisperers, and other hypocrites.................234 Ezra`s Continuity in 4 Ezra ..................251 2. The reception of early Jewish texts and Traditions in Christianity and Judaism Interpretations of Abraham`s Circumcision in early christianity and Genesis Rabbah ..............267 Redemption from the Ashes: Repositioning atonement and Sacrifice in early christian and Rabbinic Thought...............287 Inside the Parables : Inside and Outside in the apocryphon of James and in the First in-Parables speech of Mark ..........301 The Evolution of the Figure of Nomrod through the lens of Rabbinic LIterature .................317 Jewish Apocalyptic and Mystical Background in the Gospel of Judas.................337 Satan at the Sacrifices of Isaac and Jesus ...........355 What are Scholars saving about gnosticism ............373