Scriptures in the Making

Texts and Their Transmission in Late Second Temple Judaism

Edited by R. Hakola Edited by J. Orpana Edited by P. Huotari

Book cover: Scriptures in the Making

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Biblical Studies

Series: Contributions to Biblical Exegesis & Theology

Series volume number: 109

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(March 2022)

ISBN: 9789042946798

Price: $138.00

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eBook (Published)

(March 2022)

ISBN: 9789042946804

Price: $138.00

The volume examines how the making and the transmission of scriptures was shaped and influenced by major changes in the Second Temple societies. The book contains both detailed readings of biblical and related texts (the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, Qumran Scrolls, and the New Testament) and analyses of what can be known about the societal preconditions of their emergence and use. Many essays discuss the theoretical and methodological premises of our knowledge regarding various social, material, and religious aspects of life in the Eastern Mediterranean in the first centuries before and after the turn of the Common Era. The book offers critical and up-to-date insights into such questions as textual plurality, cultural interaction, the nature of scribal culture and spatial contexts of textual transmission. The essays clarify how the texts and their transmission became an integral part of religious and communal identity building strategies during the Second Temple period.

  • Edited by R. Hakola
  • Edited by J. Orpana
  • Edited by P. Huotari