Product Description: This book is the first English commentary on Philo’s In Flaccum since the publication of Box in 1939. The work contains an introduction in which matters of genre, historical background, the textual evidence, and so forth are discussed...read more

Product Description: Bringing together as it does papers delivered at the 1986 and 1987 meetings of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas Pseudepigrapha Seminar, this collection takes as its theme the Testament of Job. For much of the modern period the Testament of Job has been one of the lesser-known pseudepigraphic products of early Judaism, and this book attempts to remedy the deficiency of scholarly material in the area with a well-balanced treatment of its central concerns...read more

Product Description: This book is the first English commentary on Philo’s In Flaccum since the publication of Box in 1939. The work contains an introduction in which matters of genre, historical background, the textual evidence etc. are discussed. This is followed by a new English translation of the Greek text...read more

Product Description: For those of you who like jargon, this book is about propaganda, protreptics, apologetics and polemics. For those of you who don't, this is a study of ancient religious discourse and the interaction between different religious groups...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In rabbinic parlance, Japheth in the tents of Shem (Genesis 9:27) has become a proverbial expression for the interaction between Greek and Jewish cultures. The present volume contains 15 studies exploring a wide variety of aspects of the meeting of these cultures in antiquity...read more

Product Description: The sixteen essays in this book take a range of approaches and methodologies to the function of sacred books in pagan, Jewish and Christian antiquity. A wide range of topics are covered including a discussion of the emergence of canonical scriptures in late antiquity; investigation of parallels between exegesis of Homer by the Greeks and that of the Bible by the Jews; a discussion of the use of scared books as instant oracles; a study of the rise of Virgil's Aeneid to the status of 'canonical' book...read more

Product Description: 15 years after his death the last book by Willem Cornelis van Unnik (1910-1978) is now published. He presents here the results of his thorough investigation of self-definition in the Jewish diaspora of late antiquity. Following an introductory chapter containing a brief Forschungsgeschichte, Van Unnik investigates the semantic field of the Greek term "diaspora", the use of this word in the Septuagint and the New Testament, the history of the term in post-bilical Jewish and Christian writings and the theological understanding of the term...read more

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Product Description: This volume contains the papers of a workshop on Jewish epigraphy in antiquity organized at Utrecht University in 1992. Among the participants were collaborators of the Cambridge Jewish Inscriptions Project and of the Tubinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients project...read more

Product Description: During the past three decades Jaap Mansfeld, Professor of Ancient Philosophy in Utrecht, has built up a formidable reputation as a leading scholar in his field. His work has concentrated on the Presocratics, Hellenistic Philosophy, the sources of our knowledge of ancient philosophy (esp...read more