The Origins of the Canon of the Hebrew Bible: An Analysis of Josephus and 4 EzraBRILL, 11 de set. 2018 - 284 pàgines In The Origins of the Canon of the Hebrew Bible: An Analysis of Josephus and 4 Ezra, Juan Carlos Ossandón Widow examines the thorny question of when, how, and why the collection of twenty-four books that today is known as the Hebrew Bible was formed. He carefully studies the two earliest testimonies in this regard—Josephus’ Against Apion and 4 Ezra—and proposes that, along with the tendency to idealize the past, which leads to consider that divine revelation to Israel has ceased, an important reason to specify a collection of Scriptures at the end of the first century CE consisted in the need to defend the received tradition to counter those that accepted more books. |
Continguts
Part 1 The TwentyTwo Books of the Jews According to Josephus | 33 |
Part 2 The NinetyFour Books of the Torah According to 4 Ezra | 83 |
Part 3 Comparison and Conclusions | 191 |
Bibliography | 217 |
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