The origins of the canon of the Hebrew Bible : an analysis of Josephus and 4 Ezra /
Juan Carlos Ossandón Widow
Bok · Engelsk · 2019
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| Omfang | x, 274 sider ;
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| Opplysninger | Revidert avhandling (ph.d) - Pontifical Biblical Institute, Roma, 2016. - "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"--
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| ISBN | 9789004381605
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