The origins of the canon of the Hebrew Bible : an analysis of Josephus and 4 Ezra /
by Juan Carlos Ossandón Widow.
Bok Engelsk 2019
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| Omfang | x, 274 pages ;
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| Opplysninger | "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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| Emner | Josephus, Flavius. : Contra Apionem.
Bible. . Esdras, 2nd - Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. . Old Testament - Canon - History. Bibelen . GT. Esra : (NO-TrBIB)90057170 Judaism - Apologetic works - History and criticism. |
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| ISBN | 9789004381605
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