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        | Commentaries
		on Early Jewish Literature (CEJL), de
        Gruyter  | 
     
    
        Die auf ca. 58 Bände
        angelegte englischsprachige Reihe behandelt die frühe
        jüdische Literatur zwischen dem 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
        und der Mitte des 2. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. Die Schriften
        sollen jeweils als textliche Einheit vor dem Hintergrund
        ihres jeweiligen jüdischen und historisch-politischen
        Kontextes ausgelegt werden. Dabei werden textbezogene,
        historische, literarische und theologische Analysen
        erstellt. 
		 
		The publishing house Walter de Gruyter is pleased to announce the 
		inauguration of a commentary series which is the first to focus on early 
		Jewish literature. The chief aim of this project is the production of 
		text-based, historical, literary, and theological analyses of Jewish 
		writings whose composition or basic ideas can be traced to the period 
		between the 3rd century BCE (the aftermath of Alexander the Great's 
		conquests) and the mid-2nd century CE (the time of the Bar Cochba revolt 
		and during the codification of the Mishnah). 
		 
		The approximately 58 CEJL volumes shall attempt to uphold the integrity 
		of each writing in relation to its formative Jewish (and 
		religious-historical) context. Each of the volumes will address the 
		following problems: manuscript evidence, formative religious and 
		tradition-historical developments, and social context. Where appropriate, 
		the CEJL volumes shall provide a framework through which to examine the 
		transmission history of the writings. The creation of the CEJL series 
		comes at a time when Jews and Christians are exploring common and 
		distinguishing dimensions of their respective religious traditions. 
		While much attention has been given in recent years to the 'parting of 
		the ways' between Jews and Christians on the basis of writings in the 
		New Testament, CEJL will mark an important achievement in laying 
		groundwork for a further exploration of the interrelatedness between the 
		two now distinct religions. | 
     
    
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        Autor | 
        Titel | 
        EUR | 
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        Jahr | 
     
    
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        978-3-11-026973-4 | 
        Dale C. Allison, Jr | 
         4 Baruch. Paraleipomena Jeremiou
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        89,95 | 
        
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        2018 | 
     
    
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        978-3-11-021248-8 | 
        Alexander Kulik | 
        3 Baruch. Greek-Slavonic Apocalypse of Baruch / discription | 
        199,95 | 
          | 
        2010 | 
     
	
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        978-3-11-020503-9  | 
        Pieter W. van der Horst | 
        Early Jewish Prayers in Greek  | 
        84,-- | 
        
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        2008 | 
     
	
        | 5 | 
        978-3-11-019119-6 | 
        Loren T. Stuckenbruck | 
        1 Enoch 91-108 / 
		discription | 
        280,00 | 
        
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        8/2007 | 
     
	
        | 4 | 
        978-3-11-019118-9 | 
        Daniel R. Schwartz | 
        2 Maccabees 
		/ discription | 
        280,00 | 
        
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        2007 | 
     
    
        | 3 | 
        3-11-018241-6 | 
        Walter T. Wilson | 
        The Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides | 
        74,-- | 
        
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        2005 | 
     
    
        | 2 | 
        3-11-017888-5 | 
        Dale C. Allison Jr. | 
        Testament of Abraham | 
        98,-- | 
        
		  | 
        2003 | 
     
	
        | 1 | 
        3-11-017574-6 
		978-3-11-017574-5 | 
        Joseph A. Fitzmeyer | 
        Tobit | 
        199,95 | 
        
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        2003 | 
     
 
	
		
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		Dale C. Allison 4 Baruch  Paraleipomena Jeremiou 
		De Gruyter, 2018, 463 Seiten, Leinen,  978-3-11-026973-4  
		89,95 EUR 
		  | 
		 This is the first full-scale, verse-by-verse 
		commentary on 4 Baruch. The pseudepigraphon, written in the second 
		century, is in large measure an attempt to address the situation 
		following the destruction of the temple in 70 CE by recounting legends 
		about the first destruction of the temple, the Babylonian captivity, and 
		the return from exile. 4 Bruch is notable for its tale about Jeremiah's 
		companion, Abimelech, who sleeps through the entire exilic period. This 
		tale lies behind the famous Christian legend of the Seven Sleepers of 
		Ephesus and is part of the genealogy of Washington Irving's ""Rip Van 
		Winkle."" Allison's commentary draws upon an exceptionally broad range 
		of ancient sources in an attempt to clarify 4 Baruch's original setting, 
		compositional history, and meaning.  more Literature to 
		4 
		Baruch | 
	 
	
		  | 
		Alexander Kulik 
		3 Baruch  
		Greek-Slavonic Apocalypse of Baruch 
		de Gruyter, 2010, 320 Seiten, Leinen,  
		978-3-11-021248-8  
		199,95 EUR   | 
		This work provides the key 
		to one of the most enigmatic Jewish Hellenistic texts preserved in Greek 
		and Slavonic. Despite the fact that 3 Baruch is one of the major early 
		Jewish apocalypses, it has been relatively neglected in modern 
		scholarship, probably since 3 Baruch is one of the most difficult works 
		to comprehend and classify. Its content differs significantly from that 
		of other writings of the same genre, as the book preserves syncretistic 
		ideas and tendencies which are combined in unique ways. The worldview, 
		the message, and the very textual structure of 3 Baruch are enigmatic in 
		many respects. The present study demonstrates that the textual history 
		of 3 Baruch, implicit meanings and structural links in its text, as well 
		as conceptions behind the text, are partly reconstructable. Moreover, 3 
		Baruch, properly read, significantly enriches our understanding of the 
		history of the motifs found in early Jewish lore, at times providing 
		missing links between different stages of their development, and 
		preserves important evidence on the roots of Jewish mysticism, 
		proto-Gnostic and proto-Christian traditions. The study contains the 
		introduction, synoptic translation, textual notes, and detailed 
		commentaries. 
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		Baruch | 
	 
	
		  | 
		Loren T.
		Stuckenbruck 
		1 Enoch 91-108  
		 
		de Gruyter, 2007, 656 Seiten,  
		978-3-11-019119-6  
		280,00 EUR 
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		The volume is a commentary 
		on 1 Enoch chapters 91-108 that begins with the Ethiopic text tradition 
		but also takes the Greek and Aramaic (Dead Sea Scrolls) evidence into 
		account. This section of 1 Enoch, which contains material from at least 
		five different documents composed some time during the 2nd century BCE, 
		provides a window into the early stages of the reception of the earliest 
		Enoch tradition, as it was being negotiated in relation to elitist 
		religious opponents, on the one hand, and in relation to other Jewish 
		traditions that were flourishing at the time. 
		The commentary, at the beginning of which there is an extensive 
		introduction, is structured in the following way: there is a translation 
		for each unit of text (including the Greek and Aramaic where it exists, 
		with the Greek and Ethiopic translations presented synoptically), 
		followed by detailed textual notes that justify the translation and 
		provide information on a full range of variations among the manuscripts. 
		This, in turn, is followed by a General Comment on the unit of text; 
		after this there are detailed notes on each subdivision of the text 
		which attempt to situate the content within the stream of biblical 
		interpretation and developing Jewish traditions of the Second Temple 
		period. The five documents in 1 Enoch 91-108 are dealt with in the 
		following order: (1) Apocalypse of Weeks (93:1-10; 91:11-17); (2) 
		Admonition (91:1-10, 18-19); (3) Epistle of Enoch (92:1-5; 93:11-105:2; 
		(4) Birth of Noah (106-107); and (5) the Eschatological Appendix (108). 
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		  | 
		Daniel R.
		Schwartz 
		2 Maccabees  
		 
		de Gruyter, 2007, 400 Seiten, Cloth, 978-3-11-019118-9 
		 
		280,00 EUR 
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		2 Maccabees is a Jewish work 
		composed during the 2nd century BCE and preserved by the Church. Written 
		in Hellenistic Greek and told from a Jewish-Hellenistic perspective, 2 
		Maccabees narrates and interprets the ups and downs of events that took 
		place in Jerusalem prior to and during the Maccabean revolt: 
		institutionalized Hellenization and the foundation of Jerusalem as a 
		polis; the persecution of Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes, accompanied by 
		famous martyrdoms; and the rebellion against Seleucid rule by Judas 
		Maccabaeus. 2 Maccabees is an important source both for the events it 
		describes and for the values and interests of the Judaism of the 
		Hellenistic diaspora that it reflects - which are often quite different 
		from those represented by its competitor, 1 Maccabees. 
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