James (early Jewish studies, U. of St. Andrews, Scotland) investigates what sort of positive evidence leads scholars to extrapolate a Jewish origin for a pseudepigraphon transmitted by Christians but
This first published volume in the new Eerdmans Commentaries on the Dead Sea Scrolls explores in depth the numerous fragments of liturgical texts, shedding light on the ritual life of Jews at the turn
Drawing on anthropological models and epigraphic and archaeologicale evidence, this book aims to show that the Hekhalot literature preserves the teachings and rituals of real religious functionaries w
Second Temple Judaism exerted a profound and shaping influence upon early Christianity. The Jewish Roots of Christological Monotheism documents this influence by exploring