Authoritative Writings in Early Judaism and Early Christianity: Their Origin, Collection, and Meaning

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ecent scholarship on the history of the biblical canons has increasingly recognised that the Jewish and Christian Bibles were not formed independently of each other but amid controversial debate and competition. But what does it mean that the formation of the Christian Bible cannot be separated from the developments that led to the Jewish Bible? The articles in this collection start with the assumption that the authorisation of writings had already begun in Israel and Judaism before the emergence of Christianity and was continued in the first centuries CE by Judaism and Christianity in their respective ways. They deal with a broad range of sources, such as writings which came to be part of the Hebrew Bible, literature from Qumran, the Septuagint, or early Jewish apocalypses. At the same time they deal, for example, with structures of authorisation related to New Testament writings, examine the role of authoritative texts in so-called Gnostic schools, and discuss the authority of late antique apocryphal literature. Table of Contents Introduction Textual Authority in Ancient Israel and Judah: Factors and Forces of its Development • Konrad Schmid The Authority of the Scriptures of Israel in the Qumran Corpus • Jörg Frey 2 Baruch, 4 Ezra, and Israel’s Scripture • Matthias Henze The Meaning of the Septuagint in the Process of Authorization of Israelite Writings • Natalio Fernández Marcos Jesus and the Jewish Writings • Armand Puig i Tàrrech The Use of Jewish Writings and Their Collections in the New Testament Gospels • Dieter T. Roth The Use of »Canonical« and »Non- canonical« Texts in Early Christianity and its Influence on the Authorization of Christian Writings • Jens Schröter Die Autorität der Schrift bei Paulus • Martin Meiser »He Still Speaks!« – The Authority of Scripture in Hebrews • Benjamin J. Ribbens / Michael H. Kibbe Strategies of Authorizing Tradition in the Letter of James • Susanne Luther Marcion, the Writings of Israel, and the Origins of the »New Testament« • Judith M. Lieu What Kind of Jewish Bible Did the Gnostics Use? • Jean-Daniel Dubois Authority and Canon according to Some Ancient »Christian« Apocalypses: 5 Ezra and the Tiburtine Sibyl • Tobias Nicklas Early Christian Book Production and the Concept of Canon • Juan Chapa Hebrew Psalm 91 / Greek Psalm 90: Collections and Contexts, and a Text of Authority • Thomas J. Kraus List of Contributors Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors Index of Subjects