Intro
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1 Reading the Hebrew Bible in Jewish and Christian Antiquity
Part 1 Reading Scripture in the Second Temple Period
Chapter 2 What Did Ben Sira's Bible and Desk Look Like?
Chapter 3 Creation as the Liturgical Nexus of the Blessings and Curses in 4QBerakhot
Chapter 4 The Qumran Library and the Shadow it Casts on the Wall of the Cave
Part 2 The New Testament and Practices of Reading and Reusing Jewish Scripture
Chapter 5 Exegetical Methods in the New Testament and "Rewritten Bible": A Comparative Analysis
Chapter 6 Scriptural Quotations in the Jesus Tradition and Early Christianity: Textual History and Theology
Chapter 7 The Return of the Shepherd: Zechariah 13:7-14:6 as an Interpretive Framework for Mark 13
Chapter 8 The Hybrid Isaiah Quotation in Luke 4:18-19
Part 3 Reading Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism
Chapter 9 A Single, Huge, Aramaic Spoken Heretic: Sequences of Adam's Creation in Early Rabbinic Literature
Chapter 10 The Variant Reading ולא / ולו of Psalm 139:16 in Rabbinic Literature
Chapter 11 Jewish and Christian Exegetical Controversy in Late Antiquity: The Case of Psalm 22 and the Esther Narrative
Part 4 Reading Retrospective
Chapter 12 What does 'Reading' have to do with it? Ancient Engagement with Jewish Scripture
Bibliography
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Subjects
Index of Modern Authors.