New Testament, Early Christianity, and Magic

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BRILL, 1996 - 292 Seiten
These two volumes collect some of the most influential and important scholarly essays by the late Morton Smith (1915-1991), for many years Professor of Ancient History at Columbia University in New York City. Smith was admired and feared for his extraordinary ability to look at familiar texts in unfamiliar ways, to re-open old questions, to pose new questions, and to demolish received truths. He practiced the "hermeneutics of suspicion" to devastating effect. His answers are not always convincing but his questions cannot be ignored.
The essays of Volume I center on the Hebrew Bible ("Old Testament"), Ancient Israel and Ancient Judaism, of Volume II on the Christian Bible ("New Testament"), Early Christianity and Ancient Magic. Volume II also contains an assessment of Smith's scholarly achievement and a complete list of his publications.
 

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On the History of the Divine Man
28
Robbers Jurists Prophets and Magicians
39
Ascent to the Heavens and the Beginning of Christianity
47
Two Ascended to Heaven Jesus and the Author of 4Q491 11 1
68
The Origin and History of the Transfiguration Story
79
The Reason for the Persecution of Paul and
87
Pauline Worship as Seen by Pagans
95
Pauls Arguments as Evidence of the Christianity from which
103
The Account of Simon Magus in Acts 8
140
De Superstitione Plutarch Moralia 164E171F
152
The History of the Term Gnostikos
183
On the History of APOKALYPTO and APOKALYPSIS
194
How Magic Was Changed By the Triumph of Christianity
208
P Leid J 395 PGM XIII and Its Creation Legend
227
The Angels
235
The Jewish Elements in the Magical Papyri 242
275

3549 Rom 635
110
Salvation in the Gospels Paul and the Magical Papyri 13 30
130

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Morton Smith, Ph.D. (1948), Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Th.D. (1957), Harvard University, was for many years Professor of Ancient History at Columbia University in New York City.Shaye J.D.Cohen, Ph.D. (1975), Columbia University, was a student of Morton Smith, and is currently Ungerleider Professor and Chair of the Program of Judaic Studies at Brown University. Shaye J. D. Cohen received a B.A. in classics from Yeshiva College in 1970, a M.A. in Judaica and rabbinic ordination at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and a second M.A. and a Ph.D. in ancient history at Columbia University. A director and professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University, he previously worked at the Jewish Theological Seminary as Dean of the Graduate School, and was a visiting Professor of History at Columbia University. Holding a keen interest in the history of Judaism and its social and legal boundaries, his published works include Josephus in Galilee and Rome: His Vita and Development as a Historian and From the Maccabees to the Mishnah: A Profile of Judaism. He has also written numerous articles and book chapters on the menstrual taboo in Judaism. He has received numerous honors, including the Faculty Fellow and Whiting Fellow from Columbia University, the Fellowship from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research.

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