Crossing Boundaries in Early Judaism and Christianity: Ambiguities, Complexities, and Half-Forgotten Adversaries: Essays in Honor of Alan F. Segal

435 Pages·2016·2.044 MB·English

by  Kimberly B. Stratton, Andrea Lieber

Crossing Boundaries in Early Judaism and Christianity
Supplements to the
Journal for the Study
of Judaism
Editor
Benjamin G. Wright, III (Department of Religion Studies, Lehigh University)
Associate Editors
Hindy Najman (Theology & Religion Faculty, University of Oxford)
Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar (Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven)
Advisory Board
A.M. Berlin – K. Berthelot – R. Bloch – G. Bohak
J.J. Collins – K. Hogan – P.W. van der Horst
O. Irshai – S. Kattan Gribetz – A.K. Petersen – S. Mason – J.H. Newman
M. Popović – I. Rosen-Zvi – J.T.A.G.M. van Ruiten – M. Segal – J. Sievers
W. Smelik – G. Stemberger – L.T. Stuckenbruck – J.C. de Vos
VOLUME 177
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Crossing Boundaries in Early
Judaism and Christianity
Ambiguities, Complexities, and Half-Forgotten
Adversaries: Essays in Honor of Alan F. Segal
Edited by
Kimberly B. Stratton and Andrea Lieber
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Segal, Alan F., 1945–2011, honouree. | Stratton, Kimberly B., editor.
Title: Crossing boundaries in early Judaism and Christianity : ambiguities,
 complexities, and half-forgotten enemies essays in honor of Alan F. Segal
 / edited by Kimberly B. Stratton and Andrea Lieber.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016. | Series: Supplements to the
 Journal for the study of Judaism, ISSN 1384-2161 ; VOLUME 177 | Includes
 bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016035045 (print) | LCCN 2016041626 (ebook) | ISBN
 9789004332300 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9789004334496 (E-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Judaism—Relations—Christianity. | Christianity and other
 religions—Judaism. | Bible—Criticism, interpretation, etc. | Rabbinical
 literature—History and criticism. | Church history—Primitive and early
 church, ca. 30–600. | Judaism—History—Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.–210
 A.D.
Classification: LCC BM535 .C77 2016 (print) | LCC BM535 (ebook) | DDC
 296.09—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016035045
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Contents
List of Abbreviations xI
List of Contributors xX
Alan F. Segal: A Life in Perspective 1
Kimberly B. Stratton
Introduction to the Volume 17
Andrea Lieber
Part 1
Two Powers in Heaven (Heavenly Ascent and Angelification)
1 The Self-Glorification Hymn from Qumran 25
John J. Collins
2 Theosis through Works of the Law: Deification of the Earthly Righteous
in Classical Rabbinic Thought 41
Jonah Chanan Steinberg
3 From the Covenant of the Rainbow to the Covenant at Sinai, from the
Pilgrimage to the Temple to the Vision of the Chariot, from the Blessing
of the First Fruits to the Priestly Blessing, and from the Tiqqun leil
Shavuʿot to the Revelation of the Shekhinah 74
Rachel Elior
Part 2
Rebecca’s Children (Jewish Christian Origins)
4 Some Particulars about Universalism 117
Ellen Birnbaum
5 Imagining Jesus, with Food 138
Michel Desjardins
viii contents
6 Antiquity’s Children: History and Theology in Three Surveys 154
Tzvee Zahavy
Part 3
Paul the Convert (Conversion, Apostasy, Identity)
7 Giving Up the Godfearers 169
Ross S. Kraemer
8 Marcion and Boundaries 200
Stephen G. Wilson
9 The Interpreter as Intertext: Origen’s First Homily on the Canticle
of Canticles 221
Celia Deutsch
10 Translation and Transformation: The Coptic Soundscapes of
The Thunder: Perfect Mind 255
Jared C. Calaway
Part 4
Life after Death (Death and Treatment of the Dead)
11 Maccabees, Martyrs, Murders, and Masada: Noble Deaths and Suicides
in 1 and 2 Maccabees and Josephus 279
Jonathan Klawans
12 The Lament of the Martyrs and the Literature of Destruction
(Rev 6:10) 300
William Morrow
13 A Rabbinic Translation of Relics 314
Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
contents ix
Part 5
Sinning in the Hebrew Bible (Morality, Theodicy, Theology)
14 The Golden Rule in Classical Judaism 335
Jacob Neusner
15 From Theodicy to Anti-theodicy: Midrashic Accusations of God’s
Disobedience to Biblical Law 344
Adam Gregerman
Appendix: Complete List of Publications 361
Bibliography 368
Index 403