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The Semitic background of the New Testament

Title: The Semitic background of the New Testament / Joseph A. Fitzmyer.
Author: Fitzmyer, Joseph A.
Publication: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. ; Livonia, Mich. : Dove Booksellers, [1997], ©1997.

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Description

xxi, 524, 300 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Here in one convenient volume are two works by Joseph A. Fitzmyer that have been influential in shaping the study of the New Testament during the past two decades - Essays on the Semitic Background of the New Testament and A Wandering Aramean: Collected Aramaic Essays.
The first of these studies includes papers written over a fourteen-year period that reflect on a variety of New Testament problems that have been illuminated by data gathered from the Semitic world of the eastern Mediterranean. The second work explores the relation between the host of recently discovered Aramaic texts and the writings of the New Testament.
Together, these works bring to light important aspects of New Testament study that have been missed by those who concentrate on its Greek or Hellenistic background. This new combined edition also includes an appendix that contains further notes and supplies bibliographic references to articles and books written on the same topics since Fitzmyer's books were originally published.

Series Statement

The biblical resource series

Uniform Title

Biblical resource series.

Subjects

Note

This combined edition reprints the text of two works, A wandering Aramean, originally published in 1979 by Scholars Press and Essays on the Semitic background of the New Testament, originally published in 1971 by Geoffrey Chapman Ltd.

Bibliography (note)

Contents

1. The use of explicit Old Testament quotations in Qumran literature and in the New Testament -- 2. '4QTestimonia' and the New Testament -- 3. The Aramaic qorban inscription from Jebel Hallet et-Turi and Mk 7:11/Mt 15:5 -- 4. 'Peace upon earth among men of his good will' (Lk 2:14) -- 5. The name Simon -- 6. The Son of David tradition and Mt 22:41-46 and parallels -- 7. The Aramaic 'Elect of God' text from Qumran Cave 4 -- 8. The story of the Dishonest Manager (Lk 16:1-13) -- 9. A feature of Qumran angelology and the angels of 1 Cor 11:10 -- 10. Qumran and the interpolated paragraph in 2 Cor 6:14-7:1 -- 11. 'Now this Melchizedek ...' (Heb 7:1) -- 12. Further light on Melchizedek from Qumran Cave II -- 13. Jewish Christianity in Acts in the light of the Qumran scrolls -- 14. The Bar Cochba period -- 15. The Oxyrhynchus logoi of Jesus and the Coptic Gospel according to Thomas -- 16. The Qumran scrolls, the Ebionites and their literature -- Index of Scriptural references --
Index of pseudepigraphal references -- Index of Dead Sea Scrolls references.

ISBN

0802843441 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

97010581

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries