Intertestamental, Apocrypha, NT Use

Intertestamental, Apocrypha, NT Use Christopher T. Begg, Andrew D. Gross, Thomas Hieke, and Frederick E. Greenspahn ________ 1561. Philo Scripture Index Sean A. Adams and Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, The Philo of Alexandria Scripture Index (Studia Philonica Monographs 9; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2023). Pp. xiii + 149. Paper 30. ISBN 978–1-62837–478–0. This resource identifies and lists every instance in which Philo of Alexandria cites or alludes to passages from Jewish Scripture. With 7, 831 references this book is the most comprehensive study of its kind to date. Unlike other volumes with a single index of Philo's citations and allusions organized by biblical book, this volume also includes a second index that follows Philo's treatise order. This second format allows students and scholars easily to examine Philo's engagement with Scripture in individual treatises and to investigate how Philo collected and grouped intertexts. In addition to their two indices, A. and D. -L. provide an introduction to their methodology and their selection of texts, which include Philo's fragmentary works and those that survive only in the Armenian tradition. The volume comes with a bibliography as well. Adapted from published abstract—C. T. B. 1562. Reconfiguring Wisdom in the DSS Arjen F. Bakker, The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls (STDJ 143; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2023). Pp. xiii + 183. 113. ISBN 978–90–04–52974–8. B. 's monograph on his title topic comprises five chapters titled respectively: (1) Beyond the Limits of Wisdom; (2) Redefining the Sage; (3) Continuous Study; (4) The Dynamics of Revelation; and (5) Rāz Nihyeh (glossed by him as "the secret of time"), that are preceded by a preface and list of abbreviations and followed by a bibliography and indexes of modern authors, ancient sources, and subjects. In the conclusion to chap. 5, B. offers this synthesis of his findings: In the Hellenistic and early Roman periods, Jewish wisdom concepts are reconfigured across a broad variety of texts that expand and transform existing traditions. The intricate concept of "the secret of time" is entangled with a much broader conceptual framework embedded in textual and liturgical practices. To obtain an understanding of the rāz nihyeh, it is necessary to look beyond the generic boundaries that scholars have constructed such as wisdom, apocalyptic, law, liturgy, or commentary and rewriting. No less urgent is the need to move beyond sectarian/non-sectarian dichotomies in scholarship on the DSS. Throughout this book, I have demonstrated that suspending this categorization can generate new and important insights into the configuration of wisdom that we encounter in manuscripts from Qumran. As I have argued in this final chapter, the secret of time is developed in texts from the Second Temple period across existing categorizations of sectarian and non-sectarian texts, including Enoch, Mysteries, Instruction, the Serek, the Hodayot, Song of the Sabbath Sacrifice, and the Hymn to the Creator. The network of concepts that are entangled with the rāz nihyeh also surface in the book of Jubilees as it develops the calendrical and chronological principle of the divisions of time (mḥlqwt, hʿtym), which is likewise attested in other fragmentary texts from Qumran. Finally, the Book of Daniel already contains central elements of this structure that involves turning to the past in order to understand good and evil, discerning the hidden patterns of temporal organization, and seeing the time of the end. p. 138, adapted—C. T. B. 1563. Material and Digital Reconstruction of Fragmentary Dead Sea Scrolls Jonathan Ben-Dov, Asaf Gayer, and Eshbal Ratzon, with the assistance of Anna Shirav and Einat Tamir, Material and Digital Reconstruction of Fragmentary Dead Sea Scrolls (STDJ 136; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022). Pp. xvii + 278. 171. ISBN 978–90–04–47304–1. This volume focuses on the methodological issues when using new technologies in reconstructing DSS. The volume consists of two parts. In the first part (thirteen chapters and four appendices), the authors systematically consider general methodological questions and demonstrate how they are dealt with using current resources and technologies, including manipulation of digital images and producing custom fonts. . .