Contributors | p. ix |
Cursus Vitae | p. xii |
Doctoral Dissertations Directed | p. xiv |
A Select Bibliography of the Publications of 1973-2010 | p. xiv |
Abbreviations and Symbols | p. xxxiii |
Introduction | |
ôShowing the Wisdom of What He Has Learnedö: The Scholarly Contributions of John J. Collins | p. 3 |
The Hebrew Bible and its Reception | |
Israel's Election and the Other in Biblical, Second Temple, and Rabbinic Thought | p. 17 |
God's Other: The Intractable Problem of the Gentile King in Judean and Early Jewish Literature | p. 31 |
The Original Sin of the Canaanites | p. 49 |
Defining and Controlling Others Within: Hair, Identity, and the Nazirite Vow in a Second Temple Context | p. 67 |
Otherworldly Music and the Other Sex | p. 86 |
How Good Was Ruth's Hebrew? Ethnic and Linguistic Otherness in the Book of Ruth | p. 101 |
The Other in Haggai and Zechariah 1-8 | p. 116 |
When the King Is the Other: Nebuchadnezzar's Hibernian Cousin | p. 132 |
Wisdom | |
Elusive Wisdom and the Other Nations in Baruch | p. 145 |
The Lady Vanishes: Wisdom in Ben Sira and Daniel | p. 160 |
ôThe Foolish Nation That Dwells in Shechemö: Ben Sira on Shechem and the Other Peoples in Palestine | p. 173 |
Poverty and Otherness in Second Temple Instructions | p. 189 |
Transcending Death: The Reasoning of the ôOthersö and Afterlife Hopes in Wisdom 1-6 | p. 204 |
Apocalypticism | |
The Apocalyptic Other | p. 221 |
Apocalypticism as the Rejected Other: Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity | p. 247 |
The We and the Other in the Worldview of 1 Enoch, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Other Early Jewish Texts | p. 262 |
Monsters and the Crippled Cosmos: Construction of the Other in Fourth Ezra | p. 279 |
Idolatry and Alterity: Israel and the Nations in the Apocalypse of Abraham | p. 302 |
The Dead Sea Scrolls | |
Religious Epistemology and the History of the Dead Sea Scrolls Community | p. 333 |
The Wicked Priest Revisited | p. 350 |
Poetry of the Heavenly Other: Angelic Praise in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice | p. 368 |
ôAt the Crossroadsö: Anti-Samaritan Polemic in a Qumran Text about Joseph | p. 381 |
Jews Among Greeks and Romans | |
Romans, Jews, and Christians on the Names of the Jews | p. 391 |
Jews and Greeks as Philosophers: A Challenge to Otherness | p. 402 |
The Persecution of Judeans by Antiochus IV: The Significance of ôAncestral Lawsö | p. 423 |
Constructing Jewish Identity in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Case of Artapanus | p. 434 |
Dispelling an Illusion of Otherness? Judicial Practice in the Heracleopolis Papyri | p. 457 |
Index of Authors | p. 471 |
Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Texts | p. 480 |
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