Biblical Figures Outside the Bible

by Stone, Michael E.; Bergren, Theodore A.

• ISBN13: 9781563384110
• ISBN10: 1563384116
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

1999 Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Award for the category Best Book Relating to the Old Testament. Explores the evolution of the biographical traditions of some fifteen biblical figures

Table of Contents

List of Contributors and Editors	vii
List of Abbreviations	ix
Introduction	1	(6)
Michael E. Stone
Theodore A. Bergren
Adam and Eve in the ``Life of Adam and Eve''	7	(26)
Gary A. Anderson
The Gnostic Seth	33	(26)
John D. Turner
Enosh and His Generation Revisited	59	(28)
Steven D. Fraade
From Son of Adam to Second God: Transformations of the Biblical Enoch	87	(36)
Philip S. Alexander
Noah in Early Jewish Literature	123	(28)
Devorah Dimant
Abraham the Convert: A Jewish Tradition and Its Use by the Apostle Paul	151	(25)
George W. E. Nickelsburg
Melchizedek in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Gnosticism	176	(27)
Birger A. Pearson
Jacob's Son Levi in the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and Related Literature	203	(34)
Marinus De Jonge
Johannes Tromp
The Portrayal of Joseph in Hellenistic Jewish and Early Christian Literature	237	(27)
Harm W. Hollander
Baruch: His Evolution from Scribe to Apocalyptic Seer	264	(26)
J. Edward Wright
Talking with God and Losing His Head: Extrabiblical Traditions about the Prophet Ezekiel	290	(26)
Benjamin G. Wright
The Prophet Ezekiel in Islamic Literature: Jewish Traces and Islamic Adaptations	316	(24)
Aviva Schussman
Ezra and Nehemiah Square off in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha	340	(27)
Theodore A. Bergren
Cumulative Bibliography	367	(36)
Index of Ancient Sources	403	(21)
Index of Names and Terms	424