David Satran

Esther G. Chazon

Ruth Clements

This collection of articles dedicated to Michael E. Stone contains cutting-edge studies on apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, early Judaism, and early Christianity.

Studies in Early Jewish and Christian Literature in Honor of Michael E. Stone

Things Revealed

Gary Anderson

This volume illustrates the ways in which the discovery of the scrolls has altered our paradigms of biblical interpretation, investigating connections within and between Jewish and Christian interpretive texts.

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Jointly Sponsored by the Hebrew University Center for the Study of Christianity, 9–11 January, 2007

New Approaches to the Study of Biblical Interpretation in Judaism of the Second Temple Period and in Early Christianity

Michael Edward Stone

Esther Glickler Chazon

Ruth A. Clements

Studies In Early Jewish And Christian Literature In Honor Of Michael E. Stone

The "Lives of the Prophets," a series of brief biographical sketches of the major and minor prophets of the Hebrew Bible, is a unique composition. Generally held to be a Jewish document from the end of the period of the Second Temple, the "Lives" offers an abundance of geographical, genealogical, and narrative detail which is not readily paralleled. This study provides the first thorough assessment of the work in nearly a century. A survey of the textual state of the composition and its reception is followed by a detailed examination of the literary structures which underlie the individual "vitae," It is argued that the "Lives" is an evolved, heavily redacted document whose present form cannot predate the fourth century C.E. Only within the context of early Byzantine Christian concerns - holy men, sacred sites, and the veneration of the saints - does the "Lives of the Prophets" become a comprehensible and vital text.

Reassessing the Lives of the Prophets

Biblical Prophets in Byzantine Palestine

David Satran

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