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The Scepter and the Star
Messianism in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Second Edition
John J. Collins
This new edition of The Scepter and the Star updates the stellar scholarship found
in John J. Collins’s original work (Doubleday, 1995). The book comprehensively
reviews the unfolding of Jewish messianic expectations in the Second Temple
period.
Interacting with the abundant recent literature on Jewish messianism, Collins
in this second edition has revised his discussion of Jesus and early Christianity,
has completely rewritten the chapter on a figure who claims to have a throne in
heaven, and has added a brief discussion of the recently published and controversial
Vision of Gabriel.
John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation
at Yale Divinity School and has served as president of both the Society
of Biblical Literature and the Catholic Biblical Association. His many other
scholarly books include Beyond the Qumran Community, King and Messiah as Son
of God, and The Bible after Babel.
Dead Sea Scrolls
November / 978-0-8028-3223-8
6″ × 9″ paperback
304 pages / $28.00 [£18.99]
Targum and Testament Revisited
Aramaic Paraphrases of the Hebrew Bible:
A Light on the New Testament
Second Edition
Martin McNamara
This book examines the contribution that Targums — Aramaic paraphrases
of the Hebrew Bible — can make toward understanding the New Testament.
A revision of Martin McNamara’s original work, published in 1972, Targum and
Testament Revisited takes account of significant scholarly developments during
the intervening period.
There has been intense examination of most aspects of targumic tradition
over recent decades. McNamara draws on these varied sources — including the
annotated English translation of all the Targums in the Aramaic Bible — and
offers an appendix outlining all extant Targums of the rabbinic tradition.
McNamara’s updated overview will be an indispensable resource for scholars
of biblical and Jewish studies.
Martin McNamara, msc, is professor emeritus of Sacred Scripture at
Milltown Institute of Theology, Dublin, Ireland.
Biblical Studies
August / 978-0-8028-6275-4
6″ × 9″ paperback
367 pages / $32.00 [£21.99]
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