Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: International Studies

Description

In this volume Gabriele Boccaccini and Jason M. Zurawski collect together essays from leading international scholars on the books of 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch. The literature of the Second Temple Period has become increasingly studied in recent years as scholars have begun to recognize the importance of these texts for a developed understanding of Rabbinic and Christian origins. Through close readings of the texts themselves, examining the books in comparison with other Jewish apocalyptic literature and early Christian materials, and reading the texts in light of their social and historical settings, the fifteen papers collected herein significantly advance the current scholarly conversation on these defining Jewish apocalypses written at the end of the first century CE, and they shed light on the everlasting legacy of apocalyptic ideas in both Christianity and Judaism.

Gabriele Boccaccini is Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins at the University of Michigan, USA. Jason M. Zurawski is a Ph.D Candidate in Second Temple Judaism at the University of Michigan, USA.

[Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch] presents many new, and sometimes unconventional, interpretations of these fascinating books. * Journal of Theological Studies *