Creative Fidelity, Faithful Creativity. The Reception of Jewish Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity

Michael A. Daise; Dorota Hartman

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-258-8

Creative Fidelity, Faithful Creativity. The Reception of Jewish Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity

Authors

Michael A. Daise

College of William & Mary

Dorota Hartman

university of Naples L'Orientale

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-258-8

Keywords:

Bible, Textual Criticism, Philology, Judaism, History of Christianity

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 334

Language: English

NBN:

Abstract: Early tradents of Jewish scripture often betray an intricate dynamic at work between loyalty to precedent and a penchant for innovation. They engaged their emerging Bible with imagination while assimilating extra-biblical sources with fealty, so that their ‘fidelity’ to the one (scripture) was manifestly ‘creative’ while their ‘creativity’ in using the other (apocrypha) was ever ‘faithful’. In these contributions to a conference held at the Università di Napoli L’Orientale in 2017 fifteen specialists from Second Temple Judaism, Rabbinics, the New Testament and Patristics capture some of this vigor as it occurred in the nascent eras of Jewish and Christian history. From 1 Enoch to Midrash Tanḥuma, from Jesus to Jerome—this last, brokered through the Italian Reformer Giovanni Diodati—the present volume offers a vivid cross-section of ‘creative fidelity’ and ‘faithful creativity’ in the early Jewish and Christian reception of Israel’s scripture.

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Author Biographies

Michael A. Daise, College of William & Mary

MICHAEL A. DAISE holds the Professorship in Judaic Studies at the College of William & Mary, where he teaches Formative Judaism and Christian Origins for the Department of Religious Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies.

Dorota Hartman, university of Naples L'Orientale

Dorota Hartman teaches Philology and Exegesis of the New Testament at the Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies of the University of Naples L’Orientale.