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Rewritten Bible Reconsidered: Proceedings of the Conference in Karkku, Finland August 24-26, 2006

Rewritten Bible Reconsidered: Proceedings of the Conference in Karkku, Finland August 24-26, 2006 428 Reviewof Books/ Journalftr the Study ofJudaism40 (2009) 366-456 Rewritten Bible Recomidered: Proceedings of the Conference in Karkku, Finland August 24-26, 2006. Edited by Antti Laato and Jacques van Ruiten. (Studies in Rewritten Bible 1). Turku: Abo Akademi University, 2008; Winona Lake (IN): Eisenbrauns, 2008. Pp. iv, 287. Paperback. US$ 49.00. ISBN 978-952-12-20197. After the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s and 1950s, much new evidence came to light on how the exegesis of sacred texts was carried out by Second Temple Jews. It was Geza Vermes in 1961 who introduced the term "rewritten Bible", a genre in which he included Josephus's Antiquities, the book of Jubilees, the Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum of Pseudo-Philo, and the Genesis Apocryphon. In fact, Vermes's article ("Bible Interpretation at Qumran," Eretz lsrael20 [1989], 184-191) and his definition of this particular genre paved the way to a scholarly discussion that is still going on, since it appears rather difficult to define both the term "Bible" and the typification "rewritten." In August 2006, the Department of Biblical Studies, Abo Akademi University (Finland), held a small conference on rewritten Bible. The aim of this conference was to map different scholarly interests in this specific field of research and to boost further research on it, specifically to develop a better methodological under- standing of interpretative processes in rewritten biblical texts. The present work that contains the papers of the Karkku conference is the first volume in a new scholarly series: Studies in Rewritten Bible. The scope of this series is wide, since a whole florilegium of themes and types of afterlife for the Jewish and Christian Bibles can be collected under the umbrella of "rewritten Bible." For the generations that received the authoritative texts from their forbears were rewriting the Bible, that is, enhancing, modifYing,completing, and coloring those ancient texts. The present volume has four parts: Methodology; Early Judaism; Early Chris- tianity; Islamic Period. These twelve 0) essays can be considered a true represen- tation of all kind of problems and solutions related to the concept of "rewritten Bible." To mention some topics: the book of Jubilees; 4 Ezra; rewritten Psalms in the Gospel of John; Psalm 22 in early Christian Literature; Isaiah 53 in Justin Martyr's exegesis; Genesis 19 as rewritten by Augustine and in early Judaism; Jesus' Teachings in Islamic Tradition. Meanwhile, this group of scholars has established an ongoing seminar "Rewrit- ten Bible" with two more conferences (Koblenz 2007; Karkku 2008), the pro- ceedings of which will also be published in the series Studies in Rewritten Bible in the near future. That the topic of "rewritten bible" is in the centre of attention indeed is also proven by Sidnie W Crawford's Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times, (Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature; Grand Rapids 2008). Pancratius C. Beentjes University of Til burg © Koninklijke Brill NY, Leiden. 2009 DOl: 1O.1163/157006309X443800 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal for the Study of Judaism Brill

Rewritten Bible Reconsidered: Proceedings of the Conference in Karkku, Finland August 24-26, 2006

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428 Reviewof Books/ Journalftr the Study ofJudaism40 (2009) 366-456 Rewritten Bible Recomidered: Proceedings of the Conference in Karkku, Finland August 24-26, 2006. Edited by Antti Laato and Jacques van Ruiten. (Studies in Rewritten Bible 1). Turku: Abo Akademi University, 2008; Winona Lake (IN): Eisenbrauns, 2008. Pp. iv, 287. Paperback. US$ 49.00. ISBN 978-952-12-20197. After the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s and 1950s, much new evidence came to light on how the exegesis of sacred texts was carried out by Second Temple Jews. It was Geza Vermes in 1961 who introduced the term "rewritten Bible", a genre in which he included Josephus's Antiquities, the book of Jubilees, the Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum of Pseudo-Philo, and the Genesis Apocryphon. In fact, Vermes's article ("Bible Interpretation at Qumran," Eretz lsrael20 [1989], 184-191) and his definition of this particular genre paved the way to a scholarly discussion that is still going on, since it appears rather difficult to define both the term "Bible" and the typification "rewritten." In August 2006, the Department of Biblical Studies, Abo Akademi University (Finland), held a small conference on rewritten Bible. The aim of this conference was to map different scholarly interests in this specific field of research and to boost further research on it, specifically to develop a better methodological under- standing of interpretative processes in rewritten biblical texts. The present work that contains the papers of the Karkku conference is the first volume in a new scholarly series: Studies in Rewritten Bible. The scope of this series is wide, since a whole florilegium of themes and types of afterlife for the Jewish and Christian Bibles can be collected under the umbrella of "rewritten Bible." For the generations that received the authoritative texts from their forbears were rewriting the Bible, that is, enhancing, modifYing,completing, and coloring those ancient texts. The present volume has four parts: Methodology; Early Judaism; Early Chris- tianity; Islamic Period. These twelve 0) essays can be considered a true represen- tation of all kind of problems and solutions related to the concept of "rewritten Bible." To mention some topics: the book of Jubilees; 4 Ezra; rewritten Psalms in the Gospel of John; Psalm 22 in early Christian Literature; Isaiah 53 in Justin Martyr's exegesis; Genesis 19 as rewritten by Augustine and in early Judaism; Jesus' Teachings in Islamic Tradition. Meanwhile, this group of scholars has established an ongoing seminar "Rewrit- ten Bible" with two more conferences (Koblenz 2007; Karkku 2008), the pro- ceedings of which will also be published in the series Studies in Rewritten Bible in the near future. That the topic of "rewritten bible" is in the centre of attention indeed is also proven by Sidnie W Crawford's Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times, (Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature; Grand Rapids 2008). Pancratius C. Beentjes University of Til burg © Koninklijke Brill NY, Leiden. 2009 DOl: 1O.1163/157006309X443800

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