Evil and Death: Conceptions of the Human in Biblical, Early Jewish, Greco-Roman and Egyptian Literature

Book

Evil and Death

Conceptions of the Human in Biblical, Early Jewish, Greco-Roman and Egyptian Literature

Edited by: Beate Ego and Ulrike Mittmann

Languages: English, German

Published/Copyright: 2015

Published by

Become an author with De Gruyter Brill

Explore this Subject How to publish with us

This book is in the series

Volume 18 | Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies

About this book

Jewish anthropological beliefs during the Hellenistic-Roman period are an important but previously neglected area of biblical exegesis and Jewish studies. In an effort to address this deficiency, this volume brings together 20 essays related to the subject of sin and death, with special emphasis on integrating material from neighboring cultures. Thus, the volume provides an exemplary foundation for further research on ancient Jewish anthropology.

Author / Editor information

Beate Ego, University of Bochum; Ulrike Mittmann, University of Osnabrück.

Reviews

"This volume makes an important contribution to Jewish and Christian anthropological studies, helpfully placing these texts into their larger cultural context. It also collects the various answers given in antiquity to the question still relevant today: What does it mean to be human?"

J. Brian Tucker in: Religious Studies Review, Volume 43, No. 2, June 2017, p. 167

"Der Band kann als wirklich gelungenes Beispiel für Interdisziplinarität gelten."

Stefan Bojowald in: SZRKG 111 (2017), 412-414

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Part I: Old Testament and Early Jewish Literature
Das Böse und der Tod in der Paradieserzählung – Biblische und auslegungsgeschichtliche Aspekte Beate Ego Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
An des Todes Pforten weise werden – Überlegungen im Anschluss an Psalm 107 Georg Steins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
Curse God and Die — Job’s Wife and the Struggle for Job’s Transformation Patricia G. Kirkpatrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
Evil and Death in the Book of Qohelet Christoph Berner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
Different Approaches to Evil and Death in the Ethics of the Non-Canonical Jewish Writings Gerbern S. Oegema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
Das Bild des Menschen im Wandel – Die Rezeption von Genesis 1–3 in Sapientia Salomonis 1 und 2 Ulrike Mittmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
Human Experience and the Problem of Theodicy in 4 Maccabees David A. deSilva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
The Post-mortem Divisions of the Dead in 1 Enoch 22:1–13 Ekaterina Matusova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
„Dem Tode verfallen war ich wegen meiner Sünden“ (11QPs^a XIX,1–18) Hermann Lichtenberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
Part II: New Testament
The Child, Death and the Human in Mark’s Gospel Ian H. Henderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
Reversal of Fate after Death? Rouven Genz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
Death and Cultus as Constitutive of the Human in the Epistle to the Hebrews Ellen Bradshaw Aitken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
Part III: Greco-Roman and Egyptian Literature
Trauer und Tod in der 2. Sophistik am Beispiel des Lukian von Samosata Wolfgang Spickermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
Privatdeifikationen in der römischen Kaiserzeit – Tod, Trauer und Memoria Veit Rosenberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295
Tod auf der Latrine— Zum Ende von Caracalla und Elagabal Christiane Kunst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
Der Religionsstifter Numa im Gespräch mit Jupiter Darja Šterbenc Erker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	333
Narrating Meleager’s Deeds and Death in Words and Images Marlis Arnhold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	355
„Sage nicht: ‚Der Frevler gegen Gott lebt heute‘; auf das Ende sollst du achten!“ Joachim Friedrich Quack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	377
Index of Names and Subjects (German) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411
Index of Names and Subjects (English) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	415
Bible Citation Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	417

Publishing information

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

September 25, 2015

eBook ISBN:

9783110315714

Hardcover published on:

September 11, 2015

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110315516

Paperback published on:

June 26, 2017

Paperback ISBN:

9783110559217

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

14

Main content:

421

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110315714

eBook ISBN: 9783110315714

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110315516

Paperback ISBN: 9783110559217

Keywords for this book

Sin; death; anthropology; hamartology.

Audience(s) for this book

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Safety & product resources

Manufacturer information:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Genthiner Straße 13
10785 Berlin
productsafety@degruyterbrill.com

Evil and Death

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

Topics

Table of contents

Bibliographic data