Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. List of Abbreviations xiii
5. 1. Modern and Ancient Views of the Canon 1
6. 2. The Emergence Of The Canon Reconsidered 17
7. 3. The Earliest Canonical Lists and Notices 35
8. 4. The Torah in the Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods 54
9. 5. The Letter of Aristeas and its Early Interpreters 74
10. 6. The Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira and 2 Maccabees 94
11. 7. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Authoritative Scriptures 119
12. 8. The Holy Books of the Essenes and Therapeutae 148
13. 9. Canon in the Gospels and Pauline Letters 156
14. 10. The Formation of the Jewish Canon 178
15. Appendix 1: Some Modern Canons 189
16. Appendix 2: Early Canonical Lists 191
17. Appendix 3: Bryennios’ and Epiphanius’ Lists 193
18. Appendix 4: Extra-Canonical Jewish Writings and the Pauline Letters 195
19. Appendix 5: Scriptural References in Sirach 44–50 208
20. Notes 213
21. Select Bibliography 243
22. Index of Subjects 277
23. Index of Modern Authors 279
24. Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources 281