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la Sulzbach, and Stephen J. Pfann From Bloomsbury’s website: About Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch 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. Table Of Contents Introduction: Perspectives on 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch from the Sixth Enoch Seminar – Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA) and Jason M. Zurawski (University of Michigan, USA) Part I: 4 Ezra in the Apocalyptic Tradition 1. More than the Present: Perspectives on World History in 4 Ezra and the Book of the Watchers – Veronika Bachmann (University of Zurich, Switzerland) 2. Apocalyptic Ideas in 4 Ezra in Comparison with the Dead Sea Scrolls -Bilhah Nitzan (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) 3. The “Meaning of History” in the Fifth Vision of 4 Ezra – Laura Bizzarro (Universidad Catolica, Argentina) Part II: Ezra 2, Baruch, and Early Christian Literature 4. The Woman Who Anoints Jesus for his Burial (Mark 14) and the Woman Who Laments her Dead Son (4 Ezra9-10) – Twice the Same Person? – Andreas Bedenbender (University of Dortmund, Germany) 5. Days of Creation in 4 Ezra 6:38-59 and John 1-5 – Calum Carmichael (Cornell University, USA) 6. 2 Baruch, 4 Ezra, and the Epistle to the Hebrews:Three Approaches to the Interpretation of Ps 104:4 – Eric F. Mason (Judson University, USA) 7. “Good Tidings” of Baruch to the Christian Faithful (The Epistle of 2 Baruch78-87) – Rivka Nir (Open University of Israel, Israel) Part III: Close Readings of 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch 8. The Two Worlds and Adam’s Sin: The Problem of 4 Ezra 7:10-14 -Jason M. Zurawski (University of Michigan, USA) 9. Eschatological Rewards for the Righteous in Second Baruch – Daniel M. Gurtner (Bethel Seminary,USA) 10. Death and the Afterlife in 2 Baruch – Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University, USA) 11. The Calendar Implied in 2 Baruch and 4 Ezra:Two Modifications of the One Scheme – Basil Lourié (St Petersburg State University, Russia) 12. The Fate of Jerusalem in 2 Baruch and 4 Ezra: From Earth to Heaven and Back? – Carla Sulzbach (McGill University,Canada) Part IV: 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch in their Social and Historical Settings 13. 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch:Archaeology and Elusive Answers to Our Perennial Questions – James Hamilton Charlesworth (Princeton Theological Seminary, USA) 14. The Use of Cryptographic and Esoteric Scripts in Second Temple Judaism and the Surrounding Cultures – Stephen Pfann (University of the Holy Land, Israel) 15. Apocalyptic as Delusion: A Psychoanalytic Approach – J. Harold Ellens (University of Michigan, USA)

f the Christian Orient in the Middle Ages Series: Scrinium: Revue de patrologie, d’hagiographie critique et d’histoire ecclésiastique 10 Availability: In Print Publisher: Gorgias Press & Axioma Edited by Basil Lourié Edited by Nikolai Seleznyov ISBN: 978-1-4632-0424-2 Availability: In Print Publication Date: 9/2014 Language: English Format: Hardback, Black, 6 x 9 in Pages: 543 This volume contains the first editions of a number of works of Syrian authors (in Syriac and Arabic) including two excerpts from John bar Penkaye’s “Ktaba de-resh melle”, an excerpt from “The Blessed Compendium” of Jirjis al-Makin ibn al-Amid, an excerpt from the “Kitab al-Majdal”, and hymns from the “Warda” collection, as well as a publication of a series of Coptic prayers for travellers. It also contains a discussion of the letters of Nicetas Stethatos available only in Georgian. Other contributions deal with the hagiography (Byzantine, Old Russian, and Syrian, with a special attention to the so-called “verbal hagiography” which is an intermediary field between the written hagiography and the folklore) and the patrology (with a special attention to philosophical problems of Byzantine patristics). Some detailed book reviews discuss, among others, various problems of the late Byzantine and the 19th- and 20th-century Ethiopian and Russian theology. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Abbreviations Critical Editions Yulia Furman The Origins of the Temporal World: the First mēʾmrā of the Ktābā d-rēš mellē of John Bar Penkāyē Yulia Furman Zeus, Artemis, Apollo: John bar Penkāyē on Ancient Myths and Cults Nikolai N. Seleznyov The Laments of the Philosophers over Alexander the Great according to The Blessed Compendium of al-Makīn ibn al-ʿAmīd Nikolai N. Seleznyov “These stones shall be for a memorial”: A discussion of the abolition of circumcision in the Kitāb al-Mağdal Anton Pritula The Wardā Hymnological Collection and Šlēmōn of Ahlāṭ (13th century) Youhanna Nessim Youssef Litanies or Prayers for Travellers Hagiography Andrey Moroz Folkloric Hagiography and the Popular Cult of Saints: Formation of Beliefs and Plots Alexander V. Pigin Hagiographic Writings in the Old Believer Controversies over ‘the Suicidal Death’ at the End of the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Centuries (Peter Prokop’ev’s Message to Daniil Vikulin) Tatiana A. Senina (nun Kassia) Concerning the Dates of St. Makarios of Pelekete’s Life and the Dating of his Vita Tatiana A. Senina (nun Kassia) Did St. John, the Abbot of the ton Katharon Monastery, Join the Iconoclasts under Leo V the Armenian? Yulia M. Shevarenkova Verbal Hagiography of Seraphim of Sarov Patrology Dmitry Biriukov Hierarchies of Beings in the Patristic Thought: Maximus the Confessor, John of Damascus, and the Palamites Irina Kolbutova The Book of the Body of Christ: Jewish-Christian Mysticism of Lett ers and the Name of God as an Origin for the Christian Spiritual Exegesis Dirk Krausmuller A Chalcedonian Conundrum: the Singularity of the Hypostasis of Christ Alexey Ostrovsky and Maia Raphava Notes on Georgian Translations of the Works of Nicetas Stethatos Olena Syrtsova L’anthropologie apocryphe et le traité Περὶ Ἀρχῶν d’Origène Review Articles Dmitry Biriukov Providence and fate in the ancient philosophical tradition and in Greek patristics Basil Lourié Notes on Mar Pinḥas: A “Nestorian” Foundation Legend; the Liturgy Implied; Polemics against Jewish Mysticism; an Early Christian Apology Used; Syrian Monasticism from Athens Olga Mitrenina The Corpora of Old and Middle Russian Texts as an Advanced Tool for Exploring an Extinguished Language Aleksandr V. Pigin A new book on Old Russian demonology Tatiana A. Senina (moniale Kassia) Deux livres sur Cassia de Constantinople Christos A. Zafiropoulos Ahiqar, his Tale and the Vita Aesopi Reviews What Was the Question? The Inter-Byzantine Discussions about the Filioque, Nicephorus Blemmydes, and Gregory of Cyprus (B. Lourié) Прп. Максим Исповедник, Богословско-полемические сочинения (Opuscula Theologica et Polemica), пер. с древнегреч. Д. А. ЧЕРНОГЛАЗОВА и А. М. ШУФРИНА; научн. ред., предисл. и комм. Г. И. БЕНЕВИЧА [St Maximus the Confessor, Opuscula Theologica et Polemica, Russian tr. by D. A. Chernoglazov and A. M. Choufrine; ed., intr. and comm. by G. I. Benevich] (G. B.) Warren T. Woodfin, The Embodied Icon. Liturgical Vestments and Sacramental Power in Byzantium (T. Sénina) Two Books on Fr Antonii (Anthony) Bulatovich (1870–1919) and the Imiaslavie (Onomatodoxy, Name-Glorifying) (B. Lourié) The Monks and Their Reading (O. Mitrenina) A Lonely Church as a Symbol of Faith and Power (B. Lourié) Syriaca et Varia Orientalia (B. Lourié) Das russisch-deutsche Seminar „Simon Lüdwigowitsch Frank: der deutsche Kontext der russischen Philosophie“ (A. Malinov)