From Revelation to Canon: Studies in the Hebrew Bible & Second Temple Literature

  • Hardcover
  • Boston: Brill, 2000
By VanderKam, James C.
Boston: Brill, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 3/4" X 6 1/2". xi, 604pp. Mild rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in blue cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm, square, and sound.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
From Revelation to Canon is a collection of essays that offers studies of texts, traditions, and themes from the Hebrew Bible and from the extra-biblical literature of the second-temple period.
Included in it are studies of apocalypticism, the high priesthood, calendars and festivals, and a series of essays on aspects of 1 Enoch and the Book of Jubilees. There is also a previously unpublished essay on the development of a canon of scripture in Judaism.
The volume gathers in one place, papers that were originally published in several journals, volumes of essays, and Festschriften.(Publisher).

Details

Title

From Revelation to Canon: Studies in the Hebrew Bible & Second Temple Literature

Author

VanderKam, James C.

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

Brill: Boston

Date

2000

Edition

First Edition


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