With Wisdom as a Robe: Qumran and Other Jewish Studies in Honour of Ida Fröhlich

Part I
HEBREW BIBLE / OLD TESTAMENT

Philip R. Davies, Biblical Texts and the Past
Magen Broshi, Eight Critical Junctures in Ancient Jewish History
Rainer Albertz, Muss die exklusive Gottesverehrung gewalttätig sein? Israels steiniger Weg zum Monotheismus
Georg Hentschel, Abimelech—Two Sides of the Story (Judges 9)
Dolores G. Kamrada, The Sacrifice of Jephthah’s Daughter and the Notion of Herem
Jutta Hausmann, Heilige Texte und Gewalt—Annäherungen an das Thema am Beispiel von Psalm 137
Miklós Köszeghy, Die Sprache der Armee von Juda: Eine Spurensuche
István Karasszon, Ezra’s Elusive Presence
Matthias Henze, Babylon Remembered: Nebuchadnezzar in the Collective Memory of Ancient Israel

Part II
APOCRYPHA / PSEUDEPIGRAPHA AND QUMRAN

James R. Davila, Ritual in the Old Testament Apocrypha
Matthew Goff, Subterranean Giants and Septuagint Proverbs: The ‘Earth-Born’ of LXX Proverbs
Devora Dimant, The Family of Tobit
Siam Bhayro, A Leaf from a Medieval Book of Tobit
Darrell Hannah, The Virgin Heifer and a Lost Christian Version of the Animal Apocalypse
Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Putting Angels in their Place: Developments in Second Temple Angelology
Loren T. Stuckenbruck, The Eschatological Worship of God by the Nations: The Early Enoch Tradition
James C. VanderKam, The Aramaic Astronomical Book and the Ethiopic Book of the Luminaries
Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, Hebrew Patriarchs in the Book of Jubilees
John C. Endres, SJ, Rebekah’s Prayer (Jubilees 25.11-23)
Eugene Ulrich, Qumran Witness to the Developmental Growth of the Prophetic Books
Armin Lange, ‘Which is Written in the Words of Isaiah, Son of Amoz, the Prophet’ (CD 7:10): Quotations of and Allusions to the Book of Isaiah in Qumran Literature
Bilhah Nitzan, Ancient Jewish Traditions of Biblical Commentary in Qumran Literature
Dorothy M. Peters, The Primacy and the Shunning of a Priestly Noah in the Commentary on Genesis A-D and the Damascus Document at Qumran
Balázs Tamási, Prophesized History of the Postexilic Period and Polemics against Priests in 4Q390 from Qumran: Levite Authorship behind the Fragments?
Michael A. Daise, The Temple Scroll Calendar: Revisiting the Date of the Feast of Oil in the Calendrical Documents / Mishmarot
Nora David, The Terminology of Death at Qumran
Geza Vermes, Jewish Attitudes to Afterlife in the Age of Jesus
Géza G. Xeravits, Remarks on the Miracles of Elisha in the Lives of the Prophets 22.5-20

Part III
JEWISH STUDIES / CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATION

Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Reconstructing Past (Jewish) Cultures
Péter Vargyas, Weight Standards and Fineness of Silver in Aramaic Documents from Elephantine
György Benyik, The OT Quoted in the NT: The Interpretation of the Torah in the Early Christian Tradition
Phillip Muñoa, John, Jesus, and Metatron: Mediators, Knowledge and the Importance of a Neglected Interpretation
Gábor Buzási, An Ancient Debate on Canonicity: Julius Africanus and Origen on Susanna
Günter Stemberger, Support for the Poor: Leviticus 19 in Qumran and in Early Rabbinic Literature
János Jany, The Legal Status of Slaves in Sasanian and Talmudic Law
Shaul Shaked, A Jewish Aramaic Amulet from Afghanistan
Károly Dániel Dobos, ‘In thy light shall we see the light’ (Psalm 36.10): Maimonides on Human Intellect