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Review Of The Dead Sea Scrolls And The Christian Faith, Ed. James H. Charlesworth And Walter P. Weaver, Sidnie White Crawford
Review Of The Dead Sea Scrolls And The Christian Faith, Ed. James H. Charlesworth And Walter P. Weaver, Sidnie White Crawford
Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications
"Do the Dead Sea Scrolls hinder or undermine Christian faith?" James Charlesworth asks in the preface of this volume. The four essays that follow all answer with a resounding "No!" The annual Faith and Scholarship Colloquy at Florida Southern College serves to bring together leading scholars to address the most challenging topics in contemporary biblical studies in a way that speaks to a Christian lay audience. This volume, the fifth in a series, admirably meets that goal.
Lady Wisdom And Dame Folly At Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford
Lady Wisdom And Dame Folly At Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford
Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications
The female figures of Lady Wisdom and Dame Folly, found in the postexilic Wisdom literature, have always attracted much debate and speculation. The questions of who they are and what they stand for, particularly in the case of Lady Wisdom, have been hotly debated. Is she merely a literary creation, driven by the fact that the nouns for wisdom in Hebrew and Greek, חכמה and σοφία, are feminine in gender? Or is she an actual divine figure, a female hypostasis of Yahweh, the god of Israel, indicating a female divine presence in Israelite religion? These debates have yet to be …
The Regulation Of Hebrew Printing In Germany, 1555-1630: Confessional Politics And The Limits Of Jewish Toleration, Stephen G. Burnett
The Regulation Of Hebrew Printing In Germany, 1555-1630: Confessional Politics And The Limits Of Jewish Toleration, Stephen G. Burnett
Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications
In the contentious religious and political climate of the German empire between 1555 and 1630, rulers of Lutheran, Reformed, and Catholic cities and territories all agreed that "Jewish blasphemies" were intolerable in a Christian state, yet Jewish printing came to be both legally and politically feasible during these years. This essay examines the German imperial laws that governed the book trade, the religious and political factors that rulers were obliged to weigh when considering whether to allow Jewish printing in their domains, and the policies and safeguards that they could adopt to attenuate these potential risks. In the end, Jewish …
Review Of The Harlot By The Side Of The Road: Forbidden Tales Of The Bible, By Jonathan Kirsch, Sidnie White Crawford
Review Of The Harlot By The Side Of The Road: Forbidden Tales Of The Bible, By Jonathan Kirsch, Sidnie White Crawford
Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications
Many modern readers think of the Bible as a "dry and preachy" book, not having much sympathy for the all-too-human passions of sex, violence and greed. In this book, Jonathan Kirsch, author, book columnist for the Los Angeles Times and practicing lawyer, attempts to change that impression, to reveal the Bible's fullness in recounting human complexity. In the process, Kirsch hopes "to take back the Bible from the strict and censorious people who wave it in our faces and to restore it to the worldly man or woman who will appreciate the flesh-and-blood passions that are described in the Holy …
A Response To Elizabeth Owen’S “4qdeutn: A Pre-Samaritan Text?”, Sidnie White Crawford
A Response To Elizabeth Owen’S “4qdeutn: A Pre-Samaritan Text?”, Sidnie White Crawford
Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications
I would like to thank the editors of Dead Sea Discoveries for giving me the opportunity to respond to Elizabeth Owen’s article (vol. 4:2, July 1997), which makes extensive use of my previous work on 4QDeutn. While I find myself in broad agreement with her conclusions (see below), I feel that her article, with its heavy reliance on my unpublished doctoral dissertation, gives a misleading impression of my scholarship on 4QDeutn, and I would like to take this opportunity to set the record straight.
Review Of The Hidden Scrolls: Christianity, Judaism And The War For The Dead Sea Scrolls, By Neil Asher Silberman, Sidnie White Crawford
Review Of The Hidden Scrolls: Christianity, Judaism And The War For The Dead Sea Scrolls, By Neil Asher Silberman, Sidnie White Crawford
Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications
The Hidden Scrolls: Christianity, Judaism, and the War for the Dead Sea Scrolls, by Neil Asher Silberman. New York: Riverhead Books, 1994; London: Heinemann, 1995. Pp. xiv + 306. ISBN 0-434-70288-9.
Neil Asher Silberman, a popular writer and journalist who specializes in the area of archaeology and history of the Ancient Mediterranean, has written a fine book for the general public on the Dead Sea Scrolls in the tradition of Edmund Wilson’s The Scrolls from the Dead Sea. Silberman has a knack for taking what would in other hands be dry, esoteric subjects and rendering them into a popular …
William Ockham And Trope Nominalism, Stephen E. Lahey
William Ockham And Trope Nominalism, Stephen E. Lahey
Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications
Can we take a medieval metaphysician out of his scholastic robes and force him into a metaphysical apparatus as seemingly foreign to him as a tuxedo might be? I believe that the terminological and conceptual differences that appear to prevent this can be overcome in many cases, and that one case most amenable to this project is the medieval problem of universals. After all, the problem for the medieval is, at base, the same as it is for contemporary philosophers, as for Plato: How do we account, ontologically, for many tokens of the same type? If one object has the …
The Rewritten Bible At Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford
The Rewritten Bible At Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford
Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications
Since the discovery of the scrolls from the Qumran caves in the late 1940s and early-to-mid 50s, the process of sorting, identifying, and editing the fragmentary manuscripts has occupied the attention of scholars. Now, as that period in the history of scrolls scholarship draws to a close, more and more attention has turned to the contents of the texts from the eleven caves in the vicinity of Khirbet Qumran as a collection. Several things may be said about this collection. First, the majority of the texts are written in Hebrew, thus pointing to Hebrew as a living language (at least …
How Archaeology Affects The Study Of Texts: Reflections On The Category ''Rewritten Bible" At Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford
How Archaeology Affects The Study Of Texts: Reflections On The Category ''Rewritten Bible" At Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford
Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications
In recent years, as scholars have begun the long overdue reinvestigation of the archaeology of Khirbet Qumran, the complaint has often been heard that the existence of the texts from the eleven caves surrounding the site of Qumran has affected the archaeological interpretation of the ruins. Would Roland de Vaux, the excavator of Qumran, have identified the ruins as a communal settlement of a particular group of Jews, the Essenes, if he had not been aware of the contents of the scrolls, especially documents such as the Rule of the Community? The question is rhetorical; the answer, of course, is …
Review Of Eschatology, Messianism, And The Dead Sea Scrolls, Edited By Craig A. Evans And Peter W. Flint, Sidnie White Crawford
Review Of Eschatology, Messianism, And The Dead Sea Scrolls, Edited By Craig A. Evans And Peter W. Flint, Sidnie White Crawford
Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications
Eschatology, Messianism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls is the first volume of a new series, Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature, being published under the auspices of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University in British Columbia. The volume is a collection of eight essays presented at the first public Symposium of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute on September 30, 1995; it also contains an introduction by the editors Evans and Flint, the transcript of a panel discussion and a select bibliography. The essays are aimed at a public, nonspecialist audience, and thus provide …