If you know a good book(s) or article(s) on biblical interpretation in the Second Temple period please let me know in the comments section.
Hermeneutics, Judaism, Second Temple
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Ummmm Ezra, Nehemiah, Luke-Acts…….
Let me add the clarification that it is not already canonized. 🙂
Hey Brian,
Here’s this book. http://www.amazon.com/Biblical-Interpretation-Studies-Scrolls-Literature/dp/0802839371
There is this guy that most people have not heard of. His name is N.T. (Tom) Wright. 🙂 Probably all the other new perspective people as well such as Sanders and Dunn.
Also, as I keep throwing in the name, Andrew Perriman. None of his books are directly on that topic, but he is passionate to always bring in second temple Judaistic understanding, quoting from the Apocrypha and other sources from the late BCE centuries and early CE centruies.
I’d echo Scott’s suggestion of Wright, esp. NTPG. G. K. Beale includes quite a bit of 2nd Temple literature in his “The Temple and the Church’s Mission”, although it’s not actually an analysis of how or why they interpreted Scripture the way they did. Seitz is supposedly coming out with a book this year called “The Formation of Christian Scripture,” and I’m curious as to whether he’d include anything there.
Other than that, you might check David Aune’s stuff, or Longenecker. Didn’t Bauckham just come out with something on 1st century Judaism? That might be a good place to look for references.
In short, I don’t know, but am still rambling on about it.
@Daniel: Awesome, I didn’t know that existed. I have three other books from that series. I may get that one.
@Scott: Wright is awesome (he gets a lot of fanfare on this blog) and I want to read Perriman soon, but my search is more for books and articles that focus specifically on this subject, rather than as a supporting point to a different argument.
@Matthew: I think you are right about Bauckham! I should look that up.
Hey Brian,
I just looked over my syllabus from a seminar on 2nd Temple Lit I took 2 years ago with Dr. Kostenberger and he recommends this article for bibliographic information: David W. Chapman and Andreas J. Köstenberger, “Jewish Intertestamental and Early Rabbinic Literature: An Annotated Bibliographic Resource,” JETS 43 (2000): 577–618 (posted at http://www.biblicalfoundations.org under “Publications about Bible Reference”). I would be happy to share some of the required reading list here, but I imagine it’s covered in that article.
Matthew,
Is it this article here: http://biblicalfoundations.org/pdf/Koestenberger_JETS%2043.4.pdf
That’s an awesome list!
That’s it! I’d check Craig Evans and Helyer’s work first, and probably Richard Longenecker’s (although R.L. definitely isn’t fair to the NT writers IMO).