When texts are canonized / edited by Timothy H. Lim, with Kengo Akiyama.

"This volume examines two interconnected topics related to the canonization of authoritative scriptures. How did canonization take place, and what difference does it make to a text once it is canonized? Some of the papers probe the canonical process: Why were certain books, but not others, incl...

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Other Authors: Lim, Timothy H. (Editor), Akiyama, Kengo, 1985- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Providence, Rhode Island : Brown Judaic Studies, [2017]
Series:Brown Judaic studies ; no. 359.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Timothy H. Lim
  • An indicative definition of the canon / Timothy H. Lim
  • The way of God : early canonicity and the "nondeviation formula" / Manfred Oeming
  • Uses of Torah in the Second Temple period / John J. Collins
  • Bad prophecies : canon and the case of the Book of Daniel / Michael L. Satlow
  • Canon and content / John Barton
  • Jesus and the beginnings of the Christian canon / Craig A. Evans
  • Canon and religious truth : an appraisal of a new New Testament / R.W.L. Moberly.