... , “4 Ezra and 2 Baruch in Light of Qumran Literature,” in Fourth Ezra and Second Baruch: Reconstruction After the Fall , ed. M. Henze and G. Boccaccini , with the collaboration of J.M. Zurawski , JSJSup 164 (Leiden: Brill, 2013 ), 31–61...

...In this chapter, Shayna Sheinfeld introduces and analyzes the text and history of the apocryphal book known as 2 Esdras. 2 Esdras is a composite work, comprised of three separate works. The earliest portion, called 4 Ezra, can be found in chapters 3–14 of 2 Esdras. It is a Jewish apocalypse written...

... Jewish texts. The chapter also takes into view thematic discourse which is set in a narrative frame, such as 4 Ezra, 1 Baruch and some ‘Testaments’. alphabetic alphabetical text Lindenberger J M Aḥiqar boundary of a text Mishnah Temple Scroll canonization meta communicative Goldberg...

...Various “Jewish” texts have survived in Latin, those considered canonical as well as others such as the "Liber antiquitatum biblicarum;" falsely attributed to Philo, and "4 Ezra, 5 Ezra, and 6 Ezra," which are known only or primarily from Latin. Many other Latin texts have also survived in Greek...

...This chapter discusses texts that show the idea of a canon, or set number of scriptural texts, was emerging in early Judaism: 4 Ezra mentions twenty-four public books and seventy secret ones, and Josephus mentions twenty-two books. Using modern analogies from the Ethiopic canon...

... as evidence for this purpose. The chapter concludes with a discussion of salvation after death in the Greek religious movement called Orphism, as well as in the Jewish texts 2 Maccabees and 4 Ezra. LeGoff Jacques Reinach Salomon prayer for the dead Johnston Sarah Iles Morris Ian burial practices Lucian...

... of it in the 1860s–70s by Antonio Maria Ceriani until Charles’s examination of it. It then describes the book that Charles wrote about it, including the complicated editorial history he believed was evident in the surviving text, its relation to 4 Ezra, the date he proposed for it, and the language in which...

...0 19 07 2024 The chapter provides a general overview of 4 Ezra (also called 2 Esdras). The book confronts the trauma of losing the Jerusalem temple, which the Roman Empire destroyed circa 70 ce. In the first part of 4 Ezra, Ezra is distraught and argues with an angel about whether...

... in the Ezrean writings. Others have noted the importance of the passages in 4 Ezra, where Ezra is made to create secret writings, but I would like to speak directly about the passages from the perspective of ancient writing practices. ²⁹ The key passages in question read as follows...

... between books. Within the Hebrew Bible, catchwords or phrases indicate a book’s purposeful placement, and there are signs of this in the case of Ruth and Esther. Among the vast array of historical information on the shape of the canon, Josephus and 4 Ezra are essential witnesses to the canon’s closure...

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..., Book of the Watchers, Animal Apocalypse, Epistle of Enoch and the Apocalypse of Weeks, and Parables or Similitudes of Enoch—and also Jubilees, 2 Esdras (or 4 Ezra, 5 Ezra, and 6 Ezra), and 2 Baruch. apocalypses and apocalypticism calendar God prophets and prophecy 1 2 demons history writing...

.... Rather, books were seen to stem from a kind of oral dictation from God to the prophet, as in the Testament of Levi and 4 Ezra, who functioned as a kind of scribe in transmitting the words of a divine or angelic author. Libraries ancient literacy in antiquity orality ideological formulations...

..., specifically in the cases of 1 Enoch, 4 Ezra, and 2 Baruch. 1 Enoch apocalyptic literature Collins John J Daniel allusive anthologizing of scripture in revelation and revelation themes in apocalyptic literature Torah 1 Enoch and Genesis Numbers Deuteronomy Genesis...

... the apocalyptic worldview as a diagnostic tool, this chapter examines the lack of apocalyptic speculation in the Apocryphal writings, with attention to the Additions to Esther A and F, 2 Maccabees, and Ben Sira. It then discusses the Wisdom of Solomon and 4 Ezra (2 Esdras 3-14), which were composed in the first...