Theology

James A. Sanders

Scripture in Its Historical Contexts

Volume I: Text, Canon, and Qumran
Ed. by Craig A. Evans

[Die Heilige Schrift in ihrem historischen Kontext. Band I: Text, Kanon und Qumran.]

2018. XIX, 548 pages.

Forschungen zum Alten Testament 118

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The studies by James A. Sanders collected in this first of two volumes document the diversity of textual traditions, as well as the diversity and unsettled, incipient state of the collection of sacred literature that was regarded as authoritative or canonical in the late Second Temple period.
In this important collection of essays James A. Sanders offers his most significant work on the text and canon of the Hebrew Bible, along with his seminal studies of the Qumran Scrolls. He has been at the forefront of the study of canon formation, history of interpretation, and textual criticism, with specialty in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the use of the Old Testament in the New. These studies document the variety of textual traditions, as well as the diversity and unsettled, incipient state of the collection of sacred literature that was regarded as authoritative or canonical in the late Second Temple period. They laid the foundation on which today's scholarly discussion is focused.
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James A. Sanders (1927–2020) Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at the Claremont School of Theology and the Claremont Graduate University.

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: The Qumran Chronicle — 27 (2019), pp. 175–176 (Zdzislaw J. Kapera)
In: Theologische Literaturzeitung — 146 (2021), pp. 163–165 (Arie van der Kooij)
In: Zwinglius Redivivus — https://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2019/09/02/scripture-in-its-historical-contexts/ (Jim West)
In: Jahrbuch f.Liturgik u.Hymnologie — 2020, p. 85 (Reinhard Müller)
In: Australian Biblical Review — 67 (2019), S. 97–98 (Gareth J. Wearne)
In: Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (ZAW) — 131 (2019), S. 354 (U.B.)
In: New Testament Abstracts — 63 (2019), S. 141–142
In: Old Testament Abstracts — 42 (2019), S. 507–508 (C.T.B.)