How did the written word serve as an authoritative source in the ancient world? What does it mean that some works became so popular as to merit dedicated interp

How did the written word serve as an authoritative source in the ancient world? What does it mean that some works became so popular as to merit dedicated interp

In Pesher and Hypomnema Pieter B. Hartog compares ancient Jewish commentaries on the Hebrew Bible with papyrus commentaries on the Iliad. Hartog shows that memb

This is the first major commentary in English on Pesher Habakkuk for forty years. It elucidates the nature of 1QpHab as the earliest commentary on the prophecy

Essays that engage the scholarship of Shaye J. D. Cohen The essays in Strength to Strength honor Shaye J. D. Cohen across a range of ancient to modern topics. T