Scriptures, Sects, and Visions: A Profile of Judaism from Ezra to the Jewish Revolts

Scriptures, Sects and Visions: Profile of Judaism from Ezra to the Jewish Revolts

Scriptures, sects, and visions: A profile of Judaism from Ezra to the Jewish revolts

Michael E. Stone

Blackwell*publishers

Explore how the vivid and creative Armenian spiritual tradition shaped biblical stories to serve new needs Michael E. Stone's latest book includes texts from Armenian manuscripts that are relevant to the development and growth of biblical themes and subjects. Most of these texts have not been published previously. Stone has collected a fascinating corpus of texts about biblical heroes, such as Joseph and Jonah, Nathan the Prophet, and Asaph the Psalmist. In addition, he has included documents illustrating particular points of the biblical story. This work reflects not just on how the Bible was interpreted in medieval times, but also how its stories and details were shaped by and served the needs of the vivid and creative Armenian spiritual tradition. Features: <ul>
<li>Expanded stories from Exodus</li> <li>Introductions,translations, and notes</li> <li>Insights into the Armenian "Embroidered Bible"; through which many biblical incidents were known to Armenian literature, art, and thought</li> </ul>

Armenian Apocrypha Relating to Angels and Biblical Heroes (Early Judaism and Its Literature)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

SBL Press

Armenian Apocrypha Relating to Biblical Heroes (Early Judaism and Its Literature)

Explore richly embellished Armenian tales of biblical heroes This fifth book of Michael E. Stone's English translations of stories from medieval Armenian manuscripts illustrates how authors transmitted and transformed accounts of biblical heroes. Texts focus on important figures such as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Solomon, Daniel and Susanna, and more. This collection reflects not only the richness of Armenian creativity stimulated by piety and learning but also Michael E. Stone's career-long search for reworkings of biblical traditions, stories, and persons in the Armenian tradition. Features:
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<li>A rich tradition of biblical exegesis and commentary, much of it in genres of the older apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature </li> <li>Reflections on the roots of Armenian texts in ancient Judaism and earliest Christianity </li> <li>Texts, translations, and a critical apparatus</li> </ul>

Armenian Apocrypha from Adam to Daniel (Early Judaism and Its Literature, 55)

In this collection of Armenian apocryphal texts, Michael E. Stone focuses on texts related to heaven and hell, angels and demons, and biblical figures from the Hebrew Bible and apocrypha. The texts, introductions, translations, annotations, and critical apparatus included in this volume make this collection a key resource for students and scholars of apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature.

The Armenian version of IV Ezra

Scholars' Press

The Armenian version of IV Ezra (University of Pennsylvania Armenian texts and studies ; no. 1)

4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Translations, Introductions, and Notes

Matthias Henze

Fortress Press

In "Shelter Poverty", Michael E. Stone presents the definitive discussion of housing and social justice in the United States. Challenging the conventional definition of housing affordability, Stone offers original and powerful insights about the nature, causes, and consequences of the affordability problem and presents creative and detailed proposals for solving a problem that afflicts one-third of this nation. Setting the housing crisis into broad political, economic, and historical contexts, Stone asks: What is shelter poverty? Why does it exist and persist? and How can it be overcome? Describing shelter poverty as the denial of a universal human need, Stone offers a quantitative scale by which to measure it and reflects on the social and economic implications of housing affordability in this country. He argues for "the right to housing" and presents a program for transforming a large proportion of the housing in this country from an expensive commodity into an affordable social entitlement. Employing new concepts of housing ownership, tenure, and finance, he favors social ownership in which market concepts have a useful but subordinate role in the identification of housing preferences and allocation. Stone concludes that political action around shelter poverty will further the goal of achieving a truly just and democratic society that is also equitably and responsibly productive and prosperous. Author note: Michael E. Stone is Professor of Community Planning at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

Shelter Poverty: New Ideas on Housing Affordability

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Temple University Press

In a collection of original essays, this book offers new insights on the question of the lost book of Noah, as well as studies of Noah's figure in postbiblical literature. It focuses on ancient Jewish literature, including the Septuagint, the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, Josephus, and rabbinic literature, but Christian sources, especially Christian iconography, gnostic literature, and Syriac material, as well as later sources such as the Qur'an and Jewish medieval traditions, are also consulted. The contributors are Michael E. Stone, Vered Hillel, Aryeh Amihay, Michael Tuval, Daniel Machiela, Claire Pfann, Esther Eshel, Jeremy Penner, Rebecca Scharbach, Benjamin G. Wright III, Nadav Sharon and Moshe Tishel, Albert Geljon, Sergey Minov, Erica Martin, and Ruth Clements.

Noah and His Book(s) (Early Judaism and Its Literature)

Society of Biblical Literature

This volume introduces a cycle of stories about Abraham as preserved in fifteen unpublished, late medieval manuscripts in Armenian, published here in English for the first time with commentaries, annotations, and critical apparatus. The texts present embroidered Abraham stories dealing with his youth, his life in Egypt, the binding of Isaac, the story of Melchizedek, and other tales. Embedding Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and other ancient traditions, these texts demonstrate mutual borrowing and influence over centuries.

Armenian Apocrypha Relating to Abraham (Early Judaism and Its Literature)

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