The Thanksgiving Hymns have been labeled the mystical gems among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Some of them may have been composed by the genius who is known as “the Righteous Teacher” in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Other psalms, hymns, or odes were composed by members of the Qumran Community. This volume includes all fragments and all portions of the manuscripts of this superb witness to the height of Jewish poetry and thought before 70 CE and the end of early Judaism. Preliminary work on the major manuscript was conducted by Professor Doron Mendels of Israel and Professor Hermann Lichtenberger of Germany. Professor Charlesworth of Princeton spent over fifty years studying the witnesses to The Thanksgiving Hymns and completed the work. 
The central focus of The Thanksgiving Hymns is thanksgiving and praise based on a living covenantal relationship with a Creator within a dualistic and apocalyptic worldview. This is an important reference book for specialists in biblical studies.

The Dead Sea Scrolls, Volume 5A: Thanksgiving Hymns and Related Documents (Dead Sea Scrolls Library)

Religion & Spirituality

James H. Charlesworth

Christian Books & Bibles

Westminster/John Knox Press

John and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Christian Origins Library)

Raymond E. Brown

James L. Price

A.R.C. Leaney

A. Jaubert

Gilles Quispel

Marie-Emile Boismard

William H. Brownlee

Herder & Herder / The Crossroad Publishing Company

Papers delivered at the Religious Studies Center symposium, Brigham Young University, March 10-11, 1978 (The Religious studies monograph series). This event has been described as "The watershed event of the decade." Introductory essay by Truman G. Madsen.

Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo-Christian Parallels

Robert N. Bellah

Jacob Milgrom

David Noel Freedman

John Dillenberger

David Winston

W.D. Davies

Abraham Kaplan

Krister Stendahl

Edmond LaB. Cherbonnier

Brigham Young University

The pseudepigrapha and modern research (Septuagint and cognate studies)

Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature

Do you think that a funny story is more important than shelter or sex? Many experts do. Humor and storytelling are so important to the human psyche that they even penetrate literary works dealing with serious subjects. This book examines the origin of Jewish apocalyptic literature—the literature of groups who were convinced that the End was near. As we approach a new millennium, interest in apocalyptic literature is on the increase. For Christians, this should not be a temporary fad. Since Christianity began as an apocalyptic movement within Judaism, the understanding of ancient apocalypses is important to the understanding of Early Christianity. 
Prof. Charlesworth points out that many stories in Jewish apocalyptic literature evolved from conversations around the campfire, the hearth, or anywhere people would customarily gather to relax and talk. Folklore and humor—and the physical relaxation and psychological release from laughing—served as a catharsis from physical labors and political oppression. Another influence on these stories was the prevalence in that ancient culture of images of winged beasts and demons, which became models for the beasts and demons in the stories. 
The only way to understand early Jewish and Christian apocalypticism is to base our reflections on the content and setting of the texts, rather than on preconceived notions of what they might have to say about the beginning of the third millennium. We should listen to what the ancients had to say to their own contemporaries. When we do, we may hear a voice from above.

How Barisat Bellowed: Folklore, Humor, and Iconography in the Jewish Apocalypses and the Apocalypse of John (The Dead Sea Scrolls & Christian Origins Library, Vol. 3)

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

D & F Scott Pub Inc

This newly revised parallel history of Judaism and Christianity presents the first six centuries in the development of both religions in one understandable volume. This unprecedented book takes readers from the middle of the first century when a distinction between Judaism and Christianity first became apparent to the Arab conquest. This book begins where its companion volume, Ancient Israel, ends. The first edition appeared more than two decades ago and has since become a standard textbook and reference work for undergraduate, graduate and Bible study courses across the country. The book s editor and contributing authors have now written a completely updated and revised edition that incorporates the most important finds and insights from the past two decades of archaeological, historical and Biblical research. More than 65 images enhance the text, many illustrating the most dramatic and important finds discovered in the Holy Land and elsewhere in recent decades. It also includes, for the first time, informative maps detailing the many sites and regions where the shared histories of these two world religions unfolded.

Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism: A Parallel History of Their Origins and Early Development

History

Harold W. Attridge

Louis H Feldman

Lee I. A. Levine

many other contributors

Ancient Civilizations

Biblical Archaeology Society

This book traces the compelling and often muddled history of Judaism and Christianity through their formative years, from the shared background of first-century Judaism and all its varieties to the diverse interactions and experiences of Jews, Christians and Jewish-Christians under centuries of Roman rule. More than a dozen chapters, authorized by the worlds'foremost scholars in early Judaism and Christianity, tell the story of a complex and evolving theparting of the ways that occurred in different ways in different places and at different times. 46 Illustrations, 8 maps, 13 color plates

Partings: How Judaism and Christianity Became Two

Bruce Chilton

Shaye J.D. Cohen

JAMES D.G. DUNN

Steven Fine

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World

Geza, Vermes

Shaye HD Cohen

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