Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Editors: Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck -- Preface -- Authors: Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck -- Permissions / Editors: Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck -- Bibliography of George W.E. Nickelsburg / Editors: Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck -- Chapter One The First Century: A Time to Rejoice and a Time to Weep / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Chapter Two The Apocalyptic Construction of Reality in 1 Enoch / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Chapter Three Salvation without and with a Messiah: Developing Beliefs in Writings Ascribed to Enoch / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Chapter Four The Epistle of Enoch and the Qumran Literature / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Chapter Five Religious Exclusivism a World View Governing Some Texts Found at Qumran / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Chapter Six Patriarchs Who Worry about Their Wives: A Haggadic Tendency in the Genesis Apocryphon / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Chapter Seven Tobit and Enoch: Distant Cousins with a Recognizable Resemblance / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Chapter Eight The Search for Tobit’s Mixed Ancestry a Historical and Hermeneutical Odyssey / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Chapter Nine Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism: Some Points for Discussion / George W.E. Nickelsburg.

Here we reread George W.E. Nickelsburg’s more important articles and encounter afresh some of his books, to criticize them and to attend to his response to the criticism. This set of Auseinandersetzungen thus carries forward the life of learning and debate that yields a rich harvest of scholarship. It pays tribute to a scholar through acts of engaged, critical scholarship, in which specialists reread articles reproduced in these pages and respond to them, with Nickelsburg then joining issue—a protracted engagement, spanning an entire intellectual career and many of its more important moments. Nickelsburg’s work not only deserves such rigorous analysis, it also sustains it. On any list of scholars who over the past forty years have defined and cultivated the field of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity, George Nickelsburg is included at or near the top. Here we present the natural outcome of such a life in the academy: scholars in contention over truth. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004129870).

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