Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck -- Preface / Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck -- Chapter Ten One Afterlife of Nickelsburg’s “Resurrection, Immortality, and Eternal Life” / Bruce Chilton -- Chapter Eleven George Nickelsburg’s Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah : Retrospect and Prospect / Randall D. Chesnutt -- Chapter Twelve George Nickelsburg’s “1 Enoch: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch: Chapters 1–36; 81–108” / Patrick Tiller -- Chapter Thirteen Enoch, Levi, and Peter: Recipients of Revelation in upper Galilee / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Chapter Fourteen The Genre and Function of the Markan Passion Narrative / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Chapter Fifteen Riches, the Rich, and God’s Judgment in 1 Enoch 92–105 and the Gospel According to Luke / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Chapter Sixteen Revisiting the Rich and the Poor in 1 Enoch 92–105 and the Gospel according to Luke / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Chapter Seventeen The Incarnation: Paul’s Solution to the Universal Human Predicament / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Chapter Eighteen Jews and Christians in the First Century: The Struggle over Identity / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Chapter Nineteen 1 and 2 Maccabees—Same Story, Different Meaning / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Chapter Twenty Why Study the Extra-Canonical Literature? A Historical and Theological Essay / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Index of Ancient Sources / Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck -- Index of Contemporary Authors / Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck -- Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism / Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck.

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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