Preliminary Material / Charlotte Hempel and Judith M. Lieu -- The "Coming of God" Tradition and its Influence on New Testament Parousia Texts / Edward Adams -- The Lives of the Prophets in Syriac: Some Soundings / Sebastian Brock -- The Formation and Renewal of Scriptural Tradition / George J. Brooke -- A Fruitful Venture: The Origin of Hebrew Studies at King's College London / Ronald E. Clements -- The Yaḥad and "The Qumran Community" / John J. Collins -- And Enoch Was Not, For Genesis Took Him / Philip R. Davies -- Divine Sonship at Qumran: Between the Old and the New Testament / Florentino García Martínez -- Maskil(im) and Rabbim: From Daniel to Qumran / Charlotte Hempel -- From Jeremiah to Baruch: Pseudepigraphy in the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch / Matthias Henze -- The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the "Two Ways" / Marinus de Jonge -- Justin Martyr and the Transformation of Psalm 22 / Judith M. Lieu -- Whom does the Term Yaḥad Identify? / Sarianna Metso -- Speaking with the Voice of God: The High Court according to Greek Deuteronomy 17:8-13 / Sarah J. K. Pearce -- Sex and Death, or, the Death of Sex: Three Versions of Jephthah's Daughter (Judges 11:29-40) / Deborah W. Rooke -- The Creation of Angels and Natural Phenomena Intertwined in the Book of Jubilees (4QJuba) / Raija Sollamo -- Daniel 7 in the Similitudes of Enoch (1 Enoch 37-71) / James C. VanderKam -- From Generation to Generation: The Sage as Father in Early Jewish Literature / Benjamin G. Wright III -- Christian Messianism and the First Jewish War with Rome / Adela Yarbro Collins -- Bibliography / Charlotte Hempel and Judith M. Lieu -- Contributors / Charlotte Hempel and Judith M. Lieu -- Index of Ancient Primary Sources / Charlotte Hempel and Judith M. Lieu.

This collection comprises eighteen papers by friends, colleagues and students of Michal A. Knibb on the theme of the transmission of biblical traditions in a variety of contexts. In the main the articles deal with the transmission of biblical traditions in the versions, the pseudepigrapha, at Qumran, and in early Christian writings. The collection as a whole clearly demonstrates the way in which biblical traditions were shaped and re-shaped creatively in the biblical, early Jewish and Christian literature.

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