Beauty in the Second Temple Period. Essays in Honor of Renate Egger-Wenzel on her 65th Birthday (en Inglés) - Nuria Calduch-Benages;Dionisio Candido;Jeremy Corley;Michael W. Duggan

Beauty is an unexplored theme in studies of Second Temple Jewish texts. Yet disclosing the aesthetic beauty in literary works has affinities with current methodologies such as reader response criticism and explorations of emotion and affectivity in prose and poetry. Since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, aesthetic analyses enhance the reader’s subjective experience of the text and thereby are capable of reaching an audience beyond that of biblical specialists.

This volume explores Hebrew Scriptures, deuterocanonical texts, and extra-canonical Jewish literature. To disclose the aesthetics in the texts, the 20 essays apply a variety of interpretive methodologies, including literary-critical, cultural-historical, linguistic, and art-historical. Essays will examine beauty in postexilic Hebrew Bible texts, apocryphal/ deuterocanonical writings, and other Second Temple texts such as Qumran. Besides literary aesthetics, the essays will explore the beauty of female figures and the natural world, as well as spiritual beauty. While this volume is intended primarily for scholars in the fields of Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and ancient society, it will also be of interest to students in their classrooms.

The series Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies (DCLS) is concerned principally with research into those books of the Greek Bible (Septuagint) which are not contained in the Hebrew canon, and into intertestamentary and early Jewish literature from the period around the 3rd century BCE to the 2nd century CE. The series was launched in 2007 in collaboration with the “International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature”. It provides a logical extension to the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook, which has been published since 2004.

Die Reihe Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies (DCLS) widmet sich vornehmlich der Erforschung der Bücher der griechischen Bibel (Septuaginta), die nicht im hebräischen Kanon enthalten sind, sowie der zwischentestamentlichen und der frühen jüdischen Literatur aus der Zeit vom 3. Jahrhundert v.Chr. bis zum 2. Jahrhundert n.Chr. Die Reihe wurde 2007 in Zusammenarbeit mit der „International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature“ eröffnet. Sie bildet die passende Ergänzung zum Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook, das seit 2004 erscheint.