This festschrift honors James C. VanderKam, celebrating his 65th birthday and 20th year on the faculty of the U. of Notre Dame. Scholarly essays are presented in two volumes, arranged in
sections pertaining to the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near East, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, early Judaism topics, Enoch traditions and Jubilees, and the New Testament and early
Christianity. A sampling of topics: community in post-Katrina America and early Israel, Daniel and the narrative integrity of his prayer in Chapter 9, Leviticus outside the legal genre, a
typology of ascents to heaven in antiquity, and the social setting of the parables of Enoch. Indexing is by ancient sources, and modern authors. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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