A teacher for all generations : essays in honor of James C. VanderKam / edited by Eric F. Mason ... [and others].

"Publications of James C. VanderKam (through 2010)" : volume 1. pages [xli]-lxx.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"This collection of essays honors James C. VanderKam on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and twentieth year on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame"--ECIP data view.

volume 1. part 1. Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East. Configuring the text in biblical studies / Hindy Najman -- Relevance of textual theories for the praxis of textual criticism / Emanuel Tov -- Sea, storm, tragedy, and ethnogenesis : living the blues and (re)building community in post-Katrina America and early Israel / Hugh R. Page, Jr. -- Cain's legacy : The city and justice in the Book of Genesis / Sejin S. Park -- Biblical manumission laws : has the literary dependence of H on D been demonstrated? / John S. Bergsma -- History of Pentecontad Time Units (I) / Jonathan Ben-Dov -- Egyptian Goddess Ma'at and Lady Wisdom in Proverbs 1-9 : reassessing their relationship / Steven Schweitzer -- From name to book : another look at the composition of the book of Isaiah with special reference to Isaiah 56-66 / J. Todd Hibbard -- LXX Isaiah or its vorlage : primary "misreadings" and secondary modifications / Donald W. Parry -- Isaiah and the king of Assyria in Daniel's final vision : on the rhetoric of inner-scriptural allusion and the hermeneutics of "mantological exegesis" / Andrew Tetter -- Parallel Editions of the Old Greek and Masoretic Text of Daniel 5 / Eugene Ulrich -- Daniel and the narrative integrity of his prayer in Chapter 9 / Kindalee P. De Long --

volume 1. part 2. Qumran and the Dead Sea scrolls. Qumran : caves, scrolls, and buildings / Sidnie W. Crawford -- Digital Qumran : virtual reality or virtual fantasy? / Jodi Magness -- Seven rules for restoring lacunae / James Hamilton Charlesworth -- Collecting Psalms in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Armin Lange -- L'épilogue de 4QMMT revisité / Emile Puech -- Identifying reuse of scripture in the Temple Scroll / Molly M. Zahn -- Biblical antecedents of the kinship terms in 1QSa / Richard J. Bautch -- Leviticus outside the legal genre / Sarianna Metso -- Interpretation of Scriptural Isaiah in the Qumran Scrolls : quotations, citations, allusions, and the form of the scriptural source text / Peter W. Flint -- Status and interpretation of Jubilees in 4Q390 / Todd R. Hanneken -- Runner, staff, and star : interpreting the Teacher of Righteousness through scripture / Kelli S. O'Brien -- Who is the Teacher of the Teacher hymns? : re-examining the Teacher hymns hypothesis Fifty years later / Angela Kim Harkins -- Re-placing priestly space : the wilderness as heterotopia in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Alison Schofield --

volume 2. part 3. Early Judaism. Tobit as righteous sufferer / Gary A. Anderson -- Growth of belief in the sanctity of Mount Gerizim / Hanan Eshel -- Peton contests paying double rent on farmland (P.Heid.Inv. G 5100) / Rob Kugler -- Ascents to heaven in antiquity / Adela Yarbro Collins -- Eternal writing and Immortal writers : on the non-death of the scribe in early Judaism / Samuel I. Thomas -- Rabbis' written Torah and the heavenly tablets / Tzvi Novick -- Demons of change : the transformational role of the antagonist in the Apocalypse of Abraham / Andrei A. Orlov -- Sefer Zerubbabel and popular religion / Martha Himmelfarb -- volume 2. part 4. Studies on Enoch and Jubilees. Enmeduranki and Gilgamesh : Mesopotamian figures in Aramaic Enoch Traditions / Ida Fröhlich -- Parables of Enoch and the manuscripts from Qumran / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Social Setting of the Parables of Enoch / Leslie W. Walck -- 1 Enoch 73:4-8 and the Aramaic astronomical book / Henryk Drawnel -- Reflections on Sources behind the Epistle of Enoch and the significance of 1 Enoch 104:9-13 for the reception of Enochic tradition / Loren T. Stuckenbruck --

On the importance of being Abram : Genesis Apocryphon 18, Jubilees 10:1-13:4, and further thoughts on a literary relationship / Daniela A. Machiela -- Genre of the book of Jubilees / John J. Collins -- Note on divine names and epithets in the book of Jubilees / James Kugel -- Revisiting the Rebekah of the book of Jubilees / John C. Endres -- Judah and Tamar in Jubilees 41 / Devorah Dimant -- Enoch and Jubilees in the Canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church / Leslie Baynes -- volume 2. part 5. New Testament and Early Christianity. Aspects of Matthew's use of scripture in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls / George J. Brooke -- Surprises from Law and love : in tribute to Dr. James C. Vanderkam / John P. Meier -- Meaning of Euággelion in the Inscriptiones of the Canonical Gospels / David E. Aune -- One Ethiopian eunuch is not the end of the world : the narrative function of Acts 8:26-40 / Curt Niccum -- "Sit at my right hand" : enthronement and the heavenly sanctuary in Hebrews / Eric F. Mason -- Christians and the public archive / William Adler -- Three apocryphal fragments from Armenian manuscripts / Michael E. Stone.

This collection of essays honors James C. VanderKam on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and twentieth year on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame. An international group of scholars{u2014}including peers specializing in Second Temple Judaism and Biblical Studies, colleagues past and present, and former students{u2014}offers essays that interact in various ways with ideas and themes important in VanderKam's own work. The collection is divided into five sections spanning two volumes. The first volume includes essays on the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near East along with studies on Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Essays in the second volume address topics in early Judaism, Enoch traditions and Jubilees, and the New Testament and early Christianity.