Semester II

Apocalypse of Abraham

R. Rubinkiewicz, Apocalypse of Abraham. A New Translation and Introduction,  The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Vol. 1: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments, ed. James H. Charlesworth, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1983, pp. 681-705

George Herbert Box, J. I. Landsman, Apocalypse of Abraham, London 1918

Apocalypse of Abraham, English Translation by A. Kulik 

 קטעים על 'שר שלום'

חזיון ההיסטוריה בשמים

 

James L. Kugel, Abraham Journeys from Chaldea (Traditions of the Bible, Harvard 1998, pp. 243-275)

Mandel, Paul. ‘The call of Abraham: a Midrash revisited’, Prooftexts, 14 (1994), pp. 267-284

Menahem Kister, ‘Observations on Aspects of Exegesis, Tradition, and Theology in Midrash, Pseudepigrapha, and Other Jewish Writings’,  Tracing the Threads, pp. 1-34

Nickelsburg, George W. E . ‘Abraham the Convert’, Biblical Figures outside the Bible, ed. M. Stone et al., Harrisburg 1998, pp.151-175

'בירה דולקת'

Bibliography, etc: http://www.marquette.edu/maqom/apocalypseabraham.html

 

3Baruch (Greek Apocalypse of Baruch)

H. E. Gaylord, jr. 3 (Greek Apocalypse of) BARUCH. A New Translation and Introduction,  The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Vol. 1: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments, ed. James H. Charlesworth, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1983

 

Semester I

Ladder of Jacob

 

Hebrew fragment

Leicht, R., “Qedushah and Prayer to Helios: A New Hebrew Version of an Apocryphal Prayer of Jacob,” Jewish Studies Quarterly 6 (1999), 140-176.

 

Translations

James, M.R., The Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament: Their Titles and Fragments (Translations of Early Documents, Series 1: Palestinian Jewish Texts (Pre-Rabbinic) 14; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1920), 96-103.

Pennington, A., “Ladder of Jacob,” in: H.F.D. Sparks (ed.), The Apocryphal Old Testament (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), 453-463.

 

Alexander Kulik, The Ladder of Jacob: DRAFT translation (updated version)

 

Research

 

Charlesworth, J.H., “Ladder of Jacob,” in: D.N. Freedman (ed.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992), vol. 3, 609.

 

Charlesworth, J.H., “Messianology in the Biblical Pseudepigrapha,” in: J.H. Charlesworth, H. Lichtenberger and G.S. Oegema (eds.), Qumran-Messianism: Studies on the Messianic Expectations in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1998), 21-52.

 

Fossum, J.E., The Image of the Invisible God: Essays on the Influence of Jewish Mysticism on Early Christology (Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus 30 30; Freiburg, Schweiz: Universitätsverlag, 1995), 147-149.

 

*Kugel, J.L., In Potiphar’s House: The Interpretive Life of Biblical Texts (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1990), 117-119.

———. “The Ladder of Jacob,” Harvard Theological Review 88:2 (1995), 209-227.

 

———. The Ladder of Jacob: Ancient Interpretations of the Biblical Story of Jacob and his Children (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 9-35.

 

Nickelsburg, George. ‘History Writing in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature’, Historical knowledge in Biblical antiquity , ed. J. Neusner, B. Chilton and W. S. Green, Dorset 2007, pp. 79-104

 

*Orlov, A.A., “The Heavenly Counterpart of the Visionary in the Slavonic Ladder of Jacob,” in: C.A. Evans (ed.), Of Scribes and Sages: Early Jewish Interpretation and Transmission of Scripture. Vol. 1: Ancient Versions and Traditions (Library of Second Temple Studies 50, Studies in Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity 9); London / New York: T&T Clark, 2004), 59-76.

 

*Whitney, K.W., Two Strange Beasts: Leviathan and Behemoth in Second Temple and Early Rabbinic Judaism (Harvard Semitic Monographs 63; Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2006), 78-91

 

Wolfson, E. R. ‘The Image of Jacob Engraved upon the Throne: Further Reflection on the Esoteric Doctrine of the German Pietists’, Along the Path, New York 1995

 

שניידר, מיכאל. סולם יעקב ושנים עשר פנים עליונים

 

שמא יהודה פרידמן, 'צלם, דמות, תבנית', סידרא כב (תשס"ז), 89-153