Jewish and Christian Scripture as Artifact and Canon Book

Preface vii

Abbreviations ix

List of Illustrations xiii

List of Contributors xiv

Introducing Jewish and Christian Scripture as Artifact and Canon Craig A. Evans H. Daniel Zacharias 1

Oracle Collection and Canon: A Comparison Between Judah and Greece in Persian Times Armin Lange 9

Artifactual and Hermeneutical Use of Scripture in Jewish Tradition Marianne Schleicher 48

Early Christian Manuscripts As Artifacts Larry W. Hurtado 66

Physical Features Of Excerpted Torah Texts Stephen Reed 82

Papyrus 967 and the Text of Ezekiel: Parablepsis or an Original Text? John Flanagan 105

A Fragmentary Psalter From Karanis and Its Context Gregg Schwendner 117

'He that Dwelleth in the Help of the Hightest': Septuagint Psalm 90 and the Iconographic Program on Byzantine Armbands Thomas J. Kraus 137

Public and Private-Second-And Third-Century Gospel Manuscripts Scott D. Charlesworth 148

A Johannine Reading of Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 840 Pamela Shellberg 176

How Long and Old is the Codex of Which P. Oxy. 1353 Is a Leaf? Don Barker 192

Letter Carriers in the Ancient Jewish Epistolary Material Peter M. Head 203

'I Was Intending to Visit You, But ...' Clauses Explaining Delayed Visits and their Importance in Papyrus Letters and in Paul Peter Arzt-Grabner 220

Advice to the Bride: Moral Exhortation for Young Wives in Two Ancient Letter Collections Annette Bourland Huizenga 232

Scribal Tendencies in the Apocalypse: Starting the Conversation Juan Hernández Jr. 248

'A Thousand Books Will Be Saved': Manichaean Writings and Religious Propaganda in the Roman Empire Eduard Iricinschi 261

The Danish Hymnbook - Artifact and Text Kirsten Nielsen 273

Towardsa Sociology of Bible Promise Box Use David J. Chalcraft 280

The Bible As Icon: Myths of the Divine Origins of Scripture Dorina Miller Parmenter 298

Appendix 311

Index 313