Between Philology and Theology: Contributions to the Study of Ancient Jewish Interpretation. Edited by Hindy Najman, Yale University and Eibert Tigchelaar KU Leuven (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 162; Leiden: Brill, 2012)

The essays by Florentino García Martínez collected in this volume reflect some of his most recent work on theological concepts as they are formed in the interpretations and in the imagination of ancient Jewish writers, and thus illuminate the nexus between philology and theology.

The essays, five of which are published for the first time in English, engage a broad range of ancient Jewish texts ranging from Philo and the Dead Sea Scrolls, to Jubilees, 4 Ezra and the Targumim. Focus of the essays is the way in which ancient Jewish writers (and, in the case of 4 Ezra, Christian Renaissance authors) are interpreting and transforming earlier biblical traditions and how these new interpretations shape theological concepts.

Florentino García Martínez

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Instituto Bíblico, Universiteit Bonn, Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén, Ecole Biblique de Jerusalén. Manuscritos del mar Muerto, literatura judía de los períodos persa, helenístico y romano, literatura apócrifa hebrea y griega, literatura rabínica y targúmica. Catedrático emérito (Literatura judía y manuscritos del mar Muerto) de la Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (NL), y director del Qumran Instituut; catedrático de investigación emérito en función de la Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; miembro de la Real Academia de Ciencias de Holanda. Curriculum Vitae