Flores Florentino; Dead Sea Scrolls and other early Jewish studies in honour of Florentino Garcia Martinez.9789004162921Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the Florentino; Dead Sea Scrolls Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient leather and papyrus scrolls first discovered in 1947 in caves on the NW shore of the Dead Sea. Most of the documents were written or copied between the 1st cent. B.C. and the first half of the 1st cent. A.D. and other early Jewish studies Jewish studies also known as Judaic studies is a subject area of study available at many colleges and universities in North America. Traditionally, Jewish studies was part of the natural practice of Judaism by Jews. in honour of Florentino Garcia Martinez. Ed. by Anthony Hilhorst et al. BRILL Brill or Bril, Flemish painters, brothers. Mattys Brill (mä`tīs), 1550–83, went to Rome early in his career and executed frescoes for Gregory XIII in the Vatican. 2007 836 pages $249.00 Hardcover Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 122 BM487 A wonderfully international spread of nearly 50 scholars pen the same number of essays in honor of Florentino Garcia Martinez (professor, Catholic U. of Louvain, Belgium; and theology and religious studies, U. of Groningen, Germany); he's an academic with an extraordinary career spanning the last four decades. The essays are a token of gratitude from many colleagues and admirers for Martinez's contributions to Early Jewish Studies, including not only Qumranica but many other fields of Second Temple Judaism, from late biblical texts and Septuagint to early rabbinic rab·bin·i·cal also rab·bin·ic adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of rabbis. [From obsolete rabbin, rabbi, from French, from Old French rabain, probably from Aramaic writings. Included essays appear in four languages--English, French, Spanish, and Italian; and the book also includes Martinez's bibliography as well as indexes of both primary and secondary sources. The genuine respect for Martinez apparent in the introduction and the high level of scholarship of the authors and their contributions speak well for both the man and this publication. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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