商品簡介
The Psalms of Solomon , explains Atkinson (religion, U. of Northern Iowa), is a collection of 18 Greek poems that recount one unknown Jewish community's response to a series of military attacks and political prosecutions. He seeks to determine the date of composition, the social setting, the provenance, and the religious affiliation for each of them in order to understand the collection's attitude toward the Temple cult. He proposes that the text documents the worship practices and beliefs of an unknown Jewish sectarian community that resided in Jerusalem, and was brought together by a redactor to facilitate their reading within a synagogue setting; and that many of the individual poems were written about the same time as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Kenneth Atkinson, Ph.D. (1999) in Religion, Temple University (Philadelphia), is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Northern Iowa. He has published extensively on Second Temple Judaism including An Intertextual Study of the Psalms of Solomon (Edwin Mellen Press, 2001).
