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PIETER W. VAN DER HORST, Japheth in the Tents of Shem: Studies on Jewish Hellenism in Antiquity (Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 32; Leuven/Paris/Sterling, VA: Peeters, 2002). Pp. [iv] + 272. Paper N.P.
This volume is a collection of fifteen articles by Pieter van der Horst, professor of NT and of the Jewish and Hellenistic world of early Christianity at Utrecht University. All of the essays, with the exception of those noted, have been previously published. The articles are the following: "Greek in Jewish Palestine in the Light of Jewish Epigraphy" (pp. 9-26); "The Last Jewish Patriarch(s) and Graeco-Roman Medicine" (pp. 27-36, previously unpublished); "Neglected Greek Evidence for Early Jewish Liturgical Prayer" (pp. 37-54); "Was the Synagogue a Place of Sabbath Worship before 70 CE?" (pp. 55-82); "Greek Synagogue Prayers in the Apostolic Constitutions, Book VII" (pp. 83-108); "Jews and Christians in Antioch at the End of the Fourth Century" (pp. 109-18); "The Tombs of the Prophets in Early Judaism" (pp. 119-37, previously published in German); "Antediluvian Knowledge" (pp. 139-58); "Sortes: Sacred Books as Instant Oracles in Late Antiquity" (pp. 159-89); "Celibacy in Early Judaism" (pp. 191-201, previously published in Dutch); "Maria Alchemista,...