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STUDIES IN JUDAISM IN LATE ANTIQUITY EDITED BY JACOB NEUSNER VOLUME TWELVE CHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM AND OTHER GRECO-ROMAN CULTS P A R T FOUR LEIDEN E. J . BRILL 1975 CHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM AND OTHER GRECO-ROMAN CULTS STUDIES FOR MORTON SMITH AT SIXTY EDITED BY JACOB NEUSNER Professor of Religious Studies Brown University PART FOUR JUDAISM AFTER 70 OTHER GRECO-ROMAN CULTS BIBLIOGRAPHY LEIDEN E. J . BRILL 1975 I S B N 90 04 04215 6 go 04 04219 9 Copyright 1975 by E. J. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or translated in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, microfiche or any other means without written permission from the publisher PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS T A B L E OF CONTENTS J U D A I S M A F T E R 70 Redactional Techniques in the Legal Traditions of Joshua ben Hananiah. i W I L L I A M S C O T T G R E E N , University of Rochester The Artificial Dispute: Ishmael and A q i v a 18 G A R Y G . P O R T O N , University of Illinois Form-Criticism and Exegesis: T h e Case of Mishnah Ohalot 2:1 30 J A C O B N E U S N E R , Brown University T w o Traditions of Samuel: Evaluating Alternative Versions B A R U C H M . B O K S E R , University of California, Berkeley . R. Abbahu of Caesarea L E E I. L E V I N E , Hebrew University, Jerusalem 56 "Conjecture" and Interpolation in Translating Rabbinic T e x t s Illustrated b y a Chapter from Tanna debe Eliyyahu W I L L I A M G . B R A U D E , Providence, Rhode Island OTHER GRECO-ROMAN 46 77 CULTS Iconoclasm among the Zoroastrians 93 M A R Y B O Y C E , University of London Quellenprobleme zum Ursprung und Alter der Mandaer. . . 112 K U R T R U D O L P H , Karl-Marx-Universitat, Leipzig The Religion of Maximin Daia 143 R O B E R T M . G R A N T , University of Chicago Dositheus, Jesus, and a Moses Aretalogy 167 S T A N L E Y ISSER, State University of New York, Binghamton BIBLIOGRAPHY A Bibliography of the Writings of Morton Smith, to December 3i> 1973 191 A . T H O M A S K R A A B E L , University of Minnesota Index of Biblical and Talmudic References General Index 201 220 VI TABLE OF CONTENTS PART O N E NEW TESTAMENT Foreword New Testament Introduction. A Critique of a Discipline ix i HELMUT KOESTER, Harvard University Good News Is No News: Aretalogy and Gospel 21 JONATHAN Z . SMITH, University of Chicago A Fresh Approach to Q WILLIAM R . FARMER, Southern Methodist University Blasphemy: St. Mark's Gospel as Damnation History 39 51 T . A . B u R K i L L , University of Rhodesia From Isaiah 61 to Luke 4 JAMES A . SANDERS, Union Theological Seminary L u k e 12, 13-14, Tradition and Interpretation TJITZE BAARDA, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam " A m I a J e w ? " — J o h a n n i n e Christianity and Judaism 75 107 163 W A Y N E A . MEEKS, Y a l e University The Kinship of John and Acts PIERSON PARKER, The General Theological Seminary A Foreword to the Study of the Speeches in Acts MAX WILCOX, University College of North Wales, Bangor L'hymne christologique de Col i, 15-20. Jugement critique sur I'^tat des recherches PIERRE BENOIT, o.p., ficole biblique et arch^ologique fran9aise Jerusalem Paul and his Opponents: Trends in Research E. EARLE ELLIS, New Brunswick Theological Seminary The Present State of Scholarship on Hebrews 187 206 226 264 299 GEORGE W E S L E Y BUCHANAN, Wesley Theological Seminary, W a s -