Studies in the Cult of Yahweh: Volume 2. New Testament, Early Christianity, Magica

by Morton Smith

These two volumes collect some of the most influential and important scholarly essays by the late Morton Smith (1915-1991), for many years Professor of Ancient History at Columbia University in New York City. Smith was admired and feared for his extraordinary ability to look at familiar texts in unfamiliar ways, to re-open old questions, to pose new questions, and to demolish received truths. He practiced the "hermeneutics of suspicion" to devastating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004104798
• ISBN13: 9789004104792
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"