Dr. Dalgaard's Documents

Melkisedeks mad og vin. Gastronomiske genskrivninger i præstekongens litterære efterliv. Kasper Dalgaard  Abstract: One fascinating aspect of the rich literary production of antiquity is the freedom with which religious figures were rewritten and the frequency with which this was done. Such rewritings often focus on redefining or enhancing the stars of Hebrew Scripture—primarily the usual suspects, such as Adam, Noah, and Abraham. Yet relatively insignificant characters also had tumultuous literary afterlives. An example of this is the king-priest Melchizedek. While his origins are shrouded in mystery, the multitude of rewritings using this particular figure reveals his importance for later times; Melchizedek was at times described as a member of the elite club of mediatorial figures—and at others times as an altogether too human madman. This article tracks the rewritings of Melchizedek through several centuries and a wide range of texts in an effort to better understand t...

Note: This article is provided here to make the information within publicly available.  Redating the Palestinian Targumim Abstract Against the prevailing view that the Palestinian Targumim are to be dated in the third century CE this article proposes that they should be redated as early first century writings. Following a consideration of the manuscripts (the four Qumran Targumim, Targum Neofiti, Fragment Targums and Cairo Genizah Fragments) the arguments concerning their linguistic and editorial aspects as well as their special content are re-analysed in light of the available evidence. These arguments which have contributed to the traditional date reveal themselves instead as all pointing to a necessary redating of the texts and the traditions contained therein to the first half of the first century. This date presents scholars with a collection of theological writings from inter-testamentary times with which new aspects of the New Testament and other texts may ...