Background
Reeves, John Craig was born on December 1, 1954 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States. Son of William Donald and Martha Suzanne (Robinson) Reeves.
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Modern treatments of Jewish apocalyptic usually terminate their discussions of this literature with the triumph of Rome over nationalist rebels at the time of the Second Jewish Revolt (132?135 C.E.). They hence fail to appreciate the impact of the subsequent rise of scriptural authority for the Abrahamic religions and the renewed vitality of the apocalyptic genre as a favored literary vehicle for the expression of social and cultural concerns by the major Near Eastern religious communities during the second half of the first millennium C.E. The present volume begins the process of righting this imbalance by providing an English-language anthology of a series of influential Jewish apocalypses emanating from the Near East from roughly the early seventh to the mid-twelfth centuries C.E. Each text is newly translated into English and provided with an annotated commentary that elucidates its historical, literary, and religious contexts.
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This volume examines the transmission of biblical pseudepigraphic literature and motifs from their largely Jewish cultural contexts in Palestine to developing gnostic milieux of Syria and Mesopotamia, particularly the one lying behind the birth and growth of Manichaeism. The author provides a philological, literary, and religio-historical analysis of each of the five pseudepigraphic citations contained in the Cologne Mani Codex, and offers hypotheses regarding the original provenance of each citation and the means by which these traditions have been adapted to their present context.
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Reeves, John Craig was born on December 1, 1954 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States. Son of William Donald and Martha Suzanne (Robinson) Reeves.
Bachelor, University North Carolina, 1976. Master of Philosophy, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, 1986. Doctor of Philosophy, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, 1989.
Assistant professor religious studies, Winthrop U., Rock Hill, South Carolina., 1989-1992; associate professor religious studies, Winthrop U., Rock Hill, 1992-1996; Blumenthal professor Judaic studies, U. North Carolina, Charlotte, since 1996.
(This volume examines the transmission of biblical pseudep...)
(Modern treatments of Jewish apocalyptic usually terminate...)
Member Society Biblical Literature, American Oriental Society.
Married Lu Waggoner, October 26, 1985. 1 child, Daniel Jesse.