Timothy H Lim

Biographic Data

ID1422122
NAMETimothy H Lim
GIVEN NAMESTimothy H
FAMILY NAMELim
SIGNATURELIM T H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR25
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Implicit Criticism of Scriptures and Josephus' Rewritten Bible

    Timothy H LimARTICLEHebrew Bible and Ancient Israel2022

    This article discusses scriptural authority among ancient Jews. Josephus' metho-dological statement about rearranging the order of the biblical laws (Ant. 4.197) is examined within the context of scholarly discussions about the »rewritten Bible.« It is shown that Josephus intended that the laws and narratives of scripture to be reordered to accommodate a better sense of the content of the laws and the flow of the events. He perceived that the wri…

  • Normativity of the Torah

    Timothy H LimARTICLEHebrew Bible and Ancient Israel2022

    »Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495

  • The Formation of the Jewish Canon

    Timothy H LimBOOKFormation of the Jewish Canon2017

    The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before its fixation. Timothy Lim here presents a complete account of the formation of the canon in Ancient Judaism from the emergence of the Torah in the Persian period to the final acceptance of the list of twenty-two/twenty-four books in the Rabbinic period. Using the Hebrew Bible, the Scrolls, the Apocrypha, the Letter of A…

  • The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture

    Timothy Lim, Timothy H LimARTICLEJournal of Modern Jewish Studies2015

    The books of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament are commonly regarded as works of revelation. Divinely inspired, the laws, narratives and prophecies of the biblical texts are understood to be except

  • Formation of the Jewish Canon

    Timothy H LimBOOKFormation of the Jewish Canon2012

  • Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls

    John J Collins, Timothy H LimBOOKOxford Handbook of the Dead Sea…2012

  • The Oxford handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls

    John J Collins, Timothy H LimEDITORBOOKOxford Handbook of the Dead Sea…2010

    30 international scholars probe the main disputed issues in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Essays engage with the lively debate continues over the archaeology and history of the site the nature and identity of the sect, and its relation to the broader world of Second Temple Judaism and to later Jewish and Christian tradition

  • Pentecostal Theology for the Twenty-first Century

    Timothy Lim, Timothy H LimARTICLEPneuma2008

  • On Scrolls, Artefacts and Intellectual Property

    Wido Van Peursen, Timothy H Lim et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2003

  • The Holy Scripture in the Qumran Commentaries and Pauline Letters

    Fred Weidmann, Timothy H LimARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2001

    What was the ancient exegetes' attitude to the biblical texts? Did they consider them 'sacred' in the sense that the words were the inviolable utterances of God? Or did they when necessary modify and adapt holy writ for their own purposes? This book examines the question of exegetical modifications from the post-Qumran perspective of textual pluriformity of literalism that runs through ancient exegeses and translations. The Qumran Commentators an…

  • Qumran Cave 4, XXIV

    Timothy H LimARTICLEJournal of Jewish Studies2001

  • Qumran Cave 4, XX

    Timothy H LimARTICLEJournal of Jewish Studies2001

  • Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age

    Timothy H Lim, John J CollinsARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review1999

    Jewish wisdom flourished under Hellenism in the books of Ben Sira and the wisdom of Solomon, as well as in a recently discovered sapiential text from Qumran. In this book, now available as a casebound, internationally known author John Collins presents a compelling description and analysis of these three texts and their continuing wisdom traditions. The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old …

  • The Covenant in Judaism and Paul

    Timothy H LimARTICLEJournal of Jewish Studies1998

  • Holy Scripture in the Qumran Commentaries and Pauline Letters

    Timothy H LimBOOKHoly Scripture in the Qumran…1997

    What was the ancient exegetes’ attitude to the biblical texts? Did they consider them ‘sacred’ in the sense that the words were the inviolable utterances of God? Alternatively, did they when necessary modify and adapt holy writ for their own purposes? This book examines the question of exegetical modifications from the post-Qumran perspective of textual pluriformity of literalism that runs through ancient exegeses and translations. The Qumran Com…

  • Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls

    Timothy H LimARTICLEJournal of Jewish Studies1993

  • Qumran Forum Miscellanea II

    Timothy H LimARTICLEJournal of Jewish Studies1993

    Les Psaumes de Joshua sont reconsideres en comparant les textes de 4Q379 fr. 22 col. 2 avec la section correspondante en 4Q175

  • Qumran Corner

    Timothy H LimARTICLEJournal of Jewish Studies1993

  • The Damascus Document ReconsideredBroshiMagen The Damascus Document Reconsidered Israel Exploration Society and Shrine of the Book, Israel MuseumJerusalem, 1992, 83

    Timothy H LimARTICLEJournal of Jewish Studies1993

  • Paul and the Jewish Law

    Timothy H LimARTICLEJournal of Jewish Studies1992

  • Qumran Corner

    Timothy H LimARTICLEJournal of Jewish Studies1992

  • The Qumran scrolls

    Open AccessTimothy H LimARTICLEStudies in Religion/Sciences…1992

    La conception de Philip Davies sur la transmission de la theorie Maccabeenne est un point de depart pour l'article qui analyse deux hypotheses alternatives: l'hypothese Jerusalem et l'hypothese Groningen. Ces deux theories ont ete choisies parce qu'elles permettent un examen plus precis de trois elements fondamentaux du probleme des manuscrits de Qumran, du site archeologique de Khirbet Qumran et du groupe connu sous le nom de secte Essenienne

  • Eschatological Orientation and the Alteration of Scripture in the Habakkuk Pesher

    Timothy H LimARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1990

  • "Nelson's "Syriac Version of the Wisdom of Ben Sira

    Timothy H Lim, Milward Douglas NelsonARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review1990

  • Corinthe au temps de Saint Paul

    Timothy H LimARTICLEJournal of Jewish Studies1988