Abstract This paper identifies a heretofore undiscovered parallel between 2 Baruch and a rabbinic passage presenting what is generally understood as a rabbinic legal teaching, more specifically a legal principle. By closely analyzing the passages in both texts, it will demonstrate further connections between the two corpora. Furthermore, reading the passages in 2 Baruch and rabbinic literature in light of one another will both offer novel ways of reading both passages and shed light on the diachronic trajectory of the principle within rabbinic literature.
Abstract Josephus’ account of Elijah’s theophany on Horeb/Sinai in A.J. 8.351–352, appears to be very different from the account in the Hebrew Bible (1 Kgs 19:11–13). However, a careful reading of the Hebrew text of 1 Kgs 19:11–12 reveals that Josephus’ paraphrase is closer than previously thought. This reading reveals a two-part structure in the MT presentation of the theophany of Elijah consisting of a prediction of the theophany by the Lord (vv. 11–12) and an abbreviated narrative account of the fulfilment of that prediction (v. 13). This structure is confirmed in both the LXX account and the paraphrase of Josephus. The differences between the two accounts in the MT and LXX reveal that both the LXX and the paraphrase of Josephus are based on an early Hebrew version, which this author claims to be a Hebrew revision of an early form of the MT .
