Manna – Bread from Heaven
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- ISBN 9783631653616
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2017
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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The author presents a new approach to the study of manna, which does not concentrate only on one particular representation of the bread from heaven (especially Ex 16). Additionally, he investigates the interconnections between Ps 78:23-25, Wis 16:20-13; 19:21 and Jn 6:22-59 and he explores the new ideas of each of these texts. He also strongly asserts that Hellenistic Judaism, represented by the Book of Wisdom, is not "a second-class Judaism". This fact is proved with the example of manna as the food of immortality, an idea not introduced by Christians in the Fourth Gospel, but already present in Wis 19:21.
Paweł Rytel-Andrianik is a Catholic priest of the diocese of Drohiczyn (Poland), a biblical scholar, theologian and orientalist in Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He lectured as an Associate Professor at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.
