Past renewals
Subtitle: interpretative authority, renewed revelation, and the quest for perfection in Jewish antiquity
By: by Hindy Najman.
Series: Journal for the study of Judaism -- v. 53
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9789004180468
Subjects: Philo, -- of Alexandria; Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish -- History -- To 1500; Bible. -- O.T. -- Canon; Book of Jubilees -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Authority -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- History -- To 1500; Tradition (Judaism) -- History -- To 1500; Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism; Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D; Jewish law -- Decision making -- History -- To 1500; Rabbis -- Office -- History -- To 1500
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The symbolic significance of writing in ancient Judaism; title: Interpretation as primordial writing: Jubilees and its authority conferring strategies; title: Torah of Moses: pseudonymous attribution in Second Temple writings; title: The law of nature and the authority of Mosaic law; title: A written copy of the law of nature: an unthinkable paradox?; title: Angels at Sinai: exegesis, theology and interpretive authority; title: Towards a study of the uses of the concept of wilderness in ancient Judaism; title: Between heaven and earth: liminal visions in 4 Ezra; title: Philosophical contemplation and revelatory inspiration in ancient Judean traditions; title: Reconsidering Jubilees: prophecy and exemplarity; title: Cain and Abel as character traits: a study in the allegorical typology of Philo of Alexandria; title: The quest for perfection in ancient Judaism; title: How should we contextualize pseudepigrapha? Imitation and emulation in 4 Ezra; title: Text and figure in ancient Jewish paideia.