Between Temple and Torah
Subtitle: essays on priests, scribes, and visionaries in the Second Temple period and beyond
By: Martha Himmelfarb
Series: Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum -- 151 = -- Texts and studies in ancient Judaism -- 151; Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum -- 151.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tübingen, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9783161510410; 9783161521393
Subjects: Greek influences; Bible; Judaism; Jews; Merkava; Dead Sea scrolls; Criticism, interpretation; History and criticism; Apocrypha; Civilization; Post-exilic period (Judaism); Apocryphal books; Jewish law; Mysticism; History of doctrines; Ritual Purity; Apocalyptic literature; History
Notes: "This volume contains most of my articles from 1984 through 2011 on topics in Second Temple Judaism and the development and reception of Second Temple traditions in late antiquity and the Middle Ages."--Introduction, p. [1].

Collection of texts published previously.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The Temple and the Garden of Eden in Ezekiel, the Book of the Watchers, and the Wisdom of Ben Sira --; title: Levi, Phinehas, and the problem of intermarriage at the time of the Maccabean revolt --; title: Torah, testimony, and heavenly tablets : the claim to authority of the Book of Jubilees --; title: Earthly sacrifice and heavenly incense : the law of the priesthood in Aramaic Levi and Jubilees --; title: Temple and priests in the Book of the Watchers, the Animal Apocalypse, and the Apocalypse of Weeks --; title: "Found written in the Book of Moses" : priests in the era of Torah --; title: Sexual relations and purity in the Temple Scroll and the Book of Jubilees --; title: Impurity and sin in 4QD, 1QS, and 4Q512 --; title: The purity laws of 4QD : exegesis and sectarianism --; title: The polemic against the tẹvul yom : a reexamination --; title: Judaism and Hellenism in 2 Maccabees --; title: Elias Bickerman on Judaism and Hellenism --; title: The Torah between Athens and Jerusalem : Jewish difference in antiquity --; title: "He was renowned to the ends of the earth" (1 Macc 3:9) : Judaism and Hellenism in 1 Maccabees --; title: Heavenly ascent and the relationship of the apocalypses and the hekhalot literature --; title: Revelation and rapture : the transformation of the visionary in the ascent apocalypses --; title: The practice of ascent in the ancient Mediterranean world --; title: Merkavah mysticism since Scholem : Rachel Elior's The Three Temples --; title: R. Moses the Preacher and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs --; title: Some echoes of Jubilees in medieval Hebrew literature.