Revelation, literature, and community in late antiquity
By: edited by Philippa Townsend and Moulie Vidas
Series: Texts and studies in ancient Judaism = Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum -- 146; Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum -- 146.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9783161506444
Subjects: Revelation; Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Congresses; Biblical teaching
Notes: Papers from a conference held 2007, Princeton University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : revelation, literature, community, and late antiquity  -- Philippa Townsend, -- Moulie Vidas; title: Pseudepigraphy and/as prophecy : continuity and transformation in the formation and reception of early enochic writings  -- Annette Yoshiko Reed; title: Prophets, economics, and the rites of man  -- Christine Trevett; title: Isis and the people in the Life of Aesop  -- Pavlos Avlamis; title: Revelation as the path to ignorance : the Sethian platonizing Apocalpyse Allogenes  -- John D. Turner; title: The soul's innate gnosis of the gods : revelation in Iamblichean theurgy  -- Gregory Shaw; title: Keeping secres and making Christians : catechesis and the revelation of the Christian mysteries  -- Daniel L. Schwartz; title: Tam pretiosi codices vestri : Hebrew scriptures and Persian books in Augustine's anti-manichaean writings  -- Eduard Iricinschi; title: Rabbi Aqiva : Midrash and the site of revelation  -- Azzan Yadin-Israel; title: Revelation and rabbinization in Sefer Zerubbabel, -- Sefer Eliyyahu; title: Miscegentation, "mixture," and "mixed iron" : the Hermeneutics, historiography, and cultural poesis of the "four ages" in Zoroastrianism  -- Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina; title: Ahab, Bar Kokhba, Muhammad, and the lying spirit : prophetic discourse before and after the rise of Islam  -- Michael E. Pregill; title: Angels versus humans as messengers of God : the view of the Qur'ānic pagans -- Patricia Crone.