Jewish and Christian cosmogony in late antiquity
By: edited by Lance Jenott and Sarit Kattan Gribetz
Contributors: Princeton University. Department of Religion
Series: Texts and studies in Ancient Judaism -- 155; Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum -- 155.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9783161519932
Subjects: Biblical cosmology; Christentum; Judentum; Creation in rabbinical literature; Spätantike; Congresses; Ancient Cosmogony; Kosmogonie
Notes: Papers from a colloquium held May 2010 at Princeton University sponsored by its Department of Religion.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-309) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning : cosmogony in late antiquity  -- Lance Jenott, -- Sarit Kattan Gribetz -- part I:; title: Scripture and interpretation.; title: Made to order : creation in Jubilees  -- James C. VanderKam; title: The Rabbinic ban on Ma'aseh bereshit : sources, contexts and concerns  -- Yair Furstenberg; title: Constructing a Christian universe : mythological exegesis of Ben Sira 24 and John's prologue in the Gospel of truth  -- Geoffrey S. Smith -- part II:; title: Theology and anthropology.; title: The emergence of monotheistic creation theology in Hellenistic Judaism  -- Maren R. Niehoff; title: The archangel Michael in Ophite creation mythology  -- Tuomas Rasimus; title: Constant creation : (pro)creation in Palestinian Rabbinic Midrashim  -- Gwynn Kessler; title: Corpus Hermeticum, tractate III : the genesis of a Genesis  -- Christian Wildberg -- part III:; title: Pedagogy and ethics.; title: Moses the pedagogue : Procopius, Philo, and Didymus on the pedagogy of the creation account  -- Richard A. Layton; title: "Humanity came to be according to three essential types" : anthropology and ethical responsibility in the Tripartite tractate  -- Alexander Kocar; title: Recovering Adam's lost glory : Nag Hammadi Codex II in its Egyptian monastic environment  -- Lance Jenott -- part IV:; title: Space and ritual.; title: Rock over water : pre-historic rocks and primordial waters from creation to salvation in Jerusalem  -- Naomi Koltun-Fromm; title: Darkness upon the abyss : depicting cosmogany in late antiquity  -- Mika Ahuvia; title: The ritualization of creation in Jewish and Christian liturgical texts from late antiquity -- Ophir Münz Manor.