Past renewals interpretative authority, renewed revelation, and the quest for perfection in Jewish antiquity /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Najman, Hindy
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 53
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • The symbolic significance of writing in ancient Judaism
  • Interpretation as primordial writing: Jubilees and its authority conferring strategies
  • Torah of Moses: pseudonymous attribution in Second Temple writings
  • The law of nature and the authority of Mosaic law
  • A written copy of the law of nature: an unthinkable paradox?
  • Angels at Sinai: exegesis, theology and interpretive authority
  • Towards a study of the uses of the concept of wilderness in ancient Judaism
  • Between heaven and earth: liminal visions in 4 Ezra
  • Philosophical contemplation and revelatory inspiration in ancient Judean traditions
  • Reconsidering Jubilees: prophecy and exemplarity
  • Cain and Abel as character traits: a study in the allegorical typology of Philo of Alexandria
  • The quest for perfection in ancient Judaism
  • How should we contextualize pseudepigrapha? Imitation and emulation in 4 Ezra
  • Text and figure in ancient Jewish paideia.