Heavenly tablets : interpretation, identity and tradition in ancient Judaism /

Heavenly tablets : interpretation, identity and tradition in ancient Judaism /

This volume brings together a wide range of international scholars of Ancient Judaism, in celebration of the career of Betsy Halpern-Amaru. The essays in the first section, Interpreting Ritual Texts, examine Jewish ritual praxis in late antiquity, highlighting the ways in which text and ritual inter...

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Other Authors: LiDonnici, Lynn R., Lieber, Andrea.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2007.

Series: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 119.
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 119.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004222700.

Subjects:

Bible. > O.T. > Hermeneutics.
Bijbel.
Jodendom.
Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

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Call Number: BM176 .H37 2007

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material /
  • L.R. Lidonnici and A. Lieber
  • Introduction /
  • Lynn Lidonnici and Andrea Lieber
  • Three jewish ritual practices in Aristeas §§158-160 /
  • Benjamin G. Wright
  • Prayers in Jubilees /
  • John C. Endres, S.J
  • Amulets and angels: Visionary experience in the testament of Job and the Hekhalot literature /
  • Rebecca Lesses
  • Is the prayer of Manasseh a jewish work? /
  • James R. Davila
  • \'According to the jews:\' Identified (and identifying) 'jewish' elements in the greek magical papyri /
  • Lynn Lidonnici
  • The Imago Mundi of the genesis Apocryphon /
  • Esther Eshel
  • Jubilees in the hellenistic context /
  • Cana Werman
  • "Gather the dispersed of Judah:" Seeking a return to the land as a factor in jewish identity of Late Antiquity /
  • Esther G. Chazon
  • Sectarian consciousness in the Dead Sea Scrolls /
  • John J. Collins
  • Between motherland and fatherland: Diaspora, pilgrimage and the spiritualization of sacrifice in Philo of Alexandria /
  • Andrea Lieber
  • The case of the Blasphemer (Lev. 24:10-16) According to Philo and Josephus /
  • Louis H. Feldman
  • Chaste betrayals: Women and men in the Apocryphal Novels /
  • Adele Reinhartz
  • The Damascus document's \'Three Nets of Belial\': A reference to the aramaic Levi document? /
  • Hanan Eshel
  • Why did Antiochus have to fall (II Maccabees 9:7)? /
  • Daniel R. Schwartz
  • The end of the matter? Jubilees 50:6-13 and the unity of the book /
  • James C. Vanderkam
  • Bibliography /
  • L.R. Lidonnici and A. Lieber
  • Index of modern scholars /
  • L.R. Lidonnici and A. Lieber
  • Index of ancient sources /
  • L.R. Lidonnici and A. Lieber
  • Subject index /
  • L.R. Lidonnici and A. Lieber
  • Supplements to the journal for the study of judaism /
  • L.R. Lidonnici and A. Lieber.