Babel's Tower translated : Genesis 11 and ancient Jewish interpretation /

Babel's Tower translated : Genesis 11 and ancient Jewish interpretation /

In Babel's Tower Translated , Phillip Sherman explores the narrative of Genesis 11 and its reception and interpretation in several Second Temple and Early Rabbinic texts (e.g., Jubilees, Philo, Genesis Rabbah). The account of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is famously ambiguous. The meanin...

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Main Author: Sherman, Phillip Michael.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series: Biblical Interpretation Series 117.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248649.

Subjects:

Bible. > Genesis, XI > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Babel, Tower of.
Rabbinical literature > History and criticism.

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Call Number: BS1238.B2 S54 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Interpretation as Translation or Exegesis and Historical Hermeneutics
  • Introduction to Part I
  • Return to Babel: Reading without the Canon
  • Reading Babel Backwards. Canonical Foundations for Exegetical Expansion
  • Introduction to Part II
  • The Holy Language in the Book of Jubilees: The Tower of Babel and the Eclipse of Sacred Tradition
  • Pseudo-Philo's Biblical Antiquities: Echoes of the Tower
  • Josephus and the Influence of Anxiety: Colonizing the Tower and the Politics of Dispersion
  • Translated to Heaven: The Tower of Babel and Third (Greek) Baruch
  • The Inner Tower: Philo and the Translation of Cultures
  • Introduction to Part III
  • A Just Translation: Reading the Rabbinic Babel in Genesis Rabbah
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Indexes.