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Author Najman, Hindy.

Title Past renewals : interpretative authority, renewed revelation, and the quest for perfection in Jewish antiquity / by Hindy Najman
Published Leiden, NL : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 270 pages)
Series Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 53
Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 53.
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
Summary How did ancient Jewish authors claim authority for their interpretations? How, after the a oeend of prophecya, could they claim the authority of revelation? Whom did one have to be, or aspire to be, in order to merit authority? Hindy Najman addresses these questions through close readings of ancient Jewish texts, e.g., Ezra-Nehemiah, Philo of Alexandria, 4Ezra, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Jubilees. In Seconding Sinai (Brill, 2003), Najman reconceived pseudepigraphy, developing the idea of a Mosaic discourse that comprised a series of ancient texts attributed to Moses. Here she develops the broader n
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Philo, of Alexandria
SUBJECT Philo, of Alexandria fast
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish -- History -- To 1500
Bible. Old Testament -- Canon
Book of Jubilees -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Old Testament fast
Book of Jubilees fast
Subject Authority -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- History -- To 1500
Tradition (Judaism) -- History -- To 1500
Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism
Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Jewish law -- Decision making -- History -- To 1500
Rabbis -- Office -- History -- To 1500
RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament.
Authority -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Jewish law -- Decision making
Judaism -- Post-exilic period (Judaism)
Rabbinical literature
Rabbis -- Office
Tradition (Judaism)
Geschichtsschreibung
Rabbinismus
Jüdische Theologie
Jüdische Philosophie
Ethik
Glaubensleben
Frühjudentum
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004180468
900418046X
9789004180482
9004180486