TY  - BOOK
AU  - Najman,Hindy
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Past renewals: interpretative authority, renewed revelation, and the quest for perfection in Jewish antiquity 
T2  - Journal for the study of Judaism
AV  - BM529 .N35 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Philo,
KW  - Bible
KW  - O.T
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Canon
KW  - Book of Jubilees
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Authority
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Tradition (Judaism)
KW  - Rabbinical literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
KW  - Jewish law
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Rabbis
KW  - Office
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes index; 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
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