Past renewals [electronic resource] : interpretative authority, renewed revelation, and the quest for perfection in Jewish antiquity / by Hindy Najman.
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TextSeries: Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 53Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.Description: xxii, 270 pSubject(s): - Philo, of Alexandria
- Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish -- History -- To 1500
- Bible. O.T. -- Canon
- Book of Jubilees -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- 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
- BM529 .N35 2010
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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.
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