Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature
Title | Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Ben-Dov |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1479873977 |
This work explores the tension between the hegemony of central scientific traditions and local scientific enterprises, showing the relevance of ancient data to contemporary postcolonial historiography of science.
Discovering Second Temple Literature
Title | Discovering Second Temple Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Malka Z. Simkovich |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 501 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0827614284 |
Exploring the world of the Second Temple period (539 BCE-70 CE), in particular the vastly diverse stories, commentaries, and other documents written by Jews during the last three centuries of this period, Malka Z. Simkovich takes us to Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch, to the Jewish sectarians and the Roman-Jewish historian Josephus, to the Cairo genizah, and to the ancient caves that kept the secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls. As she recounts Jewish history during this vibrant, formative era, Simkovich analyzes some of the period's most important works for both familiar and possible meanings. This volume interweaves past and present in four parts. Part 1 tells modern stories of discovery of Second Temple literature. Part 2 describes the Jewish communities that flourished both in the land of Israel and in the Diaspora. Part 3 explores the lives, worldviews, and significant writings of Second Temple authors. Part 4 examines how authors of the time introduced novel, rewritten, and expanded versions of Bible stories in hopes of imparting messages to the people. Simkovich's popular style will engage readers in understanding the sometimes surprisingly creative ways Jews at this time chose to practice their religion and interpret its scriptures in light of a cultural setting so unlike that of their Israelite forefathers. Like many modern Jews today, they made an ancient religion meaningful in an ever-changing world.
Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism
Title | Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism PDF eBook |
Author | Annette Yoshiko Reed |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 365 |
Release | 2020-01-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 052111943X |
A new explanation of the beginnings of Jewish angelology and demonology, drawing on non-canonical writings and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls.
From Qumran to the Synagogues
Title | From Qumran to the Synagogues PDF eBook |
Author | Géza G. Xeravits |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 2019-03-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3110615614 |
This volume collects papers written during the past two decades that explore various aspects of late Second Temple period Jewish literature and the figurative art of the Late Antique synagogues. Most of the papers have a special emphasis on the reinterpretation of biblical figures in early Judaism or demonstrate how various biblical traditions converged into early Jewish theologies. The structure of the volume reflects the main directions of the author’s scholarly interest, examining the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and Late Antique synagogues. The book is edited for the interest of scholars of Second Temple Judaism, biblical interpretation, synagogue studies and the effective history of Scripture.
Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period
Title | Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period PDF eBook |
Author | Larry R. Helyer |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | 532 |
Release | 2002-07-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780830826780 |
Larry R. Helyer provides an introduction and historical context for the wealth of Jewish literature outside the Hebrew Bible, and he explores the pressures, realities, questions and dreams that nurtured and provoked these written works.
From Adapa to Enoch
Title | From Adapa to Enoch PDF eBook |
Author | Seth L. Sanders |
Publisher | Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 2017-06-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9783161544569 |
"This book asks what drove the religious visions of ancient scribes. During the first millennium BCE both Babylonian and Judean scribes wrote about and emulated their heroes Adapa and Enoch, who went to heaven to meet their god."--Preface, p. [v].
Ancient Judaism
Title | Ancient Judaism PDF eBook |
Author | Michael E. Stone |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 2011-03-22 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0802866360 |
"In Ancient Judaism: New Visions and Views Michael Stone examines a broad range of basic issues in the study of Second Temple Judaism and calls for a radical rethinking of approaches to Jewish history. Stone challenges scholars and students to question theologically conditioned histories of ancient Judaism devised by later orthodoxies, whether Jewish or Christian, and to acknowledge religious experience as a major factor in the composition and transmission of ancient religious documents. He urges readers to look above and beyond the spectacles of tradition and cultural memory that too often distort their understanding of the ancient past. Addressing an assortment of topics regarding the authorship, transmission, and interpretation of the canonical Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, apocryphal and pseudepigraphic literature, and more, Stone's Ancient Judaism underscores the stunning complexity of both the raw data and the resulting picture of Judaism in antiquity."--Publisher description.