Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature /

Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature / / Seth L. Sanders; ed. by Jonathan Ben-Dov.

Until very recently, the idea of ancient Jewish sciences would havebeen considered unacceptable. Since the 1990’s, Early Modernand Medieval Science in Jewish sources has been actively studied, but the consensus was that no real scientific themes couldbe found in earlier Judaism. This work points the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
Sanders, Seth L.,
MitwirkendeR:
Alexander, Philip S.,
Ben-Dov, Jonathan,
Popović, Mladen,
Sanders, Seth L.,
Stuckenbruck, Loren T.,
VanderKam, James,
Yoshiko Reed, Annette,
HerausgeberIn:
Ben-Dov, Jonathan,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:ISAW Monographs ; 3
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Enoch and the Beginnings of Jewish Interest in Natural Science
  • 3. Enoch’s Science
  • 4. “I Was Shown Another Calculation” (אחזי חשבזן אחרן): The Language of Knowledge in Aramaic Enoch and Priestly Hebrew
  • 5. Philological and Epistemological Remarks on Enoch’s Science: Response to Papers by Seth Sanders and James VanderKam
  • 6. Ideals of Science: The Infrastructure of Scientific Activity in Apocalyptic Literature and in the Yahad
  • 7. Networks of Scholars: The Transmission of Astronomical and Astrological Learning between Babylonians, Greeks and Jews
  • 8. “Ancient Jewish Sciences” and the Historiography of Judaism
  • A Bibliography for Ancient Jewish Sciences
  • Index

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