Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism /

Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism / / ed. by Reuven Kiperwasser, Geoffrey Herman.

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Scepticism has been the driving force in the development of Greco-Roman culture in the past, and the impetus for far-reaching scientific achievements and philosophical investigation. Early Jewish culture, in contrast, avoided creating consistent representations of its philosophical doctrines. Scepti...

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Funder:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
MitwirkendeR:
Herman, Geoffrey,
Kiperwasser, Reuven,
Partock, Tali Artman,
Ruzer, Serge,
Werman, Cana,
Wilke, Carsten L.,
HerausgeberIn:
Herman, Geoffrey,
Kiperwasser, Reuven,
:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Studies and Texts in Scepticism Ser.
Physical Description:1 online resource (V, 164 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Doubting Divine Justice and Human Knowledge: Qohelet's Cultural Dialectics
  • "Matters That Tend towards Heresy": Rabbinic Ways of Reading Ecclesiastes
  • Wisdom Scepticism and Apocalyptic Certitude; Philosophical Certitude and Apocalyptic Scepticism
  • Reasonable Doubts of the "Other": Jewish Scepticism in Early Christian Sources
  • Idolatry, God(s), and Demons among the Jews of Sasanian Babylonia
  • Facing Omnipotence and Shaping the Sceptical Topos
  • "If a Man Would Tell You"
  • List of Contributors
  • Index of Names and Places
  • General Index

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