Past renewals : interpretative authority, renewed revelation, and the quest for perfection in Jewish antiquity / / by Hindy Najman.
Through close readings of texts such as Ezra-Nehemiah. Philo of Alexandria, and 4Ezra, Hindy Najman develops the idea of a discourse tied to a founder, illuminating the nexus between revelation, interpretive authority, and the quest for perfection in ancient Judaism.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
53. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.