Heavenly tablets : interpretation, identity and tradition in ancient Judaism / / edited by Lynn LiDonnici, Andrea Lieber.
This volume brings together a wide range of international scholars of Ancient Judaism, in celebration of the career of Betsy Halpern-Amaru. The essays in the first section, Interpreting Ritual Texts, examine Jewish ritual praxis in late antiquity, highlighting the ways in which text and ritual inter...
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Superior document: | Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 119 |
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Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ;
v. 119. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material / L.R. Lidonnici and A. Lieber
- Introduction / Lynn Lidonnici and Andrea Lieber
- Three jewish ritual practices in Aristeas §§158–160 / Benjamin G. Wright
- Prayers in Jubilees / John C. Endres, S.J
- Amulets and angels: Visionary experience in the testament of Job and the Hekhalot literature / Rebecca Lesses
- Is the prayer of Manasseh a jewish work? / James R. Davila
- \'According to the jews:\' Identified (and identifying) ‘jewish’ elements in the greek magical papyri / Lynn Lidonnici
- The Imago Mundi of the genesis Apocryphon / Esther Eshel
- Jubilees in the hellenistic context / Cana Werman
- “Gather the dispersed of Judah:” Seeking a return to the land as a factor in jewish identity of Late Antiquity / Esther G. Chazon
- Sectarian consciousness in the Dead Sea Scrolls / John J. Collins
- Between motherland and fatherland: Diaspora, pilgrimage and the spiritualization of sacrifice in Philo of Alexandria / Andrea Lieber
- The case of the Blasphemer (Lev. 24:10–16) According to Philo and Josephus / Louis H. Feldman
- Chaste betrayals: Women and men in the Apocryphal Novels / Adele Reinhartz
- The Damascus document’s \'Three Nets of Belial\': A reference to the aramaic Levi document? / Hanan Eshel
- Why did Antiochus have to fall (II Maccabees 9:7)? / Daniel R. Schwartz
- The end of the matter? Jubilees 50:6–13 and the unity of the book / James C. Vanderkam
- Bibliography / L.R. Lidonnici and A. Lieber
- Index of modern scholars / L.R. Lidonnici and A. Lieber
- Index of ancient sources / L.R. Lidonnici and A. Lieber
- Subject index / L.R. Lidonnici and A. Lieber
- Supplements to the journal for the study of judaism / L.R. Lidonnici and A. Lieber.