Heavenly tablets : interpretation, identity and tradition in ancient Judaism /

Heavenly tablets : interpretation, identity and tradition in ancient Judaism / / edited by Lynn LiDonnici, Andrea Lieber.

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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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LiDonnici, Lynn R.
Lieber, Andrea.
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2007.
Year of Publication:2007
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 119.
Physical Description:1 online resource (351 pages)
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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.

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