essays on priests, scribes, and visionaries in the Second Temple period and beyond /
First Statement of Responsibility
Martha Himmelfarb
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Tübingen, Germany :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Mohr Siebeck,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2013
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xii, 399 p. ;
Dimensions
24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Texts and studies in ancient Judaism ;
Volume Designation
151
GENERAL NOTES
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"This volume contains most of my articles from 1984 through 2011 on topics in Second Temple Judaism and the development and reception of Second Temple traditions in late antiquity and the Middle Ages."-- Introduction, p. [1]
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Collection of texts published previously
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
CONTENTS NOTE
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[Pt. 1.] Priests, Temples, and Torah. 1. The Temple and the Garden of Eden in Ezekiel, the Book of the Watchers, and the Wisdom of Ben Sira -- 2. Levi, Phinehas, and the Problem of Intermarriage at the Time of the Maccabean Revolt -- 3. Torah, Testimony, and Heavenly Tablets : The Claim to Authority of the Book of Jubilees -- 4. Earthly Sacrifice and Heavenly Incense : The Law of the Priesthood in Aramaic Levi and Jubilees -- 5. Temple and Priests in the Book of the Watchers, the Animal Apocalypse, and the Apocalypse of Weeks -- 6. "Found Written in the Book of Moses" : Priests in the Era of Torah -- [pt. 2.] Purity in the Dead Sea Scroll. 7. Sexual Relations and Purity in the Temple Scroll and the Book of Jubilees -- 8. Impurity and Sin in 4QD, 1QS, and 4Q512 -- 9. The Purity Laws of 4QD : Exegesis and Sectarianism -- 10. The Polemic against the Tẹvul Yom : A Reexamination --
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[pt. 3.] Judaism and Hellenism. 11. Judaism and Hellenism in 2 Maccabees -- 12. Elias Bickerman on Judaism and Hellenism -- 13. The Torah Between Athens and Jerusalem : Jewish Difference in Antiquity -- 14. "He Was Renowned to the Ends of the Earth" (1 Macc 3:9) : Judaism and Hellenism in 1 Maccabees -- [pt. 4.] Heavenly Ascent. 15. Heavenly Ascent and the Relationship of the Apocalypses and the Hekhalot Literature -- 16. Revelation and Rapture : The Transformation of the Visionary in the Ascent Apocalypses -- 17. The Practice of Ascent in the Ancient Mediterranean World -- 18. Merkavah Mysticism since Scholem : Rachel Elior's The Three Temples -- [pt. 5.] The Pseudepigrapha and Medieval Jewish Literature. 19. R. Moses the Preacher and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs -- 20. Some Echoes of Jubilees in Medieval Hebrew Literature