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Author Najman, Hindy.

Title Past renewals [electronic resource] : interpretative authority, renewed revelation, and the quest for perfection in Jewish antiquity / by Hindy Najman.

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Description xxii, 270 p.
Series Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 53
Note Includes index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Philo, of Alexandria.
Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish -- History -- To 1500.
Bible. O.T. -- Canon.
Book of Jubilees -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Authority -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- History -- To 1500.
Tradition (Judaism) -- History -- To 1500.
Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism.
Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Jewish law -- Decision making -- History -- To 1500.
Rabbis -- Office -- History -- To 1500.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004180468 (hardback : alk. paper)

 
    
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