Seconding Sinai: The Development of Mosaic Discourse in Second Temple Judaism (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism) - Softcover

Najman, Hindy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1589834240 ISBN 13: 9781589834248

Verlag: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009

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Reseña del editor

What is meant by attributing texts to Moses in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism? The answer depends not only on the history of texts but also on the history of concepts of textuality. This book critiques the terms “pseudepigraphy” and “rewritten Bible,” which presuppose conceptions of authentic attribution and textual fidelity foreign to ancient Judaism, and instead develops the concept of a discourse whose creativity and authority depend on repeated returns to the exemplary figure and experience of a founder. Attribution to Moses is a central example whose function is to re-present the experience of revelation at Sinai. Distinctive features of Mosaic discourse are studied in Deuteronomy, Jubilees, the Temple Scroll, and the works of Philo of Alexandria.

Biografía del autor

Hindy Najman is the Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Ancient Judaism in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. Her areas of expertise are Second Temple Judaism, Hellenistic Judaism, Hebrew Bible, early rabbinics, and the history of Jewish interpretation. She is the author of Prophetic Ends: Concepts of Revelation in Ancient Judaism (forthcoming) and co-editor of The Significance of Sinai: Traditions about Divine Revelation in Judaism and Christianity and The Idea of Biblical Interpretation (both from Brill).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Society of Biblical Literature
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1589834240
• ISBN 13: 9781589834248
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196