TY  - BOOK
AU  - Najman,Hindy
TI  - Past renewals: interpretative authority, renewed revelation, and the quest for perfection in Jewish antiquity 
T2  - Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism
SN  - 9789004180468
AV  - BM529 .N35 2010eb
U1  - 221.609 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Leiden, NL
PB  - Brill
KW  - Philo,
KW  - Bible
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Canon
KW  - Book of Jubilees
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - Authority
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Tradition (Judaism)
KW  - Rabbinical literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
KW  - Jewish law
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Rabbis
KW  - Office
KW  - Littérature rabbinique
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Judaïsme
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 586 av. J.-C.-210 (Période postexilique)
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Biblical Criticism & Interpretation
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Post-exilic period (Judaism)
KW  - Geschichtsschreibung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Rabbinismus
KW  - Jüdische Theologie
KW  - Jüdische Philosophie
KW  - Ethik
KW  - Glaubensleben
KW  - Frühjudentum
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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
N2  - How did ancient Jewish authors claim authority for their interpretations? How, after the a oeend of prophecya, could they claim the authority of revelation? Whom did one have to be, or aspire to be, in order to merit authority? Hindy Najman addresses these questions through close readings of ancient Jewish texts, e.g., Ezra-Nehemiah, Philo of Alexandria, 4Ezra, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Jubilees. In Seconding Sinai (Brill, 2003), Najman reconceived pseudepigraphy, developing the idea of a Mosaic discourse that comprised a series of ancient texts attributed to Moses. Here she develops the broader n
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