Noah and His Book(s) (2010 Stone / Amihay / Hillel), edited volume

Noah and His Book(s) (2010) is a volumes edited by Michael E. Stone, Aryeh Amihay, and Vered Hillel, with the collaboration of Ruth Clements.

Abstract

"In a collection of original essays, this book offers new insights on the question of the lost book of Noah, as well as studies of Noah's figure in postbiblical literature. It focuses on ancient Jewish literature, including the Septuagint, the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, Josephus, and rabbinic literature, but Christian sources, especially Christian iconography, gnostic literature, and Syriac material, as well as later sources such as the Qur'an and Jewish medieval traditions, are also consulted. The contributors are Michael E. Stone, Vered Hillel, Aryeh Amihay, Michael Tuval, Daniel Machiela, Claire Pfann, Esther Eshel, Jeremy Penner, Rebecca Scharbach, Benjamin G. Wright III, Nadav Sharon and Moshe Tishel, Albert Geljon, Sergey Minov, Erica Martin, and Ruth Clements."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, 2010 (Early Judaism and Its Literature, 28).

Contents

The book(s) attributed to Noah / Michael E. Stone -- A reconsideration of Charles's designated "Noah interpolations" in 1 Enoch : 54:1-55:1; 65:1-69:25 / Vered Hillel -- Is 1 Enoch 6-11 a "Noachic" fragment? A scholarly discussion / Michael Tuval -- Traditions of the birth of Noah / Aryeh Amihay and Daniel A. Machiela -- A note on 1Q19 : the "Book of Noah" / Claire Pfann -- The Noah cycle in the Genesis Apocryphon / Esther Eshel -- Is 4Q534-536 really about Noah? / Jeremy Penner -- The rebirth of a book : Noachic writing in Medieval and Renaissance Europe / Rebecca Scharbach -- Noah and the flood in the Septuagint / Benjamin G. Wright III -- Distinctive traditions about Noah and the flood in Second Temple Jewish literature / Nadav Sharon and Moshe Tishel -- The role of Noah and the flood in Judean Antiquities and Against Apion by Flavius Josephus / Michael Tuval -- Philo's interpretation of Noah / Albert C. Geljon -- Noah in rabbinic literature / Aryeh Amihay -- Noah and the flood in Gnosticism / Sergey Minov -- Some Jewish Noah traditions in Syriac Christian sources / Daniel A. Machiela -- The literary presentation of Noah in the Qur'an / Erica Martin -- A shelter amid the flood : Noah's ark in early Jewish and Christian art / Ruth Clements -- Noah in Onomastic traditions / Vered Hillel and Michael E. Stone -- Mount Ararat and the ark / Michael E. Stone

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