Heavenly Tablets: Interpretation, Identity and Tradition in Ancient Judaism (2007 LiDonnici, Lieber), edited volume
Heavenly Tablets: Interpretation, Identity and Tradition in Ancient Judaism (2007) is a volume edited by Lynn R. LiDonnici and Andrea Lieber.
Abstract
Editions and translations
Published in Leiden: Brill, 2007 (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 119).
Table of contents
- Introduction / Lynn LiDonnici and Andrea Lieber
Part 1 - Interpreting ritual texts
- Three Jewish ritual practices in Aristeas [sections] 158-160 / Benjamin G. Wright
- Prayers in Jubilees / John C. Endres
- Amulets and angels: visionary experience in the Testament of Job and the Hekhalot literature / Rebecca Lesses
- Is the Prayer of Manasseh a Jewish work? / James R. Davila
- "According to the Jews:" identified (and identifying) 'Jewish' elements in the Greek magical papyri / Lynn LiDonnici
Part 2 - Mapping diaspora identities.
- Imago mundi of the Genesis Apocryphon / Esther Eshel
- Jubilees in the Hellenistic context / Cana Werman
- "Gather the dispersed of Judah:" seeking a return to the land as a factor in Jewish identity of late antiquity / Esther G. Chazon
- Sectarian consciousness in the Dead Sea scrolls / John J. Collins
- Between motherland and fatherland: diaspora, pilgrimage and the spiritualization of sacrifice in Philo of Alexandria / Andrea Lieber
Part 3 - Rewriting tradition
- Case of the blasphemer (Lev. 24:10-16) according to Philo and Josephus / Louis H. Feldman
- Chaste betrayals: women and men in the apocryphal novels / Adele Reinhartz
- Damascus document's "Three nets of Belial:" a reference to the Aramaic Levi document? / Hanan Eshel
- Why did Antiochus have to fall (II Maccabees 9:7)? / Daniel R. Schwartz
- End of the matter? Jubilees 50:6-13 and the unity of the book / James C. VanderKam
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