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.

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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