From Enoch to Tobit: collected studies in ancient Jewish literature
Publisher's description: The volume assembles twenty previously published studies by Devorah Dimant, which have been re-edited, updated, and furnished with an introductory essay written especially for this collection. The studies survey and analyze Jewish works composed in Hebrew, Aramaic or Gr...
| Summary: | Publisher's description: The volume assembles twenty previously published studies by Devorah Dimant, which have been re-edited, updated, and furnished with an introductory essay written especially for this collection. The studies survey and analyze Jewish works composed in Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek during the Second Temple period, and discuss their contents, ideas, and connections to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Particular attention is paid to central issues, such as the apocalyptic worldview and literature and its relationship to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Among others, specific themes related to the Aramaic Tobit and 1 Enoch are analyzed as well as the links detected between the Hebrew Qumran writings Pseudo-Ezekiel and the Apocryphon of Jeremiah and the later apocalyptic works 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch. The introductory essay provides a general framework and pertinent terminology for discussing the literature in question. Together these essays offer a broad and fresh perspective of the Jewish literary scene in antiquity, with special attention to the one nurtured in the land of Israel Introductory essay : the Jewish literary scene during the second temple period : framework and terminology -- Election and laws of history in the apocalyptic literature -- Apocalyptic and the Qumran library -- The biography of Enoch and the books of Enoch -- 1 Enoch 6-11 : a fragment of a parabiblical work -- Ideology and history in the animal apocalypse (1 Enoch 85-90) -- Jerusalem and the temple in the animal apocalypse (1 Enoch 85-90) in light of the Qumran community worldview -- The Book of Parables (1 Enoch 37-71) and the Qumran community worldview -- Israels subjugation to the Gentiles as an expression of demonic power in Qumran documents and related literature -- Tobit and the Qumran Aramaic texts -- The Book of Tobit and the Qumran Halakhah -- Tobit in Galilee -- The family of Tobit -- The wife of Job and the wife of Tobit -- Judah and Tamar in Jubilees 41 -- Hebrew pseudepigrapha at Qumran -- 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch in Light of the Qumran Literature -- From the book of Jeremiah to the Qumranic Apocryphon of Jeremiah C. -- Pseudonymity in the wisdom of Solomon -- 4Q127 : an unknown Jewish apocryphal work? |
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| ISBN: | 3161542886 |