The significance of Sinai : traditions about Sinai and divine revelation in Judaism and Christianity / edited by George J. Brooke, Hindy Najman and Loren T. Stuckenbruck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brooke, George J.

Najman, Hindy.

Stuckenbruck, Loren T.

Series:

Themes in biblical narrative ; v. 12.

Themes in biblical narrative, 1388-3909 ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revelation on Sinai.

Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.

Rabbinical literature.

Jews--History--168 B.C.-135 A.D.

Jews.

Jewish philosophy.

Ten commandments.

Dead Sea scrolls.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Epistles of Paul--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume of essays is concerned with ancient and modern Jewish and Christian views of the revelation at Sinai. The theme is highlighted in studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Paul, Josephus, rabbinic literature, art and philosophy. The contributions demonstrate that Sinai, as the location of the revelation, soon became less significant than the narratives that developed about what happened there. Those narratives were themselves transformed, not least to explain problems regarding the text's plain sense. Miraculous theophany, anthropomorphisms, the role of Moses, and the response of Israel were all handled with exegetical skills mustered by each new generation of readers. Furthermore, the content of the revelation, especially the covenant, was rethought in philosophical, political, and theological ways. This collection of studies is especially useful in showing something of the complexity of how scriptural traditions remain authoritative and lively for those who appeal to them from very different contexts.

Contents:

Some unanticipated consequences of the Sinai revelation : a religion of laws / James L. Kugel

"Fire, cloud, and deep darkness" (Deuteronomy 5:22) : Deuteronomy's recasting of revelation / Marc Zvi Brettler

Priestly prophets at Qumran : summoning Sinai through the Songs of the Sabbath sacrifice / Judith H. Newman

Moving mountains : from Sinai to Jerusalem / George J. Brooke

Moses, David and scribal revelation : preservation and renewal in Second Temple Jewish textual traditions / Eva Mroczek

The giving of the Torah at Sinai and the ethics of the Qumran community / Marcus Tso

Josephus' "Theokratia" and Mosaic discourse : the actualization of the revelation at Sinai / Zuleika Rodgers

Why did Paul include an exegesis of Moses' shining face (Exod 34) in 2 Cor 3? : Moses' strength, well-being and (transitory) glory, according to Philo, Josephus, Paul, and the Corinthian sophists / George H. van Kooten

In the mirror of the divine face : the Enochic features of the Exagoge of Ezekiel the Tragedian / Andrei Orlov

Torah and eschatology in the Syriac apocalypse of Baruch / Matthias Henze

Can the homilists cross the sea again? : revelation in Mekilta shirata / Ishay Rosen-Zvi

Hearing and seeing at Sinai : interpretive trajectories / Steven D. Fraade

The giving of the Torah : targumic perspectives / Charles Thomas, Robert Hayward

God's back! : what did Moses see on Sinai? / Diana Lipton

Sinai in art and architecture / David Brown

Sinai since Spinoza : reflections on revelation in modern Jewish thought / Paul Franks.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-39975-6

9786612399756

90-474-4347-0

OCLC:

608624805

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004170186.i-386 DOI