Scriptural vitality : rethinking philology and hermeneutics / Hindy Najman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Najman, Hindy, author.

Series:

Bible and the humanities.

Oxford scholarship online.

The Bible and the humanities

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book of Jubilees.

Dead Sea scrolls.

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

'Scriptural Vitality' explores Judaism in the Second Temple Period (5th-c. BCE to 1st-c. CE) as a dynamic tradition of textual production and resilience under the threat of destruction. This vitality is an expression of convergence of cultures across Jewish and Greek traditions, intermingling theological, philosophical, and literary innovation.

Contents:

Part I. Philosophy, philology, and poetics of reading

Reading practices

Problematizing the search for the original

Canonical expansion and pluriformity

Reading, fragments, and selfhood

Part II. Memory and revitalization : Jubilees and the dynamic of scripture

Between rewriting and new scripture

The status of Jubilees in the Hellenistic period

Memorialized law in Jubilees

Part III. Conceptual reflections in Hellenistic Judaism as an expression of vitality

Formation of the subject in Hellenistic Judaism

Cosmological reflections in Greek and Hebrew texts

Transformation and the Hodayot

Philosophical hermeneutics : poetic processes and the Hodayot

Postscript.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 21, 2024).

ISBN:

9780191898037

0191898031

9780192635211

0192635212

OCLC:

1472772604