Between Temple and Torah

Essays on Priests, Scribes, and Visionaries in the Second Temple Period and Beyond
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-16-151041-0
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, Band 151, 399 Seiten, Format (B × H): 243 mm x 166 mm, Gewicht: 765 g

Reihe: Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism

This volume contains articles by Martha Himmelfarb on topics in Second Temple Judaism and the development and reception of Second Temple traditions in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The section on "Priests, Temples, and Torah" addresses the themes of its title in texts from the Bible to the Mishnah. "Purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls" contains articles analyzing the intensification of the biblical purity laws, particularly the laws for genital discharge, in the major legal documents from the Scrolls. In "Judaism and Hellenism" the author explores the relationship between these two ancient cultures by examining the ancient and modern historiography of the Maccabean Revolt and the role of the Torah in ancient Jewish adaptations of Greek culture. The last two sections of the volume follow texts and traditions of the Second Temple period into late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The articles in "Heavenly Ascent" consider the relationship between the ascent apocalypses of the Second Temple period and later works involving heavenly ascent, particularly the hekhalot texts. In the final section, "The Pseudepigrapha and Medieval Jewish Literature," Himmelfarb investigates evidence for knowledge of works of the Second Temple period by medieval Jews with consideration of the channels by which the works might have reached these later readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Himmelfarb, Martha

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Biblische Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Himmelfarb, Martha
Born 1952; PhD from the University of Pennsylvania; currently William H. Danforth Professor of Religion, Princeton University, Princeton.

Martha Himmelfarb
Born 1952; 1974 BA in Greek from Barnard College; 1981 PhD in Religious Thought from the University of Pennsylvania; since 1978 member of the faculty in the Religion Department at Princeton University; since 2007 William H. Danforth Professor of Religion.