Demons, angels, and writing in ancient Judaism
A new explanation of the beginnings of Jewish angelology and demonology, drawing on non-canonical writings and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls.
| Résumé: | A new explanation of the beginnings of Jewish angelology and demonology, drawing on non-canonical writings and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls. Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Beginnings of Jewish Angelology and Demonology -- Demonology and Angelology as Knowledge -- Recovering the Aramaic Jewish Pedagogy of the Early Hellenistic Age -- ''Pseudepigrapha'' and the History of Jewish Writing -- Transformations of Near Eastern Knowledge in the Hellenistic Period -- Conclusion and Chapter Summary -- 1 Multiplicity, Monotheism, and Memory in Ancient Israel -- Demonology and Monotheism in the Ancient World -- Writing, Genealogy, and Other Technologies of Memory in Ancient Israel -- Ambiguous Angels and the Biblical Management of Divine Multiplicity -- Conclusion -- 2 Rethinking Scribalism and Change in Second Temple Judaism -- Beyond Postexilic Divine Distancing and Canonical Constraints -- Synchronic Approaches to Jewish Angelology and Demonology -- Beyond ''Hellenism'' and ''Judaism'' -- Scribes, Textuality, and Teaching in Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls -- Scribalizing Moses and Jewish Knowledge -- Prose, Pedagogy, and the Past in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls -- Localism, Heurematography, and Competitive Historiography -- Jewish Writing in Aramaic in the Early Hellenistic Age -- Conclusion -- 3 Writing Angels, Astronomy, and Aramaic in the Early Hellenistic Age -- The Enochic Astronomical Book and Ancient Sciences -- From Didactic Lists to Long-Duration Literature -- Seeing, Reading, and Revelation in 4Q209 and 1 Enoch 72-79+82 -- Astronomical Knowledge in Aratus, Berossus, and Pseudo-Eupolemus -- Conclusion -- 4 Textualizing Demonology as Jewish Knowledge and Scribal Expertise -- Interpreting Evil Spirits in the Book of the Watchers -- From Jewish Exorcism to Enochic Scribal Expertise -- Ordering the Demonic: Exemplarity, Aetiology, Anthologizing. |
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| ISBN: | 1108776108 |