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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Najman, Hindy. Seconding Sinai. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003 (DLC) 2002038453 (OCoLC)51003787 |
Named Person: | Moses, (Biblical leader); Moïse, (Chef biblique); Moses, (Biblical leader); Mose. |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hindy Najman |
ISBN: | 1417597593 9781417597598 9004115420 9789004115422 9047400283 9789047400288 |
OCLC Number: | 60582660 |
Language Note: | Text in English; quotations in Hebrew. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 176 pages) |
Contents: | General Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Mosaic Discourse; Chapter Two: Rewriting Rewritten: Jubilees and 11QTemple as Participants in Mosaic Discourse; Chapter Three: Copying Nature, Copying Moses; Chapter Four: Constructing Continuities and the Dangers of Anachronism; Bibliography; Index of Authors; Subject Index; Index of Primary Texts. |
Series Title: | Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, v. 77. |
Responsibility: | by Hindy Najman. |
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'This book is a very important contribution to the understanding of Second Temple Judaism. [..] This is a well-written research that provides very helpful insights for scholars and students interested in the intellectual development ofJudaism from the Persian to the Hellenistic periods.'Thomas Romer, Review of Biblical Literature, 2005.'Seconding Sinai is a remarkable book that sparkles and crackles with smartness. Hindy Najman adopts a brilliant and original research strategy to get at some outstanding questions in the understanding of crucial documents and periods in the development of Jewish religious literature, primarily those of the Second-Temple period. She undertakes no less than to consider the questions of "Rewritten Bible" as a genre of interpretation, pseudepigraphy, pseudonymity, and anonymity in key Dead Sea Scrolls and the writings of Philo under the sign of a foucauldian investigation of notions of "authorship" in the period. Her astutely chosen case study deals primarily with the very well attested representation of Moses as the "author" of the Torah. Placing the expanded role of Moses within the writings of the period into historical context, Najman both illuminates the meaning of those writings and renders sharp and clear the shifts in the meanings of authorship between antiquity and now. The style is engaging and clear and the scholarship impeccable. In particular, I found the lucid and original interpretation of Philo an intellectual thrill. I highly recommend this book both for scholars of Judaism in the Second Temple period and for anyone who is interested in the history of ideas of authorship and authority.'Daniel Boyarin, (Professor, UC Berkeley). Read more...


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