Research Catalog

Title

Jewish and Christian cosmogony in late antiquity / edited by Lance Jenott and Sarit Kattan Gribetz.

Publication

• Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jenott, Lance, 1980-
• Kattan Gribetz, Sarit
• Jewish and Christian cosmogony in late antiquity (2010 : Princeton University)

Description

x, 336 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Texts and studies in Ancient Judaism ; 155

Uniform Title

Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 155.

Subject

• Cosmogony, Ancient

Note

• "This volume presents essays that emerged from a colloquium on the topic of cosmogony (the creation of the world) among ancient Jews and Christians held at Princeton University in May 2010."--Page [v].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-309) and indexes.

Contents

In the beginning : cosmogony in late antiquity / Lance Jenott, Sarit Kattan Gribetz -- part I: Scripture and interpretation. Made to order : creation in Jubilees / James C. VanderKam -- The Rabbinic ban on Ma'aseh bereshit : sources, contexts and concerns / Yair Furstenberg -- Constructing a Christian universe : mythological exegesis of Ben Sira 24 and John's prologue in the Gospel of truth / Geoffrey S. Smith -- part II: Theology and anthropology. The emergence of monotheistic creation theology in Hellenistic Judaism / Maren R. Niehoff -- The archangel Michael in Ophite creation mythology / Tuomas Rasimus -- Constant creation : (pro)creation in Palestinian Rabbinic Midrashim / Gwynn Kessler -- Corpus Hermeticum, tractate III : the genesis of a Genesis / Christian Wildberg -- part III: Pedagogy and ethics. Moses the pedagogue : Procopius, Philo, and Didymus on the pedagogy of the creation account / Richard A. Layton -- "Humanity came to be according to three essential types" : anthropology and ethical responsibility in the Tripartite tractate / Alexander Kocar -- Recovering Adam's lost glory : Nag Hammadi Codex II in its Egyptian monastic environment / Lance Jenott -- part IV: Space and ritual. Rock over water : pre-historic rocks and primordial waters from creation to salvation in Jerusalem / Naomi Koltun-Fromm -- Darkness upon the abyss : depicting cosmogany in late antiquity / Mika Ahuvia -- The ritualization of creation in Jewish and Christian liturgical texts from late antiquity / Ophir Münz Manor.

Call Number

*PEZ 14-74

ISBN

• 9783161519932 (hardback)
• 3161519930 (hardback)

OCLC

860753481

Title

Jewish and Christian cosmogony in late antiquity / edited by Lance Jenott and Sarit Kattan Gribetz.

Publisher

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Texts and studies in Ancient Judaism ; 155

Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 155.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-309) and indexes.

Added Author

Jenott, Lance, 1980- editor.

Kattan Gribetz, Sarit, editor.

Jewish and Christian cosmogony in late antiquity (2010 : Princeton University)

Research Call Number

*PEZ 14-74