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Babel's Tower translated : Genesis 11 and ancient Jewish interpretation
- Title
- Babel's Tower translated : Genesis 11 and ancient Jewish interpretation / by Phillip Michael Sherman.
- Author
- Sherman, Phillip Michael.
- Publication
- Boston : Brill, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 363 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- In 'Babel's Tower Translated', Phillip Sherman explores the narrative of Genesis 11 and its reception and interpretation in several Second Temple and Early Rabbinic texts (e.g. Jubilees, Philo, Genesis Rabbah). The account of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is famously ambiguous. The meaning of the narrative and actions of both the human characters and the Israelite deity defy any easy explanation. This work explores how changing historical and hermeneutical realities altered and shifted the meaning of text in Jewish antiquity.
- Series Statement
- Biblical interpretation series ; v. 117
- Uniform Title
- Biblical interpretation series ; v. 117.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-354) and indexes.
- Contents
- Part I. Unearthing the Tower. Introduction to part I. -- 1. Return to Babel: reading without the canon -- 2. Reading Babel backwards, canonical foundations for exegetical expansion -- Part II. Rewritten Babel. Introduction to part II -- 3. The holy language in the book of Jubilees: the Tower of Babel and the eclipse of sacred tradition -- 4. Pseudo-Philo's biblical antiquities: echoes of the Tower -- 5. Josephus and the influence of anxiety: colonizing the Tower and the politics of dispersion -- 6. Translated to heaven: the Tower of Babel and third (Greek) Baruch -- 7. The inner Tower: Philo and the translation of cultures -- Part III. The rabbinic Babel: Midrash as translation. Introduction to part III -- 8. A just translation: reading the rabbinic Babel in Genesis Rabbah.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-4191
- ISBN
- 9789004205093
- 9004205098
- 9004248617
- 9789004248618
- 9789004248618 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2012048655
- OCLC
- 827115132
- Author
- Sherman, Phillip Michael.
- Title
- Babel's Tower translated : Genesis 11 and ancient Jewish interpretation / by Phillip Michael Sherman.
- Publisher
- Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Biblical interpretation series ; v. 117Biblical interpretation series ; v. 117.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-354) and indexes.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-4191