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Demons, angels, and writing in ancient Judaism
- Title
- Demons, angels, and writing in ancient Judaism / Annette Yoshiko Reed, New York University.
- Author
- Reed, Annette Yoshiko, 1973-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- x, 353 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "What did ancient Jews believe about demon and angels? This question has long been puzzling, not least because the Hebrew Bible says relatively little about such transmundane powers. In the centuries after the conquests of Alexander the Great, however, we find an explosion of explicit and systematic interest in, and detailed discussions of, demons and angels. In this book, Annette Reed considers the third century BCE as a critical moment for the beginnings of Jewish angelology and demonology. Drawing on early "pseudepigrapha" and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls, she reconstructs the scribal settings in which transmundane powers became a topic of concerted Jewish interest. Reed also situates this development in relation to shifting ideas about scribes and writing across the Hellenistic Near East. Her book opens a window onto a forgotten era of Jewish literary creativity that nevertheless deeply shaped the discussion of angels and demons in Judaism and Christianity"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-343) and index.
- Contents
- Multiplicity, monotheism, and memory in Ancient Israel -- Rethinking scribalism and change in Second Temple Judaism -- Writing angels, astronomy, and Aramaic in the early Hellenistic age -- Textualizing demonology as Jewish knowledge and scribal expertise -- Rewriting angels, demons, and the ancestral archive of Jewish knowledge.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-5440
- ISBN
- 9780521119436
- 052111943X
- 9781139030847 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781108776103 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019038889
- 40029832891
- OCLC
- 1102799425
- Author
- Reed, Annette Yoshiko, 1973- author.
- Title
- Demons, angels, and writing in ancient Judaism / Annette Yoshiko Reed, New York University.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-343) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Reed, Annette Yoshiko, 1973- Demons, angels, and writing in ancient Judaism 1. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781139030847 (DLC) 2019038890
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029832891
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-5440