Heavenly tablets :  interpretation, identity and tradition in ancient Judaism / 
edited by Lynn LiDonnici, Andrea Lieber. 
 - Leiden ;  Boston :  Brill,  2007. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 333 pages). 
 - Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ;  v. 119 .
 - Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ;  v. 119. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-305) and indexes. 
<br/><br/> Interpreting ritual texts.  Three Jewish ritual practices in Aristeas [sections] 158-160 /  Prayers in Jubilees /  Amulets and angels: visionary experience in the Testament of Job and the Hekhalot literature /  Is the Prayer of Manasseh a Jewish work? /  "According to the Jews:" identified (and identifying) 'Jewish' elements in the Greek magical papyri /  Mapping diaspora identities.  Imago mundi of the Genesis Apocryphon /  Jubilees in the Hellenistic context /  "Gather the dispersed of Judah:" seeking a return to the land as a factor in Jewish identity of late antiquity /  Sectarian consciousness in the Dead Sea scrolls /  Between motherland and fatherland: diaspora, pilgrimage and the spiritualization of sacrifice in Philo of Alexandria /  Rewriting tradition.  Case of the blasphemer (Lev. 24:10-16) according to Philo and Josephus /  Chaste betrayals: women and men in the apocryphal novels /  Damascus document's "Three nets of Belial:" a reference to the Aramaic Levi document? /  Why did Antiochus have to fall (II Maccabees 9:7)? /  End of the matter? Jubilees 50:6-13 and the unity of the book /  Lynn LiDonnici and Andrea Lieber --  Benjamin G. Wright III --  John C. Endres --  Rebecca Lesses --  James R. Davila --  Lynn LiDonnici --  Esther Eshel --  Cana Werman --  Esther G. Chazon --  John J. Collins --  Andrea Lieber --  Louis H. Feldman --  Adele Reinhartz --  Hanan Eshel --  Daniel R. Schwartz --  James C. VanderKam.  Introduction /  pt. 1.  pt. 2.  pt. 3. 
<br/><br/> Examines Jewish ritual praxis in late antiquity, highlighting the ways in which text and ritual intersect in the process of interpretation. This book explores the rewriting of biblical stories in Hellenistic and later Jewish sources, and the ways that authors work through the tradition to reflect their realities and their hopes for the future. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789047420996 9047420993 1281921572 9781281921574 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1163/ej.9789004158566.i-339  doi 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible.--Old Testament--Hermeneutics.<br/>Bible.--Old Testament--Hermeneutics.<br/>Bible.--Old Testament.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>586 B.C.-210 A.D 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.<br/>RELIGION--Judaism--History.<br/>Hermeneutics.<br/>Judaism--Post-exilic period (Judaism)<br/>Jodendom.<br/>Bijbel.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BM176  / .H37 2007eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>296.09014