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Babel's Tower translated : Genesis 11 and ancient Jewish interpretation / by Phillip Michael Sherman.

By: Series: Biblical interpretation seriesPublication details: Leiden : BRILL, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (377 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004248618
  • 9004248617
  • 9004205098
  • 9789004205093
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 222.110609
LOC classification:
  • BS1238 .B2
Online resources:
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.
Summary: Ancient Jewish Interpreters read and rewrote the biblical narrative of the Tower of Babel to address various challenges to the identity of 'Israel' in the Second Temple and early rabbinic periods.
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Ancient Jewish Interpreters read and rewrote the biblical narrative of the Tower of Babel to address various challenges to the identity of 'Israel' in the Second Temple and early rabbinic periods.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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