Annette Yoshiko Reed (M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Assistant Profe

Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book will appeal to readers interested in the history of human reflection on demons, angels, and other transmundane powers, as well as the different ways in which ancient cultures imagined the cosmos. It also speaks to the diversity of ancient Judaism as reflected in 'pseudepigrapha' and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 363
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 155mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781108746090
• ISBN-10: 1108746098
• Artikelnr.: 63265311

Autorenporträt

Annette Yoshiko Reed is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. A scholar of Judaism and Christianity, she focuses on questions of identity and literary practice across Second Temple Judaism and Late Antiquity. Her research looks to non-canonical and other neglected sources to open new perspectives on ancient Jews and Christians. Her books include Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity (Cambridge, 2005) and Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism (2018), as well as a number of edited volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Multiplicity, monotheism, and memory in Ancient Israel
2. Rethinking scribalism and change in Second Temple Judaism
3. Writing angels, astronomy, and Aramaic in the early Hellenistic age
4. Textualizing demonology as Jewish knowledge and scribal expertise
5. Rewriting angels, demons, and the ancestral archive of Jewish knowledge.