William Loader

Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality

Attitudes Towards Sexuality in the Early Enoch Literature, the Aramaic Levi Document, and the Book of Jubilees

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Produktbeschreibung

Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality marks a first stage in William Loader's research on attitudes toward sexuality in Judaism and Christianity of the Hellenistic Greco-Roman era. Loader first discusses the early Enoch literature relevant to the theme, focusing on the impact of an ancient myth on the writings and examining how sexual deeds are not here concerned with sexual wrongdoing. He then examines the weight of such wrongdoing in the priestly instruction of the fragmentary Aramaic Levi Document as a whole. He finally considers Jubilees as a cumulative work, building on both the Enoch tradition and the instruction of Levi, and reveals a range of devices warning against sexual depravity. Loader's aim throughout is to interpret the works from within, examining literary form, context, sequence, and tradition and redaction, reflecting engagement with current research in this area.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9780802825834
• ISBN-10: 0802825834
• Artikelnr.: 22819851

Autorenporträt

William Loader is professor emeritus, a New Testament scholar who taught at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, and is a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia. He has published widely, offering resources online (billloader.com) and in his many books, including books for a wider readership, most recently, What Can Love Hope For? Questions for Faith Seeking Understanding (2020), Sex Then and Now: Sexualities and the Bible (2022), and Myths on the Margins: Making It to the Centre (2022).