"This book offers a thorough analysis of demons in the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint in the wider context of the ancient Near East and the Greek world. Taking a fresh and innovative angle of enquiry, Anna Angelini investigates continuities and changes in the representation of divine powers in Hellenistic Judaism, thereby revealing the role of the Greek translation of the Bible in shaping ancient demonology, angelology, and pneumatology. Combining philological and semantic analyses with a historical approach and anthropological insights, the author both develops a new method for analyzing…mehr
"This book offers a thorough analysis of demons in the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint in the wider context of the ancient Near East and the Greek world. Taking a fresh and innovative angle of enquiry, Anna Angelini investigates continuities and changes in the representation of divine powers in Hellenistic Judaism, thereby revealing the role of the Greek translation of the Bible in shaping ancient demonology, angelology, and pneumatology. Combining philological and semantic analyses with a historical approach and anthropological insights, the author both develops a new method for analyzing religious categories within biblical traditions and sheds new light on the importance of the Septuagint for the history of ancient Judaism"--
Anna Angelini, Ph.D. (2008, University of Siena), is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich. She has published articles on the language, religion and culture of Ancient Israel and Ancient Greece, as well as on the Septuagint and Hellenistic Judaism. She is the author of Dal Leviatano al drago. Mostri marini e zoologia antica fra Grecia e Levante (Il Mulino, 2018), and co-editor of Food Taboos and Biblical Prohibitions (Mohr Siebeck, 2020). Anna Angelini, Ph.D. (2008, Université de Sienne), est chercheuse à l'Université de Zurich. Elle a publié plusieurs articles sur la langue, la religion et la culture de l'Israël ancien et de la Grèce antique, ainsi que sur la Septante et le Judaïsme Hellénistique. Elle est autrice du volume Dal Leviatano al drago. Mostri marini e zoologia antica fra Grecia e Levante (Il Mulino, 2018), et coéditrice de Food Taboos and Biblical Prohibitions (Mohr Siebeck, 2020).
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