X
feed icon rss

Your email was sent successfully. Check your inbox.

An error occurred while sending the email. Please try again.

Proceed reservation?

Export
  • 1
    Article
    Article
    The apocalyptic Moses of Second Temple Judaism. (2019)
    In:  Hebrew Union College Annual (2019) 185-207
    Details
    ISSN: 0360-9049
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2019
    Titel der Quelle: Hebrew Union College Annual
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2019) 185-207
    Keywords: Moses In post-biblical literature ; Post-biblical literature History and criticism ; Apocalyptic literature History and criticism
    Abstract: This article surveys a wide variety of Second Temple period texts dating from the third century bce to the first century ce and ranging from the sectarian Qumran texts to Hellenistic literature from the Egyptian Diaspora. Despite the differences in provenance, these works exhibit a striking similarity in regard to Moses – they imbue Moses with apocalyptic characteristics. In a comparison with the Second Temple apocalypses of Daniel and 1 Enoch, which indeed might have served as inspiration for some of these Second Temple authors, this article demonstrates that the surveyed texts exhibit a number of the markers of the apocalyptic genre as defined by John J. Collins. The Second Temple Moses is a supernatural Moses, either interacting with angels or becoming one himself; his biblical prophecies have been replaced with visions of the eschatological future; and his sojourn on Mount Sinai has turned into an actual ascent into heaven. This widespread apocalypticizing of Moses attests not only to the profound shift towards apocalyptic thinking in the Second Temple period, but also to the enduring significance of Moses as a conduit to God even in the post-biblical world.
    DOI: 10.15650/hebruniocollannu.90.2019.0185
    URL: Locate this publication in Israeli libraries
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Article
    RAMBI - רמב''י get availability status
    ZDB
  • 2
    Article
    Article
    Worms, rotting flesh, and falling bowels : the power of disgust in a motif of kingly death in early Jewish literature. (2013)
    In:  Diné Israel; Studies in Halacha and Jewish Law 29 (2013) 33-56
    Details
    ISSN: 0070-4903
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2013
    Titel der Quelle: Diné Israel; Studies in Halacha and Jewish Law
    Angaben zur Quelle: 29 (2013) 33-56
    Keywords: Death ; Death in rabbinical literature
    URL: Locate this publication in Israeli libraries
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Article
    RAMBI - רמב''י get availability status
    ZDB
  • 3
    Article
    Article
    The four (animal) kingdoms : understanding empires as beastly bodies. (2021)
    In:  Four Kingdom Motifs Before and Beyond the Book of Daniel (2021) 56-80
    Details
    ISBN: 9789004442795
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2021
    Titel der Quelle: Four Kingdom Motifs Before and Beyond the Book of Daniel
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2021) 56-80
    Keywords: Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Politics in the Bible ; Animals in the Bible ; Post-biblical literature History and criticism
    Abstract: The four kingdoms motif appears throughout the Jewish writings of the Second Temple period and is commonly used to anticipate the end of earthly empires and their replacement by a divine kingdom. However, upon closer examination, many of these texts share an even more distinctive motif: four kingdoms that appear as animals. The animals are marked by carnivorous appetites, predatory instincts, and abnormal creation. The ob-vious inference is that empires were understood to share these same out-of-control qualities. However, using a hermeneutic lens inspired by the new field of animal studies, this article argues that the animalistic four kingdoms establishes a distinct binary between human and animal that counters imperial hegemony. For example, in Hellenistic period texts, such as Daniel and the Animal Apocalypse, the animal/human binary emphasiz-es the horrific nature of empires, but, by identifying Israel with the human, the motif empowers the subjugated. In contrast, texts written under the Roman Empire remove the binary altogether, making Israel an animal equally as powerful as the empire. Thus, this article’s survey of the four kingdoms demonstrates that Second Temple writers not only adopted the motif from the surrounding Near Eastern context but adapted it in such a way as to give added force to its anti-imperial rhetoric.
    DOI: 10.1163/9789004443280_005
    URL: Locate this publication in Israeli libraries
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Article
    RAMBI - רמב''י get availability status
  • 4
    Article
    Article
    The power of pain : a literary reading of the wicked priest’s death(s) in 1QpHab. (2021)
    In:  From Scrolls to Traditions; a Festschrift Honoring Lawrence H. Schiffman (2021) 99-114
    Details
    ISBN: 9789004443884
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2021
    Titel der Quelle: From Scrolls to Traditions; a Festschrift Honoring Lawrence H. Schiffman
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2021) 99-114
    Keywords: Habakkuk commentary Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Good and evil in post-biblical literature ; Priests, Jewish In post-biblical literature ; Sin in post-biblical literature ; Punishment in post-biblical literature
    DOI: 10.1163/9789004443891_006
    URL: Locate this publication in Israeli libraries
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Article
    RAMBI - רמב''י get availability status
  • 5
    Article
    Article
    The body in Qumran literature : flesh and spirit, purity and impurity in the Dead Sea Scrolls. (2016)
    In:  Dead Sea Discoveries 23,2 (2016) 155-182
    Details
    ISSN: 0929-0761
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2016
    Titel der Quelle: Dead Sea Discoveries
    Angaben zur Quelle: 23,2 (2016) 155-182
    Keywords: Philo, ; Dead Sea scrolls Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Qumran community ; Purity, Ritual in post-biblical literature ; Human body in post-biblical literature ; Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
    DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341386
    URL: Locate this publication in Israeli libraries
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Article
    RAMBI - רמב''י get availability status
    ZDB
  • 6
    Article
    Article
    Matthew 24:28 - "wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together" and the death of the Roman Empire. (2016)
    In:  The Gospels in First-Century Judaea (2016) 58-75
    Details
    ISBN: 9789004300446
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2016
    Titel der Quelle: The Gospels in First-Century Judaea
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2016) 58-75
    Keywords: New Testament. Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Apocalypse of Ezra Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Eagles ; Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
    URL: Locate this publication in Israeli libraries
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Article
    RAMBI - רמב''י get availability status
  • 7
    Article
    Article
    On animals, autonomy, and apocalypticism in Daniel. (2023)
    In:  Biblical Interpretation; a Journal of Contemporary Approaches 31,5 (2023) 546-567
    Details
    ISSN: 0927-2569
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2023
    Titel der Quelle: Biblical Interpretation; a Journal of Contemporary Approaches
    Angaben zur Quelle: 31,5 (2023) 546-567
    Keywords: Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Apocalypse Biblical teaching ; Animals in the Bible
    Abstract: Daniel is a book concerned about living in and under imperial rule, whether it be following Daniel’s exploits in court tales or envisioning the end of empire in dreams. At the same time, Daniel is also about bodies—human and animal, divine and earthly, real and imagined. The variety of bodies mirrors what Cary Wolfe dubs a “species grid” (Wolfe and Elmer, 2003), which categorizes bodies from the fully realized subject of the “humanized human” to the “animalized human” and the “humanized animal” and, finally, the objectified “animalized animal.” This article uses and adapts this grid to chart the power of animals, humans, and the divine in Daniel. The result is that we can see more clearly how Daniel transitioned from an earlier Deuteronomistic theology that understood humans as the cause of divine reward and punishment to an apocalyptic worldview that removed power from human hands entirely.
    DOI: 10.1163/15685152-31050003
    URL: Locate this publication in Israeli libraries
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Article
    RAMBI - רמב''י get availability status
    ZDB
  • 8
    Book
    Book
    〈〈The〉〉 Danielic discourse on empire in Second Temple literature (2017)
    Leiden : Brill
    Details
    ISBN: 9789004331297 , 9004331298
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 263 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2017
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism volume 176
    DDC: 224.5060901
    Keywords: Bible / Criticism, interpretation, etc / Bible / Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Bibel Daniel ; Textkritik ; Pseudepigraphen
    Abstract: "In The Danielic Discourse on Empire in Second Temple Literature, Alexandria Frisch asks: how did Jews in the Second Temple period understand the phenomenon of foreign empire? In answering this question, a remarkable trend reveals itself--the book of Daniel, which situates its narrative in an imperial context and apocalyptically envisions empires, was overwhelmingly used by Jewish writers when they wanted to say something about empires. This study examines Daniel, as well as antecedents to and interpretations of Daniel, in order to identify the diachronic changes in perceptions of empire during this period. Oftentimes, this Danielic discourse directly reacted to imperial ideologies, either copying, subverting, or adapting those ideologies. Throughout this study, postcolonial criticism, therefore, provides a hermeneutical lens through which to ask a second question: in an imperial context, is the Jewish conception of empire actually Jewish?"--
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [221]-245
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Book
    Vienna Jewish Studies Library
  • 9
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    The Danielic discourse on empire in Second Temple literature (2016)
    Leiden : Brill
    Details
    ISBN: 9789004331297 , 9004331298 , 9789004331310
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 263 Seiten)
    Year of publication: 2016
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism Volume 176
    Series Statement: Brill Biblical studies, Ancient Near East and early Christianity e-books online
    Series Statement: collection 2017
    Series Statement: Brill online books and journals: E-books
    Series Statement: Journal for the study of Judaism Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Frisch, Alexandria, author Danielic discourse on empire in Second Temple literature
    Dissertation note: Dissertation New York University 2013
    Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Bible ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Bible ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: "In The Danielic Discourse on Empire in Second Temple Literature, Alexandria Frisch asks: how did Jews in the Second Temple period understand the phenomenon of foreign empire? In answering this question, a remarkable trend reveals itself--the book of Daniel, which situates its narrative in an imperial context and apocalyptically envisions empires, was overwhelmingly used by Jewish writers when they wanted to say something about empires. This study examines Daniel, as well as antecedents to and interpretations of Daniel, in order to identify the diachronic changes in perceptions of empire during this period. Oftentimes, this Danielic discourse directly reacted to imperial ideologies, either copying, subverting, or adapting those ideologies. Throughout this study, postcolonial criticism, therefore, provides a hermeneutical lens through which to ask a second question: in an imperial context, is the Jewish conception of empire actually Jewish?"--
    DOI: 10.1163/9789004331310
    URL: Volltext
    URL: DOI
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Online Resource
    Potsdam University
    Fulltext
Close ⊗
This website uses cookies and the analysis tool Matomo. More information can be found here...