ISBN:
9789004332829
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 302 pages)
Year of publication:
1997
Series Statement:
Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums 29
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Levison, John R Spirit in first century Judaism
Keywords:
586 B.C. - 210 A.D
;
Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
;
Holy Spirit (Judaism) ; History of doctrines
;
Judaism ; Post-exilic period (Judaism)
;
Judaism
;
Religion
;
History
;
Greece Religion
;
Greece
Abstract:
Preliminary Material /John R. Levison -- PREFACE /John R. Levison -- INTRODUCTION /John R. Levison -- AN ANOMALOUS PROPHET /John R. Levison -- PROSPECT /John R. Levison -- THE SPIRIT AS AN INVADING ANGEL /John R. Levison -- THE SPIRIT AS LIFE ITSELF /John R. Levison -- RETROSPECT /John R. Levison -- AN ECLECTIC ERA /John R. Levison -- PROSPECT /John R. Levison -- THE SPIRIT AND HUMAN TRANSFORMATION: PALESTINIAN AND DIASPORA PERSPECTIVES /John R. Levison -- THE SPIRIT AND PROPHETIC TRANSFORMATION: A PALESTINIAN PERSPECTIVE /John R. Levison -- THE SPIRIT AND PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSFORMATION: DIASPORA PERSPECTIVES /John R. Levison -- RETROSPECT /John R. Levison -- AN EXTRAODINARY MIND /John R. Levison -- PROSPECT /John R. Levison -- THE SPIRIT AND EXTRAORDINARY INSIGHT /John R. Levison -- THE SPIRIT AND INSPIRED EXEGESIS /John R. Levison -- RETROSPECT /John R. Levison -- RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT /John R. Levison -- RETROSPECT /John R. Levison -- PROSPECT /John R. Levison -- ESSENTIAL DATA ON PHILO JUDAEUS, PSEUDO-PHILO'S LIBER ANTIQUITATUM BIBLICARUM, AND JOSEPHUS /John R. Levison -- ABBREVIATIONS /John R. Levison -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY /John R. Levison -- INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES /John R. Levison -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND ANCIENT NAMES /John R. Levison -- INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS /John R. Levison -- ARBEITEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DES ANTIKEN JUDENTUMS UND DES URCHRISTENTUMS /John R. Levison.
Abstract:
Conceptions of the divine spirit underwent complex metamorphoses in Jewish biblical interpretation during the Greco-Roman era. This monograph explores those permutations in the writings of Philo Judaeus, Josephus, and Pseudo-Philo ( Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum ). The first section, 'An Anomalous Prophet', unfolds surprisingly divergent transformations of the inspiration of Balaam. The second section, 'An Eclectic Era', unearths both faint and conspicuous traces of Greco-Roman conceptions in early Jewish interpretations. The third section, 'An Extraordinary Mind', undermines the view that the spirit was associated primarily with ecstasy rather than with intellectual insight. By analyzing these interpretations in light of other contemporary Greco-Roman and Jewish writings, this volume offers original and essential data for further study of inspiration in Antiquity, including early Judaism, early Christianity, and the Greco-Roman world. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-279) and indexes
DOI:
10.1163/9789004332829
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