Demons, angels, and writing in ancient Judaism /
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
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2020.
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| Edition: | First published 2020. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Beginnings of Jewish Angelology and Demonology
- Demonology and Angelology as Knowledge
- Recovering the Aramaic Jewish Pedagogy of the Early Hellenistic Age
- ''Pseudepigrapha'' and the History of Jewish Writing
- Transformations of Near Eastern Knowledge in the Hellenistic Period
- Conclusion and Chapter Summary
- 1 Multiplicity, Monotheism, and Memory in Ancient Israel
- Demonology and Monotheism in the Ancient World
- Writing, Genealogy, and Other Technologies of Memory in Ancient Israel
- Ambiguous Angels and the Biblical Management of Divine Multiplicity
- Conclusion
- 2 Rethinking Scribalism and Change in Second Temple Judaism
- Beyond Postexilic Divine Distancing and Canonical Constraints
- Synchronic Approaches to Jewish Angelology and Demonology
- Beyond ''Hellenism'' and ''Judaism''
- Scribes, Textuality, and Teaching in Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls
- Scribalizing Moses and Jewish Knowledge
- Prose, Pedagogy, and the Past in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls
- Localism, Heurematography, and Competitive Historiography
- Jewish Writing in Aramaic in the Early Hellenistic Age
- Conclusion
- 3 Writing Angels, Astronomy, and Aramaic in the Early Hellenistic Age
- The Enochic Astronomical Book and Ancient Sciences
- From Didactic Lists to Long-Duration Literature
- Seeing, Reading, and Revelation in 4Q209 and 1 Enoch 72-79+82
- Astronomical Knowledge in Aratus, Berossus, and Pseudo-Eupolemus
- Conclusion
- 4 Textualizing Demonology as Jewish Knowledge and Scribal Expertise
- Interpreting Evil Spirits in the Book of the Watchers
- From Jewish Exorcism to Enochic Scribal Expertise
- Ordering the Demonic: Exemplarity, Aetiology, Anthologizing
- Listenwissenschaft, Demonology, and Scribal Expertise
- Conclusion
- 5 Rewriting Angels, Demons, and the Ancestral Archive of Jewish Knowledge
- Books in Jubilees and Jubilees as Book
- Writing Heavenly and Earthly Perspectives on Angels and Demons
- Angelic and Heavenly Perspectives on Angels and Demons in Jubilees
- Human and Earthly Perspectives on Angels and Demons in Jubilees
- Demonology, Angelology, and the Pentateuchal Past in Jubilees
- Conclusion
- Conclusion