Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature /
Until very recently, the idea of ancient Jewish sciences would have been considered unacceptable. Since the 1990's, Early Modern and Medieval Science in Jewish sources has been actively studied, but the consensus was that no real scientific themes could be found in earlier Judaism. This work po...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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[New York] :
New York University Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introsuction / Jonathan Ben-Dov and Seth L. Sanders
- Enoch and the Beginnings of Jewish interest in natural science / Phillip Alexander
- Enoch's science / James VanderKam
- "I was shown another calculation": the language of knowledge in Aramaic Enoch and priestly Hebrew / Seth L. Sanders
- Philological and Epistemological remarks on Enoch's Science: response to papers buy Seth L. Sanders and James VanderKam / Loren Stuckenbruck
- Ideals of science: the infrastructure of scientific activity in apocalyptic literature and in the Yahad / Jonathan Ben-Dov
- Networks of scholars: the transmission of astronomical and astrological learning between Babylonians, Greeks, and Jews / Mladen Popović
- "Ancient Jewish sciences" and the historiography of Judaism / Annette Yoshiko Reed.