| Description |
1 online resource (275 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 points them out in detail, and posits a new field of research: the scientific activity evident in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Jewish Pseudepigrapha. The publication of new texts and new analyses of older ones reveals crucial elements that are best illuminated by the history of science, and may have inte |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Science, Ancient -- History
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Astronomy, Ancient.
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Astrology, Hebrew.
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Judaism and science.
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Physiognomy -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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SCIENCE -- History.
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HISTORY -- Jewish.
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Physiognomy -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Astrology, Hebrew
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Astronomy, Ancient
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Judaism and science
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Science, Ancient
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Juden
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Wissenschaft
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Apokalyptik
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Israel Altertum
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ben-Dov, Jonathan, editor
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Sanders, Seth L., editor
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| ISBN |
9781479873975 |
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1479873977 |
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9781479863983 |
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147986398X |
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