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Title The significance of Sinai : traditions about Sinai and divine revelation in Judaism and Christianity / edited by George J. Brooke, Hindy Najman and Loren T. Stuckenbruck
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages)
Series Themes in biblical narrative, 1388-3909 ; v. 12
Themes in biblical narrative ; v. 12. 1388-3909
Contents Some unanticipated consequences of the Sinai revelation : a religion of laws / James L. Kugel -- "Fire, cloud, and deep darkness" (Deuteronomy 5:22) : Deuteronomy's recasting of revelation / Marc Zvi Brettler -- Priestly prophets at Qumran : summoning Sinai through the Songs of the Sabbath sacrifice / Judith H. Newman -- Moving mountains : from Sinai to Jerusalem / George J. Brooke -- Moses, David and scribal revelation : preservation and renewal in Second Temple Jewish textual traditions / Eva Mroczek -- The giving of the Torah at Sinai and the ethics of the Qumran community / Marcus Tso -- Josephus' "Theokratia" and Mosaic discourse : the actualization of the revelation at Sinai / Zuleika Rodgers -- Why did Paul include an exegesis of Moses' shining face (Exod 34) in 2 Cor 3? : Moses' strength, well-being and (transitory) glory, according to Philo, Josephus, Paul, and the Corinthian sophists / George H. van Kooten -- In the mirror of the divine face : the Enochic features of the Exagoge of Ezekiel the Tragedian / Andrei Orlov -- Torah and eschatology in the Syriac apocalypse of Baruch / Matthias Henze -- Can the homilists cross the sea again? : revelation in Mekilta shirata / Ishay Rosen-Zvi -- Hearing and seeing at Sinai : interpretive trajectories / Steven D. Fraade -- The giving of the Torah : targumic perspectives / Charles Thomas, Robert Hayward -- God's back! : what did Moses see on Sinai? / Diana Lipton -- Sinai in art and architecture / David Brown -- Sinai since Spinoza : reflections on revelation in modern Jewish thought / Paul Franks
Summary Presents ancient and modern Jewish and Christian views of the revelation at Sinai. This title includes essays which show that Sinai as the location of the revelation soon became less significant than the narratives about it
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Ten commandments. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82040301
Dead Sea scrolls. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79071139
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Epistles of Paul -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Epistles of Paul fast
Bible. Old Testament fast
Dead Sea scrolls fast
Ten commandments fast
Dekalog gnd
Subject Revelation on Sinai.
Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism
Jews -- History -- 168 B.C.-135 A.D.
Jewish philosophy.
RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament.
Jewish philosophy
Jews
Rabbinical literature
Revelation on Sinai
Christentum
Judentum
Offenbarung
Rezeption
Sinai
Durham <2007>
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Brooke, George J.
Najman, Hindy.
Stuckenbruck, Loren T.
ISBN 9789047443476
9047443470