Annette Yoshiko Reed

Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 743g
• ISBN-13: 9780521119436
• ISBN-10: 052111943X
• Artikelnr.: 56925622

Autorenporträt

Annette Yoshiko Reed is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. A scholar of Judaism and Christianity, she focuses on questions of identity and literary practice across Second Temple Judaism and Late Antiquity. Her research looks to non-canonical and other neglected sources to open new perspectives on ancient Jews and Christians. Her books include Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity (Cambridge, 2005) and Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism (2018), as well as a number of edited volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Multiplicity, monotheism, and memory in Ancient Israel
2. Rethinking scribalism and change in Second Temple Judaism
3. Writing angels, astronomy, and Aramaic in the early Hellenistic age
4. Textualizing demonology as Jewish knowledge and scribal expertise
5. Rewriting angels, demons, and the ancestral archive of Jewish knowledge.