| Series |
Biblical interpretation series ; volume 117
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| Contents |
Part I. Unearthing the Tower. Introduction to part I. -- 1. Return to Babel: reading without the canon -- 2. Reading Babel backwards, canonical foundations for exegetical expansion -- Part II. Rewritten Babel. Introduction to part II -- 3. The holy language in the book of Jubilees: the Tower of Babel and the eclipse of sacred tradition -- 4. Pseudo-Philo's biblical antiquities: echoes of the Tower -- 5. Josephus and the influence of anxiety: colonizing the Tower and the politics of dispersion -- 6. Translated to heaven: the Tower of Babel and third (Greek) Baruch -- 7. The inner Tower: Philo and the translation of cultures -- Part III. The rabbinic Babel: Midrash as translation. Introduction to part III -- 8. A just translation: reading the rabbinic Babel in Genesis Rabbah. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-354) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012048655 |
| ISBN | 9789004205093 (hardback : alk. paper) |
