The Significance of Sinai
Traditions about Sinai and Divine Revelation in Judaism and Christianity
Series: Themes in Biblical Narrative; 12;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 29 October 2008
- ISBN 9789004170186
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages386 pages
- Size 254x171x19 mm
- Weight 780 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The essays in this volume disclose how Sinai, its location, the scriptural narratives about it, and the content of the revelation received there, are variously read by Deuteronomy, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Paul, Josephus, rabbinic literature, art and philosophy.
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This volume of essays is concerned with ancient and modern Jewish and Christian views of the revelation at Sinai. The theme is highlighted in studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Paul, Josephus, rabbinic literature, art and philosophy. The contributions demonstrate that Sinai, as the location of the revelation, soon became less significant than the narratives that developed about what happened there. Those narratives were themselves transformed, not least to explain problems regarding the text's plain sense. Miraculous theophany, anthropomorphisms, the role of Moses, and the response of Israel were all handled with exegetical skills mustered by
each new generation of readers. Furthermore, the content of the revelation, especially the covenant, was rethought in philosophical,
political, and theological ways. This collection of studies is especially useful in showing something of the complexity of how scriptural traditions remain authoritative and lively for those who appeal to them from very different contexts.
"This volume [...] includes sixteen essays generally of a very high quality addressing a wide variety of reactions attested in Jewish and Christian thought to the foundational Sinai paradigm- from subtly to overtly polemical. [...] This illuminating and very rich volume [...] highlights a variety of strategies aiming to re-interpret and/or relativize Sinai for the sake of more recent revelatory events." ? Serge Ruzer, in: The Expository Times 124/3 (December 2012)
'the several essays concerning the extension of revelation should prove particularly significant to those interested in the dynamics of Scripture and interpretation in the Second Temple period, and all of the contributions raise important issues that deserve further discussion. As a whole, the volume constitutes a valuable testament to the great variety of ways in which Sinai was indeed significant for successive generations of Jews and Christians.' -- Molly M Zahn, University of Kansas, in: Journal of Jewish Studies 61 (2010)
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The essays in this volume disclose how Sinai, its location, the scriptural narratives about it, and the content of the revelation received there, are variously read by Deuteronomy, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Paul, Josephus, rabbinic literature, art and philosophy.
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The Significance of Sinai: Traditions about Sinai and Divine Revelation in Judaism and Christianity
71 337 HUF
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