Reading the Human Body Physiognomics and Astrology in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Hellenistic-Early Roman Period Judaism

Offering new reconstructions and interpretations of physiognomic and astrological texts from Qumran in comparison with Babylonian and Greco-Roman texts, this book gives a fresh view of their sense, function, and status within both the Qumran community and Second Temple Judaism.

Product details

• Authors: Mladen Popovic
• Publisher: Brill
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 05.06.2007
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9789004157170
• ISBN: 978-90-04-15717-0
• Pages: 346
• Dimensions (packing): 16.8 x 24.6 x 2.5 cm
• Weight (packing): 816 g
• Series: Studies on the Texts of the De > 67
• Subjects: Eklektische und esoterische Religionen und Glaubenslehren, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings, Religion - Commentaries / Reference, Ur- und Frühgeschichte vor Christus