Scriptural Vitality - Rethinking Philology and Hermeneutics

Scriptural Vitality explores Judaism in the Second Temple Period (5th-c. BCE to 1st-c. CE) as a dynamic tradition of textual production and resilience under the threat of destruction. This vitality is an expression of convergence of cultures across Jewish and Greek traditions, intermingling theological, philosophical, and literary innovation.

List of contents

• PART I. PHILOSOPHY, PHILOLOGY, AND POETICS OF READING


• 1: Reading Practices


• 2: Problematizing the Search for the Original


• 3: Canonical Expansion and Pluriformity


• 4: Reading, Fragments, and Selfhood


• PART II. MEMORY AND REVITALIZATION: JUBILEES AND THE DYNAMIC OF SCRIPTURE


• 5: Between Rewriting and New Scripture


• 6: The Status of Jubilees in the Hellenistic Period


• 7: Memorialized Law in Jubilees


• PART III. CONCEPTUAL REFLECTIONS IN HELLENISTIC JUDAISM AS AN EXPRESSION OF VITALITY


• 8: Formation of the Subject in Hellenistic Judaism


• 9: Cosmological Reflections in Greek and Hebrew Texts


• 10: Transformation and the Hodayot


• 11: Philosophical Hermeneutics: Poetic Processes and the Hodayot


• Postscript

About the author

Hindy Najman is the Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture and Director of the Oriel Centre for the Study of the Bible at Oriel College in the University of Oxford. She authored Seconding Sinai (2003), Past Renewals (2010), and Losing the Temple and Recovering the Future (2014). Previously she held positions at Yale University (2010-2015), the University of Toronto (2004-2010), where she was the Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies, and the University of Notre Dame (1998-2004), where she was the Jordan Kapson Chair of Jewish Studies.

Summary

Scriptural Vitality explores Judaism in the Second Temple Period (5th-c. BCE to 1st-c. CE) as a dynamic tradition of textual production and resilience under the threat of destruction. This vitality is an expression of convergence of cultures across Jewish and Greek traditions, intermingling theological, philosophical, and literary innovation.

Product details

• Authors: Hindy Najman, Hindy (Oriel and Laing Professor of the In Najman, Hindy (Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture Najman, Najman Hindy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2025
• EAN: 9780198865711
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886571-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: The Bible and the Humanities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, Christianity, History of Religion, Judaism, Philosophy of religion, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, c 500 BCE to c 1BCE