Heavenly TabletsPub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1163/EJ.9789004158566.I-339.15
John C. Endres, J. S.
{"title":"Prayers in Jubilees","authors":"John C. Endres, J. S.","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004158566.I-339.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004158566.I-339.15","url":null,"abstract":"Jubilees retell the biblical story in Genesis and the early chapters of Exodus, presenting an adapted version of the biblical narrative from the creation of the world to Moses' life in Egypt. This author expands the biblical story in several ways, including the placement of much legislation from later parts of the Torah into the patriarchal narratives and many narrative expansions of the basic biblical story. This chapter first offers a working definition of a prayer text, then survey those texts in Jubilees which we consider as prayers, and finally to determine the particular orientation of these prayers, and the theological contribution they make to the understanding of this text. In a discussion of prayer texts from Qumran, Eileen Schuller lists the following prayers in Jubilees, but notes that nothing of them remains in the Hebrew texts found at Qumran: prayer of Noah; prayer of Abraham; prayer of Moses. Keywords: Abraham; biblical story; Eileen Schuller; Exodus; Genesis; Jubilees; Moses' life; Noah; prayer text; Qumran","PeriodicalId":134537,"journal":{"name":"Heavenly Tablets","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115671112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Heavenly TabletsPub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1515/9781400828548.431
D. Goldenberg
{"title":"Index of modern scholars","authors":"D. Goldenberg","doi":"10.1515/9781400828548.431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400828548.431","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":134537,"journal":{"name":"Heavenly Tablets","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134623469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Heavenly TabletsPub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1163/EJ.9789004158566.I-339.59
A. Lieber
{"title":"Between motherland and fatherland: Diaspora, pilgrimage and the spiritualization of sacrifice in Philo of Alexandria","authors":"A. Lieber","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004158566.I-339.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004158566.I-339.59","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explains that Philo of Alexandria consistently attaches a positive valence to the Jewish dispersion, and in this respect develops a theology of diaspora that actually legitimates Jewish settlement in diverse locations. This is accomplished on the one hand by the use of Greek colonial language to refer to the Jewish dispersion, and on the other hand by his reading the religious acts of pilgrimage and sacrifice as rituals that are performed on a higher level in foreign lands. In addition to Jewish migration from Jerusalem, Philo was also interested in Jewish movement toward Jerusalem in the practice of ritual pilgrimage. The complexity of Philo's diasporic consciousness is further expressed in his ambivalent attitude toward this rite. Philo's writing reveals a great deal of ambivalence about sacrifice; the majority of his references to the subject involve an extreme \"spiritualization\" of the rite. Keywords: diaspora; Jerusalem; Philo of Alexandria; ritual pilgrimage; sacrifice; spiritualization","PeriodicalId":134537,"journal":{"name":"Heavenly Tablets","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124385074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}