Babel's Tower translated Genesis 11 and ancient Jewish interpretation / [electronic resource] :
by Phillip Michael Sherman.
- Brill,
- 1 online resource (xii, 393 p.)
- Biblical interpretation series ; v. 117 .
- Biblical interpretation series ; v. 117. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Interpretation as translation or exegesis and historical hermeneutics -- Return to Babel: reading without the canon -- Reading Babel backwards : canonical foundations for exegetical expansion -- The holy language in the book of Jubilees : the Tower of Babel and the eclipse of sacred tradition -- Pseudo-Philo's Biblical antiquities : echoes of the Tower -- Josephus and the influence of anxiety : colonizing the Tower and the politics of dispersion -- Translated to heaven : the Tower of Babel and third (Greek) Baruch -- The inner tower : Philo and the translation of cultures -- A just translation : reading the rabbinic Babel in Genesis Rabbah.
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