Sherman, Phillip Michael.

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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9004205098 (hardback : alk. paper) 9004248617 (e-book) 9789004205093 9789004205093 (hardback : alk. paper) 9789004248618 (e-book) 9789004248618 (electronic book)

10.1163/9789004248618

2012048655


Bible.--Genesis, XI--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Babel, Tower of.
Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.

BS1238.B2 / S54 2013

222/.110609