TY - BOOK AU - Sherman,Phillip Michael TI - Babel's Tower translated: Genesis 11 and ancient Jewish interpretation T2 - Biblical interpretation series SN - 9004205098 (hardback : alk. paper) AV - BS1238.B2 S54 2013 U1 - 222/.110609 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Boston PB - Brill KW - Bible KW - Genesis, XI KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Babel, Tower of KW - Rabbinical literature KW - History and criticism N1 - 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004248618 ER -