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Scriptural vitality : rethinking philology and hermeneutics / Hindy Najman

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: The Bible and the humanitiesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]Copyright date: ©2025Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:
  • 9780191898037
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9780198865711 | Erscheint auch als: 9780198865711 Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 296.09014 23
  • 221.44 23
LOC classification:
  • BM176
  • BS1151.52
Online resources: 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 innovationSummary: "Scriptural Vitality challenges the view that the Persian and Hellenistic periods constitute a time of decay, a period of 'late Judaism', languishing between an original, vibrant Judaism and the birth of Christianity. Instead, Hindy Najman argues that the Second Temple period was one of untethered creativity and poetic imagination, of dynamism exemplified through philosophical translation, poetic composition, and a convergence of ancient Mediterranean cultures that gave birth to hermeneutic innovation. Building on Nietzsche's critique of classical philology and drawing on new ways of reading the Dead Sea Scrolls, the author carries out a radical rethinking of biblical studies. Instead of seeking to reconstruct the original text and to find its original author or at least the original context of its production, Najman celebrates textual pluriformity and transformation, tracing ways in which texts and meanings proliferated within interpretive communities through new performances and fresh articulations of the past. Engaging with thinkers such as Friedrich Schlegel and Peter Szondi, whom biblicists have rarely considered, biblical philology is reimagined as the forward-moving study of the poetic processes by which Jewish communities re-created their past and revitalized their present. The Second Temple period emerges as a golden age of creativity, whose traces may still be discerned in Judaism and Christianity today." --PPN: PPN: 192267253XPackage identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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