Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature Edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov and Seth L. Sanders

Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature
Edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov and Seth L. Sanders
©2014 The Authors

Cloth edition available from NYU Press (ISBN: 9781479823048).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction Jonathan Ben-Dov and Seth L. Sanders

2. Enoch and the Beginnings of Jewish Interest in Natural Science Philip Alexander

3. Enoch’s Science James VanderKam

4. “I Was Shown Another Calculation” (חשבון אחרן אחזית): The Language of Knowledge in Aramaic Enoch and Priestly Hebrew Seth L. Sanders

5. Philological and Epistemological Remarks on Enoch’s Science: Response to Papers by Seth L. Sanders and James VanderKam Loren Stuckenbruck

6. Ideals of Science: The Infrastructure of Scientific Activity in Apocalyptic Literature and in the Yahad Jonathan Ben-Dov

7. Networks of Scholars: The Transmission of Astronomical and Astrological Learning between Babylonians, Greeks and Jews Mladen Popović

8. “Ancient Jewish Sciences” and the Historiography of Judaism Annette Yoshiko Reed

A Bibliography for Ancient Jewish Sciences

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ancient Jewish sciences and the history of knowledge in Second Temple literature / editors Jonathan Ben-Dov and Seth Sanders.
volumes cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4798-2304-8 (cloth) -- ISBN 978-1-4798-7397-5 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-4798-6398-3
1. Science, Ancient--History. 2. Astronomy, Ancient. 3. Astrology, Hebrew. 4. Judaism and science. 5. Physiognomy--Religious aspects--Judaism. I. Ben-Dov, Jonathan, editor. II. Sanders, Seth L., editor.
Q124.95.A53 2013
509.33'09014--dc23
2013016449