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