Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans: Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature

ISBN-13: 9780198811381 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Vered Noam

Opis

This work considers a series of Jewish stories that describe cruxes in the history of the Hasmonean revolt and the Hasmonean kingdom, embedded both in the narrative of Flavius Josephus and in the halakhic-exegetical compositions of rabbinic literature.

Recenzje

Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans gives readers of English a chance to learn about some of this research through a study focused on the Hasmoneans, the Judean dynasty established by the leaders of the Maccabean Revolt that ruled until it was displaced by the Herodian dynasty in 37 BCE... Beyond what it tells us about the public image of the Hasmoneans, Noam's study is important as a model for how to understand the relationship between parallel traditions in Josephus and rabbinic literature.

O autorze

Vered Noam is Professor in the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud and chair of the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies at Tel Aviv University. In 2015 she was a fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem and in 2011 was the Horace Goldsmith Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies at Yale University. In 2010 she was the recipient of the Rothschild Foundation's Michael Bruno Memorial Award. Noam is the author of Megillat Ta'anit: Versions, Interpretation, History (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press, 2003, in Hebrew); From Qumran to the Rabbinic Revolution: Conceptions of Impurity (Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi Press, 2010, in Hebrew); Josephus and the Rabbis (with Tal Ilan, Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press, 2017, in Hebrew); and 'Some Precepts of the Torah' an English translation of and commentary on 4QMMT for The Oxford Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls (in preparation).