“If a Man Would Tell You”

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Doubting Divine Justice and Human Knowledge: Qohelet’s Cultural Dialectics 7
5. “Matters That Tend towards Heresy”: Rabbinic Ways of Reading Ecclesiastes 27
6. Wisdom Scepticism and Apocalyptic Certitude; Philosophical Certitude and Apocalyptic Scepticism 45
7. Reasonable Doubts of the “Other”: Jewish Scepticism in Early Christian Sources 69
8. Idolatry, God(s), and Demons among the Jews of Sasanian Babylonia 85
9. Facing Omnipotence and Shaping the Sceptical Topos 101
10. “If a Man Would Tell You” 125
11. List of Contributors 155
12. Index of Names and Places 157
13. General Index 161