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6. Ideals of Science: The Infrastructure of Scientific Activity in Apocalyptic Literature and in the Yahad
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Jonathan Ben-Dov
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter 1
- Contents 5
- Acknowledgments 7
- 1. Introduction 9
- 2. Enoch and the Beginnings of Jewish Interest in Natural Science 25
- 3. Enoch’s Science 51
- 4. “I Was Shown Another Calculation” (אחזי חשבזן אחרן): The Language of Knowledge in Aramaic Enoch and Priestly Hebrew 69
- 5. Philological and Epistemological Remarks on Enoch’s Science: Response to Papers by Seth Sanders and James VanderKam 103
- 6. Ideals of Science: The Infrastructure of Scientific Activity in Apocalyptic Literature and in the Yahad 109
- 7. Networks of Scholars: The Transmission of Astronomical and Astrological Learning between Babylonians, Greeks and Jews 153
- 8. “Ancient Jewish Sciences” and the Historiography of Judaism 195
- A Bibliography for Ancient Jewish Sciences 255
- Index 271
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter 1
- Contents 5
- Acknowledgments 7
- 1. Introduction 9
- 2. Enoch and the Beginnings of Jewish Interest in Natural Science 25
- 3. Enoch’s Science 51
- 4. “I Was Shown Another Calculation” (אחזי חשבזן אחרן): The Language of Knowledge in Aramaic Enoch and Priestly Hebrew 69
- 5. Philological and Epistemological Remarks on Enoch’s Science: Response to Papers by Seth Sanders and James VanderKam 103
- 6. Ideals of Science: The Infrastructure of Scientific Activity in Apocalyptic Literature and in the Yahad 109
- 7. Networks of Scholars: The Transmission of Astronomical and Astrological Learning between Babylonians, Greeks and Jews 153
- 8. “Ancient Jewish Sciences” and the Historiography of Judaism 195
- A Bibliography for Ancient Jewish Sciences 255
- Index 271
