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

Chapters in this book

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