Noah And His Book(s)
by Michael E. Stone /
2010 / English / PDF
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In a collection of original essays, this book offers new insights
on the question of the lost book of Noah, as well as studies of
Noah's figure in postbiblical literature. It focuses on ancient
Jewish literature, including the Septuagint, the Apocrypha and
Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, Josephus, and rabbinic
literature, but Christian sources, especially Christian
iconography, gnostic literature, and Syriac material, as well as
later sources such as the Qur'an and Jewish medieval traditions,
are also consulted. The contributors are Michael E. Stone, Vered
Hillel, Aryeh Amihay, Michael Tuval, Daniel Machiela, Claire Pfann,
Esther Eshel, Jeremy Penner, Rebecca Scharbach, Benjamin G. Wright
III, Nadav Sharon and Moshe Tishel, Albert Geljon, Sergey Minov,
Erica Martin, and Ruth Clements.
In a collection of original essays, this book offers new insights
on the question of the lost book of Noah, as well as studies of
Noah's figure in postbiblical literature. It focuses on ancient
Jewish literature, including the Septuagint, the Apocrypha and
Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, Josephus, and rabbinic
literature, but Christian sources, especially Christian
iconography, gnostic literature, and Syriac material, as well as
later sources such as the Qur'an and Jewish medieval traditions,
are also consulted. The contributors are Michael E. Stone, Vered
Hillel, Aryeh Amihay, Michael Tuval, Daniel Machiela, Claire Pfann,
Esther Eshel, Jeremy Penner, Rebecca Scharbach, Benjamin G. Wright
III, Nadav Sharon and Moshe Tishel, Albert Geljon, Sergey Minov,
Erica Martin, and Ruth Clements.