Past Renewals

Hindy Najman, PhD. (Harvard University, 1998) is the Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Ancient Judaism in the Department and Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. Najman has published on Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo of Alexandria, Ezra-Nehemiah, 4Ezra and the Book of Jubilees. She is the author of Seconding Sinai (Brill, 2003).

• PART I: INTERPRETIVE AUTHORITY Chapter One: The Symbolic Significance of Writing in Ancient Judaism Chapter Two: Interpretation as Primordial Writing: Jubilees and its Authority Conferring Strategies Chapter Three: Torah of Moses: Pseudonymous Attribution in Second Temple Writings Chapter Four: The Law of Nature and the Authority of Mosaic Law Chapter Five: A Written Copy of the Law of Nature: An Unthinkable Paradox? PART II: RENEWED REVELATION Chapter Six: Angels at Sinai: Exegesis, Theology and Interpretive Authority Chapter Seven: Towards a Study of the Uses of the Concept of Wilderness in Ancient Judaism Chapter Eight: Between Heaven and Earth: Liminal Visions in 4 Ezra Chapter Nine: Philosophical Contemplation and Revelatory Inspiration in Ancient Judean Traditions Chapter Ten: Reconsidering Jubilees: Prophecy and Exemplarity PART III: SOUL FORMATION AND PERFECTION Chapter Eleven: Cain and Abel as Character Traits: A Study in the Allegorical Typology of Philo of Alexandria Chapter Twelve: The Quest for Perfection in Ancient Judaism Chapter Thirteen: How Should We Contextualize Pseudepigrapha? Imitation and Emulation in 4 Ezra Chapter Fourteen: Text and Figure in Ancient Jewish Paideia