Reading the human body : physiognomics and astrology in the Dead Sea scrolls and Hellenistic-early Roman period Judaism /
Popović, Mladen.
Reading the human body : physiognomics and astrology in the Dead Sea scrolls and Hellenistic-early Roman period Judaism / Physiognomics and astrology in the Dead Sea scrolls and Hellenistic-early Roman period Judaism by Mladen Popović. - Leiden : Brill, 2007. - 1 online resource (xx, 346 pages) : illustrations - - Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, v. 67 0169-9962 ; . - Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 67. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: READING 4QZODIACAL PHYSIOGNOMY (4Q186) AND 4QPHYSIOGNOMY AR (4Q561): TEXTS, GENRE, AND STRUCTURE; CHAPTER TWO: TO READ STRANGE MATTERS FROM THE HUMAN BODY: PHYSIOGNOMICS IN BABYLONIAN AND GRECO-ROMAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE; CHAPTER THREE: "IN THE FOOT OF TAURUS": ASTROLOGICAL NOTIONS IN 4QZODIACAL PHYSIOGNOMY (4Q186); CHAPTER FOUR: "THERE IS A SPIRIT FOR HIM ... ": HUMAN OR ZODIACAL SPIRITS IN 4QZODIACAL PHYSIOGNOMY (4Q186).
Offering fresh reconstructions and interpretations of physiognomic and astrological texts from Qumran in comparison with Babylonian and Greco-Roman texts, this book gives a fresh view of their sense, function, and status within the Qumran community and Second Temple Judaism.
Text is in English with some Hebrew and Aramaic.
9047420462 9789047420460 9004157174 9789004157170
10.1163/ej.9789004157170.i-346 doi
B0708419 bccb
Dead Sea scrolls. 4Q --Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Dead Sea scrolls
Physiognomy--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Jewish astrology.
Physiognomonie--Aspect religieux--Judaïsme.
Astrologie juive.
RELIGION--Judaism--Sacred Writings.
Physiognomy--Religious aspects--Judaism
Jewish astrology
Dode-Zeerollen.
Fysiognomiek.
Astrologie.
Essenen.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
BM488.5 / .P67 2007eb
296.1/55
Reading the human body : physiognomics and astrology in the Dead Sea scrolls and Hellenistic-early Roman period Judaism / Physiognomics and astrology in the Dead Sea scrolls and Hellenistic-early Roman period Judaism by Mladen Popović. - Leiden : Brill, 2007. - 1 online resource (xx, 346 pages) : illustrations - - Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, v. 67 0169-9962 ; . - Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 67. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: READING 4QZODIACAL PHYSIOGNOMY (4Q186) AND 4QPHYSIOGNOMY AR (4Q561): TEXTS, GENRE, AND STRUCTURE; CHAPTER TWO: TO READ STRANGE MATTERS FROM THE HUMAN BODY: PHYSIOGNOMICS IN BABYLONIAN AND GRECO-ROMAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE; CHAPTER THREE: "IN THE FOOT OF TAURUS": ASTROLOGICAL NOTIONS IN 4QZODIACAL PHYSIOGNOMY (4Q186); CHAPTER FOUR: "THERE IS A SPIRIT FOR HIM ... ": HUMAN OR ZODIACAL SPIRITS IN 4QZODIACAL PHYSIOGNOMY (4Q186).
Offering fresh reconstructions and interpretations of physiognomic and astrological texts from Qumran in comparison with Babylonian and Greco-Roman texts, this book gives a fresh view of their sense, function, and status within the Qumran community and Second Temple Judaism.
Text is in English with some Hebrew and Aramaic.
9047420462 9789047420460 9004157174 9789004157170
10.1163/ej.9789004157170.i-346 doi
B0708419 bccb
Dead Sea scrolls. 4Q --Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Dead Sea scrolls
Physiognomy--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Jewish astrology.
Physiognomonie--Aspect religieux--Judaïsme.
Astrologie juive.
RELIGION--Judaism--Sacred Writings.
Physiognomy--Religious aspects--Judaism
Jewish astrology
Dode-Zeerollen.
Fysiognomiek.
Astrologie.
Essenen.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
BM488.5 / .P67 2007eb
296.1/55