TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sherman,Phillip Michael
TI  - Babel's Tower translated: Genesis 11 and ancient Jewish interpretation 
T2  - Biblical Interpretation Series
SN  - 9789004248618
AV  - BS1238 .B2 
U1  - 222.110609 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Bible
KW  - Genesis, XI
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Babel, Tower of
KW  - Rabbinical literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Tour de Babel
KW  - Littérature rabbinique
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Biblical Studies
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. Unearthing the Tower. Introduction to part I. -- 1. Return to Babel: reading without the canon -- 2. Reading Babel backwards, canonical foundations for exegetical expansion -- Part II. Rewritten Babel. Introduction to part II -- 3. The holy language in the book of Jubilees: the Tower of Babel and the eclipse of sacred tradition -- 4. Pseudo-Philo's biblical antiquities: echoes of the Tower -- 5. Josephus and the influence of anxiety: colonizing the Tower and the politics of dispersion -- 6. Translated to heaven: the Tower of Babel and third (Greek) Baruch -- 7. The inner Tower: Philo and the translation of cultures -- Part III. The rabbinic Babel: Midrash as translation. Introduction to part III -- 8. A just translation: reading the rabbinic Babel in Genesis Rabbah
N2  - Ancient Jewish Interpreters read and rewrote the biblical narrative of the Tower of Babel to address various challenges to the identity of 'Israel' in the Second Temple and early rabbinic periods
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