Babel's Tower Translated: Genesis 11 and Ancient Jewish Interpretation

Phillip Michael Sherman

Babel's Tower Translated: Genesis 11 and Ancient Jewish Interpretation
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
7 March 2013
Pages
364
ISBN
9789004205093

Babel’s Tower Translated: Genesis 11 and Ancient Jewish Interpretation

Phillip Michael Sherman

In Babel’s Tower Translated, Phillip Sherman explores the narrative of Genesis 11 and its reception and interpretation in several Second Temple and Early Rabbinic texts (e.g., Jubilees, Philo, Genesis Rabbah). The account of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is famously ambiguous. The meaning of the narrative and the actions of both the human characters and the Israelite deity defy any easy explanation. This work explores how changing historical and hermeneutical realities altered and shifted the meaning of the text in Jewish antiquity.

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