1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785143903321

Autore

Najman Hindy

Titolo

Past renewals [[electronic resource] ] : interpretative authority, renewed revelation, and the quest for perfection in Jewish antiquity / / by Hindy Najman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010

ISBN

1-282-78655-5

9786612786556

90-04-18048-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of Judaism ; ; v. 53

Disciplina

221.609

296

Soggetti

Authority - Religious aspects - Judaism - History - To 1500

Tradition (Judaism) - History - To 1500

Rabbinical literature - History and criticism

Judaism - History - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D

Jewish law - Decision making - History - To 1500

Rabbis - Office - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

The symbolic significance of writing in ancient Judaism -- Interpretation as primordial writing: Jubilees and its authority conferring strategies -- Torah of Moses: pseudonymous attribution in Second Temple writings -- The law of nature and the authority of Mosaic law -- A written copy of the law of nature: an unthinkable paradox? -- Angels at Sinai: exegesis, theology and interpretive authority -- Towards a study of the uses of the concept of wilderness in ancient Judaism -- Between heaven and earth: liminal visions in 4 Ezra -- Philosophical contemplation and revelatory inspiration in ancient Judean traditions -- Reconsidering Jubilees: prophecy and exemplarity -- Cain and Abel as character traits: a study in the allegorical typology of Philo of Alexandria -- The quest for perfection in ancient Judaism -- How should we contextualize pseudepigrapha? Imitation and emulation in 4 Ezra -- Text and figure in ancient Jewish



paideia.

Sommario/riassunto

Through close readings of texts such as Ezra-Nehemiah. Philo of Alexandria, and 4Ezra, Hindy Najman develops the idea of a discourse tied to a founder, illuminating the nexus between revelation, interpretive authority, and the quest for perfection in ancient Judaism.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910818127503321

Autore

Dodziuk Józef <1947->

Titolo

Spectral asymptotics on degenerating hyperbolic 3-manifolds / / Józef Dodziuk, Jay Jorgenson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1998]

©1998

ISBN

1-4704-0232-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (90 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; number 643

Disciplina

510 s

516.9

Soggetti

Geometry, Hyperbolic

Hyperbolic spaces

Spectral theory (Mathematics)

Asymptotic expansions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"September 1998, volume 135, number 643 (third of 5 numbers)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-75).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Â1- Review of hyperbolic geometry""; ""Â2. Convergence of heat kernels""; ""Â3. Infinite cylinder estimates""; ""Â4. Heat kernels and regularized heat traces""; ""Â5. Degenerating heat traces""; ""Â6. Poisson kernel estimates""; ""Â7. Analysis of trace integrals""; ""Â8. Convergence of regularized heat traces""; ""Â9. Long time asymptotics""; ""Â10. Spectral zeta functions""; ""Â11- Selberg zeta functions""; ""Â12. Hurwitz- type zeta functions""; ""Â13. Asymptotics of spectral measures""; ""Â14. Eigenvalue counting problems""

""Â15. Convergence of spectral projections""""Bibliography""