Investigation of rumors of intervention in certain tax cases arising in southern California. A report of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, pursuant to H. Res. 78, 82d Congress... April 8, 1952. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911075903603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Printing Office], , 1952
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 pages)
• Collana: House report / 82nd Congress, 2nd session. House ; ; no. 1749; [United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial no. 11576]
• Altri autori (Persone): DoughtonRobert Lee <1863-1954> (Democrat (NC))
• Soggetti: Legislative hearings - United States; Governmental investigations - United States; Criminal investigation; Misconduct in office; Political corruption; Tax evasion; Witnesses - United States; Civil service; Legislators - United States; Legislative materials.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Publication contains discontinuous pagination.; Appendix: Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, first session, on rumors of intervention in certain tax cases arising in southern California, November 19 and 20, 1951, follows two pages after p. 13.; Table of contents for Appendix, p. III.; Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.; FDLP item number not assigned.

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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911138599703321
• Autore: Najman Hindy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-78655-5; 9786612786556; 90-04-18048-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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.