TY - BOOK AU - Stone,Michael E. AU - Amihay,Aryeh AU - Hillel,Vered ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Noah and his book(s) T2 - Early Judaism and its literature AV - BS580.N6 N6125 2010eb U1 - 222/.11092 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Atlanta PB - Society of Biblical Literature KW - Noah KW - Bible KW - O.T KW - Genesis V-IX KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Dead Sea scrolls KW - Christian literature, Early KW - Syriac authors KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - "This book is a joint enterprise emerging from Michael Stone's senior seminar during the years 2003-2005. The seminar was devoted during those two years to a study of the traditions about a book or books of Noah and about Noah himself. The subject is enormous, as will be seen from the chronological and geographical range of the material assembled here. Two questions were defined that focused the discussion and, consequently, the material presented in this book. The first was to assess references to a Noah writing in the Second Temple period, including segments of existing works that scholars had in the past attributed to a Noah writing. As a corollary of this, the traditions of Noah in other Second Temple period works were studied, first, to gain insight into their character and, second, to see whether distinct enough traditions survived in those, often incidental, references to witness to the existence of a Noachic writing or writings"--Data View; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; pt. 1. Fragments and documents associated with a 'book of Noah' -- pt. 2. Noah traditions -- pt. 3. Miscellaneous Noah texts and traditions; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10496359 ER -