Hindy Najman
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Hindy Najman is an American academic specialising in Jewish studies and the Hebrew Bible. Since July 2015, she has been Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford. Previously, she was Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto from 2008 to 2012, and Professor of Religious Studies and Classics at Yale University from 2012 to 2015.
Hindy Najman's Published Works
Published Works
- Interpretation as Primordial Writing: Jubilees and Its Authority Conferring Strategies1 (1999) (95)
- Seconding Sinai: The Development of Mosaic Discourse in Second Temple Judaism (2003) (60)
- Past Renewals: Interpretative Authority, Renewed Revelation and the Quest for Perfection in Jewish Antiquity (2010) (43)
- The idea of biblical interpretation : essays in honor of James L. Kugel (2004) (28)
- ANGELS AT SINAI: EXEGESIS, THEOLOGY AND INTERPRETIVE AUTHORITY (2000) (22)
- Chapter Five. A Written Copy Of The Law Of Nature: An Unthinkable Paradox? (2010) (22)
- The Vitality of Scripture Within and Beyond the “Canon” (2012) (20)
- Ethical Reading: The Transformation of the Text and the Self (2017) (17)
- Losing the Temple and Recovering the Future: An Analysis of 4 Ezra (2014) (16)
- Chapter Four. The Law Of Nature And The Authority Of Mosaic Law (2010) (16)
- Unity after Fragmentation (2014) (13)
- The Significance of Sinai: Traditions About Sinai and Divine Revelation in Judaism and Christianity (2008) (10)
- Towards a Study of the Uses of the Concept of Wilderness in Ancient Judaism (2006) (9)
- The Ascension of Authorship: Attribution and Canon Formation in Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian Traditions (2006) (9)
- The Dead Sea scrolls : transmission of traditions and production of texts (2010) (8)
- Imitatio Dei and the Formation of the Subject in Ancient Judaism (2021) (8)
- How Should We Contextualize Pseudepigrapha? Imitation And Emulation In 4 Ezra (2007) (7)
- The Stoics and Aquinas on Virtue and Natural Law (2003) (6)
- The Qumran Rule Texts in Context: Collected Studies (2017) (6)
- Jeremiah?s Scriptures: Production, Reception, Interaction, and Transformation (2016) (5)
- The Inheritance of Prophecy in Apocalypse (2014) (4)
- The Idea of Biblical Genre: From Discourse to Constellation (2012) (4)
- Laws Stamped with the Seals of Nature: Laws and Nature in Hellenistic Philosophy and Philo of Alexandria (2003) (3)
- Chapter Three. Torah Of Moses: Pseudonymous Attribution In Second Temple Writings (2010) (3)
- A Preparatory Study of Nomenclature and Text Designation in the Dead Sea Scrolls (2014) (3)
- Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Period: Towards the Study of a Semantic Constellation (2017) (3)
- Chapter Eleven. Cain And Abel As Character Traits: A Study In The Allegorical Typology Of Philo Of Alexandria (2010) (3)
- Losing the temple and recovering the future (2016) (3)
- Perfecting Translation: The Greek Scriptures in Philo of Alexandria (2017) (3)
- Configuring the Text in Biblical Studies (2012) (2)
- Performance in Ancient and Medieval Judaism (2022) (2)
- Text And Figure In Ancient Jewish Paideia (2010) (2)
- Chapter Two. Interpretation As Primordial Writing: Jubilees And Its Authority Conferring Strategies (2010) (1)
- Chapter One. The Symbolic Significance Of Writing In Ancient Judaism (2010) (1)
- Fire and Water? Apocalyptic Imagination and Hellenistic Worldview in 2 Peter (2016) (1)
- Between Heaven And Earth: Liminal Visions In 4ezra (2010) (1)
- Chapter Eight. Between Heaven And Earth: Liminal Visions In 4 Ezra (2010) (1)
- Dethroning David and Enthroning Messiah: Jewish and Christian Perspectives (2016) (1)
- Chapter Nine. Philosophical Contemplation And Revelatory Inspiration In Ancient Judean Traditions (2010) (1)
- Chapter Six. Angels At Sinai: Exegesis, Theology And Interpretive Authority (2010) (1)
- Traditionary Processes and Textual Unity in 4Ezra (2013) (1)
- Reading the Blood Plague (Exodus 7: 14–25): The Hermeneutics of a Composite Text (2022) (1)
- Exemplarity and Its Discontents: Hellenistic Jewish Wisdom Texts and Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2019) (1)
- Philo’s Greek Scriptures and Cultural Symbiosis (2017) (1)
- Chapter Thirteen. How Should We Contextualize Pseudepigrapha? Imitation And Emulation In 4 Ezra (2010) (1)
- Re-centering the World (2014) (0)
- The Quest For Perfection In Ancient Judaism (2010) (0)
- Probing the Rabbis’ Criticism and Silence with Regards to Jeremiah. (2016) (0)
- Preface (2022) (0)
- Book Review:The Language and the Law of God: Interpretation and Politics in Philo of Alexandria Francesca Calabi (2000) (0)
- Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition. By David Nirenberg. (2014) (0)
- Authoritative writing and interpretation : a study in the history of scripture (1998) (0)
- Reading beyond authority (2018) (0)
- Chapter Fourteen. Text And Figure In Ancient Jewish Paideia (2010) (0)
- Losing the Temple and Recovering the Future: The Past and Future Ezra (2014) (0)
- Apocalypse in the History of Judaism: Continuities and Discontinuities (2012) (0)
- 15 Why Jeremiah? The Invention of a Prophetic Figure (2016) (0)
- I Enoch and Sirach: A Comparative Literary and Conceptual Analysis of the Themes of Revelation, Creation and Judgment (review) (2011) (0)
- Ritual and Innovation in Biblical and Ancient Jewish Discourse (2018) (0)
- Radical Hope and the Revitalization of Scripture (2014) (0)
- R. Timothy McLay (ed.), The Temple in Text and Tradition: A Festschrift in Honour of Robert Hayward (2018) (0)
- Sibyls, scriptures, and scrolls. John Collins at seventy. Volume 1 (2017) (0)
- Index Of Ancient Authors And Texts (2010) (0)
- Index of Primary Texts (2008) (0)
- Community and Solidarity: (2019) (0)
- Chapter Seven. Towards A Study Of The Uses Of The Concept Of Wilderness In Ancient Judaism (2010) (0)
- Pseudepigraphy as an Interpretative Construct (2019) (0)
- Chapter Ten. Reconsidering Jubilees: Prophecy And Exemplarity (2010) (0)
- REWRITING AS WHITEWASHING: THE CASE OF REWRITTEN BIBLE (2019) (0)
- Book Review:The Exegetical Imagination: On Jewish Thought and Theology Michael Fishbane (2000) (0)
- Revelation (2019) (0)
- Gabriele Boccaccini. Beyond the Essene Hypothesis: The Parting of the Ways Between Qumran and Enochic Judaism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1998. xx, 230 pp. (2002) (0)
- Formation of the Subject—Essays in Honor of Carol Newsom’s 70th Birthday (2021) (0)
- Losing the Temple and Recovering the Future: The Memory of Scripture (2014) (0)
- Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures. Volume One, written by Richard Bauckham, James R. Davila, and Alexander Panayotov (2015) (0)
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