Jonathan Ben-Dov
Biographic Data
| ID | 1023681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Ben-Dov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben-Dov |
| SIGNATURE | BEN-DOV J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Social History of the Jews in Antiquity
The present volume comprises articles by renowned international scholars in academic dialogue with the work of Albert Baumgarten. They contextualize ancient Jewish texts not only for their own sake, but also as a way of shedding light on antiquity in general. They address texts from the fields of Greco-Roman studies, Hellenistic Judaism, Second Temple sectarianism, rabbinic literature, and various facets of early Christianity. Additionally, there…
A 360-Day Administrative Year in Ancient Israel
Administrators in ancient Judah used schematic 30-day months and a 360-day year alongside other annual frameworks. This year was never practiced as a “calendar” for any cultic or administrative purpose, but rather served as a convenient framework for long-term planning, as well as for literary accounts that were not anchored to a concrete calendar year. Examples for such a usage are attested here from Mesopotamian texts. Material evidence for the…
Interpreting and Living God's Law at Qumran
The text Miqṣat Ma ̔aśe Ha-Torah , Some of the Works of the Torah (4QMMT), is one of the most interesting texts among the famous Dead Sea Scrolls discovered near the settlement of Khirbet Qumran and its vicinity in the middle of the twentieth century and by now published in full. It is a writing in the form of a letter by an unknown author to an equally unknown addressee, written in second person singular and plural. This document is the earliest…
Family relations and the economic-metaphysical message of Instruction
Much of the sapiential treatise Instruction (=4QInstruction) can be read as a systematic attempt to support one basic ideological principle: Each person has a divinely assigned share, and every interaction that requires mixing that share with other agents is a breach of the metaphysical order. This idea was first formulated with regard to Instruction by Menahem Kister. In the present article, I apply this notion to the prologue (preserved in 4Q41…
Nebuchadnezzar
This article works on both the temporal and spatial axes. In the spatial axis, it is shown how Nebuchadnezzar created for himself a slightly different image in the Levant than the one propagated in Babylon, as reflected in his monuments and in biblical prophetic literature. On the temporal axis, Nebuchadnezzar's image won renewed attention in the Hellenistic period, both in Babylonia and the Levant. The article traces these twice-double reflectio…
The Construction of Time in Antiquity
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Apocalyptic Temporality The Force of the Here and Now
The first part of the article demonstrates the case for the existence of a distinct concept of Time in apocalyptic literature and in the writings of the Yahad. The second part addresses the force of the here and now in these two corpora. While earlier readers of apocalypticism like Martin Buber denied the force of a concrete theopolitical hour in apocalypticism in contrast to biblical prophetic literature, the force of this hour is demonstrated h…
Living the Lunar Calendar
Psalm 104
Although Ps. 104:19 is often interpreted as taking sides in a calendrical conflict by supporting the exclusivity of the lunar calendar with regard to fixing the religious festivals, it is proved here that this is not the case. In the present article an interpretation of this verse is carried out with recourse to new studies on biblical parallelism, taking in account the evidence from the Amarna hymn to the Sun as well as the Jewish Medieval exege…
The Babylonian Lunar Three in Calendrical Scrolls from Qumran
The three calendrical scrolls from Qumran, 4Q320, 4Q321, and 4Q321a, contain diverse calendrical materials, including a system for dating lunar phenomena over a triennial cycle of months. These scrolls, known for some time now, were published in their official editions recently in DJD XXI. Research into the full significance of the scrolls continues. Below we will propose that the lunar data in the three scrolls match that in Late Babylonian astr…
The Initial Stages of Lunar Theory at Qumran
Psalm 104
Although Ps. 104:19 is often interpreted as taking sides in a calendrical conflict by supporting the exclusivity of the lunar calendar with regard to fixing the religious festivals, it is proved here that this is not the case. In the present article an interpretation of this verse is carried out with recourse to new studies on biblical parallelism, taking in account the evidence from the Amarna hymn to the Sun as well as the Jewish Medieval exege…
The Initial Stages of Lunar Theory at Qumran
The Babylonian Lunar Three in Calendrical Scrolls from Qumran
The three calendrical scrolls from Qumran, 4Q320, 4Q321, and 4Q321a, contain diverse calendrical materials, including a system for dating lunar phenomena over a triennial cycle of months. These scrolls, known for some time now, were published in their official editions recently in DJD XXI. Research into the full significance of the scrolls continues. Below we will propose that the lunar data in the three scrolls match that in Late Babylonian astr…
Psalm 104
Although Ps. 104:19 is often interpreted as taking sides in a calendrical conflict by supporting the exclusivity of the lunar calendar with regard to fixing the religious festivals, it is proved here that this is not the case. In the present article an interpretation of this verse is carried out with recourse to new studies on biblical parallelism, taking in account the evidence from the Amarna hymn to the Sun as well as the Jewish Medieval exege…
Living the Lunar Calendar
Apocalyptic Temporality The Force of the Here and Now
The first part of the article demonstrates the case for the existence of a distinct concept of Time in apocalyptic literature and in the writings of the Yahad. The second part addresses the force of the here and now in these two corpora. While earlier readers of apocalypticism like Martin Buber denied the force of a concrete theopolitical hour in apocalypticism in contrast to biblical prophetic literature, the force of this hour is demonstrated h…
The Construction of Time in Antiquity
Book summary page views Book summary page views help Close Book summary page views help Book summary views reflect the number of visits to the book and chapter landing pages. Total views: 0 * Loading metrics
Nebuchadnezzar
This article works on both the temporal and spatial axes. In the spatial axis, it is shown how Nebuchadnezzar created for himself a slightly different image in the Levant than the one propagated in Babylon, as reflected in his monuments and in biblical prophetic literature. On the temporal axis, Nebuchadnezzar's image won renewed attention in the Hellenistic period, both in Babylonia and the Levant. The article traces these twice-double reflectio…
Interpreting and Living God's Law at Qumran
The text Miqṣat Ma ̔aśe Ha-Torah , Some of the Works of the Torah (4QMMT), is one of the most interesting texts among the famous Dead Sea Scrolls discovered near the settlement of Khirbet Qumran and its vicinity in the middle of the twentieth century and by now published in full. It is a writing in the form of a letter by an unknown author to an equally unknown addressee, written in second person singular and plural. This document is the earliest…
Family relations and the economic-metaphysical message of Instruction
Much of the sapiential treatise Instruction (=4QInstruction) can be read as a systematic attempt to support one basic ideological principle: Each person has a divinely assigned share, and every interaction that requires mixing that share with other agents is a breach of the metaphysical order. This idea was first formulated with regard to Instruction by Menahem Kister. In the present article, I apply this notion to the prologue (preserved in 4Q41…
Social History of the Jews in Antiquity
The present volume comprises articles by renowned international scholars in academic dialogue with the work of Albert Baumgarten. They contextualize ancient Jewish texts not only for their own sake, but also as a way of shedding light on antiquity in general. They address texts from the fields of Greco-Roman studies, Hellenistic Judaism, Second Temple sectarianism, rabbinic literature, and various facets of early Christianity. Additionally, there…
A 360-Day Administrative Year in Ancient Israel
Administrators in ancient Judah used schematic 30-day months and a 360-day year alongside other annual frameworks. This year was never practiced as a “calendar” for any cultic or administrative purpose, but rather served as a convenient framework for long-term planning, as well as for literary accounts that were not anchored to a concrete calendar year. Examples for such a usage are attested here from Mesopotamian texts. Material evidence for the…
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