Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity堕落天使和犹太教及基督教史

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Annette Yoshiko Reed

页数:336

出版时间:2005-11

价格:759.00元

isbn号码:9780521853781

具体描述

This book considers the early history of Jewish-Christian relations focussing on traditions about the fallen angels. In the Book of the Watchers, an Enochic apocalypse from the third century BCE, the 'sons of God' of Gen 6:1-4 are accused of corrupting humankind through their teachings of metalworking, cosmetology, magic, and divination. By tracing the transformations of this motif in Second Temple, Rabbinic, and early medieval Judaism and early, late antique, and Byzantine Christianity, this book sheds light on the history of interpretation of Genesis, the changing status of Enochic literature, and the place of parabiblical texts and traditions in the interchange between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. In the process, it explores issues such as the role of text-selection in the delineation of community boundaries and the development of early Jewish and Christian ideas about the origins of evil on the earth.

作者简介

Annette Yoshiko Reed (BA McGill; MTS Harvard; MA, PhD Princeton) is Associate Professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and the Program in Religious Studies at New York University. Her research spans Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and Jewish/Christian relations in Late Antiquity. Particular areas of interest include angelology and demonology; the reception of Second Temple Jewish traditions in late antique Judaism and Christianity; and the parallels and overlaps between Jewish and Christian self-definition in Late Antiquity. She is the coordinator of the Philadelphia Seminar of Christian Origins (PSCO) as well as a member of the Editorial Board of the book series Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, published by Mohr Siebeck.

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我非常欣赏作者在行文风格上展现出的一种罕见的克制与激情并存的平衡感。他的文字并不像某些流行历史读物那样，为了追求销量而刻意渲染耸人听闻的观点，相反，他始终保持着一种学者应有的审慎态度，对每一个断言都提供了坚实的佐证。然而，这种克制并非意味着冷漠，在关键的历史转折点，尤其是在阐述那些牵动数百万人生死存亡的信仰冲突时，文字中自然而然地流露出一股强烈的、对人类处境的深刻关怀与悲悯。这种情感的张力，使得阅读体验充满了复杂性——既有智力上的满足，也有情感上的触动，它让我们看到，历史的进程背后，永远是活生生的人们在挣扎与抉择。

这本书的章节结构设计堪称精妙，它似乎遵循着一种螺旋上升的论证模式，而不是简单的线性推进。每一个新的章节都像是在前一章的基础上搭建了一个更高的平台，引入了新的视角或更深层次的复杂性，从而不断修正和深化读者对既有认知的理解。我注意到，作者极少重复自己已经阐述过的观点，他更倾向于通过引入新的、具有颠覆性的证据来推动叙事向前，这种“不断超越自我”的写作姿态，极大地提升了阅读的参与度和智力挑战性。读完之后，我的脑海中留下了一个结构清晰、层次分明的历史地图，但同时，地图上的许多“空白地带”也变得更加清晰可见，这激发了我进一步去探寻那些尚未被完全解答的历史迷雾的强烈愿望。

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