Reading the human body: physiognomics and astrology in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Hellenistic-early Roman period Judaism
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
..................................................................................................... xii
ABBREVIATIONS
............................................................................................................... xiv
INTRODUCTION
................................................................................................................. 1
Physiognomies: Things Signified by the Human Body
.......................................................... 2
Physiognomic Learning and Physiognomic Consciousness in the Dead Sea Scrolls
and Second Temple Period Judaism
............................................................................... 4
4QZodiacal Physiognomy and 4QPhysiognomy ar. Physiognomic-Astrological and
Physiognomic Lists
.......................................................................................................... 6
Two Non-Sectarian Compositions, One Possibly Sectarian Copy
........................................ 8
Outline and Main Theses of the Present Study
..................................................................... 11
CHAPTER ONE: READING
4QZOD1ÂCAL
PHYSIOGNOMY (4Q186) AND
4QPHYSIOGNOMY
AR (4Q561):
TEXTS, GENRE, AND STRUCTURE
..................... 17
Introduction
............................................................................................................................ 17
4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
....................................................................................... 18
Name and Genre
............................................................................................................ 18
Material Reconstruction
................................................................................................. 20
Columns and Measurements
........................................................................................... 21
Writing, Paleography, and Date
..................................................................................... 25
Contents
........................................................................................................................... 28
Transcription and Translation
........................................................................................ 29
4Q1
86 1
і
.................................................................................................................. 29
4Q186 1ÍÍ
................................................................................................................. 29
4Q186 1ÍÜ
................................................................................................................ 30
4Q186
1 iv................................................................................................................ 30
4Q186 2Í
.................................................................................................................. 30
4Q186 2Ü................................................................................................................. 31
4QI
86 3.................................................................................................................... 31
4Q186 4
.................................................................................................................... 31
4Q186 5
.................................................................................................................... 32
4Q186 6
.................................................................................................................... 32
The Structure of the Text and the Primacy of Physiognomies
............................................. 32
Reconstructing the Beginning of the Physiognomic Entries
................................................. 34
4Q186
1
і
7:
Start of an Entry
......................................................................................... 34
4Q186
1
і
8-9:
Describing Face and Head
................................................................... 36
The Second Column
........................................................................................................... 38
nos
as a Reference to a Zodiacal Sign
......................................................................... 39
тим
as a Reference to a Zodiacal Quadrant
................................................................. 41
тю»
as a Reference to One of the Phases of the Moon
................................................ 43
viii
READING THE HUMAN BODY
Tini)
as a Reference to a Column of a (Heavenly) Scroll
............................................. 44
Assessing the Meaning and Significance of
влтювп
................................................. 46
And this is the Horoscope under which He Was Born
..................................................... 48
Magico-Medicinal Stones
...................................................................................................... 51
4QPhysiognomy
ar (4Q561)
................................................................................................. 54
Name and Genre
............................................................................................................ 54
Material Reconstruction, Columns, and Measurements
................................................ 55
Paleography and Date
.................................................................................................... 58
Contents
........................................................................................................................... 60
Transcription and Translation
........................................................................................ 60
4Q561
li
.................................................................................................................. 60
4Q561
lii.................................................................................................................
61
4Q561
2.................................................................................................................... 61
4Q561
3.................................................................................................................... 62
4Q5614
.................................................................................................................... 62
4Q561
5.................................................................................................................... 62
4Q561
6.................................................................................................................... 62
4Q561
7.................................................................................................................... 63
Body and Spirit?
..................................................................................................................... 63
The Relationship between 4QPhysiognomy
ar (4Q561)
and 4QZodiacal Physio¬
gnomy (4Q186)
............................................................................................................... 66
CHAPTER TWO: TO READ STRANGE MATTERS FROM THE HUMAN
BODY: PHYSIOGNOMICS IN BABYLONIAN AND GRECO-ROMAN
CULTURE AND LITERATURE
68
Introduction
............................................................................................................................ 68
Ancient Reflections on the Physiognomic Art and its Purpose
............................................. 69
Backgrounds of Physiognomic Learning and Literature: Mesopotamia
.............................. 72
Textual Evidence
............................................................................................................ 72
Authorship
....................................................................................................................... 75
Babylonian Scholars and Physiognomic Divination
....................................................... 76
Form and Principles of Babylonian Physiognomies
....................................................... 79
Accessibility and Exclusivity of Physiognomic Learning
.............................................. 81
Functions of Physiognomic Divination
........................................................................... 83
Backgrounds of Physiognomic Learning and Literature: Greece and Rome
...................... 85
Textual Evidence
............................................................................................................ 86
The Beginning and Origin of Greco-Roman Physiognomies
........................................ 89
Principles and Methods of Physiognomies
..................................................................... 92
Body, Character, and Humors
................................................................................. 93
Physiognomic Reasoning
......................................................................................... 95
Contexts and Functions of Physiognomic Texts and Learning
...................................... 98
CONTENTS ix
Babylonian and Greco-Roman Physiognomies and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Com¬
parative Issues
................................................................................................................ 103
Principles and Methods
................................................................................................... 103
Divine Communication
............................................................................................ 104
Animal Comparisons
................................................................................................ 104
Excursus:
пала
-
Animal and Zodiacal Sign
.......................................................... 105
House of Light, House of Darkness, and the Appearance of the
Body
.................................................................................................................. 106
The Textual Format of Physiognomic Descriptions
....................................................... 108
Literary Dependency of the Qumran Physiognomic Texts
.................................... 111
Astrology and Physiognomies
......................................................................................... 112
CHAPTER THREE: IN THE FOOT OF TAURUS : ASTROLOGICAL
NOTIONS IN 4QZODIACAL PHYSIOGNOMY (4Q186)
................................................ 119
Introduction
............................................................................................................................ 119
Some Aspects of Ancient Astrology in Babylonia and Greece
........................................... 120
Mathematical Astronomy and Zodiacal Astrology
........................................................ 121
Horoscopic Astrology
..................................................................................................... 123
Astral Influence and the Classification of the Characteristics of Planets and
Zodiacal Signs
.......................................................................................................... 126
Planetary Rulership and Zodiacal Houses
.............................................................. 126
Subdivisions of the Zodiacal Signs
.......................................................................... 127
General and Personal Astrology in the Dead Sea Scrolls: 4QZodiology and Bron-
tology ar (4Q318) and 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
.......................................... 128
Hypotheses on the Astrological Framework of 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
.......... 129
The Word House as a Terminus
Technicus
for Planetary House
.................................... 132
Matthias Delcor: Houses of the Sun and the Duration of Day and Night
..................... 132
Hermann
Lichtenberger:
Zodiacal Signs of Light and Darkness
................................. 133
The Evidence for Planetary Houses in Jewish Astrology and 4QZodiacal
Physiognomy (4Q186)
............................................................................................. 135
The Foot of Taurus and the Constellation Taurus
.............................................................. 136
Roland Bergmeier: Day and Night and the Moon in the Foot of Taurus
.......................... 137
The Divided Zodiacal Sign Taurus in the Rhetorius-Teucer Text
................................. 137
The Moon in the Feet of Taurus in Firmicus Maternus,
Mathesis
6.31.88? .................. 139
The Moon in the Foot oiTaurus in 4Q186
1
ii
9........................................................ 140
Francis Schmidt: The Foot of Taurus as a Diurnal
Decan
and the Horoscope of
Conception
...................................................................................................................... 142
Diurnal and Nocturnal Zodiacal Signs, Decans, and Quadrants
.................................. 142
The Moment of Conception in Ancient Astrology
......................................................... 145
The Division of Light and Darkness in 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
................ 150
Conception, the Foot of Taurus, and Schmidt s Decanal interpretation
................... 152
Matthias
Albani:
The Foot of Taurus Ascending above the Horizon into Light
.............. 155
X READING THE HUMAN BODY
The Ascendant Part of the Divided Zodiacal Sign
........................................................ 156
House of Light and House of Darkness as Cosmological Rooms above
and below the Horizon
............................................................................................ 157
4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186) and Casting Horoscopes at Qumran
..................... 160
Modifications of and Further Additions to Albani s Ascendant Interpretation
................... 164
The Foot of Taurus in the House of Light
.............................................................. 164
Melothesia and Dodecatemoria in 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
....................... 166
The Human Body Signifying Greek Astrology in 4QZodiacal Physiognomy
(4Q186)
....................................................................................................................
IVO
The Astrological Background of 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
................................. 170
CHAPTER FOUR: THERE IS A SPIRIT FOR HIM... : HUMAN OR
ZODIACAL SPIRITS IN 4QZODIACAL PHYSIOGNOMY(4Q186)
.............................. 172
Introduction
............................................................................................................................ 172
Space or Spirit in the House of Light and the House of Darkness
............................... 174
The Human Spirit in 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186) and the Two Spirits Trea¬
tise (1QS
3:13-4:26)....................................................................................................... 175
The Two Spirits Treatise in the Rule of
lhe
Community
.................................................. 177
The Two Spirits: Angels, Demons, and Dispositions
.............................................. 180
The Two Spirits and Light and Darkness in Human Beings
.......................................... 184
The Human Spirit in 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
..................................................... 186
Philip Alexander: Physiognomy, Human Spirit, Astrology, and Initiation
..................... 187
Some Problems with Alexander s Interpretation
........................................................... 190
Physiognomy, Spirit, Astrology, and Arithmetic
..................................................... 191
Not the Human Spirit in 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
........................................ 192
Zodiacal Spirits in 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
........................................................ 194
Angels and Stars as Animated Beings in Second Temple Period Judaism
.................... 195
The Testament of Solomon and Zodiacal Spirits
............................................................ 199
Zodiacal Spirits and Planetary Demons at Qumran
....................................................... 202
People and their Zodiacal Signs and Spirits
............................................................ 204
The Nature of Zodiacal Spirits Divided between Light and Darkness
.................. 206
CHAPTER FIVE: FUNCTIONS AND CONTEXTS OF PHYSIOGNOMIC AND
ASTROLOGICAL LEARNING IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND
SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD JUDAISM
.......................................................................... 209
Introduction
............................................................................................................................ 209
Ancient Science and Understanding Cosmic Connections
................................................... 211
Physiognomies and Astrology as Ancient Science
........................................................ 212
Cosmic Sympathy and the Understanding of Cosmic Correspondences in
4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)?
....................................................................... 213
The Social and Cultural Locus of Physiognomies and Astrology in Hellenistic-
Early Roman Period Palestine
........................................................................................ 215
CONTENTS xi
Learning the Physiognomic and Astrological Arts
........................................................ 215
Alien Wisdom
................................................................................................................. 219
Ancient Jewish Science and Revealed Things
.............................................................. 221
The Status of Physiognomic and Astrological Learning in the Qumran Community
and Second Temple Period Judaism
............................................................................... 224
Ambivalent Attitudes: The Controversial Status of Astrology
....................................... 225
Inverted and Mixed Writing and Scribal Strategies of Secrecy
................................... 227
Value and Function of Learned Knowledge
........................................................................ 230
The Predictive Function of Physiognomic Learning in 4QPhysiognomy
ar (4Q561)
......... 232
The Diagnostic Function of Physiognomic-Astrological Learning in 4QZodiacal
Physiognomy (4Q186)
.................................................................................................... 232
The Importance of Knowing the Nature of People s Zodiacal Spirits
......................... 233
Practical Applications of Physiognomic-Astrological Learning in 4QZodiaca!
Physiognomy (4Q186)
.................................................................................................... 234
A Magico-Medicinal Context: Diagnosing the Zodiacal Culprit
................................... 234
Magico-Medicinal Countermeasures and Apotropaic Stones
................................ 235
A Sectarian Context: Physiognomic Control over People s Entrance into the
Qumran Community and the Fight against Evil Spirits
............................................ 237
APPENDIX I: NOTES AND COMMENTS ON READINGS IN 4QZODIACAL
PHYSIOGNOMY (4Q186) AND 4QPHYSIOGNOMY
AR (4Q561)................................ 240
APPENDIX II: PHYSIOGNOMIC CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE DEAD SEA
SCROLLS AND SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD LITERATURE
...................................... 277
Introduction
............................................................................................................................ 277
Hebrew Bible
......................................................................................................................... 277
Ptolemaic Palestine: Physical Descriptions of Slaves in a Letter from Tobias to
Apollonius
....................................................................................................................... 278
Ben
Sira
.................................................................................................................................. 280
4QBirth of Noah -b ar (4Q534 and 4Q535)
........................................................................... 281
The Description of the Newborn Noah in
/
Enoch
106....................................................... 285
The Description of Sarai s Beauty in the Genesis Apocryphon
........................................... 286
4QBarkhi
Nafshŕ
c (4Q434 and 4Q436), and 4QWiles of the Wicked Woman
(4Q184)
........................................................................................................................... 287
Body and Soul in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
................................................... 288
FIGURE
1:
4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186) Fragments
2,4 - 7....................................
29І
PLATE I: Recent Photograph (B-45417) of IAA
#109........................................................ 292
BIBLIOGRAPHY
.................................................................................................................. 293
INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS
...................................................................................... 320
INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES
....................................................................................... 328
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
. xii
ABBREVIATIONS
. xiv
INTRODUCTION
. 1
Physiognomies: Things Signified by the Human Body
. 2
Physiognomic Learning and Physiognomic Consciousness in the Dead Sea Scrolls
and Second Temple Period Judaism
. 4
4QZodiacal Physiognomy and 4QPhysiognomy ar. Physiognomic-Astrological and
Physiognomic Lists
. 6
Two Non-Sectarian Compositions, One Possibly Sectarian Copy
. 8
Outline and Main Theses of the Present Study
. 11
CHAPTER ONE: READING
4QZOD1ÂCAL
PHYSIOGNOMY (4Q186) AND
4QPHYSIOGNOMY
AR (4Q561):
TEXTS, GENRE, AND STRUCTURE
. 17
Introduction
. 17
4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
. 18
Name and Genre
. 18
Material Reconstruction
. 20
Columns and Measurements
. 21
Writing, Paleography, and Date
. 25
Contents
. 28
Transcription and Translation
. 29
4Q1
86 1
і
. 29
4Q186 1ÍÍ
. 29
4Q186 1ÍÜ
. 30
4Q186
1 iv. 30
4Q186 2Í
. 30
4Q186 2Ü. 31
4QI
86 3. 31
4Q186 4
. 31
4Q186 5
. 32
4Q186 6
. 32
The Structure of the Text and the Primacy of Physiognomies
. 32
Reconstructing the Beginning of the Physiognomic Entries
. 34
4Q186
1
і
7:
Start of an Entry
. 34
4Q186
1
і
8-9:
Describing Face and Head
. 36
"The Second Column"
. 38
"nos
as a Reference to a Zodiacal Sign
. 39
тим
as a Reference to a Zodiacal Quadrant
. 41
тю»
as a Reference to One of the Phases of the Moon
. 43
viii
READING THE HUMAN BODY
Tini)
as a Reference to a Column of a (Heavenly) Scroll
. 44
Assessing the Meaning and Significance of
"влтювп
. 46
"And this is the Horoscope under which He Was Born"
. 48
Magico-Medicinal Stones
. 51
4QPhysiognomy
ar (4Q561)
. 54
Name and Genre
. 54
Material Reconstruction, Columns, and Measurements
. 55
Paleography and Date
. 58
Contents
. 60
Transcription and Translation
. 60
4Q561
li
. 60
4Q561
lii.
61
4Q561
2. 61
4Q561
3. 62
4Q5614
. 62
4Q561
5. 62
4Q561
6. 62
4Q561
7. 63
Body and Spirit?
. 63
The Relationship between 4QPhysiognomy
ar (4Q561)
and 4QZodiacal Physio¬
gnomy (4Q186)
. 66
CHAPTER TWO: TO READ STRANGE MATTERS FROM THE HUMAN
BODY: PHYSIOGNOMICS IN BABYLONIAN AND GRECO-ROMAN
CULTURE AND LITERATURE
68
Introduction
. 68
Ancient Reflections on the Physiognomic Art and its Purpose
. 69
Backgrounds of Physiognomic Learning and Literature: Mesopotamia
. 72
Textual Evidence
. 72
Authorship
. 75
Babylonian Scholars and Physiognomic Divination
. 76
Form and Principles of Babylonian Physiognomies
. 79
Accessibility and Exclusivity of Physiognomic Learning
. 81
Functions of Physiognomic Divination
. 83
Backgrounds of Physiognomic Learning and Literature: Greece and Rome
. 85
Textual Evidence
. 86
The Beginning and Origin of Greco-Roman Physiognomies
. 89
Principles and Methods of Physiognomies
. 92
Body, Character, and Humors
. 93
Physiognomic Reasoning
. 95
Contexts and Functions of Physiognomic Texts and Learning
. 98
CONTENTS ix
Babylonian and Greco-Roman Physiognomies and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Com¬
parative Issues
. 103
Principles and Methods
. 103
Divine Communication
. 104
Animal Comparisons
. 104
Excursus:
пала
-
Animal and Zodiacal Sign
. 105
"House of Light," "House of Darkness," and the Appearance of the
Body
. 106
The Textual Format of Physiognomic Descriptions
. 108
Literary Dependency of the Qumran Physiognomic Texts
. 111
Astrology and Physiognomies
. 112
CHAPTER THREE: "IN THE FOOT OF TAURUS": ASTROLOGICAL
NOTIONS IN 4QZODIACAL PHYSIOGNOMY (4Q186)
. 119
Introduction
. 119
Some Aspects of Ancient Astrology in Babylonia and Greece
. 120
Mathematical Astronomy and Zodiacal Astrology
. 121
Horoscopic Astrology
. 123
Astral Influence and the Classification of the Characteristics of Planets and
Zodiacal Signs
. 126
Planetary Rulership and Zodiacal Houses
. 126
Subdivisions of the Zodiacal Signs
. 127
General and Personal Astrology in the Dead Sea Scrolls: 4QZodiology and Bron-
tology ar (4Q318) and 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
. 128
Hypotheses on the Astrological Framework of 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
. 129
The Word "House" as a Terminus
Technicus
for Planetary House
. 132
Matthias Delcor: Houses of the Sun and the Duration of Day and Night
. 132
Hermann
Lichtenberger:
Zodiacal Signs of Light and Darkness
. 133
The Evidence for Planetary Houses in Jewish Astrology and 4QZodiacal
Physiognomy (4Q186)
. 135
"The Foot of Taurus" and the Constellation Taurus
. 136
Roland Bergmeier: Day and Night and the Moon "in the Foot of Taurus"
. 137
The Divided Zodiacal Sign Taurus in the Rhetorius-Teucer Text
. 137
The Moon in the Feet of Taurus in Firmicus Maternus,
Mathesis
6.31.88? . 139
The Moon "in the Foot oiTaurus" in 4Q186
1
ii
9. 140
Francis Schmidt: "The Foot of Taurus" as a Diurnal
Decan
and the Horoscope of
Conception
. 142
Diurnal and Nocturnal Zodiacal Signs, Decans, and Quadrants
. 142
The Moment of Conception in Ancient Astrology
. 145
The Division of Light and Darkness in 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
. 150
Conception, "the Foot of Taurus," and Schmidt's Decanal interpretation
. 152
Matthias
Albani:
"The Foot of Taurus" Ascending above the Horizon into Light
. 155
X READING THE HUMAN BODY
The Ascendant Part of the Divided Zodiacal Sign
. 156
"House of Light" and "House of Darkness" as Cosmological Rooms above
and below the Horizon
. 157
4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186) and Casting Horoscopes at Qumran
. 160
Modifications of and Further Additions to Albani's Ascendant Interpretation
. 164
"The Foot of Taurus" in the "House of Light"
. 164
Melothesia and Dodecatemoria in 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
. 166
The Human Body Signifying Greek Astrology in 4QZodiacal Physiognomy
(4Q186)
.
IVO
The Astrological Background of 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
. 170
CHAPTER FOUR: "THERE IS A SPIRIT FOR HIM.": HUMAN OR
ZODIACAL SPIRITS IN 4QZODIACAL PHYSIOGNOMY(4Q186)
. 172
Introduction
. 172
Space or Spirit in the "House of Light" and the "House of Darkness"
. 174
The Human Spirit in 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186) and the Two Spirits Trea¬
tise (1QS
3:13-4:26). 175
The Two Spirits Treatise in the Rule of
lhe
Community
. 177
The Two Spirits: Angels, Demons, and Dispositions
. 180
The Two Spirits and Light and Darkness in Human Beings
. 184
The Human Spirit in 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
. 186
Philip Alexander: Physiognomy, Human Spirit, Astrology, and Initiation
. 187
Some Problems with Alexander's Interpretation
. 190
Physiognomy, Spirit, Astrology, and Arithmetic
. 191
Not the Human Spirit in 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
. 192
Zodiacal Spirits in 4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)
. 194
Angels and Stars as Animated Beings in Second Temple Period Judaism
. 195
The Testament of Solomon and Zodiacal Spirits
. 199
Zodiacal Spirits and Planetary Demons at Qumran
. 202
People and their Zodiacal Signs and Spirits
. 204
The Nature of Zodiacal Spirits Divided between Light and Darkness
. 206
CHAPTER FIVE: FUNCTIONS AND CONTEXTS OF PHYSIOGNOMIC AND
ASTROLOGICAL LEARNING IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND
SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD JUDAISM
. 209
Introduction
. 209
Ancient Science and Understanding Cosmic Connections
. 211
Physiognomies and Astrology as Ancient Science
. 212
Cosmic Sympathy and the Understanding of Cosmic Correspondences in
4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186)?
. 213
The Social and Cultural Locus of Physiognomies and Astrology in Hellenistic-
Early Roman Period Palestine
. 215
CONTENTS xi
Learning the Physiognomic and Astrological Arts
. 215
Alien Wisdom
. 219
Ancient Jewish Science and Revealed Things
. 221
The Status of Physiognomic and Astrological Learning in the Qumran Community
and Second Temple Period Judaism
. 224
Ambivalent Attitudes: The Controversial Status of Astrology
. 225
Inverted and Mixed Writing and Scribal Strategies of Secrecy
. 227
Value and Function of Learned Knowledge
. 230
The Predictive Function of Physiognomic Learning in 4QPhysiognomy
ar (4Q561)
. 232
The Diagnostic Function of Physiognomic-Astrological Learning in 4QZodiacal
Physiognomy (4Q186)
. 232
The Importance of Knowing the Nature of People's Zodiacal Spirits
. 233
Practical Applications of Physiognomic-Astrological Learning in 4QZodiaca!
Physiognomy (4Q186)
. 234
A Magico-Medicinal Context: Diagnosing the Zodiacal Culprit
. 234
Magico-Medicinal Countermeasures and Apotropaic Stones
. 235
A Sectarian Context: Physiognomic Control over People's Entrance into the
Qumran Community and the Fight against Evil Spirits
. 237
APPENDIX I: NOTES AND COMMENTS ON READINGS IN 4QZODIACAL
PHYSIOGNOMY (4Q186) AND 4QPHYSIOGNOMY
AR (4Q561). 240
APPENDIX II: PHYSIOGNOMIC CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE DEAD SEA
SCROLLS AND SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD LITERATURE
. 277
Introduction
. 277
Hebrew Bible
. 277
Ptolemaic Palestine: Physical Descriptions of Slaves in a Letter from Tobias to
Apollonius
. 278
Ben
Sira
. 280
4QBirth of Noah"-b ar (4Q534 and 4Q535)
. 281
The Description of the Newborn Noah in
/
Enoch
106. 285
The Description of Sarai's Beauty in the Genesis Apocryphon
. 286
4QBarkhi
Nafshŕ
c (4Q434 and 4Q436), and 4QWiles of the Wicked Woman
(4Q184)
. 287
Body and Soul in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
. 288
FIGURE
1:
4QZodiacal Physiognomy (4Q186) Fragments
2,4 - 7.
29І
PLATE I: Recent Photograph (B-45417) of IAA
#109. 292
BIBLIOGRAPHY
. 293
INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS
. 320
INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES
. 328 |
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