Cosmos, Chaos and the Kosher Mentality

by David Bryan

This is an innovative investigation of the puzzling animal imagery found in three 2nd-century BCE texts: the Animal Apocalypse (1 Enoch 85-90), the Testament of Naphtali and Daniel 7. It urges that a sense of cultural change is required to understand this well-known imagery, and argues in particular that the mentality underlying the kosher legislation played a significant, even if unconscious, role in the imagination of the various authors. A reading...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474230369
• ISBN13: 9781474230360
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"