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  • 1
    ISBN: 9789047423072
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (948 Seiten)
    Year of publication: 2008
    Series Statement: Études sur le judai͏̈sme médiéval 31
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Goitein, Shlomo Dov, 1900 - 1985 India traders of the Middle Ages
    DDC: 382.089/92401824
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    Keywords: Cairo Genizah ; Commerce Sources History Medieval, 500-1500 ; Handel ; Voorindiërs ; India Sources Commerce To 1500 ; History ; Middellandse-Zeegebied ; Quelle ; Kairo ; Fernhandel ; Indien ; Geschichte 1080-1160 ; Genisafragmente ; Indien ; Juden ; Handel ; Geschichte 1000-1200
    Abstract: The annotated and translated letters of 11th-12th century traders of the Jewish Indian Ocean, found in the Cairo Geniza, provide fascinating information on commerce between the Far East, Yemen and the Mediterranean, medieval material, social, and spiritual civilization among Jews and Arabs, and Judeo-Arabic
    Abstract: Besides illuminating the activities of the traders of the Jewish Indian Ocean and their families in the territories from the Far East to southern Arabia and Egypt, this work includes letters which contain information on Jewish and Islamic culture, relations between Jews and Arabs, Mediterranean culture, and Judeo-Arabic
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9789004397491
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2007
    Series Statement: Deo Publishing, Religion and Theology Special E-Book Collection, 1999-2017, ISBN: 9789004401549
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Historical Knowledge in Biblical Antiquity
    Keywords: Antiquities ; Authority Religious aspects ; History of contemporary events ; Geschiedschrijving ; Bijbel ; Joodse literatuur
    Abstract: Preliminary Material /Jacob Neusner , Bruce D. Chilton and William Scott Green -- Preface /Jacob Neusner , Bruce D. Chilton and William Scott Green -- The Task of History for Ancient Israel /Bruce Chilton -- Does History Matter? Meaning-making and the First Two Greek Historians /Carolyn Dewald -- Are the Dead Sea Scrolls Historical Texts? /Lawrence H. Schiffman -- History-Writing in, and on the Basis of, the Jewish Apocalyptic Literature /George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Encountering the Past through the Works of Flavius Josephus /Steve Mason -- The Idea of History in Rabbinic Judaism /Jacob Neusner -- Interpreting Legal History in the Mishnaic Division of Agriculture /Alan J. Avery-Peck -- Archaeology and History: What Archaeology Can Show about Ethnic and Religious Regions in Ancient Galilee /Mordechai Aviam -- In Search of Jesus: Issues of Character /Bruce Chilton -- Paul's Thought and Life /Bruce Chilton -- James, Jesus' Brother, and History /Bruce Chilton -- Mary Magdalene and History /Bruce Chilton -- Paul and Gamaliel /Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner -- Historical Questions and Questioning History: Can We Write a History of Judaism in Late Antiquity? /Gary G. Porton -- Different Ways of Looking at Truth /William Scott Green -- Index of Authors /Jacob Neusner , Bruce D. Chilton and William Scott Green -- Index of Scripture and Ancient Writers /Jacob Neusner , Bruce D. Chilton and William Scott Green.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9789047410102 , 9789004152267
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2007
    Series Statement: Islamic History and Civilization 65
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Making of a Forefather : Abraham in Islamic and Jewish Exegetical Narratives
    Keywords: Abraham ; Abraham In rabbinical literature ; Abraham (Biblical patriarch) in rabbinical literature ; Islamic legends
    Abstract: This comparative analysis examines the Islamic and Jewish exegetical narratives [ḥadīth/qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā' and midrash aggadah] on the early life of the forefather Abraham. It reveals how the traditions utilized one another's materials in creating and re-creating the patriarch in their own image. Each chapter examines a particular motif in Abraham's development, from the prophecy surrounding his birth to his discovery of God and polemics with pagans to his salvation in the fiery furnace of Chaldea. Indexes of the more salient rabbinic or Islamic texts follow at the end of each chapter. The work is particularly valuable for scholars of rabbinics and Islamicists alike; it challenges earlier scholarship by revealing that the Islamic and Jewish exegetical traditions were not entirely distinct traditions but were intertextually related, mutually giving and receiving ideas
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9789047405979 , 9789004139978
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 111
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Biblical Traditions in Transmission : Essays in Honour of Michael A. Knibb
    Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Abstract: Preliminary Material /Charlotte Hempel and Judith M. Lieu --The "Coming of God" Tradition and its Influence on New Testament Parousia Texts /Edward Adams --The Lives of the Prophets in Syriac: Some Soundings /Sebastian Brock --The Formation and Renewal of Scriptural Tradition /George J. Brooke --A Fruitful Venture: The Origin of Hebrew Studies at King's College London /Ronald E. Clements --The Yaḥad and "The Qumran Community" /John J. Collins --And Enoch Was Not, For Genesis Took Him /Philip R. Davies --Divine Sonship at Qumran: Between the Old and the New Testament /Florentino García Martínez --Maskil(im) and Rabbim: From Daniel to Qumran /Charlotte Hempel --From Jeremiah to Baruch: Pseudepigraphy in the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch /Matthias Henze --The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the "Two Ways" /Marinus de Jonge --Justin Martyr and the Transformation of Psalm 22 /Judith M. Lieu --Whom does the Term Yaḥad Identify? /Sarianna Metso --Speaking with the Voice of God: The High Court according to Greek Deuteronomy 17:8-13 /Sarah J. K. Pearce --Sex and Death, or, the Death of Sex: Three Versions of Jephthah's Daughter (Judges 11:29-40) /Deborah W. Rooke --The Creation of Angels and Natural Phenomena Intertwined in the Book of Jubilees (4QJuba) /Raija Sollamo --Daniel 7 in the Similitudes of Enoch (1 Enoch 37-71) /James C. VanderKam --From Generation to Generation: The Sage as Father in Early Jewish Literature /Benjamin G. Wright III --Christian Messianism and the First Jewish War with Rome /Adela Yarbro Collins --Bibliography /Charlotte Hempel and Judith M. Lieu --Contributors /Charlotte Hempel and Judith M. Lieu --Index of Ancient Primary Sources /Charlotte Hempel and Judith M. Lieu.
    Abstract: This collection comprises eighteen papers by friends, colleagues and students of Michal A. Knibb on the theme of the transmission of biblical traditions in a variety of contexts. In the main the articles deal with the transmission of biblical traditions in the versions, the pseudepigrapha, at Qumran, and in early Christian writings. The collection as a whole clearly demonstrates the way in which biblical traditions were shaped and re-shaped creatively in the biblical, early Jewish and Christian literature
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9789047417019 , 9789004146389
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series 10
    Series Statement: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Online, ISBN: 9789004427556
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als After Eden: Church Fathers and Rabbis on Genesis 3:16-21
    Keywords: Exegesis ; Genesis Explanation ; Church Fathers ; Genesis Explanation ; Rabbinic Literature
    Abstract: This volume charts the interpretation of Genesis 3:16-21 in a number of patristic and classical rabbinic sources. It is a case study in the reception of a biblical fragment in two intrinsically related yet distinct interpretative communities: early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. Following the lead of the biblical text, this study sheds new light on each traditions' view of the human condition, more specifically on the way Church Fathers and Rabbis approach the themes of procreation, labour, mortality and corporeality. The book carefully studies the reading of the biblical text as proposed by a number of representative and influential authors or documents, including Ambrose of Milan, Didymus the Blind, John Chrysostom and Augustine, as well as Genesis Rabbah and Avot de Rabbi Nathan. The introductions at the beginning of each chapter enable also the non-specialist to enter the distinct literary worlds of midrash and patristic Bible interpretation
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9789047410805 , 9789004153493
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Studies in Jewish History and Culture 12
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Historical Writings of Joseph of Rosheim : Leader of Jewry in Early Modern Germany
    Keywords: Christianity and other religions Judaism ; Jews History 16th century ; Judaism Relations ; Christianity
    Abstract: Joseph of Rosheim, sixteenth-century leader of the Jews in the Holy Roman Empire, left historical writings that are presented here in a critical edition published now for the first time in English translation. The principal part of the book is devoted to a Hebrew manuscript--a chronicle--left by R. Joseph, in which he describes incidents from the history of his life and that of the Jews in his day and age. R. Joseph writes with extreme terseness, often in cryptic language, and therefore his chronicle appears here with prefaces, background information and a commentary. The prefaces provide important information about the blood libels and the expulsions, the debate concerning Solomon Molcho's messianic ideas, and the influence R. Joseph exerted at the court of Emperor Charles V. Particularly valuable for the study of Christian-Jewish relations in the Reformation period are two other documents printed here. The "Letter of Consolation," is a long epistle that R. Joseph wrote to the Jews of Hesse in 1541, advising them on how to cope with the harsh decrees enacted against them and discussing the attitudes of some leading Reformers towards the Jews. Also included in the book is his Letter to Strasbourg City Council of July 1543, which contains his response to Martin Luther's anti-Jewish tracts. This book can be considered a sequel to the critical edition (in Hebrew) of R. Joseph's large work, Sefer ha-Miknah, which Chava Fraenkel-Goldschmidt published in 1970. The Afterword discusses some of the most recent research into Joseph of Rosheim's activities and writings
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9789047409649 , 9789004151406
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Jewish Identities in a Changing World 6
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jewry between Tradition and Secularism : Europe and Israel Compared
    Keywords: Interfaith relations ; Jews Identity ; Jews Identity ; Judaism and secularism ; Judaism ; Judaism ; Orthodox Judaism Relations ; Nontraditional Jews ; Secularism
    Abstract: Are Jews today still the carriers of a single and identical collective identity and do they still constitute a single people? This two-fold question arises when one compares a Hassidi Habad from Brooklyn, a Jewish professor at a secular university in Brussels, a traditional Yemeni Jew still living in Sana'a, a Galilee kibbutznik, or a Russian Jew in Novossibirsk. Is there still today a significant relationship between these individuals who all subscribe to Judaism? The analysis shows that the Jewish identity is multiple and can be explained by considering all variants as "surface structures" of the three universal "deep structures" central to the notion of collective identity, namely, collective commitment, perceptions of the collective's singularity, and positioning vis-à-vis "others."
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  • 8
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    ISBN: 9789047417736 , 9789004138704
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 106
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Current Trends in the Study of Midrash
    Keywords: Midrash
    Abstract: This collection of essays by many of the leading scholars of midrash and rabbinics reflects the various current methodological approaches to the study of rabbinic scriptural interpretation. During the last three decades of the 20th century scholars in the field made significant forays into literary studies, interdisciplinary studies, and to some degree women's studies. This volume thus illustrates these trends, and highlights several fundamental studies, such as the origins of midrash, the making of critical editions, and the relationship of midrash to other forms of Jewish as well as non-Jewish exegesis. Situating midrash within the broader contexts of hermeneutics, rabbinics and postmodern studies, the volume as a whole presents the reader with a comprehensive view of the kinds of questions and issues scholars in the field are engaging
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  • 9
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    ISBN: 9789047410836 , 9789004153561
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies 39
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Messianic Secret of Hasidism
    Keywords: Hasidim Biography ; Hasidism Doctrines ; History ; Hasidism History ; Jewish messianic movements ; Messiah Judaism
    Abstract: This book describes a circle of Eastern European Kabbalists that established Hasidism, an important movement that has influenced Jewish Mysticism, Yiddish culture and Hebrew literature. It uncovers the messianic motivation, concealed in Hasidic writings after the failure of their 1740-1781 attempts to hurry redemption. The book opens with the Besht, the legendary founder of Hasidism, and continues with the first Hasidic court, founded by one of his prominent disciples, the preacher of Zlotshov. The group's redemptive activities are revealed through their mystical rituals, their self-image as representatives of the ten Sefirot, and the status of their leader, "the Righteous One," as a vivid symbol of the divine influx. The book is especially important for scholars and students of Judaism as well as scholars of mysticism and messianism, seeking to comprehend the transformation of a messianic circle of devotees into a mass movement that changes the culture of an entire nation
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9789047410393 , 9789004152656
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Studies in Jewish History and Culture 13
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Redefining Judaism in an Age of Emancipation : Comparative Perspectives on Samuel Holdheim (1806-1860)
    Keywords: Emancipation of Jews History 19th Century ; Reform Judaism History 19th century ; Reform Judaism
    Abstract: Based on a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume for the first time interprets the biography and philosophy of the German Jewish thinker Samuel Holdheim (1806-1860), shedding new light on a neglected phenomenon of nineteenth century Jewish intellectual history - the radical Reform Movement that started in Germany and culminated in the American Jewish Reform ideology. Leading scholars of modern Jewish history and thought from Germany, France, Belgium and the United States present a thorough reading of Holdheim's influential writings in the broader context of the debates within German Jewry about the modernization of Jewish identity in an age of political emancipation and cultural integration, including such controversial issues as the authority of the rabbinical tradition or the re-interpretation of the ceremonial laws
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9789047408758 , 9789004149106
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 108
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Development of the High Priesthood during the pre-Hasmonean Period : History, Ideology, Theology
    Keywords: Josephus, Flavius. Antiquitates Judaicae ; Jewish high priests History ; Jews History 586 B.C.-70 A.D
    Abstract: This book deals with the Jewish High Priesthood between 301-152 BCE. The research was carried out as part of a doctoral thesis at the Pontifical Gregorian University. It is of a historical-biblical-theological nature. Historical, in as much as it refers to a chronological period and to the historiographic sources; biblical and theological because it questions a Biblical institution, its meaning and its religious function. The history of the High Priesthood is analysed on the basis of conflicting documents, starting from the question of power and the autonomy of the high priests under the rule of the Ptolemies and the Seleucids. However, the historical reconstruction is strongly determined by the political ideology and theological vision of the available sources on this subject
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9789047408857 , 9789004149472
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Studies in Central European Histories 37
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jews, Judaism, and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany
    Keywords: Christianity and other religions Judaism 16th century ; History ; Jews History 16th century ; Judaism Relations 16th century ; Christianity ; History ; Judaism History 16th century ; Reformation
    Abstract: This book represents a multi-disciplinary approach to the problem of the Jews and the German Reformation. The contributions come from both senior and emerging scholars, from North America, Israel, and Europe, to ensure a breadth in perspective. The essays in this volume are arranged under four broad headings: 1. The Road to the Reformation (late medieval theology and the humanists and the Jews), 2. The Reformers and the Jews (essays on Luther, Melanchthon, Bucer, Zwingli, Calvin, Osiander, the Catholic Reformers, and the Radical Reformers), 3. Representations of Jews and Judaism (the portrayal of Judaism as a religion, images of the Jews in the visual arts, and in sixteenth-century German literature), and 4. Jewish Responses to the Reformation. Contributors include: Dean Phillip Bell, Jay Berkovitz, Robert Bireley, Stephen G. Burnett, Elisheva Carlebach, Achim Detmers, Yaacov Deutsch, Maria Diemling, Michael Driedger, R. Gerald Hobbs, Joy Kammerling, Thomas Kaufmann, Hans-Martin Kirn, Christopher Ocker, Erika Rummel, Petra Schöner, Timothy J. Wengert, and Edith Wenzel
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Shortened Titles -- Contributors -- Introduction, Dean Phillip Bell & Stephen G. Burnett -- PART I. ROAD TO REFORMATION -- 1. Humanists, Jews, and Judaism, Erika Rummel -- 2. German Theologians and the Jews in the Fifteenth Century, Christopher Ocker -- PART II. REFORMERS AND THE JEWS -- 3. Luther and the Jews, Thomas Kaufmann -- 4. Philip Melanchthon and the Jews: A Reappraisal, Timothy J. Wengert -- 5. Bucer, the Jews, and Judaism, R. Gerald Hobbs -- 6. Ulrich Zwingli, the Jews, and Judaism, Hans-Martin Kirn -- 7. Calvin, the Jews, and Judaism, Achim Detmers -- 8. Andreas Osiander, the Jews, and Judaism, Joy Kammerling -- 9. The Catholic Reform, Jews, and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany, Robert Bireley -- 10. The Intensification of Religious Commitment: Jews, Anabaptists, Radical Reform, and Confessionalization, Michael Driedger -- PART III. REPRESENTATIONS OF JEWS AND JUDAISM -- 11. Anthonius Margaritha on the "Whole Jewish Faith:" A Sixteenth-Century Convert from Judaism and his Depiction of the Jewish Religion, Maria Diemling -- 12. Von der Juden Ceremonien : Representations of Jews in Sixteenth-Century Germany, Yaacov Deutsch -- 13. Visual Representations of Jews and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany, Petra Schöner -- 14. The Representation of Jews and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century German Literature, Edith Wenzel -- PART IV. JEWS, JUDAISM, AND JEWISH RESPONSES TO THE REFORMATION -- 15. Jewish Settlement, Politics, and the Reformation, Dean Phillip Bell -- 16. Jewish Responses to Christianity in Reformation Germany, Elisheva Carlebach -- 17. Jewish Law and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, Jay Berkovitz -- 18. German Jewish Printing in the Reformation Era (1530-1633), Stephen G. Burnett -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Persons -- Index of Biblical Passages Cited.
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  • 13
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    ISBN: 9789047410676 , 9789004153189
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Studies in Jewish History and Culture 14
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hermann Cohen's Ethics
    Keywords: Cohen, Hermann Congresses ; Free will and determinism Congresses ; Jewish ethics Congresses ; Jewish philosophy Congresses
    Abstract: The essays assembled here represent the leading Hermann Cohen scholars from the United States, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Israel. Emerging from their efforts is a new set of explorations both in Cohen's own system and also in his relation to a wide-range of subsequent thinkers. They open Cohen's Ethics of Pure Will in two ways. First, they show us the deep questions that are operating within Cohen's texts, and second they raise questions for ethics itself, particularly in relation to Jewish tradition. That specific topic, the primacy of ethics for Judaism, received one of its most philosophically rigorous treatments in Cohen's work, where thinking of the relation of ethics and Judaism became a truly philosophical task. Originally published as Volume 13 (2005) of The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy. For more details on this journal, please click here
    Note: Along with some new contributions, most of the papers were presented at a three day conference held at the University of Toronto in August 2001 , Also published as vol. 13, 1-3 of "The Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy." , Includes bibliographical references and index , Primarily in English; includes one contribution in German
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9789047417552 , 9789004146983
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture 5
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Translation and Interpretation in the Targum to the Books of Kings
    Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish ; Bible Versions ; Kings (Books of the Bible) ; Targum
    Abstract: The non-literal, interpretative renderings in the Targums are a source of fascination. This study examines translation techniques in the Targum to the books of Kings and other Targums, particularly in the areas of contemporization, reverential rendering, treatment of figurative language and halakic harmonization. Common theological concerns, for example, the uniqueness of God and the use of the innovative divine title, Memra, have been considered. Divergences from the biblical text have been systematically compared with translations in the other ancient versions. Close examination of the text leads to the conclusion that the preponderance of apparently didactic readings would conform with the Targum's function as a tool in the synagogue and the school and for private study
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9789047408352 , 9789004146990
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 25
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Proximity to Power and Jewish Sectarian Groups of the Ancient Period : A Review of Lifestyle, Values, and Halakha in the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Qumran
    Keywords: Jews History 168 B.C.-135 A.D ; Jews Politics and government To 70 A.D ; Jews Social conditions ; Power (Social sciences) History To 1500
    Abstract: This book deals with the values, lifestyle and code of law of four Jewish sectarian groups in the Hellenistic and Roman (Second Temple) period, in the land of Israel. It reviews the groups according to their proximity to power, highlighting the fact that political involvement has a decisive impact on the life and development of these social groups. The groups under review, the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes and Qumran, receive a new historical description, from the viewpoint of their proximity to power. The issue of what determines the course of a social group, whether normative or sectarian, is discussed, and the traditional terminology is re-examined. Original terminology is established. The first part of the book deals with the question of terminology, the available sources and the presentation of the different groups
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  • 16
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    ISBN: 9789047410508 , 9789004152830
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 8
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Sicily, Volume 8 (1490-1497)
    Keywords: Jews History ; Sources ; Jews Sicily ; History ; Sources
    Abstract: This volume in the series Documentary History of the Jews in Italy illustrates the history of the Jews in Sicily from 1490 to 1497. It is the sequel to the first seven volumes and covers the events during the rule of the Catholic Kings Ferdinand and Isabella, following the unification of Spain. They cover the last years leading up to the expulsion, the expulsion itself, and a few events in its aftermath. A further deterioration in the position of the Jews took place in those last years of their presence on Sicily. Numerically the Jewish community on the island reached its zenith, accompanied by economic prosperity. Nearly a thousand documents, many of them published here for the first time, record the fortunes of the Jews. Again, much new information has come to light, and many facets of Jewish life in Sicily have been uncovered. The abundance of historical records in the archives of the Crown and of local authorities again compares favorably with the relative scarcity of surviving documentation in earlier centuries. Therefore, many documents had to be reported in summary form. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction will appear at the end of the series. This is the last volume of the The Jews in Sicily based mainly on governmental sources, to be followed by additional volumes containing records culled from notarial deeds
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  • 17
    ISBN: 9789047409236 , 9789004150522
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series 12
    Series Statement: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Online, ISBN: 9789004427556
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als A Holy People: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Religious Communal Identity
    Keywords: Holiness Judaism ; History ; Holiness Christianity ; History of doctrines
    Abstract: A Holy People investigates the various ways in which Jews and Christians define their religious identity, people or community, as being holy. Keeping in mind that historical studies can offer food for thought regarding contemporary issues, the study offers a large collection of essays, relating to the biblical, patristic and medieval period and especially to the modern period. The obvious question of many in the modern world as to whether the attribute of the ‘holiness’ allows for acknowledgement of authentic religion outside the own religious community, deserves an honest answer and well-documented study: too easily the claim of holiness intertwines with claims of power, whether by rivalling groups within the religious community, by groups divided along gender lines, or on the level of territorial claims. It will be of special importance to scholars and general readers interested in an interdisciplinary approach to theology, rabbinics, history, political science, and much more
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  • 18
    ISBN: 9789047411611 , 9789004155299
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Jewish Identities in a Changing World 7
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als From Binational Society to Jewish State : Federal Concepts in Zionist Political Thought, 1920-1990, and the Jewish People
    Keywords: Arab-Israeli conflict ; Federal government History 20th century ; Jewish-Arab relations History 1917-1948 ; Zionism History 20th century
    Abstract: The central issue in this book is the federal ideas in the Zionist political thought during seventy years, from the early 1920s to the late 1990s. These ideas and plans had a double meaning and purpose: to find a suitable political bi-national structure for the Jews and Arabs in Palestine, which will enable both of them to fulfill their national goals, and to enable the Jewish people in the world to make Palestine their homeland by free immigration. The Zionist federative ideas were carried by different and even rival political parties and leaders, ranging from right-wing nationalists to Social-Democrats and liberal humanists. But despite this diversity all of them were based on the liberal and democratic political tradition in Europe before World War I. These ideas were renewed in the State of Israel at the end of the last century
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  • 19
    ISBN: 9789047410140 , 9789004152335
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 33
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Esoteric and Exoteric Aspects in Judeo-Arabic Culture
    Keywords: Jewish law Congresses ; Judeo-Arabic language Congresses ; Judeo-Arabic literature Congresses History and criticism ; Mysticism Congresses Judaism
    Abstract: This volume contains selected, refereed papers from the ninth conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies held at Emory University, Atlanta, in 1999. The title of this volume, Esoteric and Exoteric Aspects in Judeo-Arabic Culture highlights the theme running through many of the conference papers: the diversity and vitality of Judeo-Arabic culture. The volume represents the interdisciplinary nature of the field. There are articles on Jewish thought, philosophy and mysticism, language and linguistics, religious studies, intellectual and social history, law, biblical exegesis, and more. The book is an important contribution to our understanding of Judeo-Arabic society in the Middle Ages
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    ISBN: 9789047409014 , 9789004149939
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 109
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Libraries, Translations, and 'Canonic' Texts : The Septuagint, Aquila and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian Traditions
    Keywords: Patristic Literature Comparative Studies ; Rabbinic Literature ; Rabbinical Literature Comparative Studies
    Abstract: The book deals with the field of decanonization of ancient traditions by the technique of deconstructing their original context; in particular: the process of canonization of the Greek Torah in Jewish-Hellenistic and Christian tradition and its decanonization in Rabbinic literature; the use and abuse of the translation(s) of Aquila in Patristic and Rabbinic literature and the substitution of Aquila by Onkelos in Babylonian academies; the decanonization of the book of Ben Sira in Rabbinic literature. On the basis of his analysis, the author concludes that, if a canon is the ability of a text to produce and authorize commentary deconstructing its original context by generalization, de-canonization is the inverse way of contextualizing a 'canonical' text by reconstructing the supposed original context
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    ISBN: 9789047418535 , 9789004153325
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: International Comparative Social Studies 13
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Building a Diaspora : Russian Jews in Israel, Germany and the USA
    Keywords: Jews, Russian Social aspects ; Jewish diaspora ; Jews Identity ; Jews, Russian Social aspects ; Jews, Russian Social aspects ; Jews, Russian Social aspects
    Abstract: The crumbling of the USSR has set Russian-speaking Jews free to emigrate. From the threat of antisemitism to economic disaster, their "good reasons" to do so were numerous and within one and a half decade most of them moved out and scattered throughout the world. This book is about the million that settled in Israel, the half million now in the US and the 200.000 who settled in Germany. This book presents the comparative work of an international team of researchers which delves into the building of communities, the formulation of collective identities and the articulation of public discourse by people who, after eighty years of Marxism-Leninism and compulsory removal from Jewish culture, are now reconstructing their ethnicity. In every place, they face contrasting challenges and as a whole, constitute an ideal case for the study of the making of contemporary transnational diasporas
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- PART A: BUILDING A TRANSNATIONAL DIASPORA -- Chapter 1: Collective construction -- Chapter 2: The shake-up of Russian Jewry -- Chapter 3: Research Methodology -- PART B: BUILDING COMMUNITIES -- Chapter 4: When ethnicity becomes national and vice-versa: Israel -- Chapter 5: A new American Jewry -- Chapter 6: Russian Jews in Germany -- Chapter 7: Communities compared -- PART C: COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES -- Chapter 8: RSJs' images and self-images in Israel -- Chapter 9: RSJs images and self-images in America -- Chapter 10: RSJs' images and self-images in Germany -- Chapter 11: Divergent and Convergent Identities -- Chapter 12: RSJs' distancing from "others" -- PART D: MEDIA DISCOURSE -- Chapter 13: RSJs' press and in the Press - Israel -- Chapter 14: RSJs' Press and in the Press - USA -- Chapter 15: RSJs' Press and in the Press - Germany -- Chapter 16: RSJs' Press and in the Press - In Comparative Perspective -- PART E: PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Chapter 17: The phases of collective construction -- Chapter 18: "Jewishness" versus "Russianness"? -- Chapter 19: RSJs in perspective -- Addenda -- Addendum 1: The Experience of Non-Jewish "Russian" Immigrants in Israel -- Addendum 2: Policy-making perspectives -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: SAM survey and Measures -- Appendix 2: The media analysis: classification System -- Bibliography -- The authors.
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  • 22
    ISBN: 9789047411512 , 9789004154933
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 9
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Sicily, Volume 9 Corte Pretoriana and Notaries of Palermo
    Keywords: Cairo Genizah ; Jews Sicily ; History ; Sources
    Abstract: This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy is the first of the second series, illustrating the history of the Jews in Sicily based on notarial and court records. It is the sequel to the eight volumes of the first series. Notarial deeds drawn up by public notaries in Palermo and elsewhere and cases brought before the Pretorian Court in Palermo present a kaleidoscopic picture of the private lives of the Jews of Sicily during the last three centuries of their presence on the island. They illustrate the economic, social, and religious history of the Jewish minority and the relations with the Christian majority. Much information is provided on trade and commerce, crafts and professions, religious and family life. Some light is thrown also on the internal life of the communities, particularly the larger ones, including organization and institutions, the synagogue, education, customs and traditions. Although the surviving legal deeds present only a fraction of the total drawn up in those years, they are copious and abundant. Over 30,000 documents of this group were selected for publication. While some documents were dealt with at length, most had to be presented in summary form, giving only the bare essentials. Most appear here for the first time. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction will appear at the end of the series
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    ISBN: 9789047411031 , 9789004153981
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Themes in Biblical Narrative 9
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Revelation of the Name YHWH to Moses : Perspectives from Judaism, the Pagan Graeco-Roman World, and Early Christianity
    Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc ; God Comparative studies Name ; Greece Religion ; Rome Religion
    Abstract: The revelation of YHWH's name to Moses is a momentous event according to the Old Testament. The name 'Yahweh' is of central importance in Judaism, and 'Yahwism' became tantamount to Jewish monotheism. As such, this designation of God also attracted the attention of pagan writers in the Graeco-Roman period. And early Christians had to deal with this divine name as well. These three perspectives on YHWH constitute the framework for this volume. It appears that the Name of God and its revelation to Moses constitute a major theme which runs from the book of Exodus through the Old Testament, early Judaism, and early Christianity. It also attracted pagan philosophical interest, both positive and negative. The Name of God was not only perceived from an insider's perspective, but also provoked a reaction from outsiders. The combined perspectives show the fundamental importance of the divine Name for the formation of Jewish and Christian identities
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  • 24
    ISBN: 9789047417323 , 9789004149052
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 126
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als "Take Hold of the Robe of a Jew": Herbert of Bosham's Christian Hebraism
    Keywords: Christianity and other religions Judaism ; Judaism Relations ; Christianity
    Abstract: This engaging, meticulously documented study explores the complex, sometimes conflicting motives of Christian hebraists. It locates Herbert of Bosham's twelfth-century Psalms commentary at the nexus of the intellectual and social movements of his day, and elucidates the complex situations that contributed to Christians' divergent perspectives on the Jews. Was the twelfth century a rare period of collaboration between Christian and Jewish exegetes, or did anti-Semitism originate in the texts of the era's Christian polemicists? Modern scholars have been divided on these questions. This study of Herbert's commentary, which relied on the Hebrew commentary of R. Solomon ben Isaac of Troyes, articulates a more nuanced, integrated approach to medieval Jewish-Christian relations, and provides transcriptions from the unpublished manuscript
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Life of a Twelfth-Century Intellectual -- 2. Herbert of Bosham's Psalterium cum commento -- 3. Twelfth-Century Christian Hebraism in Context -- 4. Colonizing the Territory of Scripture -- 5. The Linguistic and Cultural Horizons of Herbert's Hebraism -- 6. Herbert's Hermeneutic of the Literal Sense -- 7. Herbert as Expositor: The Faithful Synagogue -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.
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  • 25
    ISBN: 9789047418641 , 9789004151772
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 5
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rational Theology in Interfaith Communication : Abu-I-Husayn al-Basri's Mu'tazili Theology among the Karaites in the Fatimid Age
    Keywords: Islam Doctrines ; Islam Relations ; Judaism ; Judaism Relations ; Islam ; Karaites ; Motazilites
    Abstract: Rational speculative theology (kalam) in early Islam was represented most distinctly by the theological school of the Mu'tazila. Founded in Basra in the early 8th century, the school soon became predominant in theological scholarship and discourse and remained so until the early 11th century. The Mu'tazila held that the basic truths of theology, such as the existence of God and the nature of His attributes and justice, are entirely subject to rational proof without the benefit of scriptural revelation. Only after these basic truths have been established can the veracity of scripture be proved by reason, and the primacy of reason must also maintained in the interpretation of scripture. Mu'tazili theology naturally appealed to rationally inclined theologians of other scriptural religions and provided a suitable basis for inter-faith communication in the Islamic world. In Judaism Mu'tazili thought was adopted to varying degrees from the 9th century on and reached a peak during the tenth century. The Mu'tazili world view and rational theology was facing increasing competition and criticism from philosophy of Greek origin, which claimed to provide the only scientific world view based on cogent logical demonstration independent of religious beliefs. Study of the philosophical sciences was mostly shunned in religious scholarship, but was an integral part of the education of the medical profession. Among Qadi 'Abd al-Jabbar's disciples in Rayy was for some time a young physician trained in the philosophical sciences, Abu l-Husayn al-Basri (d. 1044), who challenged some of his teaching in his lectures and went on to compose a massive critical review of the arguments and proofs used in kalam. His theological works were generally ignored among the Mu'tazila and handed down among students of medicine. Only a century later his teaching was revived and espoused by the Mu'tazili scholar Mahmud b. al-Malahimi in Khorezm in Central Asia and gained recognition as a school of Mu'tazili theology. The present study presents evidence that Abu l-Husayn's theology was immediately registered and controversially debated in the Karaite community under the Fatimid caliphate. The study is based on source material preserved in Genizahs and now dispersed in libraries around the world
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    Leiden : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789047406884 , 9789004142343
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 20
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Studies on Astral Magic in Medieval Jewish Thought
    Keywords: Jewish astrology History ; Jewish magic History
    Abstract: The book describes a fascinating encounter between astrology and magic, exposing how Hermetic magic seeped into Jewish literature and Jewish philosophy. Following astral magic in its convoluted course, this original work sheds new light on rationalist Jewish thought in the Middle Ages. Having attained its authority mostly from its use in medical practice, astral magic also developed a theology and provided a key to biblical interpretation. Judah Halevi, Nahmanides, and others explained the meaning and influence of the commandments according to magic-astral models and techniques, generating a new perspective within medieval Jewish philosophy. The book is intended for scholars of philosophy, Jewish thought, astrology and magic, as well as for the general public with an interest in these areas
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  • 27
    ISBN: 9789047415794 , 9789004146549
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Studies in Central European Histories 39
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sensationalizing the Jewish Question: Anti-Semitic Trials and the Press in the Early German Empire
    Keywords: Antisemitism in the press ; Antisemitism History 19th century ; Jews Press coverage 19th century ; History ; Jews History 1800-1933 ; Trials History 19th century ; Germany Ethnic relations ; Germany History 1871-1918
    Abstract: Historians have generally assumed that the French Dreyfus Affair had no counterpart in turn-of-the-century Germany. However, while no single anti-Semitic trial in Germany had the social and political impact of the Dreyfus Affair, a series of sensational court cases did have a significant influence on the growth and development of anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany. These trials, which included prominent libel cases and several ritual murder accusations, frequently spurred debates in the German press about the nature of Judaism and the role and influence of Jews in German society. This book examines the nature of these anti-Semitic affairs, assesses their role in German politics, and evaluates their effect on the overall development of German anti-Semitism
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. An Empire Transformed: Politics, Anti-Semitism, and the Law in the Time of Bismarck -- 2. Fighting Words: Libel Trials, Jews, and the Cult of Honor -- 3. Arson in Neustettin: The Limits of Anti-Jewish Violence in the New Reich -- 4. Ritual Murder Trials: Ancient Prejudice and Modern Propaganda -- 5. A Matter of Debate: Scholars and Pseudo-Scholars Testify on the Nature of Judaism -- 6. The New Demagogues: Hermann Ahlwardt and the Rise of Fanatical Anti-Semitism -- Conclusion -- Appendix: An Overview of the German Press in the Bismarckzeit -- Bibliography -- Index.
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  • 28
    ISBN: 9789047415527 , 9789004141797
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 104
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Josephus and Jewish History in Flavian Rome and Beyond
    Keywords: Josephus, Flavius Congresses ; History writing ; Writing history ; Jews Congresses History 586 B.C.-70 A.D
    Abstract: The essays in this volume focus on the relationship between Josephus' Judean and Jewish identity on the one hand, and his life and writings in the context of Flavian Rome on the other. From very different points of view the various contributions to this volume, which is the fruit of an international colloquium entitled 'Josephus between Jerusalem and Rome' held in the city of Rome in 2003, shed light on the complex cultural interplay in Josephus' writings. After examining more general historiographical and literary questions, the volume proceeds to address specific issues of Josephus' presentation of Judaism and of historical "data", inter alia about the war of 66-70 CE. A final section deals with the translation and transmission of his works
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  • 29
    ISBN: 9789047407539 , 9789004143944
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Jewish Identities in a Changing World 5
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Is Israel One? : Religion, Nationalism, and Multiculturalism Confounded
    Keywords: Cultural pluralism ; Jews Identity ; Multiculturalism ; National characteristics, Israeli
    Abstract: This book delves into Israeli society where internal divides have emerged from divergent value systems in a context of powerful globalization, immigrant-society behavior, and a sharp majority-minority division. A short but hectic experience, Jewish nationalism draws its vitality from reformulations of ancestral symbols which permeate the dynamics of the confrontations of the dominant culture and numerous parties, all contesting its exigencies. Israel's conflicts revolve around this issue, forming a unique dynamic of multiple interacting forces of convergence and divergence. This case raises several major questions about the sociology of multiculturalism. Is Israel One?' was selected Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2006
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    Online Resource
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    Leiden : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789047416845 , 9789004148055
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 26
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Central Problems of Medieval Jewish Philosophy
    Keywords: Jewish philosophy ; Philosophy, Medieval
    Abstract: This book deals with central issues of medieval Jewish philosophy. Among the subjects treated are divine immanence, the intellect, miracles, and esoteric writing and its limits. The work provides a new perspective on the history of Jewish philosophy in the Middle Ages. Relying on many as yet unpublished manuscripts, which enable it to offer new insights relating to such thinkers as Judah Halevi, Maimonides, and Gersonides, it also presents a new and original perception of the dynamics of Jewish thought in general
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  • 31
    ISBN: 9789047407768 , 9789004144477
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 102
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Households, Sects, and the Origins of Rabbinic Judaism
    Keywords: Households Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Jewish sects History To 1500 ; Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D ; Judaism Social aspects ; Rabbinical literature History and criticism
    Abstract: This book suggests a new approach to the social history of Jewish religious movements in the Second Temple and early Rabbinic periods. It argues that most of these movements and their traditions emerged within the context of complex interaction between traditional families and disciple circles. The first part of the book examines the development of Jewish religious movements during the Second Temple period. It culminates with the discussion of the Dead Sea Sect, which is analyzed as the first unambiguous example of a movement shifting from a social structure based on families to a social structure based on disciple circles. The second part of the book discusses the history of pharisaic and early rabbinic movements from a similar perspective. Topics covered in the book will be of interest to scholars of Judaism and Early Christianity
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  • 32
    ISBN: 9789047403999 , 9789004113572
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 96
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Law in the Documents of the Judaean Desert
    Keywords: Jewish law Congresses History To 1500 ; Sources ; Judaism Congresses History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D ; Sources
    Abstract: The discovery in the Judaean desert between 1951 and 1961 of documentary papyri from the period of the Bar-Kochba Revolt in the early second century opened for the first time a window on the lives of Jewish lay people on the periphery of Judaea in a critical period of history. By the year 2000 these texts were published in full. Of particular interest was the light they shed on the interplay of Jewish, Greek and Roman law in the Roman provinces of Judaea and Arabia. In the current volume leading scholars from Europe, America and Israel debate the major questions raised by these texts and offer new insights into the material and its implications
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  • 33
    ISBN: 9789047406068 , 9789004140127
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia 96
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jews and Muslims in Lower Yemen : A Study in Protection and Restraint, 1918-1949
    Keywords: Dhimmis (Islamic law) ; Jewish-Arab relations History 1917-1948 ; Jews Legal status, laws, etc ; Jews Social conditions 20th century ; Yemen, South Ethnic relations
    Abstract: This fascinating microhistory unveils networks of extended interpersonal relationships between Jewish villagers and members of their Muslim surroundings in the decades preceding their 1949 departure from Lower Yemen. In a multi-layered narrative crafted from letters and legal documents in Arabic and an accompanying supply of Judeo-Arabic narratives, the book portrays how religiously subordinated individuals strove to pursue their interests without forgoing the protection of the dominant majority. At once shedding new light on both Jewish history and on rural Yemeni-Muslim history, the work provides a rare, pre-republican (pre-1962) portrait of rural life in Lower Yemen while positioning the Jewish community in the context of hitherto little-understood social, legal, economic and political systems
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  • 34
    ISBN: 9789047406426 , 9789004141094
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Jewish Identities in a Changing World 4
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Survival Through Integration : American Reform Jewish Universalism and the Holocaust
    Keywords: Morgenstern, Julian ; Antisemitism ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence ; Jews Cultural assimilation ; Reform Judaism Essence, genius, nature ; Zionism
    Abstract: The book focuses on the most prominent exponents of the universalistic ideology of American Reform Judaism in the 1930s and 1940s. Those who attempted to maintain unquestioning fealty to the principles of universalistic Reform, even in view of the disheartening realities of the Holocaust, are the heroes of the plot that unfolds here. The way they struggled for their beliefs should be viewed as a point of departure for a more general discussion of the challenge posed by the Holocaust to the modern Jewish belief in the possibility and desirability of full cultural and social Jewish integration into non-Jewish society at large
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  • 35
    ISBN: 9789047408260 , 9789004146402
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Clavis Commentariorum Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi 4
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Clavis Commentariorum of Hebrew Liturgical Poetry in Manuscript
    Keywords: Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew Manuscripts ; Indexes ; Manuscripts, Hebrew ; Piyutim Manuscripts ; Indexes
    Abstract: This volume is a compendium of all known commentaries on Hebrew liturgical poetry (piyyut) preserved in manuscript form. It includes references to commentaries from many different Jewish communities, most prominent among them Ashkenaz, Tsarfat, Sepharad, Carpentras and Yemen, composed and copied in Medieval and Early Modern times. Over 18,000 individual commentaries on more than 2,000 poems are listed with primary sources and references to editions where extant. As an aid to research, it describes a vast but hitherto neglected genre of medieval Hebrew literature and maps out a whole new field of investigation into medieval Jewish textual culture. This catalogue enables users to find manuscript commentaries on most piyyutim that were included in liturgies in major Jewish communities
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS -- Preface -- Transcription Table -- Introduction -- List of Manuscripts -- Clavis Commentariorum -- Bibliography -- Index of Poets -- Index of Commentators.
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  • 36
    ISBN: 9789047416609 , 9789004137523
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 105
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha : Jewish, Christian, or Other?
    Keywords: Apocryphal books (Old Testament) ; Apocryphal books (Old Testament) Authorship ; Apocryphal books (Old Testament) Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Abstract: The Old Testament pseudepigrapha are ancient quasi-biblical texts inspired by the Hebrew Bible. Although frequently mined as Jewish background by New Testament specialists, they were transmitted almost entirely in Christian circles, often only in translation. Christian authors wrote some pseudepigrapha and did not necessarily always mention explicitly Christian topics. This book challenges the assumption that pseudepigrapha are Jewish compositions until proven otherwise. It proposes a methodology for understanding them first in the social context of their earliest manuscripts, inferring still earlier origins only as required by positive evidence while considering the full range of possible authors (Jews, Christians, "God-fearers," Samaritans, etc.). It analyzes a substantial corpus of pseudepigrapha, distinguishing those that are probably Jewish from those of more doubtful origins
    Description / Table of Contents: Jewish Pseudepigrapha and Christian Apocrypha : (how) can we tell them apart? -- Did Christians write Old Testament Pseudepigrapha that appear to be Jewish? -- Jewish Pseudepigrapha -- Some Pseudepigrapha of debatable origins -- Conclusions.
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  • 37
    ISBN: 9789047404156 , 9789004123731
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 94
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jewish Funerary Customs, Practices and Rites in the Second Temple Period
    Keywords: Jewish mourning customs ; Tombs Palestine
    Abstract: Research of burials constitutes one of the main reliable sources of information related to various aspects of funerary practices and rituals, and offers a perception of ancient social life and community organization. The material remains of mortuary rituals is effective in reconstructing the history of a society, its religious beliefs and its social outlook. Tombs offer ample data on the artistic taste evinced by funerary architecture and the ornamentation of receptacles and objects. Changes in Jewish funerary practices did not alter the plan and architecture of the tombs. Though the funerary rites changed from inhumation in coffins and loculi to secondary burial by collecting bones in ossuaries the artifacts associated with these graves did not modify much and indicate that these were culturally and socially identical people. The study outlines the material preserved in the ancient Jewish cemeteries of the Second Temple period (first century BCE to first century CE) at Jerusalem, Jericho, 'En Gedi, Qumran and some other tomb sites
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  • 38
    ISBN: 9789047404200 , 9789004124271
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Uniform Title: Oudisraëlitische en vroegjoodse literatuur
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ancient Israelite and Early Jewish Literature
    Keywords: Bible Introductions ; Bible Introductions ; Dead Sea scrolls ; Apocryphal books (Old Testament) Introductions ; Apocryphal books (Old Testament) Introductions ; Apocryphes (Ancien Testament) Introductions
    Abstract: Ancient Israelite and Early Jewish Literature offers more than simply an introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible). The Hebrew Bible remains not only the primary quantitative source for our knowledge of the literature of Ancient Israel, it also enjoys decisive religious and cultural significance for both Judaism and Christianity. However, increased interest in Early Judaism as successor to the religion of Ancient Israel and background to the New Testament demands an introduction that guides the reader through the maze of Jewish literature dating from the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods. This introduction primarily offers a literary and historical-critical approach to the material it treats. Given the nature of certain Ancient Israelite inscriptions, the books of the Hebrew bible and the texts of Early Judaism, however, it contains some religio-historical or theological explanations where appropriate. In particular, the literary-historical analysis found in this volume underlines the canonical character of the Hebrew Bible. The book concludes with a helpful appendix that briefly explains technical concepts and exegetical methods
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  • 39
    ISBN: 9789047405535 , 9789004138971
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 93
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als La guerre et les rites de guerre dans le judaïsme du deuxième Temple
    Keywords: Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D ; Military history in the Bible ; Purity, Ritual Biblical teaching ; Sacrifice Judaism ; War Religious aspects ; Judaism
    Abstract: This work deals with the Jewish warfare in the Hellenistic and Roman Antiquity from the point of view of the religious rites which, for the Ancients, were a necessary part of all social activity. The author rejects the traditional concept of "Holy War" and prefers to emphasise the diversity of representations of war in the Judaism of the Second Temple. The book deals with questions linked to the status of warriors and priests who were involved in war with regard to purity laws. It analyses the rituals specific to military operations. It deals with the Sabbath, with the war oracle of the ourim and toummim as well as the different types of sacrifices associated with war. The book presents a comprehensive but diverse and contrasted portrait of the Jewish practises and representations of war in Ancient times
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  • 40
    ISBN: 9789047416517 , 9789004140493
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 99
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Markets and Marketing in Roman Palestine
    Keywords: Jews History 70-638 ; Marketing History To 1500 ; Markets History To 1500
    Abstract: The book presents a variety of topics relating to the market in Roman Palestine. The book deals with the main elements of commercial life - the different types of markets and the entities and figures that played a part in it. It portrays the process by which the flow of goods in the market occurs - from the end of the production process, via the entire range of middlemen, to the end user. A chapter is devoted to the pricing of merchandise in the economy of Roman Palestine. It offers a comprehensive framework which includes the techniques by which prices were determined and enforced. Other chapters deal with the image of the different market vendors, as viewed by the public and by the Jewish sages, and the commercial activity that took place in and around the synagogues. The book is based on a combination of rabbinic, literary and archaeological sources as well as epigraphic findings. It depicts the economy of Roman Palestine against the backdrop of the Roman Empire
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  • 41
    ISBN: 9789047407720 , 9789004144385
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 100
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture : Essays on the Jewish Encounter with Hellenism and Roman Rule
    Keywords: Jews Civilization ; Jews History 168 B.C.-135 A.D ; Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
    Abstract: This is a collection of 12 essays, written since 1997, on themes related to Hellenistic (Greek-speaking) Judaism. They include a review essay on recent scholarship on Hellenistic Judaism, a discussion of the question of anti-Semitism in antiquity, a study of the Hellenistic reform in Jerusalem, several studies of individual texts and an essay on the circumstances that led to the first Jewish revolt against Rome
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  • 42
    ISBN: 9789047407546 , 9789004144026
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 21
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Between Alexandria and Jerusalem : The Dynamic of Jewish and Hellenistic Culture
    Keywords: Jews History 586 BC-70 AD ; Jews Rome ; Civilization
    Abstract: Between Alexandria and Jerusalem examines the dynamics of Hellenistic and Jewish cultures. It begins by looking at the changes in mentality as reflected in papyri of Roman Egypt, the birth of a qualified audience looking for teachers and preachers and requiring a new culture. This same phenomenon emerged in Rabbinic society. Rabbinic literature was different not only from the Bible, but from Alexandrian exegesis as well. However, Alexandrian exegesis paved the way for rabbinic Midrash. The book defies the understanding of culture as a combination of various petrified 'patterns,' Jewish and Hellenic. It also challenges the idea of 'separate' Jewish cultures. Rather, it endeavors to trace tremendous cultural changes. It was exactly these changes that connected one period to another, one literature to another, and thus embodied continuity and unity of culture
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  • 43
    ISBN: 9789047407843 , 9789004144590
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: IJS Studies in Judaica 4
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Officina Magica : Essays on the Practice of Magic in Antiquity
    Keywords: Jewish magic Congresses ; Magic in rabbinical literature Congresses ; Magic, Ancient Congresses
    Abstract: This book discusses various aspects of the theory and practice of magic in antique cultures around the Mediterranean. While some of its contributors address problems of methodology of research into magic and the definition of magic, others deal with specific historical and textual issues. Although a major focus is on Jewish texts ranging from antiquity to the medieval period, the book also includes studies of several magical texts from ancient Mesopotamia and their impact on later magical practice, and studies of Greek and Zoroastrian texts and artifacts. The approaches thus range from the examination of textual or visual sources to theoretical issues such as the history of research and the definition of magic
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  • 44
    ISBN: 9789047405115 , 9789004137967
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 91
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als On Earth as in Heaven : The Restoration of Sacred Time and Sacred Space in the Book of Jubilees
    Keywords: Book of Jubilees Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Jewish calendar ; Jewish chronology ; Sacred space ; Time Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Palestine In Judaism
    Abstract: This volume deals with the chronological and spatial conceptions underlying the Book of Jubilees, a Jewish apocalyptic writing of the mid-second century BCE, and shows how in these respects Jubilees forms a bridge between the earlier Enochic tradition and the later Qumran sectarian writings. The book argues essentially that for Jubilees, the consummation of the ages will effect the restoration of sacred space and sacred time, so that all things correspond to God's original will for the creation on earth as in heaven. This book has important implications not only for the study of Jubilees itself and other Jewish writings of the Second Temple period, but also for research on early Christian chiliasm
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    ISBN: 9789047415633 , 9789004145788
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 101
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rabbinic Categories : Construction and Comparison
    Keywords: Aggada History and criticism ; Jewish law ; Judaism Doctrines ; Judaism Sacred books
    Abstract: A systematic study of the canonical construction of Rabbinic categories, Halakhic, then Aggadic, followed by a comparison of the theological category-formations in Rabbinic Judaism, generative vs. inert, primary vs. subordinate. The book provides a systematic and thorough account of the rules of making connections and drawing conclusions that govern in classes of documents, for the Halakhah from the Mishnah through the Bavli, for the Aggadah from Scripture through the Midrash-compilations, Genesis Rabbah, Leviticus Rabbah, and Pesiqta deRab Kahana; for both the Mishnah and Scripture through the Bavli. The book then compares and contrasts theological category-formations of the Rabbinic Aggadic writings by the criteria indicated in the title: generative vs. inert, primary vs. subordinate
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  • 46
    ISBN: 9789047404071 , 9789004119628
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Studies in Jewish History and Culture 10
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Challenging Colonial Discourse : Jewish Studies and Protestant Theology in Wilhelmine Germany
    Keywords: Jewish learning and scholarship ; Judaism (Christian theology) History ; Judaism Controversial literature ; History and criticism ; Judaism History To 70 A.D ; Historiography ; Judaism History 19th century ; Judaism History 20th century
    Abstract: On the basis of postcolonial theory, this study shows how Jewish scholars, in the controversies about the "essence" of Judaism and Christianity at the beginning of the 20th century, challenged the intellectual hegemony of Liberal Protestantism in Germany. By carefully examining the impact of the political circumstances-the loss of relevance of political liberalism, the spreading of antisemitism, and the crisis of Jewish identity in an age of contested emancipation and assimilation-on the theological discourse, it provides a critical analysis of anti-Jewish implications of Protestant theology in the 19th and 20th centuries and discusses the function of Jewish polemics against Protestant distortions of Jewish history, religion and culture. Furthermore, it develops important guidelines for a contemporary interdisciplinary relationship between Jewish Studies and Christian theology
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    ISBN: 9789047415787 , 9789004148093
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    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 7
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Sicily, Volume 7 (1478-1489)
    Keywords: Cairo Genizah ; Jewish diaspora Sources History ; Jews Sources History 70-1789 ; Jews Sources History ; Jews Sources History
    Abstract: This volume in the series Documentary History of the Jews in Italy illustrates the history of the Jews in Sicily from 1478 to 1489. It is the sequel to the first six volumes and covers the events during the first years of the rule of King Ferdinand II. These include the prelude to the expulsion, which witnessed a further deterioration in the position of the Jews on the island. At the same time, the Jewish community on the island reached the points of its greatest expansion in population as well as economic prosperity. Some 900 documents--many of them published here for the first time--record the fortunes of the Jews and their relationship with the authorities and their Christian neighbours. Much new information has come to light, and many facets of Jewish life in Sicily have been uncovered. The abundance of historical records in the archives of the Crown and of local authorities again compares favourably with the relative scarcity of surviving documentation in earlier centuries. Therefore, many documents had to be reported in summary form. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction will appear at the end of the series on the history of the Jews of the island
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  • 48
    ISBN: 9789004495326 , 9789023240778
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Matthew and the Didache : Two Documents from the Same Jewish-Christian Milieu?
    Keywords: Didache Criticism, Interpretation, etc ; Didachè ; Early Church ; Judaism ; Matthew (Book of the Bible)
    Abstract: The Didache, or Doctrine of the Twelve Apostles, is an important source for our knowledge of early Christianity. The Didache demonstrates that we should understand nascent Christianity and early Judaism as sharing to a large extent the same traditions. The volume throws fresh light on the Jewishness of the Two Ways teaching in Didache 1-6. It presents a cautious reconstruction of the Jewish prototype of the Two Ways and traces the Jewish life situation in which the instruction could emerge and flourish. This attempt is important, as it provides us with a Jewish source (and its transmission) underlying Christian and Jewish writings. For example, it is shown how acquaintance with these traditional materials benefits our perception of the antithetical section in Matthew 5:17-48. In the field of liturgical studies, a significant contribution is made to the discussion of Didache 7-10. It improves our understanding of the Jewish provenance and historical development of Baptism and the Eucharist. The book also presents an intriguing look into the redactional stages behind the materials about church discipline. The ministry of itinerant apostles and prophets moving from town to town, and their settling down in the community, is considered in the perspective of the larger environment of Jewish religious and cultural history. This volume will prove indispensable for all those engaged in the study of early Judaism, the New Testament, Patristics, the origins of Christian liturgy, and early Church history in general
    Description / Table of Contents: I Milieu -- 1 Hypotheses on the Development of Judaism and Christianity in Syria in the Period after 70 C.E. - Bas ter Haar Romeny -- 2 The Milieu of Matthew, the Didache, and Ignatius of Antioch: Agreements and Differences - Clayton N. Jefford -- II The Two Documents: Their Provenance and Origin -- 3 The History and Social Setting of the Matthean Community - Wim Weren -- 4 When, Why, and for Whom Was the Didache Created? Insights into the Social and Historical Setting of the Didache communities - Aaron Milavec -- III Two Documents from the Same Jewish-Christian Milieu? -- 5 The Sermon on the Mount and the Two Ways Teaching of the Didache - Kari Syreeni -- 6 The Use of the Synoptics or Q in Did. 1:3b-2:1 - John S. Kloppenborg -- 7 The Halakhic Evidence of Didache 8 and Matthew 6 and the Didache Community's Relationship to Judaism - Peter J. Tomson -- 8 Didache 9-10: A Litmus Test for the Research on Early Christian Liturgy Eucharist - Gerard Rouwhorst -- 9 Les charismatiques itinérants dans la Didachè et dans l'Évangile de Matthieu (with an English abstract) - André Tuilier -- 10 Two Windows on a Developing Jewish-Christian Reproof Practice: Matt 18:15-17 and Did. 15:3 - Huub van de Sandt -- 11 Eschatology in the Didache and the Gospel of Matthew - Joseph Verheyden -- 12 Do the Didache and Matthew Reflect an "Irrevocable Parting of the Ways" with Judaism? - Jonathan A. Draper.
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  • 49
    ISBN: 9789047415343 , 9789004131163
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 103
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Die Gottesvorstellungen in der antik-jüdischen Apokalyptik
    Keywords: Apocalyptic literature History and criticism ; God (Judaism) Attributes ; Judaism History of doctrines ; Theophanies
    Abstract: This monograph studies the theological motivations behind certain Jewish apocalypses by focusing on the mighty acts of God recounted in these writings. In particular, the work examines the various depictions of God's acts and attributes as a means for learning about the individuals and groups responsible for the transmission of these apocalypses. Three prominent motifs, among others, receive attention here: theophanies (e.g., I Enoch 1:3-9; 25:3; 77:1; Daniel 4:10, 20; 7:9-10, 13-14), portrayals of the resurrection (e.g., I Enoch 102 - 104; Daniel 12:1-3), and interpretations of the (Babylonian) Exile in connection with the "new creation" (e.g., Qumran, Jubilees, Pseudo-Philo). Apocalypticism provides a framework for various theologies. Generally speaking, God is shown as the most prominent figure in these dramas of eschatological events. The authors of these writings typically held that their only deliverance could arise from the imminent arrival of an otherworldly eon ushered in by the power of God
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    ISBN: 9789004495333 , 9789023240747
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    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als From Joshua to Caiaphas : High Priests after the Exile
    Keywords: Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
    Abstract: Customers in North America who wish to purchase this publication, please contact Augsburg Fortress Press . From Joshua To Caiaphas: High Priests After The Exile by James C. VanderKam (John A. O'Brien Professor of Hebrew Scriptures, University of Notre Dame) is a comprehensive, 548-page history of the high priests who served in the Second Temple period of Israel and their influence and importance in understanding early Judaism. A masterpiece of scholarship and research, Professor VanderKam writes with a distinctive clarity that allows even the non-specialist general reader to come away with a comprehensive and coherent understanding of Temple Judaism as represented by the fifty-one men who served as high priest from about 515 BCE down to 70CE when the Jerusalem temple was destroyed by the Romans. No Old Testament Studies, Israelite History, or Judaic Studies collection can be considered either comprehensive or complete without the inclusion of this impressive and seminal work. Also very highly recommended are Professor VanderKam's previous contributions: The Dead Sea Scrolls Today (1994); An Introduction To Early Judaism (2001); The Book Of Jubilees (2001); and The Meaning Of The Dead Sea Scrolls (which was co-authored with Peter Flint, 2002)
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  • 51
    ISBN: 9789047407294 , 9789004143302
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Biblia Qumranica 3
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Biblia Qumranica : Volume 3 B. Minor Prophets
    Keywords: Dead Sea Scrolls
    Abstract: The biblical Dead Sea Scrolls are about a thousand years older than the earliest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible and provide crucial insights into the history of the biblical texts. The Biblia Qumranica is the first comparative edition of these unique textual witnesses. The present volume provides a synopsis of the Minor Prophets manuscripts from Qumran and the other sites at the Dead Sea. In addition the Masoretic text (according to Codex Leningradiensis) and the Septuagint (according to the Göttingen edition) are included as reference texts. The Biblia Qumranica is a unique tool for text-critical analysis which allows for the first time to analyse and interpret the textual witnesses of the Hebrew Bible as preserved from the Second Temple period in comparison to each other
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  • 52
    ISBN: 9789047406891 , 9789004142350
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Themes in Biblical Narrative 8
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Creation of Heaven and Earth : Re-interpretations of Genesis I in the Context of Judaism, Ancient Philosophy, Christianity, and Modern Physics
    Keywords: Bible Congresses Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Bible Congresses Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Biblical cosmology Congresses ; Cosmology Congresses History ; Creation Congresses Biblical teaching
    Abstract: This volume discusses the narrative of the creation of heaven, earth and light in the first chapter of Genesis and focuses extensively on its later interpretations in different cultural and religious contexts. After an introductory paper on the text of Genesis itself, the authors deal with receptions of this theme in the Prophet Jeremiah, Early Judaism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. They comment on creation accounts in the Ancient Near East, Ancient Greece and ancient philosophy, reconstructing the earliest known receptions of Genesis 1 in ancient philosophers like Numenius and Galen. They trace its influence in the Johannine, Petrine and Pauline traditions of Early Christianity, and follow it right through the Middle Ages up till the present-day discussion of design in Nature
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Creation in Genesis, Jeremiah, the Ancient Near East and Early Judaism -- 1) The Creation of Light in Genesis 1:1-5: Remarks on the Function of Light and Darkness in the Opening Verses of the Hebrew Bible -- 2) Back to Chaos: The Relationship between Jeremiah 4:23-26 and Genesis 1 -- 3) 'Lights Serving as Signs for Festivals' (Genesis 1:14b) in Enūma Eliš and Early Judaism -- 4) Creation in the Dead Sea Scrolls - -- Part II Creation in Ancient Greece, Ancient Philosophy, and the Earliest Graeco-Roman Interpretations of Genesis 1 -- (5) Canonical and Alternative Creation Myths in Ancient Greece -- (6) Cosmic Gods and Primordial Chaos in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy: The Context of Philo's Interpretation of Plato's Timaeus and the Book of Genesis -- (7) God the Creator, God the Creation: Numenius' Interpretation of Genesis 1:2 (Frg. 30) -- (8) Galen and Genesis -- Part III. Creation in the Johannine, Petrine, and Pauline Literatures -- (9) The 'True Light which Enlightens Everyone' (John 1:9): John, Genesis, the Platonic Notion of the 'True, Noetic Light,' and the Allegory of the Cave in Plato's Republic -- (10) Creation 'Out of' and 'Through' Water in 2 Peter 3:5 -- (11) The History of Religions Background to 1 Timothy 4:4: 'Everything that God has Created is Good' - -- Part IV. Creation in the Middle Ages and Modernity -- (12) Reading Creation: Early Medieval Views on Genesis and Plato's Timaeus -- (13) Design in Nature: Some Current Issues -- (14) Design in Nature: Some Comments from the Ancient Perspective - Index of Ancient Texts.
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  • 53
    ISBN: 9789047414773 , 9789004126473
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader, Volume 3 Parabiblical Texts
    Keywords: Intertestamental literature ; Translation
    Abstract: This edition presents for the first time all the non-biblical Qumran texts classified according to their genres, together with English translations. Of these texts, some twenty were not previously published. The Hebrew-Aramaic texts in this edition are mainly based on the FARMS database of Brigham Young University, which, in its turn, reflects the text editions of the ancient scrolls (mainly DJD ) with great precision, including modern diacritical signs. The Reader consists of six individual parts. The purpose of the classification is to enhance the research facilities of the individual texts within their respective genres, especially in courses at Universities and Colleges
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  • 54
    ISBN: 9789047415329 , 9789004143760
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    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 98
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Book of Tobit: Text, Tradition, Theology : Papers of the First International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Pápa, Hungary, 20-21 May, 2004
    Keywords: Conference papers and proceedings ; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Abstract: This volume contains the proceedings of the first of an international series of conferences on the deuterocanonical literature organised by the Shime'on Centre in Pápa, Hungary. Renowned international scholars of the field treat questions of text in the Book of Tobit, the underlying traditions and theological questions. The importance of the deuterocanonical corpus is widely recognised in contemporary scholarship. This is marked by the growing number of related publications. Yet it remains important to create an opportunity to work through the entire deuterocanonical material as such. These conferences aim to provide a yearly forum for discussion of this literature. The next conferences planned are on Maccabees (2005), Sirach (2006), Wisdom (2007), Additions (2008) and Judith (2009), and as a result, the organisers plan to publish five more volumes. Together with the present volume these will cover the entire deuterocanonical corpus
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  • 55
    ISBN: 9789047416388 , 9789004145139
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 23
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Judaism from Moses to Muhammad: An Interpretation : Turning Points and Focal Points
    Keywords: Judaism History Talmudic period, 10-425 ; Judaism Talmudic period
    Abstract: This book answers the following question for Judaism: among all the things that happened in antiquity, what are the events that, seen from the perspective of the world that would endure, turn out to shape the long future? How did axiological events identify the focal points of the unfolding religious system, Judaism, in its formulation by the rabbinic sages of ancient times? This is the system that originated, in its own telling, with God's teaching to Moses at Sinai in the Torah, in written and traditional form. Of all that happened to the Jews in the millennium from the formation of the Pentateuch ("Moses") to the end of the formative age ("Muhammad"), the particular Judaism that emerged as normative responded to only a select few and did so within a logic all its own. Here we identify those definitive events of danger and opportunity - crisis - and the focal points that they highlighted
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    ISBN: 9789004502734 , 9789023237150
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    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
    Keywords: Old Testament ; Textcritical ; Texts
    Abstract: Customers in North America who wish to purchase this publication, please contact Augsburg Fortress Press. First published in 1992, Emanuel Tov’s Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible has rapidly established itself as the authoritative reference work for all those engaged in the study of the text of the Hebrew Bible. This thoroughly revised second edition will be welcomed by students and scholars alike. A wide range of readers will find this book accessible and indispensable. Emanuel Tov offers extensive descriptions of the major witnesses to the text of the Hebrew Bible–the Hebrew texts from Qumran, the Septuagint, the Masoretic Text–as well as the Aramaic Targumim, the Syriac translations, the Vulgate, and others. Special attention is given to the exegetical aspects of the textual transmission, literary issues, and the problem of the original shape of the biblical text. Praise for the First Edition: “Emanuel Tov is preeminent in the world in the field of Septuagint studies. This is a solid and durable work which, given its technical character, is written in a readable way.” Frank Moore Cross, Harvard University “Nowhere else can you find such a thorough presentation of how the Bible was transmitted in Second Temple times. This excellently written handbook represents a major step forward for biblical studies.” Lawrence Schiffman, New York University “History will surely regard Emanuel Tov’s monumental work as the definitive discussion of textual criticism of this generation. A ‘must-have’ for any serious scholar of the Bible!” Sidnie A. White, University of Nebraska “The basic reference work on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible for at least the next decade. This is a magisterial work which is badly needed and masterfully done.” Journal for the Study of Judaism “This book will soon be viewed as a classic of biblical studies.” Ralph W. Klein, Journal of Religion “Replete with examples, tables, plates, lucid definitions and explanations, as well as extensive bibliographies, the volume brings together a wealth of information not previously so accessible and makes the theory and practice of textual criticism easily understandable and visually clear.” Judith E. Sanderson, Seattle University
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    ISBN: 9789004496873 , 9789004114142
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1999
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 60
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Empowerment of Women in the Book of Jubilees
    Keywords: Book of Jubilees Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Women in Judaism ; Women in the Bible
    Abstract: This volume examines the unusual interest in women characters displayed in the Book of Jubilees , an interpretive reworking of the biblical narratives of Genesis through Exodus 12, written in the second century BCE. Demonstrating a pattern in the characterizations, the study shows how a matrilineal standard of ethnic purity and elevation of the biblical matriarchs function as key aspects in a polemic against the acceptance of foreigners into the community. The latter part of the book explores the exegetical techniques used to develop the portraits and places the polemic in the historical context of Second Temple Judaism. The work is important for those interested in the history of biblical interpretation, in post biblical Jewish literature and the historical development of Judaism, and the portrayals of women in Hebrew Scriptures
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  • 58
    ISBN: 9789004509535 , 9789004113268
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1999
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 2
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Genoa, Volume 2: 1682-1799 : Documentary History of the Jews in Italy
    Keywords: Jewish diaspora Sources History ; Jews Sources History 70-1789 ; Jews Sources History ; Jews Sources History
    Abstract: These volumes of the "Documentary History of the Jews in Italy", illustrate the history of the Jews in Genoa and surroundings from Antiquity to the French Revolution. The earliest documentary evidence takes the form of letters from King Theodoric. For the Middle Ages the documentation is relatively fragmentary and sporadic. Later there is greater abundance of historical evidence, which portrays chiefly the destinies of the Jews in the Republic from the sixteenth century on, when the presence of the Jews became permanent and a regular community was established also in the capital. The historical records presented illustrate mainly the relationship between the government of the Genoese Republic and the Jews, the latter's economic activities and their communal and social life. Some of the detailed descriptions of the Jewish population in Genoa, their living conditions and occupations, allow for a close examination of the social conditions of this Northern Italian community. For a while Genoa became a haven of refuge for some of the exiles from Spain, including the historian Joseph Hacohen and members of the Abarbanel family. The volumes are provided with an extensive introduction, bibliography, glossary and indexes
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    Series Statement: The Medieval Mediterranean 24
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fustat on the Nile : The Jewish Elite in Medieval Egypt
    Keywords: Jewish leadership ; Jews History
    Abstract: 'Fustat Egypt which sits on the River Nile' - this is how the Jews called their city. Coalition and opposition, power struggles between leaders who were aided by local Jewish pressure groups and abetted by the Muslim authorities - these were a few of the characteristics of the leadership in the Jewish community of Fustat, the largest and liveliest of the Jewish communities in the eleventh century. The author follows the activities of these leaders and analyzes their motives in the light of the complex relationships developing in the community between the different ethnic groups, while in the background the traditional centers of Jewish authority in Palestine and Babylon battle each other for control of the Jewish people. The survey of the dramatic events was made by analysis of documents and letters from the Geniza in Cairo
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary of Hebrew and Arabic Terms -- Illustrations 1-8 -- 1. The Consolidation of the Jewish Community in Fustat 1 -- 2. Community Institutions 31 -- 3. The Leadership 77 -- 4. The Jerusalemite Community's Leaders 129 -- 1. Ephraim b. Shemaria 129 -- 2. Yefet b. David 160 -- 3. Samuel b. Avtalyon 176 -- 4. Yefet b. Tobiah 180 -- 5. Aaron b. Ephraim 184 -- 5. The Leaders of the Babylonian Community 192 -- 1. Shemaria b. Elhanan 192 -- 2. EIhanan b. Shemaria 205 -- 3. Abraham b. Sahlan 222 -- 4. Sahlan b. Abraham 233 -- Synchronic Table 257 -- Bibliographical Index 259 -- Index of Geniza Documents 267 -- General Index 281.
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  • 60
    ISBN: 9789004496880 , 9789004113619
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    Year of publication: 1999
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 63
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jewish Roots of Christological Monotheism : Papers from the St. Andrews Conference on the Historical Origins of the Worship of Jesus
    Keywords: Church history Congresses Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 ; God (Judaism) Congresses History of doctrines
    Abstract: Although there are many studies of second Temple Judaism (in general) and of Christianity's relationship with Judaism (in particular), there has not been a sustained and comprehensive investigation of the way in which Christ-devotion in the first two centuries of the common era represents a manifestation of Jewish monotheism. This volume fills this gap in four distinctive ways: (1) by re-examining the theological force of "monotheism" during the Second Temple period; (2) by retracing the historical steps of Christianity's adaptation / mutation / re-definition of Jewish monotheism; (3) by exploring and debating the influence of non-Jewish traditions on this process; and (4) by mapping the ways in which Christianity's unique appropriation of Jewish monotheism helps explain the intriguing relationships among emerging Christian, Jewish and Gnostic communities. In particular, the eighteen essays demonstrate how the creation mythic of narratives, the revelatory power of mystical experiences, and the sociology of community formation capitalized on the Jewish meditoral tradition to encourage and legitimate the Christian praxis of Christ-devotion
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    ISBN: 9789004491915 , 9789004112513
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    Series Statement: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia 64
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Druzes in the Jewish State : A Brief History
    Keywords: Druzes History ; Druzes ; Ethnic relations
    Abstract: Following the war of 1948 Palestine's Druzes became part of the state of Israel. Overwhelmingly rural, they sought to safeguard their community's age-old ethnic independence by holding on to their traditional ethno-religious particularism. Ethnicity and ethnic issues, however, were ready tools for the Zionists in the pursuit of their policy aims vis-à-vis the state's Arab population. Central among these was the cooptation of part of the Druze elite in an obvious effort to alienate the Druzes from the other Arabs - creating "good" Arabs and "bad" Arabs served the Jewish state as a foil for its ongoing policy of dispossession and control. The author painstakingly documents the political, social and economic factors that ensured the "success" of these Zionist policies, but concludes that the fissured identity of Israel's Druzes today bespeaks a feeling of musiba , tragedy, within the community itself
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Preliminary Material / , Acknowledgments / , List of Tables / , List of Maps / , Note on Tansliteration / , Introduction / , Chapter One Whence the Druzes? / , Chapter Two Particularism Revisited / , Chapter Three Toward Symbiosis: Traditional Elites and Official Policy / , Chapter Four Plowshares into Swords / , Chapter Five "Integration": Promises and Protests / , Chapter Six By Way of Conclusion: When Elites, Economy and Education Come Together / , Bibliography / , Index / , Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia /
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  • 62
    ISBN: 9789004496910 , 9789004114968
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1999
    Series Statement: Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies 42
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Crisis of Israelite Religion : Transformation of Religious Tradition in Exilic and Post-Exilic Times
    Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 BC-210 AD ; Transformacy ; Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
    Abstract: Exile and Return have caused a crisis in Israelite religion. This crisis eventually gave the impetus for the emergence of Judaism. The papers in this volume, originally read at a Symposium organized by Utrecht University in April 1998, discuss the relevant aspects of this crisis and the shift from Yahwism to Judaism. The collection of papers is unique in presenting a multidimensional treatment of the problems involved. Biblical texts are read against their historical background with the question in mind: How did the author(s) of this text cope with the changed and shifting situation? Next to that the period under consideration is discussed from historical, religion-historical, archaeological and iconographic angles. The volume underscores the significance of this period for Biblical studies and will certainly yield further discussion
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Preliminary Material / , Acknowledgments / , Continuity and Discontinuity after the Exile Some Introductory Remarks / , Israel's Historical Reality after the Exile / , Exile and Restoration in the Book of Chronicles / , Niedergang und Neuanfang: Die Haltung der Schlussredaktion des deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerkes zu den wichtigsten Fragen ihrer Zeit / , In the Babylonian Exile with J / , Second Isaiah's Coping with the Religious Crisis: Reading Isaiah 40 and 55 / , The Valley of Dry Bones: Coping with the Reality of the Exile in the Book of Ezekiel / , 'Powerful Persianisms' in Glyptic Iconography of Persian Period Palestine / , Paritätische Madelle von männlich und weiblich am Anfang und Ende der Priesterschriftlichen Schöpfungserzählung (Gen. l:l-2:4a) / , Readings in Haggai: From the Prophet to the Completed Book, a Changing Message in Changing Times / , 'Indeed, Servants We Are': Ezra 9, Nehemiah 9 and 2 Chronicles 12 Compared / , Religio-Historical Aspects of the 'Early Post-Exilic' Period / , Religion in Palestine in the Assyrian and Persian Periods / , Continuity and Community: The Belief System of the Book of Ezra / , The Belief System of the Book of Nehemiah / , Abbreviations / , Index of Authors / , Index of Biblical Texts / , Index of Elephantine Texts / , Index of Subjects / , Oudtestamentische Studiën / , English and German
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  • 63
    ISBN: 9789004509528 , 9789004113251
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1999
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 1
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Genoa, Volume 1: 507-1681 : Documentary History of the Jews in Italy
    Keywords: Jews sources History ; Judaism History 425-1789
    Abstract: These volumes of the "Documentary History of the Jews in Italy", illustrate the history of the Jews in Genoa and surroundings from Antiquity to the French Revolution. The earliest documentary evidence takes the form of letters from King Theodoric. For the Middle Ages the documentation is relatively fragmentary and sporadic. Later there is greater abundance of historical evidence, which portrays chiefly the destinies of the Jews in the Republic from the sixteenth century on, when the presence of the Jews became permanent and a regular community was established also in the capital. The historical records presented illustrate mainly the relationship between the government of the Genoese Republic and the Jews, the latter's economic activities and their communal and social life. Some of the detailed descriptions of the Jewish population in Genoa, their living conditions and occupations, allow for a close examination of the social conditions of this Northern Italian community. For a while Genoa became a haven of refuge for some of the exiles from Spain, including the historian Joseph Hacohen and members of the Abarbanel family. The volumes are provided with an extensive introduction, bibliography, glossary and indexes
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  • 64
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    ISBN: 9789004497184 , 9789004112650
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    Series Statement: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 21
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews of Yemen : Studies in their History and Culture
    Keywords: Ethnic relations ; Jews History ; Jews Intellectual life ; Judeo-Arabic philology
    Abstract: This volume deals with one of the most peculiar Jewish communities in the Diaspora, the Jews of Yemen. Their history began a long time before the advent in 622 AD of Islam. Their political and social highpoint came during the last generations of the Judaized Yemenite Kingdom of Himyar (c. 400-525). This book contains 16 studies, encompassing various aspects of Jewish existence in Yemen as a dhimmi (protected) religious minority under Islam: history, social and cultural relations with the Muslim environment, culture, literature and language. Yemenite Jewish traditions are highly esteemed in the modern spiritual and artistic life of the Jewish people both in the State of Israel and in the Diaspora. All the studies in this volume (except one written in collaboration with 'Offer Livneh) are the work of one of the leading scholars of Yemenite Jewry
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  • 65
    ISBN: 9789004493759 , 9789004114210
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1999
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 61
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Madness of King Nebuchadnezzar : The Ancient Near Eastern Origins and Early History of Interpretation of Daniel 4
    Keywords: historical research Daniel (bijbelboek) ; Traditional
    Abstract: In the mythic lore of the Ancient Near East, the trope of animalization contains a wealth of interpretive potential. The account of Nebuchadnezzar's madness in Daniel 4, the most potent example of this mythic trope in the Hebrew Bible, has provoked much fanciful elaboration among early biblical interpreters. After a study of the many ancient variants of the ubiquitous tale, the book investigates the Ancient Near Eastern background of Nebuchadnezzar's transformation. The discussion then turns to the early reception of Daniel 4 in rabbinic Judaism, the Western Fathers and, most importantly, the Syriac tradition. A number of Syriac texts from the fourth century onward explicitly draw on the model of Nebuchadnezzar as the basis for a newly evolving ascetic discipline
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  • 66
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    ISBN: 9789004494466 , 9789004108394
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1998
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 58
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Studies in Josephus' Rewritten Bible
    Keywords: Josephus, Flavius ; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish ; Judaism Apologetic works ; Judaism Apologetic works ; History and criticism
    Abstract: The present volume, consisting of 35 studies of various portions of Josephus' Jewish Antiquities , is an attempt to examine the oldest systematic commentary on the historical books of the Bible that has come down to us. It considers how Josephus resolves apparent contradictions, obscurities, and theological and other questions, as well as the historicity of biblical events, which have puzzled classical commentators on the Bible. It attempts to explain cases, notably Ahab, Hezekiah, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah, where Josephus seems to change the biblical text radically. Included are Josephus' interpretations of several phrophets, women and non-Jewish leaders. All of these studies have previously appeared in print over a period of almost three decades in 34 different publications. However, they have been edited, corrected, and updated in many ways
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  • 67
    ISBN: 9789004421387 , 9789004112339
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Year of publication: 1998
    Series Statement: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series 1
    Series Statement: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Online, ISBN: 9789004427556
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sanctity of Time and Space in Tradition and Modernity
    Keywords: Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) ; Jewish shrines ; Christian shrines ; Sacred space ; Time Religious aspects ; Judaism ; History of doctrines ; Time Religious aspects ; Christianity ; History of doctrines ; Rabbinical literature History and criticism
    Abstract: Preliminary Material /A. Houtman , M.J.H.M. Poorthuis and J. Schwartz --Introduction /Alberdina Houtman , Marcel Poorthuis and Joshua Schwartz --Torah from Zion Isaiah’s Temple Vision (Isaiah 2:1-4) /Baruch J. Schwartz --Transformations of Space and Time: Nathan’s Oracle and David’s Prayer in 1 Chronicles 17 /Pancratius C. Beentjes --Holy Place and Hannah’s Prayer: A Comparison of LAB 50-51 and Luke 2:22-39 à Propos 1 Samuel 1-2 /Bart J. Koet --The Lasting Sanctity of Bethesda /Martien Parmentier --Ir Ha-Miqdash and its Meaning in the Temple Scroll and Other Qumran Texts /Lawrence H. Schiffman --Holiness and Mysticism at Sinai According to the Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael /Lieve Teugels --Jerusalem and the Temple in the Tannaitic Literature of the First Generation after the Destruction of the Temple /Shmuel Safrai --‘They Direct Their Hearts to Jerusalem’: References to Jerusalem and Temple in Mishnah and Tosefta Berakhot /Alberdina Houtman --‘To Stand- Perhaps to Sit’: Sitting and Standing in the Azarah in the Second Temple Period /Joshua Schwartz --The Institutionalization of the Cult of Saints in Christian Society /Ze’ev Safrai --Between Jerusalem and Bethlehem: Jerome and the Holy Places of Palestine /Hillel Isaac Newman --Moses’ Rod in Zipporah’s Garden /Marcel Poorthuis --Liturgical Time and Space in Early Christianity in Light of Their Jewish Background /Gerard Rouwhorst --Holy City and Holy Land as Viewed by Jews and Christians in the Byzantine Period: A Conceptual Approach to Sacred Space /Aaron Demsky --Post-modern Pilgrimage: Christian Ritual Between Liturgy and ‘Topolatry’ /Paul Post --The Sanctity of Mount Herzl and Independence Day in Israel’s Civil Religion /Ophir Yarden --A Rachel for Everyone: The Kinneret Cemetery as a Site of Civil Pilgrimage /Amos Ron --Translation of the 29 line Re/:zob lnscription /A. Houtman , M.J.H.M. Poorthuis and J. Schwartz --Plates /A. Houtman , M.J.H.M. Poorthuis and J. Schwartz --Index of Names and Subjects /A. Houtman , M.J.H.M. Poorthuis and J. Schwartz --Index of Ancient Sources /A. Houtman , M.J.H.M. Poorthuis and J. Schwartz.
    Abstract: Time and space can take on a sacred nature in both Judaism and Christianity accompanied by a permanent critical attitude towards the sacred. Conceptions of sacredness imply a conception of community and of society at large. This study investigates the different attitudes toward sacred time and space from an interdisciplinary perspective, ranging from the Biblical period through Qumran, Patristics, Rabbinics, archaeology and theology to modern and even to post-modern rituals. This approach offers a fascinating insight into both the common heritage of Judaism and Christianity and their mutual differences
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  • 68
    ISBN: 9789004493858 , 9789042005914
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1998
    Series Statement: Value Inquiry Book Series 72
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Postmodernism and the Holocaust
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Postmodernism
    Abstract: This book is the first sustained inquiry into the ways in which postmodern thinkers have grappled with the historical bases, implications, and methodological problems of the Holocaust. The book examines the thinking of Arendt, Levinas, Foucault, Lyotard, and Derrida, all of whom have recognized the centrality of the Nazi genocide to the epoch in which we live. The essays written for this volume constitute a wide-ranging study of the efforts of postmodernism to articulate the Holocaust
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- ONE Alan MILCHMAN and Alan ROSENBERG: Postmodernism and the Holocaust -- TWO Gregory FRIED: Inhalt Unzulässig : Late Mail from Lodz - A Meditation on Time and Truth -- THREE Wayne KLEIN: Truth's Turning: History and the Holocaust -- FOUR Tracy FESSENDEN: Mark C -- Taylor and the Limits of the Postmodern Imagination -- FIVE Fabio CIARAMELLI: From Radical Evil to the Banality of Evil: Remarks on Kant and Arendt -- SIX James R -- WATSON: Levinas's Substitutions and Arendt's Concept of the Political: Becoming the Plurality Who We Are -- SEVEN Robert John SCHEFFLER MANNING: Serious Ideas Rooted in Blood: Emmanuel Levinas's Analysis of the Philosophy of Hitlerism -- EIGHT Tina CHANTER: Neither Materialism nor Idealism: Levinas's Third Way -- NINE Helmut PEUKERT: Unconditional Responsibility for the Other: The Holocaust and the Thinking of Emmanuel Levinas -- TEN Hugh MILLER: The Same Hatred of the Other Man, the Same Anti-Semitism -- ELEVEN John LLEWELYN: sELection -- TWELVE Alan MILCHMAN and Alan ROSENBERG: Mitchel Foucault, Auschwitz, and the Destruction of the Body -- THIRTEEN John McCUMBER: The Holocaust as Master Rupture: Foucault, Fackenheim, and Postmodernity -- FOURTEEN David Michael LEVIN: Cinders, Traces, Shadows on the Page: The Holocaust in Derrida's Writing -- FIFTEEN Stephen David ROSS: Lyotard and Disaster: Forgetting the Good -- SIXTEEN Charles MOLESWORTH: The Art of Memory: Anselm Kiefer and the Holocaust -- About the Contributors -- Index.
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  • 69
    ISBN: 9789004497764 , 9789004106307
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    Year of publication: 1997
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 51
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Judah and Tamar (Genesis 38) in Ancient Jewish Exegesis : Studies in Literary Form and Hermeneutics
    Keywords: Judah ; Tamar ; Bible Commentaries ; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish ; Bible Versions ; Targum Yerushalmi ; Midrash rabbah Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Testament of Judah Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Genesis (Bible book) ; Literary form ; Literary form History To 1500
    Abstract: This exploration of Genesis 38 in three interpretive writings shows how new meanings emerge through encounters between the biblical text and later Jewish communities. A literary reading within the canon suggests that the story of Judah and Tamar points to the morally ambiguous origins of David's lineage. Ancient Jewish exegesis, however, challenges this understanding. The Testament of Judah interprets Genesis 38 as the story of a warrior king's tragic downfall. Targum Neofiti develops it to illustrate the concept "sanctification of the (divine) Name". and Genesis Rabbah portrays it as a series of providential events issuing in the royal and messianic lineage. Esther Marie Menn pioneers a fresh approach to the study of biblical interpretation by analyzing the relation between interpretative genre, altered plot structure, and cultural values
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    Year of publication: 1997
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 1
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Sicily, Volume 1 (383-1300)
    Keywords: Jewish diaspora Sources History ; Jews Sources History 70-1789 ; Jews Sources History ; Cairo Genizah ; Jews Sources History ; Sicily (Italy) Sources Ethnic relations ; History
    Abstract: This volume in the series Documentary History of the Jews in Italy illustrates the history of the Jews in Sicily during the last decade of the fourteenth century and the first two of the fifteenth. It is the sequel to the first and second volumes on the history of the Jews in Sicily, and illustrates the events during the political upheavals which preceded the reunion of the island with Aragon. During that period the Jewish minority flourished, although affected by unsettled political conditions, along with the rest of the population. Over 500 documents, many of them published here for the first time, record the fortunes of the Jews and their relationships with the authorities, especially the two Martins, and their Christian neighbours. Much new information has come to light, and many facets of Jewish life in Sicily have been uncovered. The abundance of historical records in the archives of the Crown and of local authorities compares favourably with the relative scarcity of surviving documentation in earlier centuries. Therefore, again, many documents had to be reported in summary form. Much new information has come to light. The volume is again provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction has been relegated to the end of the series on the Jews of the island
    Note: "Also represents volume 115 of the Publications of the Diaspora Research Institute, the School of Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University"--Vol. 1, p. vii. Vol. 2 is v. 140 of the same , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 71
    ISBN: 9789004497825 , 9789004102675
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1997
    Series Statement: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 17
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Karaite Tradition of Arabic Bible Translation : A Linguistic and Exegetical Study of Karaite Translations of the Pentateuch from the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries C.E
    Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc Middle Ages, 600-1500 ; History ; Bible Versions ; Bible translations ; Karaite manuscripts ; Orthodox Judaism ; Karaites
    Abstract: This volume deals with the medieval Karaite practice and concept of Arabic Bible translation. It is based on a linguistic analysis of Karaite versions of the Pentateuch written in Palestine during the 10th and 11th centuries C.E. Trends and tendencies in the Karaite translations are discussed in the light of individual Karaite statements on the art and purpose of Bible translation, and in comparison with Saadiah Gaon's translation methodology, in an attempt to reconstruct the possible origins and historical background of the Karaite translation tradition. The exegetical study is especially relevant to the Bible scholar and medieval philosopher, while the linguistic study will also interest the comparative Semitist, translation theorist and all those concerned with Judaeo-Arabic language and literature
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  • 72
    ISBN: 9789004497979 , 9789004106987
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1997
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 52
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jerusalem and Athens : The Congruity of Talmudic and Classical Philosophy
    Keywords: Jewish law Interpretation and construction ; Jewish law Interpretation
    Abstract: The Talmud - the Mishnah, a philosophical law code, and the Gemara, a dialectical commentary upon the Mishnah - works by translating principal modes of Western philosophy and science into the analysis of the rules of rationality governing the rules of humble, everyday reality. Science, in particular the method of hierarchical classification characteristic of natural history, supplies the method of making connections and drawing conclusions to the Mishnah, the law-code that forms the foundation-document of the Talmud, as Neusner demonstrated in his Judaism as Philosophy. The Method and Message of the Mishnah. Here he proceeds to show how philosophy, specifically dialectical analysis, defines the logic of the Gemara and guides the writers of the Gemara's compositions and the compilers of its composites in their analysis and amplification of some of the topical presentations, or tractates, of the Mishnah
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  • 73
    ISBN: 9789004497993 , 9789004107519
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1997
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 55
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era: An Interpretation
    Keywords: Jewish sects ; Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 BC-210 AD
    Abstract: This volume asks why Jewish groups - Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes and the Dead Sea Scroll sect - flourished during the Maccabean era. It argues that such a result is uncommon, requiring special explanation. In the introduction, sectarianism is defined and its varieties in Second Temple Judaism assessed. Among the causes of the known results suggested are the encounter with an outside culture that seemed to be weakening the external national perimeter, the impact of expanded literacy, the move to the city from the farm, as well as eschatological hope aroused by Maccabean victory. In proposing these conclusions, full advantage is taken of recently published Qumran sources, such as 4QMMT. The objective is to discover the connection between context and consequence, which will explain why sectarianism was so prominent at that time
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  • 74
    ISBN: 9789004497719 , 9789004106765
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1997
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 56
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions
    Keywords: Jewish diaspora Historiography ; Jews History Babylonian captivity, 598-515 B.C ; Biblical teaching
    Abstract: The exiles of Israel and Judah cast a long shadow over the biblical text and the whole subsequent history of Judaism. Scholars have long recognized the importance of the theme of exile for the Hebrew Bible. Indeed, critical study of the Old Testament has, at least since Wellhausen, been dominated by the Babylonian exile of Judah. In 586 BC, several factors, including the destruction of Jerusalem, the cessation of the sacrificial cult and of the monarchy, and the experience of the exile, began to cause a transformation of Israelite religion which supplied the contours of the larger Judaic framework within which the various forms of Judaism, including the early Christian movement, developed. Given the importance of the exile to the development of Judaism and Christianity even to the present day, this volume delves into the conceptions of exile which contributed to that development during the formative period
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  • 75
    ISBN: 9789004497672 , 9789004108356
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1997
    Series Statement: Biblical Interpretation Series 28
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Quest for Context and Meaning : Studies in Biblical Intertextuality in Honor of James A. Sanders
    Keywords: Bible Relation to the Old Testament ; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish ; History ; Dead Sea scrolls ; Bibliography ; Intertextuality in the Bible
    Abstract: This collection of studies is published in honor of Professor James A. Sanders, a leading scholar in the fields of the canon of Scripture, textual criticism, and the relationship of the two Testaments. Contributors include leading scholars in these and related fields of study. The studies investigate in what ways the early sacred tradition was interpreted and how this tradition takes new shape in the Jewish and Christian communities of faith. Included are studies of Jesus' understanding of Scripture, Paul's interpretation of Scripture, and the ways in which Scripture was interpreted by the Rabbis. In many instances novel interpretations and new approaches to old problems are offered. Advanced students and veteran scholars will enjoy the many insights and provocative new ideas
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  • 76
    ISBN: 9789004497542 , 9789004109766
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1997
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 57
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Maccabean Martyrs as Saviours of the Jewish People : A Study of 2 and 4 Maccabees
    Keywords: Jewish Philosophy ; Martyrdom Judaism
    Abstract: This volume deals with the presentation of the so-called Maccabean martyrs and the elder Razis in 2 and 4 Maccabees, discussing the religious, the political as well as the philosophical aspects of noble death in these writings. It argues that the theme of martyrdom is a very important part of the self-image of the Jews as presented by the authors of both works. Eleazar, the anonymous mother with her seven sons and Razis should, therefore, be considered heroes of the Jewish people. The first part of the book discusses the sources and the second part deals with the descriptions of noble death. This section of the book also offers extensive discussions of related non-Jewish traditions which highlight the political-patriotic dimension of noble death as described in 2 and 4 Maccabees
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  • 77
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    Leiden : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789004509511 , 9789004108066
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1997
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 2
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Rome, Volume 2 (1551-1557)
    Keywords: Jews sources History 16th century ; Jews sources History 16th century
    Abstract: This volume, the sequel to Jews in Rome 1 , recreates through a register and apt citation the second thousand acts of an archive known informally as the 'Notai ebrei', a collection of as many as 10,000 such acts drawn by Roman rabbis between 1536 and 1640. The acts in this volume cover the years 1551-1557. They form a mirror of Jewish social and cultural life, including such matters as litigations, broken engagements, adoption, synagogal disputes, as well as rentals contracts, and apprenticeships. Most noteworthy is the ownership of property by women. This encouraged and reflected the treatment of both men and women as individuals. Indeed, individualism, which also promoted the amalgamation and ethnic levelling of a society that after about 1500 was notably one of immigrants, was this society's most salient characteristic
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  • 78
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Leiden : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789004495753 , 9789004107526
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1997
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 54
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Seers, Sibyls and Sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism
    Keywords: Apocalyptic literature History and criticism ; Sibyls ; Wisdom literature Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Abstract: This volume brings together essays written over two decades by a leading authority in the field. The collection includes 2 recent essays that are published here for the first time. The articles cover major aspects of the discussion of Jewish apocalypticism, in relation to the Hebrew bible, the New Testament and the Hellenistic-Roman world. Distinctive strengths of the volume include clusters of essays on the Sibylline oracles and on the relationship between apocalypticism and wisdom. A section of the book is devoted to studies on Daniel. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details
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  • 79
    ISBN: 9789004497535 , 9789004108868
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1997
    Series Statement: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 20
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Karaite Marriage Contracts from the Cairo Geniza : Legal Traditions and Community Life in Mediaeval Egypt and Palestine
    Keywords: Marriage (Karaite law) Sources History ; Cairo Genizah ; Karaites ; Karaites ; Marriage (Karaite law) History ; Sources
    Abstract: This book is the first comprehensive study of legal, historical and economic aspects of marriage as practised during the Middle Ages, in Egypt and Palestine, by members of distinct Jewish movement known as Karaism. This study is based on original mediaeval manuscripts written in Hebrew, and recovered from the famous Cairo Geniza. Sixty-five manuscripts, most of them previously unpublished, are edited and translated in the second part of the book. The detailed and accessible analysis of their contents, language, formulation and palaeography sheds a new light on Karaite legal and linguistic tradition, and provides a unique source for our understanding of early Karaism, and of Mediaeval Jewish History in general
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Preliminary Material / , Preface / , Acknowledgements / , List of Plates / , Introduction / , Chapter One On Karaite 'Scripturalism' and the Ketubba / , Chapter Two Karaite Marriage Documents in the Cairo Geniza / , Chapter Three Historical Background / , Chapter Four Codicology and Palaeography / , Chapter Five The Language of Karaite Marriage Documents / , Chapter Six The Karaite Marriage: Formulae and Customs / , Chapter Seven Formulation / , Chapter Eight Introductory Formulae / , Chapter Nine The Karaite Nesīim / , Chapter Ten The Setting: The Date and Place of the Marriage / , Chapter Eleven The Groom's Declaration / , Chapter Twelve Marriage Payments / , Chapter Thirteen The Bride's Obligations and Her Agent / , Chapter Fourteen The Dowry / , Chapter Fifteen The Groom's Responsibility for the Dowry and Special Provisions / , Chapter Sixteen Religious Obligations / , Chapter Seventeen Concluding Formulae / , General Conclusions / , Texts: N° 1 to 57 / , Abbreviations / , Bibliography / , Index of Manuscripts / , Index of Names in Karaite Marriage Documents / , Biblical Quotations in Karaite Marriage Documents / , Name and Subject Index / , Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval / , English and Hebrew
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  • 80
    ISBN: 9789004452107 , 9789004105980
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1996
    Series Statement: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 19
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Philosophie et Exégèse dans le Jardin de la métaphore de Moïse Ibn 'Ezra, Philosophe et Poète Andalou du XIIe Siècle
    Keywords: Jewish philosophy ; Metaphor Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Philosophy, Medieval
    Abstract: This volume deals with the philosophical and exegetical doctrines of one of the greatest figures of the Golden Age of Spain - Moses Ibn 'Ezra, as they appear in his Garden of the Metaphor ( Maqālat al-ḥadīqa ). The latter, a study of man in his spiritual and physical aspects, is a résumé of all that a cultured Judaeo-arabic individual should know about philosophy. The author reviews the biblical metaphors dealing with man, against the background of the intellectual and literary climate of the period
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  • 81
    ISBN: 9789004493889 , 9789004105874
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1996
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 50
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism
    Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Apocalyptic literature History and criticism ; Eschatology History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600 ; Eschatology, Jewish ; Jewish cosmology ; Son of Man History of doctrines Early church, ca.30-600 ; Symbolism of numbers
    Abstract: This volume deals with Jewish and Christian apocalyptic texts and movements from the second century BCE through the fourth century CE. It focuses on two major themes, cosmology and eschatology; that is, views of structure of the universe including its religious function and interpretations of history and the future. The detailed historical and literary analysis of these themes are introduced by an essay on the cultural gap between the original contexts of these texts and those of readers today and how that gap may be bridged. The book deals with the interrelations between post-biblical Judaism and early Christianity. The relevant Jewish texts and history are discussed thoroughly in their own right. The Christian material is approached in a way which shows both its continuity with Jewish tradition and its distinctiveness
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  • 82
    ISBN: 9789004494824 , 9789004103023
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1996
    Series Statement: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 18
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Samuel ben ḥofni Gaon and His Cultural World : Texts and Studies
    Keywords: Samuel ben Hophni ; Jewish scholars Biography ; Rabbis Biography ; Commandments (Judaism) ; Jewish scholars Biography ; Jews Intellectual life ; Rabbis Biography
    Abstract: Samuel ben ḥofni Gaon was head of the Yeshiva of Sura in Baghdad during the cultural renaissance which characterized the Buyid period. His writings reflect the impact of Arabic literature on Jewish intellectuals at this time. The first part of this volume presents the known details of his life and extensive writings and describes the dynamics of contemporary, tenth-century Jewish culture: the decline and temporary restoration of the yeshivot and the intellectual activity outside of them. Additionally, some of the basic concepts of his thought, strongly influenced by Mu'tazilite Kalām, are explained. The book provides the Judeo-Arabic text and annotated English translation of two of his works on legal theory, his Treatise on the Commandments and Ten Questions , reconstructed from manuscript fragments from the Cairo Geniza
    Note: Contains reconstruction of two works by Samuel ben Ḥofni Gaon in original Judeo-Arabic and English translation , Includes bibliographical references and index , Preliminary Material / , Preface / , Symbols and Method used in Transcription and Translation / , Bibliographical Abbreviations / , Genealogical Table / , Chapter One Samuel ben Ḥofni Gaon: His Life and Works / , Chapter Two Samuel ben Ḥofni and Arabic Culture: An Intellectual Portrait / , Chapter Three The Yeshivot in Baghdad: Decline and Temporary Restoration / , Chapter Four Jewish Culture Outside the Yeshivot / , Chapter Five Central Concepts and Issues: Reason, Obligation, Universalism and Tradition / , Chapter Six Treatise on the Commandments : Introduction and Annotated Translation / , Chapter Seven Ten Questions : Introduction and Annotated Translation / , Bibliography / , General Index / , Index of Manuscripts / , Index of Sources /
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  • 83
    ISBN: 9789004451216 , 9789004100343
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1996
    Series Statement: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies 22
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible : From Ibn Rabban to Ibn Hazm
    Keywords: Islam Relations ; Judaism ; Judaism Relations ; Islam
    Abstract: Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible deals with the way in which Judaism and its holy scriptures were viewed by nine medieval Muslim writers representing different genres of Arabic literature: Ibn Rabban al-ṭabarī, Ibn Qutayba, al-Ya'qūbī, Abū Ja'far al-ṭabarī, al-Mas'ūdī, al-Maqdisī, al-Bāqillānī, al-Bīrūnī and Ibn ḥazm. After an introductory chapter on the reception of Biblical materials in early Islam and a presentation of the authors under review, the book focuses on their knowledge of Judaism and the text of the Hebrew Bible, and subsequently discusses issues frequently debated between Muslims and Jews, namely, the claim that the Torah contains references to Muḥammad, and the assertion that the Torah has been both abrogated and falsified. In the appendix, texts by Ibn Qutayba and al-Maqdisī are offered for the first time in an English translation
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  • 84
    ISBN: 9789004439702 , 9789004104594
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1996
    Series Statement: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 41
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Heralds of That Good Realm : Syro-Mesopotamian Gnosis and Jewish Traditions
    Keywords: Cologne Mani codex ; Manichaeism ; Manichaeism ; Manichaeism Iraq ; Apocryphal books (Old Testament) ; Patriarchs (Bible) ; Syria Religion ; Iraq Religion
    Abstract: Preliminary Material /John C. Reeves --Preface and Acknowledgments /John C. Reeves --Supplemental Abbreviations and Short References /John C. Reeves --From Forefathers to Heralds: The Transformation of Biblical Primeval History /John C. Reeves --Manichaeism and the Biblical Forefathers /John C. Reeves --The Forefathers as Authors in Late Antique and Medieval Near Eastern Religious Traditions /John C. Reeves --The CMC Apocalypse Fragments and Jewish Pseudepigrapha /John C. Reeves --The Apocalypse of Adam /John C. Reeves --The Apocalypse of Sethel /John C. Reeves --The Apocalypse of Enosh /John C. Reeves --The Apocalypse of Shem /John C. Reeves --The Apocalypse of Enoch /John C. Reeves --Conclusion /John C. Reeves --Reassessing Syro-Mesopotamian Gnosis and Jewish Traditions: Some Concluding Remarks /John C. Reeves --Bibliography /John C. Reeves --Index of Citations /John C. Reeves --Index of Ancient and Medieval Authorities /John C. Reeves --Index of Modern Authors /John C. Reeves.
    Abstract: This volume examines the transmission of biblical pseudepigraphic literature and motifs from their largely Jewish cultural contexts in Palestine to developing gnostic milieux of Syria and Mesopotamia, particularly that one lying behind the birth and growth of Manichaeism. It surveys biblical pseudepigraphic literary activity in the late antique Near East, devoting special attention to revelatory works attributed to the five biblical forefathers who are cited in the Cologne Mani Codex : Adam, Seth, Enosh, Shem, and Enoch. The author provides a philological, literary, and religio-historical analysis of each of the five pseudepigraphic citations contained in the Codex , and offers hypotheses regarding the original provenance of each citation and the means by which these traditions have been adapted to their present context. This study is an important contribution to the scholarly reassessment of the roles played by Second Temple Judaism, Jewish Christian sectarianism, and classical gnosis in the formulation and development of Syro-Mesopotamian religious currents
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  • 85
    ISBN: 9789004497757 , 9789004104556
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1996
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 49
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Antecedents of Antichrist : A Traditio-Historical Study of the Earliest Christian Views on Eschatological Opponents
    Keywords: Antichrist History of doctrines Early church, ca.30-600 ; Apocalyptic literature History and criticism ; Eschatology History of doctrines Early church, ca.30-600
    Abstract: The present volume discusses the earliest Christian views on eschatological opponents and their backgrounds in contemporary Judaism. It treats the rich variety of early Christian speculations on the subject and shows that, within this variety, a continuity with Jewish speculations is to be discerned. Part One of this book treats the early Christian passages of the period up to Irenaeus that contain speculations on the coming of an eschatological opponent. Part Two offers a survey of Jewish expectations that formed the basis for the Christian speculations discussed. After the General Conclusion the book finishes with an extensive Bibliography and an Index. The book is of interest to any student of early Christian eschatology and the continuity between early Christianity and contemporary Judaism
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  • 86
    ISBN: 9789004497917 , 9789004103368
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1995
    Series Statement: Biblical Interpretation Series 17
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Von der Wurzel getragen : Christlich-feministische Exegese in Auseinandersetzung mit Antijudaismus
    Keywords: Anti-Judaism ; Christianity and antisemitism Biblical teaching ; Feminist criticism ; Feminist Exegesis ; Feminist Theology
    Abstract: Since 1986 feminist theologians in Germany have been engaged in public discussion of anti-Judaism. The feminist approach to the Bible is right at the centre of this discussion. The analysis of "anti-Jewish" tendencies in both Testaments is notoriously difficult. In the case of texts which are particularly uncomfortable for women, it is even more difficult to make progress. Thirteen leading feminist Christian exegetes writing in German take up various themes for discussion (law, violence, impurity etc.), define the problem of anti-Judaism particular to each of these themes, situate it in the history of investigation and examine a particular text, looking for ways of overcoming an anti-Jewish interpretation without underplaying the genuine problems of the text. The book is for all those interested in feminism, both women and men, and those engaged in Jewish/Christian dialogue, and is suitable for use as a textbook
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  • 87
    ISBN: 9789004509498 , 9789004104631
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1995
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 1
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Rome, Volume 1 (1536-1551) : Documentary History of the Jews in Italy
    Keywords: Jews Sources History 16th century ; Jews Sources History 16th century
    Abstract: This volume recreates through a register and apt citation the first thousand acts of an archive known informally as the 'Notai ebrei', a collection of as many as 10,000 such acts drawn by Roman rabbis between 1536 and 1640. The acts in this volume cover the twenty years prior to the establishment of the Roman ghetto by Paul IV in 1555. A lengthy introduction reveals these acts as a mirror of Jewish social and cultural life, including such matters as litigations, broken engagements, adoption, synagogal disputes, as well as rentals contracts, and apprenticeships. Most noteworthy is the ownership of property by women. This encouraged and reflected the treatment of both men and women as individuals. Indeed, individualism, which also promoted the amalgamation and ethnic levelling of a society that after about 1500 was notably one of immigrants, was this society's most salient characteristic
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  • 88
    ISBN: 9789004497726 , 9789004102521
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1995
    Series Statement: Biblical Interpretation Series 15
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Establishment Violence in Philo and Luke : A Study of Non-Conformity to the Torah and Jewish Vigilante Reactions
    Keywords: Christianity and other religions Judaism ; Judaism Relations ; Christianity ; Violence Religious aspects ; Judaism
    Abstract: Establishment Violence in Philo and Luke deals with nonconformity to the Jewish Torah and violent counter reactions as discussed in the works of Philo of Alexandria and narrated in the Lukan Acts of the Apostles. The author works with several social science models in vogue in recent research, but especially applies a model of establishment violence (or vigilantism) as worked out by H.J. Rosenbaum and P.C. Sederberg (1976). The study contains five chapters, focusing on three often neglected texts from Philo, and the texts of the Lukan Acts concerning Stephen and Paul in Jerusalem
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  • 89
    ISBN: 9789004494862 , 9789004103016
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1995
    Series Statement: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 15
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Judeo-Persian Poet 'Emrānī and his "Book of Treasure" : 'Emrānī's Ganj-Nāme, a Versified Commentary on the Mishnaic Tractate Abot. Edited, Translated and Annotated together with a Critical Study
    Keywords: ʻEmrānī ; Mishnah Commentaries ; Mishnah In literature ; Literature ; Jewish religious poetry, Judeo-Persian
    Abstract: In the course of their long history on Iranian soil the Jews of Iran have produced a large body of literature which has been little studied and published. This volume deals with one of the most prominent Jewish poets of Iran, known as 'Emrānī (1454-1536 C.E.). The book consists of three parts. The first part studies 'Emrānī's time, life and work and analyzes in depth the poet's last major work entitled Ganj-nāme (The Book of Treasure). Ganj-nāme , which is closely modeled after compositions of classical Persian literature, is 'Emrānī's versified commentary of the ethical tractate of the Mishnah commonly known as Pirqey Abot ("The Chapters of the Fathers"). The second part of the book offers the English translation, annotation and source study of Ganj-nāme . The third and last part of the book provides a critical edition of Ganj-nāme
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Preliminary Material / , Acknowledgments / , List of Abbreviations / , Transliteration / , Introduction / , Chapter I ʿEmrānī's Time, Life and Work / , Chapter II Ganǰ-Nāme and The Mishnaic Tractate abot / , Chapter III The Structure and The Literary Aspects of Ganǰ-Nāme / , Chapter IV Major Themes Of Ganǰ-Nāme / , 1 Introduction / , 2 Chapter 1 / , 3 Chapter 2 / , 1 Transliteration System Used for the Edited Text / , 2 Introduction / , 3 Chapter 1 / , 4 Chapter 2 / , List of Works Cited / , Index of Names and General References / , Index of Technical Terms and Names in Ganǰ-Nāme / , Index of Sources in Ganǰ-Nāme / , Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval /
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  • 90
    ISBN: 9789004493230 , 9789004104044
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1995
    Series Statement: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 16
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews of Medieval Islam : Community, Society and Identity. Proceedings of an International Conference held by the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London 1992
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews of medieval Islam
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    Keywords: Civilization history ; Jews history ; Jews Congresses Islamic Empire ; History ; Judaism history ; Judaism Congresses Islamic Empire ; History ; Konferenzschrift 1992 ; Juden ; Islam ; Geschichte 500-1500
    Abstract: This volume contains fifteen articles on the communal, social, and intellectual life of medieval Jewry in Islamic lands. The book is divided into three parts. Part I, 'Communities and Their Leaders' is devoted to the old Babylonian center in the East and the Andalusian community in the West. Part II, 'Self-Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Others' investigates the ways in which medieval Jews living under Islam viewed their gentile neighbours and expressed their own identity. Part III, 'Religious Philosophy, Mysticism, and Spirituality in Islam and Judaism' explores the impact of Islamic thought on the Jewish intellectual tradition. The collection depicts a civilization at once unified and diverse, revealing both consistent patterns of leadership and scholarship as well as distinctively local identities and collective memories
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Preliminary Material / , Contributors / , Abbreviations / , Introduction / , The Jew in the Medieval Islamic City / , Varieties of Inter-Communal Relations in the Geonic Period / , The Exilarchate / , Halakhah and Reality in the Gaonic Period: Taqqanah, Minhag, Tradition and Consensus: Some Observations / , Jewish Élites in al-Andalus / , The Judeo-Arabic Tradition in Christian Spain / , Costume as Cultural Statement: The Esthetics, Economics, and Politics of Islamic Dress / , Persecution, Response, and Collective Memory: The Jews of Islam in the Classical Period / , Saadya Gaon on Christianity and Islam / , On Jewish Intellectuals Who Converted in the Early Middle Ages / , The Shoshanim of Tenth-Century Jerusalem: Karaite Exegesis, Prayer, and Communal Identity / , Yūsuf al-Baṣīr: Theological Aspects of his Halakhic Works / , Ismāʿīlī Theology and Maimonides' Philosophy / , A Mystical Treatise on Perfection, Providence and Prophecy from the Jewish Ṣūfī Circle / , Yemenite Philosophical Midrash as a Source for the Intellectual History of the Jews of Yemen / , Index of Medieval Authors / , Index of Modern Authors / , Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval /
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  • 91
    ISBN: 9789004491014 , 9789004102477
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1995
    Series Statement: Islamic History and Civilization 13
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Muslims, Jews and Pagans : Studies on Early Islamic Medina
    Keywords: Islam History
    Abstract: Muslims, Jews and Pagans examines in much detail the available source material on the 'Āliya area south of Medina on the eve of Islam and at the time of the Prophet Muḥammad. It provides part of the necessary background for the study of the Prophet's history by utilizing in addition to the Prophet's biographies, various texts about the history, geography and inhabitants of this area. The topics include the landscape, especially the fortifications, the delayed conversion to Islam of part of the Aws tribe, the Qubā' village and the incident of Masjid al-ḍirār in 9 A.H. The three appendices deal with historical apologetics, pointing to the social context in which the Prophet's biography emerged during the first Islamic century
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  • 92
    ISBN: 9789004463790 , 9789051837209
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1994
    Series Statement: Value Inquiry Book Series 14
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Nuggets of Wisdom from Great Jewish Thinkers : From Biblical Times to the Present
    Keywords: Judaism Quotations, maxims, etc ; Judaism
    Abstract: This book offers a copious selection of insights about the world and life, crafted in engaging language by Jewish sages, scholars, rabbis, and literary luminaries, from ancient to modern times. These remarkable explanations, queries, and proposals are connected by expository comments and comparisons by the author. The passionate care for human values which underlies much of Jewish thinking is made accessible in this comprehensive work. In it the reader may find counsel on how to achieve a good and satisfying life while responding to the joys and sorrows that touch us all
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  • 93
    ISBN: 9789004509481 , 9789004101869
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1994
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 46
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Anti-Judaism and Early Christian Identity : A Critique of the Scholarly Consensus
    Keywords: Christianity and other religions Judaism ; Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 ; Judaism Relations ; Christianity
    Abstract: Against the scholarly consensus that assumes early Christians were involved in a rivalry for converts with contemporary Jews, this book shows that the target of patristic writers was rather a symbolic Judaism, and their aim was to define theologically the young church's identity. In identifying and categorizing the hypotheses put forward by modern scholars to defend their view of a Jewish-Christian "conflict", this book demonstrates how current theories have generated faulty notions about the perceptions and motivations of ancient Christians and Jews. Beyond its relevance to students of the early church, this book addresses the broader question of Christian responsibility for modern anti-Semitism. It shows how the focus on a supposedly social rivalry, obscures the depth and disquieting nature of the connections between early anti-Judaism and Christian identity
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  • 94
    ISBN: 9789004478060 , 9789004102552
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1994
    Series Statement: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 55
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Red Jews: Antisemitism in an Apocalyptic Age, 1200-1600
    Keywords: Antisemitism History ; Christianity and antisemitism ; Judaism (Christian theology) History of doctrines 16th century ; Judaism (Christian theology) History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
    Abstract: This book is the history of an imaginary people - the Red Jews - in vernacular sources from medieval and early modern Germany. From the twelfth to the seventeenth century, German-language texts repeated and embroidered on an antisemitic tale concerning an epochal threat to Christianity, the Red Jews. This term, which expresses a medieval conflation of three separate traditions (the biblical destroyers Gog and Magog, the 'unclean peoples' enclosed by Alexander, and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel), is a hostile designation of wickedness. The Red Jews played a major role in late medieval popular exegesis and literature, and appeared in a hitherto-unnoticed series of sixteenth-century pamphlets, in which they functioned as the medieval 'spectacles' through which contemporaries viewed such events as Turkish advances in the Near and Middle East. The Red Jews disappear from the sources after 1600, and consequently never found their way into historical scholarship
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Preliminary Material / , Acknowledgements / , Chapter One Inventio rerum et locorum: Finding a Forgotten History / , Chapter Two Apocalypticism and Messianismi: Christian and Jewish Perspectives on the End in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages / , Chapter Three Antisemitism and Apocalypticism in the Middle Ages / , Chapter Four The Red Jews in their 'Native Habitat' / , Chapter Five The Medieval Antichrist and his Jewish Henchmen / , Chapter Six A Medieval Legend in the Sixteenth Century: Pious and Political Permutations / , Chapter Seven Approaches to the End / , Appendix A The Red Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Sources / , Appendix B The 'Unclean Nations', Gog and Magog, and the Ten Tribes / , Appendix C Antichrist and the Jews at the End of Time / , Appendix D Illustrations / , Bibliography / , Index of Places / , Index of Names / , Subject Index / , Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought /
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  • 95
    ISBN: 9789004509474 , 9789004101654
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1994
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 43/3
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Umbria, Volume 3 (1484-1736) : Documentary History of the Jews in Italy
    Keywords: Jewish diaspora Sources History ; Jews Sources History 70-1789 ; Jews Sources History ; Jews Sources History
    Abstract: The Jews in Umbria is based mainly on documentation preserved in the archives of Umbria. It illustrates the political and socio-economic history of the Jewish community from the second half of the thirteenth century, when Jewish settlement in the region became permanent and continuous, to the expulsion of the Jews in 1569 decreed by Pope Pius V. Umbria was an important geographical and political entity in central Italy during the late Middle Ages and was always linked to the Papal State. The documents provide us with important information that enables us to appreciate correctly the Jews' economic role in the region and their relationships with the political powers (the communes and the popes) and the Mendicant orders. Furthermore, they enlighten us on aspects of the Jews' daily life, and on their relationship with Christian society
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 96
    ISBN: 9789004509122 , 9789004101142
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1994
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 41
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Josephus and the History of the Greco-Roman Period : Essays in Memory of Morton Smith
    Keywords: Jews Congresses History 168 B.C.-135 A.D ; Historiography
    Abstract: Josephus and the History of the Greco-Roman Period comprises a series of essays on the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus and on the history of the Second Temple period by many of the best-known specialists in the field. The contributions are revised versions of papers delivered at an international colloquium in memory of Professor Morton Smith that was held at San Miniato, Italy, in November, 1992. The essays cover a broad range of historical and historiographical issues concerning the Seleucid, Hasmonean, Herodian, and Roman periods, for which the importance of Josephus - often our only extant source - can hardly be overestimated. Josephus' trustworthiness as a historian is newly investigated from various angles. Fresh light is thrown on philological, literary, geographical, archaeological, sociological, and religious questions. The book includes a critical evaluation of Morton Smith's scholarly achievement
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  • 97
    ISBN: 9789004491236 , 9789004098251
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1994
    Series Statement: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia 49
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dynamics of Self-Determination in Palestine : Protection of Peoples as a Human Right
    Keywords: International law ; Palestinian Arabs Civil rights
    Abstract: The Arab-Israeli conflict has become an example of total disregard for international law by all parties involved, including the United Nations, to the detriment of a regional and global lasting peace. The conflict has contributed considerably to the erosion of the moral and legal authority of the United Nations, while the international community has failed to take prompt advantage of the East-West detente. Peoples with statehood - the Iraqis, Somalis, Yugoslavs - and even more those without - the Palestinians - paid a high price for the international lack of decisiveness. Dynamics of Self-Determination in Palestine discusses the Palestinian conflict in the light of the protection of peoples under international law. Chapter One treats the fact that the Arab states and the Palestinians have overlooked the element of negotiation in the keeping of international order, Chapter Two discusses the International Bill of Rights, in which the UN included self-determination in order to protect peoples against oppression, while Chapter Three expounds on the fact that, in doing so, it shaped the framework for the settlement of conflicting territorial claims to Palestine. The final chapter sets forth the desired UN participation in the creation of Palestine
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Preliminary Material / , Abbreviations / , Preface / , Chapter One The Element of Negotiation in International Order / , Chapter Two Self-determination: Protection Against Oppression / , Chapter Three Conflicting Territorial Claims of Peoples to Palestine / , Chapter Four Dynamics of Self-determination: the Creation of Palestine / , Annexes Basic Legal Documents on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / , Annex 1 UNGA res. on a Plan of Partition (1947, extract) / , Annex 2 UNGA res. on Conciliation, Status of Jerusalem and Right to Return (1948) / , Annex 3 UNGA res. restating that Jerusalem should be placed under a Permanent International Regime (1949) / , Annex 4 SC res. on Principles of a Just and Lasting Peace in the Middle East (1967 and 1973) / , Annex 5 The Palestine National Charter of 17 July 1968 (extracts) / , Annex 6 Comparative Extract of the Israeli and Palestinian Declarations of Independence (1948 and 1988 respectively) / , Annex 7 Statement by the Israeli Government on the Status of Jerusalem in May 1949 / , Annex 8 A Framework for Peace in the Middle East Agreed at Camp David on 17 September 1978 (extract) / , Annex 9 SC res. Rejecting the Israeli Basic Law on the Status of Jerusalem (1980) / , Annex 10 Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-government Arrangements (1993) / , Annex 11 Maps of Israeli and Palestinian Territory / , Bibliography / , Index / , Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East/Études Sociales, Économiques et Politiques du Moyen Orient /
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  • 98
    ISBN: 9789004509320 , 9789004099791
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1993
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 43/2
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Umbria, Volume 2 (1435-1484) : Documentary History of the Jews in Italy
    Keywords: Jews sources History ; Jews sources History
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 99
    ISBN: 9789004509115 , 9789004095403
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1992
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 40
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature : Rabbinic Thought in the Light of Modern Economics
    Keywords: Economics Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Political economy Religious aspect ; Judaism
    Abstract: This lucidly written study is unique in that there is no book extant by an economic historian that discusses Talmudic economics in the light of modern economics. Its major focus is on the intricate debates, statements and principles that were forged by the Talmudic Rabbis. This ancient storehouse of learning includes a wealth of economic knowledge of modern sophistication. The book taps these "economic treasures" by way of analytic inquiry. The authors, both economic historians and economists, through their study of the original dialectics in the Talmud, were able to discern a wide range of macro- and micro-economic ideas of major significance. These concepts when viewed from either a contemporary or a modern perspective, display an extraordinary degree of insight and sophistication. Indeed, sections of the Talmud and the reflections of subsequent commentators on those passages, embody a wealth of economic thought that was later to become significant in the reasoning of political economists, or of their professional academic successors
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  • 100
    ISBN: 9789004509313 , 9789004096950
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1992
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 43/1
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Umbria, Volume 1 (1245-1435) : Documentary History of the Jews in Italy
    Keywords: Jews ; Umbria History
    Abstract: This work is based mainly on documentation preserved in the archives of Umbria. It illustrates the political and socio-economic history of the Jewish community from the second half of the thirteenth century, when Jewish settlement in the region became permanent and continuous, to the expulsion of the Jews in 1569 decreed by Pope Pius V. Umbria was an important geographical and political entity in central Italy during the late Middle Ages and was always linked to the Papal State. The documents provide us with important information that enables us to appreciate correctly the Jews' economic role in the region and their relationships with the political powers (the communes and the popes) and the Mendicant orders. Furthermore, they enlighten us on aspects of the Jews' daily life, and on their relationship with Christian society
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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