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Mededelingen en verhandelingen ... van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap "Ex Oriente Lux" : = Mémoirs de la Société Orientale "Ex Oriente Lux" (from 1948-)

Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux [VerfasserIn]

Leiden : Ex Oriente Lux | Leiden : Brill ; 9.1948 -

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Language: Dutch

Year of publication: 1948-

Dates of Publication: 9.1948 -

Former Title: Vorg. Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Gezelschap Ex Oriente Lux Mededelingen en verhandelingen ... van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Gezelschap "Ex Oriente Lux"

DDC: 050

Keywords: Monografische Reihe

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Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

SUB Hamburg

Ibero-Amerik. Institut

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The Jewish law annual (from 1978-)

International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists ; Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies

London [u.a.] : Routledge | Leiden : Brill | Chur [u.a.] : Harwood Academic Publ. ; 1.1978 -

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ISSN: 0169-8354

Language: English

Year of publication: 1978-

Dates of Publication: 1.1978 -

DDC: 290

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PU 1000

Keywords: Zeitschrift

Note: Urh. anfangs: International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists ; Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies

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Studies in the history and culture of the ancient Near East (from 1996-)

Leiden : Brill ; 6.1996 -

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ISSN: 0169-9024

Language: English

Year of publication: 1996-

Dates of Publication: 6.1996 -

Former Title: Vorg. Studies in the history of the ancient Near East

DDC: 050

Keywords: Monografische Reihe

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Toward the Millennium : Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (1998)

Peter Schäfer (Author); Mark Cohen (Editor)

Leiden : Brill

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ISBN: 9789004378995

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource

Year of publication: 1998

Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco

Keywords: Messianism Congresses ; Jewish messianic movements Congresses ; Millennialism Congresses ; Political messianism Congresses

Abstract: Preliminary Material /Peter Schäfer and Mark Cohen -- Introduction /Peter Schäfer and Mark Cohen -- Diversity and Interaction: Messiahs in Early Judaism -- Messiahs and their Followers /John G. Gager -- Messianic Elements in the Prechristian Greco-Roman World /Christian Habicht -- Midrash and Messianism: Some Theologies of Suffering and Salvation /Michael Fishbane -- Armilus: The Jewish Antichrist and the Origins and dating of the Sefer Zerubbavel /Joseph Dan -- Jewish Messianic Expectations Towards 1240 and Christian Reactions /Israel Jacob Yuval -- The Eschatological Imperative: Messianism and Holy War in Europe, 1260-1556 /Norman Housley -- The Millennial Moment: Revolution and Radical Religion in Sixteenth-Century spain /Sara T. Nalle -- Saturn and Sabbatai Tzevi: A New Approach to Sabbateanism /Moshe Idel -- The Engenderment of Messianic Politics: Symbolic Significance oF Sabbatai Ṣevi’s Coronation /Elliot R. Wolfson -- Salvation through Philology: The Poetical Messianism of Quirinus kKuhlmann (1651-1689 /Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann -- The Messianic Ciaim of Ghulām Aḥimad /Yohanan Friedmann -- Messianism in the Political Culture of the Weimar Republic /Klaus Schreiner -- Lines, Circles, Points: Messianic Epistemology in Cohen, Rosenzweig and Benjamin /Robert Gibbs -- The Lubavitch Messianic Resurgence: The Historical and Mystical Background 1939-1996 /Rachel Elior -- Patterns of the End: Textual Weaving from Qumran to Waco /James D. Tabor -- Index of Sources /Peter Schäfer and Mark Cohen -- Index of Subjects /Peter Schäfer and Mark Cohen -- Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series /Peter Schäfer and Mark Cohen.

Abstract: This collection of 16 articles represents a selection of the papers delivered in the course of a seminar (1995-1996) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and its concluding joint symposium held at the Institute and Princeton University. Wide-ranging in scope, the volume covers messianic expectations from biblical times up to modern and contemporaneous adaptations, whereby the focus lies on the messianic concept within Judaism: diversity and variety of messianic expectations in antiquity; messianic movements at the time of the Crusades and around the fifth millennium (1240); the 'Pseudo'-Messiah Sabbatai Avi in the early modern period; the philosophers Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and Walter Benjamin with respect to their thinking about messianism as well as the Lubavitch movement. Also included are investigations on pagan Graeco-Roman writings and messianic strands in the medieval and baroque Christian context. The section on the modern period contains contributions dealing with the Ahmaddiyya movement in India, messianic currents in the socio-political culture of the Weimar Republic as well as certain messianic aspects in the very recent so-called Branch Davidian community in Waco, Texas. The broad spectrum of stimulating analyses provides a fresh re-evaluation of an apparently timeless phenomenon

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The fate of the dead : studies on the Jewish and Christian apocalypses (1998)

Bauckham, Richard

Leiden : Brill

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ISBN: 9789004267411

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 425 pages)

Year of publication: 1998

Series Statement: Supplements to Novum Testamentum v. 93

Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Fate of the Dead: Studies on the Jewish and Christian Apocalypses

Keywords: Apocalyptic literature History and criticism ; Eschatology History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600 ; Future life Christianity Early church, ca. 30-600 ; History of doctrines ; Eschatology, Jewish History of doctrines ; Future life Judaism ; History of doctrines

Abstract: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Descents to the Underworld -- Early Jewish Visions of Hell -- Visiting the Places of the Dead in the Extra-Canonical Apocalypses -- The Rich Man and Lazarus: The Parable and the Parallels -- The Tongue Set on Fire by Hell (James 3:6) -- The Conflict of Justice and Mercy: Attitudes to the Damned in Apocalyptic Literature -- Augustine, the 'compassionate' Christians, and the Apocalypse of Peter -- The Apocalypse of Peter: A Jewish Christian Apocalypse from the time of Bar Kokhba -- A Quotation from 4Q second Ezekiel in the Apocalypse of Peter -- Resurrection as Giving Back the Dead -- 2 Peter and the Apocalypse of Peter -- The Apocalypse of the Seven Heavens: The Latin Version -- The Four Apocalypses of the Virgin Mary -- The Ascension of Isaiah: Genre, Unity and Date -- Index of Biblical References.

Abstract: These studies focus on personal eschatology in the Jewish and early Christian apocalypses. The apocalyptic tradition from its Jewish origins until the early middle ages is studied as a continuous literary tradition, in which both continuity of motifs and important changes in understanding of life after death can be charted. As well as better known apocalypses, major and often pioneering attention is given to those neglected apocalypses which portray human destiny after death in detail, such as the Apocalypse of Peter, the Apocalypse of the Seven Heavens, the later apocalypses of Ezra, and the four apocalypses of the Virgin Mary. Relationships with Greco-Roman eschatology are explored. Several chapters show how specific New Testament texts are illuminated by close knowledge of this tradition of ideas and images of the hereafter

Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes

DOI: 10.1163/9789004267411

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Ancient Jewish art and archaeology in the diaspora (1998)

Hachlili, Rachel

Leiden : Brill

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ISBN: 9789004294042

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxiii, 499 pages, [64] pages of plates) , illustrations (some color), maps

Year of publication: 1998

Series Statement: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Siebente Abteilung, Kunst und Archäologie 1. Bd., 2. Abschnitt, B, Lfg. 9

Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology in the Diaspora

Keywords: Synagogue architecture History ; Synagogue art History ; Jewish art and symbolism History ; Synagogue art ; Art, Ancient ; Art, Ancient ; Jewish art and symbolism ; Synagogue architecture ; Synagogue art ; History ; Syria ; Dura-Europos (Extinct city)

Abstract: Preliminary material -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- THE SYNAGOGUE -- SYNAGOGUE ARCHITECTURE -- SYNAGOGUE ART: THE DURA-EURO POS SYNAGOGUE WALL PAINTINGS -- SYNAGOGUE ART: MOSAIC PAVEMENTS -- FIGURATIVE ART -- BURIAL AND FUNERARY PRACTICES -- JEWISH SYMBOLS -- MOTIFS OF JEWISH ART -- INSCRIPTIONS -- FEATURES OF JEWISH ART -- jEWISH, CHRISTIAN and PAGAN ART -- ARTISTS and PATTERN BOOKS -- DATING -- CONCLUSIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GLOSSARY -- CHRONOLOGlCAL TABLE -- INDEX -- PLATES.

Abstract: Jewish Diaspora in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods from first to the eighth centuries C.E. is the subject of this work. The author thoroughly investigates origin, symbolism and significance of the mainly synagogal and funerary art forms in the Diaspora. Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology in the Diaspora is the companion volume to the successful Ancient Jewish Art and Archeaeology in the Land of Israel (1988) by the same author. The geographical area covered includes Syria, Asia Minor, North Africa and Mediterranean Europe. The first section examines the characteristic features of Diaspora Art synagogue architecture and art (including the Torah shrine and mosaic pavements). Another section deals with burial and funerary practices. Of special importance are the sections on the Biblical scenes , designs and iconography of the Dura Europos synagogue, and the Jewish symbols such as the Menorah, ritual objects, the Ark, the conch and the Torah Scrolls . The book is richly illustrated with more than 325 drawings and photographs, some in colour

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 466-486) and index

DOI: 10.1163/9789004294042

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The laws of the Damascus document : sources, tradition, and redaction (1998)

Hempel, Charlotte

Leiden : Brill

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ISBN: 9789004350304

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 217 pages)

Year of publication: 1998

Series Statement: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah v. 29

Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Laws of the Damascus Document: Sources, Traditions and Redaction

Keywords: Damascus document ; Dead Sea scrolls ; Damascus document ; Dead Sea scrolls ; Qumran community ; Jewish law ; Jewish law ; Qumran community

Abstract: Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- IDENTIFYING SOURCES AND REDACTIONAL ACTIVITY IN THE LAWS OF THE DAMASCUS DOCUMENT -- HALAKHAH -- COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION PART ONE: ADMISSION INTO THE COVENANT COMMUNITY -- COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION PART TWO: ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE -- COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION PART THREE: THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CAMPS -- COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION PART FOUR: THE PENAL CODE -- MISCELLANEOUS PIECES OF HALAKHAH -- CATALOGUE OF TRANSGRESSIONS -- TRANSITIONAL PASSAGE INTRODUCING THE LAWS -- EXPULSION CEREMONY AND THE END OF THE DOCUMENT -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- MODERN AUTHORS -- STUDIES ON THE TEXTS OF THE DESERT OF JUDAH.

Abstract: The Damascus Document is one of the key texts to have been discovered in both spectacular Jewish manuscript discoveries of the 20 th century: the Cairo Genizah and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The legal part of this document has until recently received little scholarly attention. With the recent publication of eight manuscripts of the Damascus Document from cave 4, which provide a substantial amount of additional legal material, the legal part of this document is set to be the focus of research in coming years. This volume provides a detailed analysis of the Laws of the Damascus Document which fully incorporates the new cave 4 evidence. The author offers a close reading of the text and identifies a number of literary strata as well as a considerable amount of redactional activity

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-203) and indexes

DOI: 10.1163/9789004350304

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Self, soul, and body in religious experience (1998)

Baumgarten, Albert I. [Hrsg.] ; Assmann, Jan [Hrsg.] ; Sṭrumzah, Gedalyahu Gʹ.

Leiden : Brill

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ISBN: 9004109439

Language: English

Pages: VI, 444 S. , Ill.

Year of publication: 1998

Series Statement: Studies in the history of religions 78

Series Statement: Studies in the history of religions

DDC: 291.22

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Keywords: Theological anthropology Congresses ; Experience (Religious) Congresses ; Konferenzschrift 1995 ; Religiöse Erfahrung ; Anthropologie ; Theologische Anthropologie ; Körper ; Seele ; Selbst

Note: Papers presented at a colloquium held in Israel, February 1995. -Includes bibliographical references and index

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Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Maimonides Centre, Hamburg

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Biblical perspectives : early use and interpretation of the Bible in light of the Dead Sea scrolls : proceedings of the First International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 12-14 May 1996 (1998)

Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature (1st : 1996) International Symposium ; Stone, Michael E. ; Chazon, Esther G.

Leiden : Brill

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ISBN: 9789004350298

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 291 pages)

Year of publication: 1998

Series Statement: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah v. 28

Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature. International Symposium (1st : 1996) Biblical perspectives

Keywords: Bible Congresses Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Dead Sea scrolls Congresses ; Bible ; Dead Sea scrolls ; Conference papers and proceedings ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History

Abstract: Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- THE STATUS OF THE TORAH IN THE PRE-SINAITIC /GARY A. ANDERSON -- SCRIPTURE AND LAW IN 4Q265 /JOSEPH M. BAUMGARTEN -- SHARED INTERTEXTUAL INTERPRETATIONS IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND THE NEW TESTAMENT /GEORGE J. BROOKE -- LOOKING FOR LEGAL MIDRASH AT QUMRAN /STEVEN D. FRAADE -- “NARRATIVE EXEGESIS” IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS /IDA FRÖHLICH -- A COMMON HERITAGE: BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION AT QUMRAN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS /MENAHEM KISTER -- FOR KING JONATHAN OR AGAINST? THE USE OF THE BIBLE IN 4Q448 /EMMANUELLE MAIN -- PATRIARCHS WHO WORRY ABOUT THEIR WIVES /GEORGE W.E. NICKELSBURG -- POST-BIBLICAL RIB PATTERN ADMONITIONS IN 4Q302/302A AND 4Q381 69,76-77 /BILHAH NITZAN -- A NOTE ON THE USE OF THE BIBLE IN 1 MACCABEES /U. RAPPAPORT -- THE CASE OF THE DAY OF ATONEMENT RITUAL /LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN -- ANCIENT JEWISH ASTROLOGY AN ATTEMPT TO INTERPRET 4QCRYPTIC (4Q186) /FRANCIS SCHMIDT -- THE USE OF BIBLICAL TERMS AS DESIGNATIONS FOR NON-BIBLICAL HYMNIC AND PRAYER COMPOSITIONS /EILEEN M. SCHULLER -- ON SOMETHING BIBLICAL ABOUT 2 MACCABEES /DANIEL R. SCHWARTZ -- THE REWRITTEN BOOK OF JOSHUA AS FOUND AT QUMRAN AND MASADA /EMANUEL TOV -- INDICES -- INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES -- INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS -- STUDIES ON THE TEXTS OF THE DESERT OF JUDAH.

Abstract: This volume explores the use and interpretation of the Bible in the Dead Sea Scrolls and associated apocryphal, early Christian and rabbinic literature. Interpretive interests, techniques and traditions are examined in many types of ancient works: rewritten bibles, pseudepigrapha, legal codes, prayers, sapiential texts, admonitions and historical treatises. The authors highlight the contribution of the new finds from the Judean Desert to such major issues as attitudes to the Bible and the Law in antiquity, continuity and innovation vis a vis the biblical world, common and unique dimensions of interpretation among different groups in the Second Temple and Rabbinic periods in particular, the Qumran sectarians and their opponents, New Testament authors and rabbinic Sages

Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes

DOI: 10.1163/9789004350298

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Hebrew poetry from late antiquity : liturgical poems of Yehudah : critical edition with introduction and commentary (1998)

Yehudah active 6th century ; Bekkum, Wout Jac. van

Leiden : Brill

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ISBN: 9789004332430

Language: Hebrew

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 183 pages) , illustrations

Year of publication: 1998

Series Statement: Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums 43

Uniform Title: Works 1998

Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hebrew Poetry from Late Antiquity: Liturgical Poems of Yehudah. Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary

Keywords: Yehudah Criticism and interpretation ; Yehudah ; Yehudah - active 6th century ; Piyutim ; Piyutim ; Piyutim ; Criticism, interpretation, etc

Abstract: Preliminary Material /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- FOREWORD /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- INTRODUCTION /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- YEHUDAH IN THE STUDY OF PIYYUT /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- STRUCTURAL DEVICES IN THE QEDUSHTOT OF YEHUDAH /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- THE USE OF LITERARY SOURCES IN THE QEDUSHTOT OF YEHUDAH /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- LANGUAGE AND STYLE /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- THE EDITING OF THE MANUSCRIPTS /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- POEMS AND COMMENTARIES /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- GENESIS /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- FESTIVALS /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- POEMS OF UNCERTAIN ATTRIBUTION /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- INDICES /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- TABLE OF EPITHETS /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- INDEX OF EPITHETS /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- TABLE OF BIBLICAL CITATIONS /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- LIST OF PIYYUT OPENINGS /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS FOR REGULAR SABBATHS /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- ARBEITEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DES ANTIKEN JUDENTUMS UND DES URCHRISTENTUMS /WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM.

Abstract: The discovery of the Genizah manuscipt collection is nothing less than a revolution for the knowledge of Hebrew literature and Jewish culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. One of the main results of one hundred years of Genizah research is the rediscovery of Hebrew liturgical poetry which shed much light on various aspects of Jewish studies. For the last half century it has been almost comonplace to discover new poems, unknown poets, novel uses of poetry and unfamiliar poetic versions of familiar prose texts within liturgical settings being revealed among the manuscripts and manuscript fragments. The products of the composers and reciters of synagogue poetry convincingly demonstrate the importance of poetry in Jewish worship and communal life. The major corpora of Palestinian liturgical poetry bear evidence to the prolific literary activity of a number of famous poets who laid the foundations for the development of Hebrew poetry in later periods: Yossi ben Yossi, Yannai, Simon bar Megas, Elazar birabbi Kilir and Yohanan ha-Kohen. One of these mostly Byzantine-Jewish 'melodists' was Yehudah who composed a cycle of poems in accordance with the reading tradition of the Pentateuch and Prophets on the sabbath. This study presents Yehudah's oeuvre with commentaries and deals with its historical and literary context in four introductory chapters. The edition is complemented by indices and a bibliography

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 180) and index , Poems in Hebrew; introduction and commentary in English

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The Impact of the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth Century : The Life and Thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont (1614-1698) (1998)

Coudert, Allison P. [VerfasserIn]

Leiden : Brill

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ISBN: 9789004679146

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource

Year of publication: 1998

Series Statement: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies 9

Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Impact of the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth Century : The Life and Thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont (1614-1698)

Keywords: Cabala and Christianity History 17th century ; Christianity

Abstract: “If he had lived among the Greeks, he would now be numbered among the stars.” So wrote Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in his epitaph for Francis Mercury van Helmont. Leibniz was not the only contemporary to admire and respect van Helmont, but although famous in his own day, he has been virtually ignored by modern historians. Yet his views influenced Leibniz, contributed to the development of modern science, and fostered the kind of ecumenicalism that made the concept of toleration conceivable. The progressive nature of van Helmont's thought was based on his deep commitment to the esoteric doctrines of the Lurianic Kabbalah. With his friend Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, van Helmont edited the Kabbala Denudata (1677-1684), the largest collection of Lurianic Kabbalistic texts available to Christians up to that time. Because the subject matter of this work appears so difficult and arcane, it has never been appreciated as a significant text for understanding the emergence of modern thought. However, one can find in it the basis for the faith in science, the belief in progress, and the pluralism characteristic of later western thought. The Lurianic Kabbalah thus deserves a place it has never received in histories of western scientific and cultural developments. Although van Helmont's efforts contributed to the development of religious toleration, his experience as a prisoner of the Inquisition accused of “Judaising” reveals the problematic relations between Christians and Jews during the early-modern period. New Inquisitional documents relating to van Helmont's imprisonment will be discussed to illustrate the difficulties faced by anyone advocating philo-semitism and toleration at the time

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Preliminary Material / , English

DOI: 10.1163/9789004679146

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Studies in the Physics and Metaphysics of Hasdai Crescas (1998)

Zev, Harvey Warren [VerfasserIn]

Leiden : Brill

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ISBN: 9789004453906

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource

Year of publication: 1998

Series Statement: Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought 6

Series Statement: European History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000

Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Studies in the Physics and Metaphysics of Hasdai Crescas

Keywords: God (Judaism) ; God Proof ; History of doctrines ; Jewish philosophy

Abstract: This book examines central themes in the thought of Rabbi Hasdai Crescas (c. 1340-1410/11), the great Catalan Jewish philosopher who contributed to the revolution of modern science and profoundly influenced Spinoza. Part I treats of Crescas’ radical critique of the Aristotelian concepts of space, time, and the vacuum, and analyzes his vision of an infinite universe; it discusses his criticisms of Maimonides’ proofs of God, and expounds his own proof; and it concludes with a discussion of his concept of God as infinite Love. Part II contains three essays on Crescas’ strictly deterministic theory of human choice

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Preliminary Material / , English

DOI: 10.1163/9789004453906

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The Jewish Bible and the Christian Bible : An Introduction to the History of the Bible (1998)

Barrera, Julio Trebolle [VerfasserIn]

Leiden : Brill

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ISBN: 9789004108899 , 9789047427162

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (576 pages) , illustrations

Year of publication: 1998

Series Statement: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity - Book Archive pre-2000

Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jewish Bible and the Christian Bible : An Introduction to the History of the Bible

Keywords: Bible History ; Bible ; Christian Bible

Abstract: This wide-ranging handbook presents an overview of our current knowledge on the history of the Bible. Divided into three parts, it shows how the collections of canonical and apocryphal books were formed, explains the transmission and translation of the Biblical texts and describes biblical interpretation in Judaism and Christianity. Incorporating the immense amount of information that has become available since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the author sets out to bridge the gaps between widely different areas and trends in the field of Biblical Studies: canonical and apocryphal literature, written and oral traditions, rabbinic and Christian exegesis and modern critical exegesis, and literal and allegorical interpretation, among others. Uniquely, Trebolle Barrera also looks at the Wirkungsgeschichte of the Bible in relation to the Greek and Roman world, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Scholars, students and interested lay persons alike will benefit from the wealth of general information found here as well as detailed discussion on many topics currently under debate, from the significance of Qumran to the influence of the Semitic and Greek world on Christianity

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Preliminary Material / , English

DOI: 10.1163/9789047427162

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