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  • 1
    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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  • 2
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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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  • 3
    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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  • 4
    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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  • 5
    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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  • 6
    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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  • 7
    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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  • 8
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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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  • 9
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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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  • 10
    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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  • 11
    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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  • 12
    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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  • 13
    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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  • 14
    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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  • 15
    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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  • 16
    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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  • 17
    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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  • 18
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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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  • 19
    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: 9789047407843 , 9789004144590
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    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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  • 21
    ISBN: 9789047405535 , 9789004138971
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    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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  • 22
    ISBN: 9789047404200 , 9789004124271
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    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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  • 23
    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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  • 24
    ISBN: 9789047403999 , 9789004113572
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    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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  • 25
    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: 9789047415633 , 9789004145788
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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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    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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  • 28
    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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  • 29
    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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  • 30
    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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  • 31
    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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  • 32
    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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  • 33
    ISBN: 9789047407720 , 9789004144385
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    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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  • 34
    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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  • 35
    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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    ISBN: 9789047406884 , 9789004142343
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    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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  • 37
    ISBN: 9789047406068 , 9789004140127
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    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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    ISBN: 9789047406426 , 9789004141094
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    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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  • 39
    ISBN: 9789047416517 , 9789004140493
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    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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    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
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 41
    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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  • 42
    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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  • 43
    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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  • 44
    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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  • 45
    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
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  • 46
    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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  • 47
    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
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  • 48
    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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  • 49
    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
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  • 50
    ISBN: 9789004509108 , 9789004091818
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1991
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 39
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Flavius Josephus on the Pharisees : A Composition-Critical Study
    Keywords: Josephus, Flavius ; Judaism ; Pharisees Historiography
    Abstract: In the past two decades, scholars have called for a new, critical history of the Pharisees. Required is a careful analysis of each source's evidence as a prior condition of historical judgements. By analyzing Flavius Josephus' portrayal of the group, this study clarifies some of the crucial evidence that any hypothesis must explain. Josephus writes about the Pharisees in three of his four extant works, describing their actions under the Hashmoneans, Herod the Great, and during his own tenure as Galilean commander of the revolt against Rome. This study tries to show how his discussions of the Pharisees contribute to his literary aims. With the help of K.H. Rengstorf's new concordance, the author explores the ten pertinent passages in their contexts, supplying also introductory chapters on the Jewish War , the Jewish Antiquities , and the Life . This analysis yields the conclusion that, although the Pharisees were the most popular party in first-century Judaism, Josephus was consistently hostile toward them for reasons peculiar to his own situation
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  • 51
    ISBN: 9789004497627 , 9789004094802
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1991
    Series Statement: Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies 28
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Converting the Past : Studies in Ancient Israelite and Moabite Historiography
    Keywords: Jews History 953-586 BC ; Historiography ; Juifs Historiography ; Moabite stone
    Abstract: This book contains partly sections that have never previously been published, and partly earlier contributions that have been thoroughly revised. They are concerned with the use of texts from the Hebrew Bible for historical research. The first chapter offers a general introduction, in which a new method of establishing the historical value of biblical texts is described and elucidated. The second chapter concerns the Ark Narrative (I Sam. iv-vi; II Sam. vi) in its historical context. In the third chapter, the relationship between the literary structure and the historical value of the Moabite inscription of king Mesha is investigated. In the fourth chapter, problems relating to the Hezekiah narratives (Isa. xxxvi-xxxix; II Kings xviii-xx) are discussed, to wit, the primacy of the Isaiah version, the literary unity and historicity of the story; the theological purpose of the speeches and Sennacherib's letter. The last chapter focuses on the representation of king Manasseh in II Kings xxi and II Chronicles xxxiii
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  • 52
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    ISBN: 9789004450882 , 9789004092303
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1990
    Series Statement: Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 18
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Josephus and Judaean Politics
    Keywords: Josephus, Flavius ; Jews History 168 B.C.-135 A.D ; Historiography ; Priests, Jewish
    Abstract: This synthetic treatment of Josephus and his times has two aims. The first is to establish Josephus' attitudes to the various Judaean aristocratic groups of the first century - priests, descendants of Herod, certain sectarians - and how these attitudes changed. The second aim is more speculative: to connect these changes with actual changes in Judaean politics and society in the c. 30 years of Josephus' literary activity, a critical period of transformation following the destruction of Jerusalem. The first chapter examines Josephus' life from his detection to Vespasian, and suggests that Josephus always retained an interest in current public affairs, particularly those of Judaea. Chapters 2-4 discuss the changes of attitude within the Josephan corpus and place them in the context of the evidence of the coins, inscriptions, Rabbinic literature and pagan historians. It is argued that these changes allow us to trace the decline of the pre-66 aristocracy groups after 70. Chapter 5 argues that there arose a new aristocracy in the 80s and 90s, a rise which left its mark in Josephus' later work
    Note: Revision of thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1985 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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