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  • 1
    ISBN: 9789004461901
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 406 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: The Brill reference library of Judaism volume 67
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The temple complex at Horvat Omrit ; Volume 2: The stratigraphy, ceramics, and other finds
    Keywords: Temple of God ; Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) ; Omrit ; Archäologische Stätte ; Ausgrabung ; Tempelbau ; Geschichte 50 v. Chr.-100
    Abstract: Horvat Omrit is a Roman period sanctuary complex in northern Israel with well-preserved temple architecture. This report presents artifacts recovered in the temenos excavations from 1999 to 2011. The volume begins with a discussion of the excavated stratigraphy, the major building phases, and the dates associated with them. Subsequent chapters examine Hellenistic and Roman ceramics, lamps, terracotta figurines, wall paintings and frescoes, coins from the Roman and medieval periods, a dedicatory pavement inscription, a 3rd-century BCE Aramaic inscription, faunal remains, jewellery, an 8th-century BCE cylinder seal, a marble sphinx, a stucco relief, and a small, inscribed altar. An appendix associates the catalogued artifacts with their stratigraphic locations. Altogether the artifacts contribute to the archaeology and history of a diverse Galilee
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface, Excavation Methodology, and Nomenclature -- List of Tables, Figures and Plates -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- J. Andrew Overman -- 1 The Stratigraphy -- J. Andrew Overman, Daniel N. Schowalter, Michael C. Nelson, and Nanette Goldman -- 2 The Hellenistic and Roman Pottery -- Débora Sandhaus -- 3 The Lamps: Catalog and Discussion -- Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom -- 4 The Terracotta Figurines -- Adi Erlich -- 5 Wall Painting Remains in Horvat Omrit: Final Report -- Silvia Rozenberg -- 6 The Coins from the Temple Excavations at Omrit -- Gabriela Bijovsky -- 7 An Inscription on the Paving of the Omrit Temple Complex -- Daniel N. Schowalter -- 8 A Fragmentary Aramaic Inscription from the 3rd Century BCE -- Hagai Misgav -- 9 Sacrificial Holocaust: The Faunal Remains from the Roman Temple Excavations at Omrit -- Rachel Hesse -- 10 Jewelry from the Temple Area -- Tziona Grossmark -- 11 A Roman Sphinx Statue from Omrit -- Tali Sharvit -- 12 A Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal from Horvat Omrit Dated to the Reign of Sargon  II (721-705 BCE ) -- Baruch Brandl and Tziona Grossmark -- 13 A Stucco Relief -- Adi Erlich -- 14 The Zeus Altar -- Emily Prosch -- Appendix: Square Stratigraphy and Associated Material Culture -- Index -- Plates.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9789004469198 , 9789004469181
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 365 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism volume 70
    Series Statement: The Brill reference library of ancient Judaism
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Studies in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Studies in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu literature
    Keywords: Midrash History and criticism ; Konferenzschrift 2012 ; Konferenzschrift 2013 ; Konferenzschrift 2014 ; Tanḥûma
    Abstract: Preface -- Arnon Atzmon and Ronit Nikolsky -- 1 Let Our Rabbi Teach Us: An Introduction to Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature -- Ronit Nikolsky and Arnon Atzmon -- Part 1: Bibliographical Survey -- 2 A Bibliographical Survey of Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Research: Past, Present, and Future -- Marc Bregman -- Part 2: Textual Findings -- 3 Tanhuma as a Textual Martyr: On the Reception of Tanhuma Literature in Literary and Documentary Genizah Sources -- Moshe Lavee -- 4 The Transmission of Midrash Tanhuma in Ashkenaz as Reflected in Binding Fragments from Germany -- Andreas Lehnardt -- Part 3: Language and Terminology -- 5 The Language of the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: The State of Research -- Yehonatan Wormser -- 6 "Rabbi Tanhuma Said": A Code Phrase for the Quotation from Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature -- Gila Vachman -- Part 4: Sources and Parallels -- 7 Pesikta in the Tanhuma: The Case of Pericope Shekalim -- Arnon Atzmon -- 8 A Tanhumaic Tradition on a Hasmonean King: Between Tannaitic Sources and the Babylonian Talmud -- Tal Ilan -- Part 5: Adjacent and Later Literatures -- 9 The Affinity between the Lost Midrash Yelammedenu and Midrash Vayekhulu -- Amos Geula -- 10 The Provenance of Aggadat Bereshit: A Reassessment of the Origins of the Work as a "Tanhuma Satellite" -- Lieve Teugels -- 11 Tanhuma in Masquerade: Discovering the Tanhuma in the Latter Midrash Rabbah Texts -- Shalem Yahalom -- Part 6: Cultural Context -- 12 Dramatic Dialogues in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Midrashim -- Dov Weiss -- 13 Meshalim on Election and Power: Two Examples in Tanhuma Buber -- Eric Ottenheijm -- 14 Joseph, Judah, and the Study of Emotions in Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature -- Ronit Nikolsky -- Part 7: Textual Witnesses -- 15 Survey of Textual Witnesses of the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature -- Arnon Atzmon -- Bibliography -- Index of Biblical Sources -- Index of Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature -- Index of Sources -- Index of Modern Scholars -- General Index.
    Abstract: Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature enables a rare and unique look into the Jewish society of late antiquity and the early Byzantine period, especially the interaction between the beit-midrash and the synagogue cultures. This little-studied corpus is the focus of the present volume, in which various authors study historical, philological, cultural or linguistic aspects of this literature. The result is a body of work dedicated to this important corpus, and is a first step into giving it its proper place in Jewish Studies
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9789004498327
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 333 Seiten)
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Political and public theologies volume1
    Series Statement: Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2022, ISBN: 9789004507777
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The spirit of populism
    Keywords: Political theology ; Political theology ; Populism Religious aspects ; Populism ; Populism ; Politische Theologie ; Populismus
    Abstract: Populism is a buzzword. This compilation explores the significance of religion for the controversies stirred up by populist politics in European and American contexts in order to understand what lies behind the buzz. Engaging Jewish, Christian, and Islamic political thought and theology, contributions by more than twenty established and emerging scholars explore right-wing and left-wing protests, offering critical interpretations and creative interventions for a polarized public square. Both methodologically and thematically, the compilation moves beyond essentialist definitions of religion, encouraging a comparative approach to political theology today
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9789004430624
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 236 Seiten)
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: The Brill reference library of Judaism volume 69
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Paulsen-Reed, Amy The Apocalypse of Abraham in its ancient and medieval contexts
    Keywords: Apocalypse of Abraham Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Ancient Judaism ; Biblical Studies ; Apocalypsis Abrahami ; Textgeschichte ; Kontext
    Abstract: "The Apocalypse of Abraham is a pseudepigraphal work that narrates Abraham's rejection of idol worship and his subsequent ascent to heaven, where he is shown eschatological secrets through angelic mediation. This fascinating text was only preserved in Old Church Slavonic and must be studied as both a medieval Christian and an ancient Jewish text. This monograph addresses the following questions: -Why were medieval Slavs translating and reading Jewish pseudepigrapha -How much, if at all, did they emend or edit the Apocalypse of Abraham? -When in antiquity was it most likely written? -What were its ancient Jewish social and theological contexts?"--
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9789004461734 , 9789004461727
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences 24
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Evolution of the Israeli Third Sector : A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis
    Keywords: Political parties Israel ; Political parties
    Abstract: The Evolution of the Israeli Third Sector reviews the development of the nonprofit sector in Israel and analyzes it within existing nonprofit theories. It takes a historical perspective in looking at its evolution, in light of political, social, ideological, and economic changes in the world and in the country. It discusses the development of policy and government involvement on the one hand and the unique features of Israeli philanthropy, both Jewish and Arab, on the other. It analyzes Israel's civil society and social movements as well as social entrepreneurship and their expression in the Third Sector. The book also covers the development of research and education on the Third Sector; it includes a review of research centers, databases, journals, and specific programs that were developed by Israeli universities
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9789004431195 , 9789004431188
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: English edition
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Studies in Jewish History and Culture 65
    Series Statement: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441910
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Surviving the Ghetto : Toward a Social History of the Jewish Community in 16th-Century Rome
    Keywords: Ethnic relations ; Jewish ghettos ; Jews History 16th century ; Jews Social conditions 16th century ; Rome (Italy) Ethnic relations
    Abstract: Before the Ghetto -- The Birth of the Ghetto and the Dangers Narrowly Escaped in 1555 -- A Ruling Class for the Jews of the Ghetto -- Career Bankers -- Unexpected Opportunities -- The Camerlengo, a Protector in the Curia -- Separate at Home.
    Abstract: "The expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and the subsequent expulsion from Portugal just four years later mark what is traditionally viewed as a watershed moment in Jewish history. Ferdinand and Isabella's strategy of aggressive evangelization - conversion or expulsion - had countless consequences from many points of view. The resulting wave of refugees transformed the geography of the Jewish presence in the Mediterranean basin as well as in central and southern Europe"--
    Note: "This volume was originally published in Italian: Serena Di Nepi, Sopravvivere al ghetto. Per una storia sociale nella Roma del Cinquecento. Rome: Viella, 2013." , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9789004460942
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 302 Seiten)
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval tome 86
    Series Statement: Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441149
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Accounting for the commandments in medieval Judaism
    Keywords: Commandments, Six hundred and thirteen History of doctrines ; Judentum ; Gesetz ; Gebot ; Geschichte 500-1500 ; Kabbala ; Gesetz
    Abstract: Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism explores the discursive formation of the commandments as a generative matrix of Jewish thought and life in the posttalmudic period. Each study sheds light on how medieval Jews crafted the commandments out of theretofore underdetermined material. By systematizing, representing, or interrogating the amorphous category of commandment, medieval Jewish authors across both the Islamic and Christian spheres of influence sought to explain, justify, and characterize Israel's legal system, divine revelation, the cosmos, and even the divine order. This volume correlates bodies of knowledge-such as jurisprudence, philosophy, ethics, pietism, and kabbalah-that are normally treated in isolation into a single conversation about a shared constitutional concern
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Commandments as a Discursive Nexus of Medieval Judaism -- Marc Herman and Jeremy P. Brown -- Case Studies in Individual Commandments -- 2 Dê Maḥsoro as the Key to Jewish Almsgiving: A Maimonidean Interpretive Innovation and Its Legal Afterlife to the Fifteenth Century -- Alyssa M. Gray -- 3 The Taqqanah of the Moredet in the Middle Ages -- Judith R. Baskin -- 4 An Early Kabbalistic Explanation of Temple Sacrifice: Text and Study -- Jonathan Dauber -- The Ramifications of Maimonides -- 5 Early Evaluation of Maimonides's Enumeration of the Commandments against the Background of the Eastern Maimonidean Controversy -- Marc Herman -- 6 Maimonides's Long Journey from Greek to Jewish Ethics -- Albert Dov Friedberg -- 7 The Reasons for the Commandments in Isaac Ibn Laṭīf's The Gate of Heaven (1238) -- Guadalupe González Diéguez -- Accounting for the Decalogue -- 8 The Ten Commandments Are Implanted in Human Minds: Abraham Ibn Ezra's Rational Approach to the Decalogue -- Mariano Gómez Aranda -- 9 Decoding the Decalogue: Theosophical Re-engraving of the Ten Commandments in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah -- Avishai Bar-Asher -- Discourses of Ṭaʿame ha-miṣvot : Tosafism, Rhineland Pietism, Egyptian Pietism, Kabbalah, Sabbatianism -- 10 Ṭaʿame ha-miṣvot in Medieval Ashkenaz -- Ephraim Kanarfogel -- 11 Pietism in the Law and the Law of Pietism: From Moses to Abraham Maimonides -- Elisha Russ-Fishbane -- 12 A Castilian Debate about the Aims and Limits of Theurgic Practice: Rationalizing Incest Taboos in the Zohar , Moses de León, and Joseph of Hamadan -- Leore Sachs-Shmueli -- 13 Ascesis, Hypernomianism, and the Excess of Lack: Semiotic Transfiguration of the Somatic -- Elliot R. Wolfson -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Laut Frontpage Publikationsdatum 17.01.2022
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9789004430044 , 9789004430037
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 60
    Series Statement: Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004419094
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Innovation and Tradition in Rabbinic Culture : A Reassessment Through a Linguistic Lens
    Keywords: Judaism ; Jews Study and teaching
    Abstract: Reading Talmudic Sources as Arguments: A New Interpretive Approach elucidates the unique characteristics of Talmudic discourse culture. Approaching Talmudic literature from a linguistic perspective, the book shows the extensive and hidden ways in which later rabbis used early formulations. Applying Quentin Skinner's interpretive question “What was the author doing in composing the text in this particular way?" to Talmudic literature reveals that Talmudic debate is not only about ideas, concepts and laws but also about the latter's connection to pre-existing formulations. These early traditions, rather than only being accepted or not, are used by later generations to build their own arguments. The book articulates the function of tradition at the time that Rabbinic Judaism was forged
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  • 9
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    ISBN: 9789004428645 , 9789004428478
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Brill Research Perspectives
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Intersections between Jews and Media
    Keywords: Judaism Modern period
    Abstract: Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Intersections between Jews and Media.
    Abstract: In this volume, the relationship between Jews and media is not only vividly illustrated, but it is consciously drawn into the formation of modern Jewish history and modern media. Maya Balakirsky Katz addresses key Jewish-media intersections in which Jews and mass media implicated (or were implicated by) one another. In this study, Katz discusses the relationship that Jews have had with mass media forms of print, film, photography, advertising, and postcards within the periods that these media have gained cultural ascendancy. These historical moments are tethered to a broader conversation addressing the major theoretical issues at the center of the discourse on Jews and media. Bearing this mutually constructive relationship in mind, Intersections between Jews and Media offers both a tangible demographic portrait of the real Jews who entered mass media and lays a theoretical and methodological framework for more qualitative analyses
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9789004343870
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 276 Seiten)
    Year of publication: 2017
    Series Statement: Jewish Identities in a Changing World / Volume 28
    Series Statement: Jewish identities in a changing world
    Uniform Title: Naʿaśeh lanu ḥag: ḥagim ṿe-tarbut ezraḥit be-Yiśrael
    Parallel Title: Print version Shoham, Hizky Israel Celebrates : Jewish Holidays and Civic Culture in Israel
    Keywords: Holidays ; Judaism and culture ; Judaism and state ; Fasts and feasts ; Judaism ; Holidays ; Judaism and culture ; Judaism and state ; Manners and customs ; Israel Social life and customs ; Israel ; Judentum ; Religiöses Fest ; Feiertag ; Brauch
    Abstract: Israeli Civic Culture as a Jewish Culture -- The Jewish Family: Passover -- The Environment: Tu Bishvat -- The Public Space: Yom Kippur -- Freedom: Yom Ha’atzma’ut -- Citizenship: The “Nationalization” of Jewish Culture in Israel.
    Abstract: Israel Celebrates is about the intersection where Israeli inventiveness and Jewish tradition meet: the holidays. It employs the anthropological history of four Jewish holidays as celebrated in Israel in order to track the naturalization of Jewish rituals, myths, and symbols in Israeli culture throughout “the long twentieth century” of Zionism and on to the present, and to demonstrate how a new strand of Judaism developed in Israel from the grassroots. But could this grassroots Israeli culture develop into a shared symbolic space for both Jews and Arabs? By probing the political implications of the minutiae of life, the book argues that this popular culture might come to define Jewish identity in Israel of the 21st century
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9789004342309
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 pages)
    Year of publication: 2017
    Series Statement: Jewish Latin America volume 9
    Series Statement: Jewish Latin America, issues and methods v. 9
    Parallel Title: Print version Rein, Raanan The New Ethnic Studies in Latin America
    Keywords: 1900-1999 ; Jews History 20th century ; Ethnic relations ; Jews ; History ; Latin America Ethnic relations ; Latin America
    Abstract: Preliminary Material /Raanan Rein , Stefan Rinke and Nadia Zysman -- Introduction /Raanan Rein , Stefan Rinke and Nadia Zysman -- Remaking Ethnic Studies in the Age of Identities /Jeffrey Lesser -- Factory, Workshop, and Homework: A Spatial Dimension of Labor Flexibility among Jewish Migrants in the Early Stages of Industrialization in Buenos Aires /Nadia Zysman -- Becoming Polacos: Landsmanshaftn and the Making of a Polish-Jewish Sub-ethnicity in Argentina /Mariusz Kałczewiak -- Ethnicity and Federalism in Latin America: Rethinking the National Experience of Jews and Middle Eastern Descendants in Argentina /Mauricio Dimant -- “For an Arab There Can Be Nothing Better Than Another Arab”: Nation, Ethnicity and Citizenship in Peronist Argentina /Ariel Noyjovich and Raanan Rein -- Otherness in Convergence: Arabs, Jews, and the Formation of the Chilean Middle Classes, 1930–1960 /Claudia Stern -- The Untold History: Voices of Non-affiliated Jews in Chile, 1940–1990 /Valeria Navarro-Rosenblatt -- The Other as a Mirror: Representation of Jews and Palestinians on Argentinian and Chilean Television Screens /Gabriela Jonas Aharoni -- In the Land of Vitzliputzli: German-Speaking Jews in Latin America /Liliana Ruth Feierstein -- Epilogue: The Centesimal Nisman /David M. K. Sheinin -- Index /Raanan Rein , Stefan Rinke and Nadia Zysman.
    Abstract: The New Ethnic Studies in Latin America aims at going beyond and against much of Jewish Latin American historiography, situating Jewish-Latin Americans in the larger multi-ethnic context of their countries. Senior and junior scholars from various countries joined together to challenge commonly held assumptions, accepted ideas, and stable categories about ethnicity in Latin America in general and Jewish experiences on this continent in particular. This volume brings to the discussions on Jewish life in Latin America less heard voices of women, non-affiliated Jews, and intellectuals. Community institutions are not at center stage, conflicts and tensions are brought to the fore, and a multitude of voices pushes aside images of homogeneity. Authors in this tome look at Jews’ multiple homelands: their country of birth, their country of residence, and their imagined homeland of Zion
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9789004284630
    Language: English
    Pages: Onliene Ressource (449 S.)
    Year of publication: 2015
    Series Statement: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 44
    Series Statement: Brill reference library of Judaism v. 44
    Series Statement: The Brill reference library of ancient Judaism
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Seltzer, Robert M ; Judaism History ; Jews History ; Jews ; Jews Identity ; Judaism ; Electronic books ; Juden ; Ethnische Identität ; Jüdische Philosophie ; USA ; Politik ; Judentum ; Judentum ; Religiöse Identität ; Westliche Welt
    Abstract: 〈i〉Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience〈/i〉 provides a variety of new perspectives on several central questions in Jewish intellectual, social, and religious history from the eighteenth century to the present
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Robert M. Seltzer: Scholar and Teacher; Introduction: Jewish Identities in the Modern Period; Part 1 Jewish Life and Modern Questions in Russia and Eastern Europe; Language Acquisition as a Criterion of Modernization among East Central European Jews: The Case of Dov Ber Birkenthal of Bolechów; Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky and Shimon Dubnow: A Distant Regard and Appreciation; Saul Borovoi's Survival: An Odessa Tale about a Jewish Historian in Soviet Times
    Description / Table of Contents: Defying Authority in the Pale: The Making of Soviet Jewish Rituals and the Emergence of Folk LegitimacyPart 2 Jewish Thought and Questions of Identity; Pride and Pedigree: The Development of the Myth of Sephardic Aristocratic Lineage; Joshua Hezekiah Decordova and a Rabbinic Counter-Enlightenment from Colonial Jamaica; Merchant Colonies: Resettlement in Italy, France, Holland, and England, 1550-1700; From Combat to Convergence: The Relationship between Heinrich Graetz and Abraham Geiger; Kaplan and Personality; How Much Eastern Europe in American Jewish Thought? The Case of Jacob B. Agus
    Description / Table of Contents: Diaspora, Jewishness, and Difference in Isaiah Berlin's ThoughtMartin Buber and the Impact of World War I on the Prague Zionists Shmuel H. Bergman, Robert Weltsch, and Hans Kohn; The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Vision in the Life and Thought of Hans Kohn; Part 3 Jewish Religion and Politics in America; How the Bible Expelled Religion from the American Schoolroom: The Causes and Consequences of Bible Wars in Nineteenth-Century American Schools; Lay and Rabbinic Conflict in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Jewry
    Description / Table of Contents: An International Solution for an International Problem: The JDC and the AJC in the 1930s Stephen S. Wise and Golda Meir: Zionism, Israel, and American Power in the Twentieth Century; "We Must Build Anew": Ideological Perspectives of the First Generation of Students to Attend Stephen S. Wise's Jewish Institute of Religion; A Judaism for Moderns: Reflections on Contemporary Challenges; Writings of Robert M. Seltzer; Index
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  • 13
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    ISBN: 9789004256958
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (438 pages)
    Year of publication: 2013
    Series Statement: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Katz, Maya Balakirsky Revising Dreyfus
    Keywords: Dreyfus, Alfred Influence ; Antisemitism History 19th century ; Jews History 19th century ; Intellectuals Political activity ; France Intellectual life 19th century
    Abstract: Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The Revision of Dreyfus in Historical Perspective /Maya Balakirsky Katz -- 1. The Dreyfus Affair and Its Images /Henri Mitterand -- 2. The Dreyfus Affair as National Theater /Venita Datta -- 3. French Jewish Identity in the Wake of the Dreyfus Affair, 1898–1931: The Story of Edmond Fleg /Sally Charnow -- 4. Henri-Gabriel Ibels, Nineteenth-Century Blogger /Maya Balakirsky Katz -- 5. Let’s Go! Contemporary History Narrated and Drawn [1898] /Henri-Gabriel Ibels -- 6. Henri-Gabriel Ibels, the Jews, and the Francization of the Dreyfus Affair /Zvi Jonathan Kaplan -- 7. Line and Shadow: Envisioning Anti-Dreyfusism in Psst . . .! /Elizabeth Everton -- 8. John Grand-Carteret, a Historian of the Dreyfus Affair through Caricature? /Bertrand Tillier -- 9. The Impressionist Circle, Before and After the Dreyfus Affair /Batsheva Goldman-Ida -- 10. The Dreyfus Affair in Early Zionist Culture /Jess Olson -- 11. Postcards from the Dreyfus Affair: Mass Media and Modern Antisemitism /Brigitte Sion -- 12. Exhibiting Dreyfus in America: The Jewish Museum of New York and the Soviet Jewry Movement /Maya Balakirsky Katz -- 13. History and Human Conscience: An American Collection of the Dreyfus Affair /Lorraine Beitler -- Index.
    Abstract: In Revising Dreyfus , contributors from a wide variety of disciplines (art history, film, media, theater, sociology, history) offer new ways of understanding the ever-evolving meanings of the Dreyfus Affair. Although the Dreyfusards led the way in explicating the nuances of the Affair in lengthy treatises, the anti-Dreyfusards far outstripped their opponents on the graphic front, particularly through print media, photographs, postcards, broadsides, films, illustrated journal covers, and the plastic arts. Revising Dreyfus traces the dominant modes of “seeing” the Dreyfus Affair, often in opposition to “reading” the Affair in three major contexts: French, Zionist, and American
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9789004256446
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    Year of publication: 2013
    Series Statement: Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hegedus, Gyongyi (Ginger) Saadya Gaon : The Double Path of the Mystic and the Rationalist
    Keywords: Saʻadia ben Joseph ; Jewish philosophy ; Philosophy, Medieval
    Abstract: Preliminary Material /Gyongyi Hegedus -- Introduction /Gyongyi Hegedus -- Chapter One Two Paths to Knowledge /Gyongyi Hegedus -- Chapter Two The Understanding of Reality in the KAI and in the TSY /Gyongyi Hegedus -- Chapter Three Rational Theology: An Islamic Parallel from the 10th century: the Muġnī /Gyongyi Hegedus -- Chapter Four Gnosticism: An Islamic Parallel from the 10th Century: The Epistles of the Sincere Brethren /Gyongyi Hegedus -- Conclusion /Gyongyi Hegedus -- Bibliography /Gyongyi Hegedus -- Index /Gyongyi Hegedus.
    Abstract: In Saadya Gaon: The Double Path of the Mystic and the Rationalist Gyongyi Hegedus offers a new perspective on the thought of the most significant medieval Jewish thinker of the pre-Maimonidean era, Saadya Gaon. Saadya’s important philosophical works belong to two distinct traditions: his main work is written in the style of rationalist theology (kalam), but he is also responsible for composing a commentary in a neo-Pythagorean tone. In addition to contextualizing the two traditions and analyzing their Islamic parallels, the book makes the argument that Saadya consciously constructed a two-layered model of thought and harmonized two styles: one based on sensation and logic, the other on a specific prophetic insight
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , The Finitude of the Speculation in Saadya's KAI
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9789004225466 , 9004225463 , 9789004183858 , 900418385X
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource ( 1 online resource (220 S. )
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Year of publication: 2012
    Series Statement: Culture and history of the ancient Near East v. 54
    Series Statement: Brill online books and journals: E-books
    Series Statement: Culture and history of the ancient Near East
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Inscriptions, Aramaic West Bank ; Gerizim, Mount ; Inscriptions, Aramaic Israel ; Sabastiyah ; Inscriptions, Hebrew West Bank ; Gerizim, Mount ; Inscriptions, Hebrew Israel ; Sabastiyah ; Judaism History ; Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D ; Paleography, Hebrew ; Paleography, Aramaic ; Inscriptions, Hebrew ; Inscriptions, Hebrew ; Inscriptions, Aramaic ; Inscriptions, Aramaic ; Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D ; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Hebrew
    Abstract: This book presents a paleographic analysis of the Aramaic and Hebrew inscriptions from Mt. Gerizim and their historical background within the historical and political context of Palestine in the Hellenistic period
    Note: 2.1.4. hieron (hagion) Argarizein. - Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Description based on print version record
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  • 16
    ISBN: 9789004222366
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (342 pages) , illustrations
    Year of publication: 2012
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy v. 15
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History: Festschrift in Honor of Robert Chazan
    Keywords: Rashi ; Jews History To 1500 ; Tosafists ; Martyrdom Judaism ; Jewish law ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Europe Ethnic relations To 1500 ; History
    Abstract: Preliminary Material /David Engel , Lawrence H. Schiffman and Elliot R. Wolfson -- Robert Chazan: In Appreciation and Friendship /David Engel , Lawrence H. Schiffman and Elliot R. Wolfson -- Guibert of Nogent and William of Flay and the Problem of Jewish Conversion at the Time of the First Crusade /Anna Sapir Abulafia -- Rashi’s Choice: The Humash Commentary As Rewritten Midrash /Ivan G. Marcus -- The Commentary of Rashi on Isaiah and the Jewish-Christian Debate /Avraham Grossman -- Were Jews Made in the Image of God? Christian Perspectives and Jewish Existence in Medieval Europe /Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak -- Jewish Knowledge of Christianity in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries /Daniel J. Lasker -- Dreams As a Determinant of Jewish Law and Practice in Northern Europe during the High Middle Ages /Ephraim Kanarfogel -- Orality and Literacy: The French Tosaphists /Gérard Nahon -- Torah and the Messianic Age: The Polemical and Exegetical History of a Rabbinic Text /David Berger -- Textual Flesh, Incarnation, and the Imaginal Body: Abraham Abulafia’s Polemic with Christianity /Elliot R. Wolfson -- The Jewish Cemeteries of France after the Expulsion of 1306 /William Chester Jordan -- The Cruel Jewish Father: From Miracle to Murder /Kenneth Stow -- From Solomon Bar Samson to Solomon Ibn Verga: Tales and Ideas of Jewish Martyrdom in Shevet Yehudah /Jeremy Cohen -- Salo Baron’s View of the Middle Ages in Jewish History: Early Sources /David Engel -- Bibliography of the Works of Robert Chazan /Yechiel Y. Schur -- Index /David Engel , Lawrence H. Schiffman and Elliot R. Wolfson.
    Abstract: For more than four decades Robert Chazan has been a copious source of original insights into the history and culture of medieval European Jewry, challenging conventional wisdom with profound erudition and sober analysis. In this volume, thirteen leading Judaicists and medievalists engage subjects that have been of particular concern to Professor Chazan during his distinguished career: the history of the Jewish communities in Western Christendom during the Middle Ages, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis and religious literature, and historical representations of the experience of medieval Jewry. Taken together they offer a comprehensive portrait of the state of the field of medieval Jewish studies
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    ISBN: 9789004230347
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (393 pages)
    Year of publication: 2012
    Series Statement: Studies in Religion and the Arts
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Berger, Pamela Crescent on the Temple : The Dome of the Rock as Image of the Ancient Jewish Sanctuary
    Keywords: Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem) In art ; Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) In art ; Jewish art and symbolism Themes, motives ; RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice
    Abstract: Preliminary Material -- 1. The Temple in Text, Imagery and Memory -- 2. Christian and Muslim Perspectives and Jewish Legends about the Temple -- 3. Building the Dome of the Rock -- 4. The Temple in the Guise of the Dome of the Rock in Architecture and Imagery before the Crusades -- 5. The Christianization of the Dome of the Rock -- 6. The Domed Temple in Romanesque and Gothic Art in the West and in the Holy Land -- 7. The Domed Temple from the Thirteenth to the Early Fifteenth Century in Italy -- 8. The Domed Temple in Renaissance Italy and in Early Printed Sources -- 9. The Circular or Polygonal Temple in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries in the North -- 10. Muslim Depictions of the Temple of Solomon in the Guise of the Dome of the Rock -- 11. The Dome of the Rock as the Temple in Jewish Manuscript Art and Early Printed Books -- 12. The Dome of the Rock as the Temple in Pilgrimage Scrolls -- 13. The Dome of the Rock as the Temple in Italian Itineraries, Ark Curtains, Esther Scrolls and Marriage Contracts -- 14. The Dome of the Rock as the Temple: Nineteenth Century Itinerary Sheets -- 15. The Dome of the Rock as the Temple in Cloth and Yarn -- 16. The Dome of the Rock as Protective Image -- 17. The Waning of the Dome of the Rock as the Image of the Temple -- 18. The Dome of the Rock and the Temple in Our Time -- Works Cited -- Appendix -- Index.
    Abstract: \'The Crescent on the Temple\' by Pamela Berger elucidates an obscured tradition—how the Dome of the Rock came to stand for the Temple of Solomon in Christian, Muslim, and Jewish art. The crusaders called the Dome of the Rock the “Temple of the Lord,” while Muslim imagery depicted Solomon enthroned within the domed structure. Jews knew that the ancient Temple had been destroyed. Nevertheless, in their imagery, they commonly labeled the Muslim shrine “The Temple.” That domed “Temple” was often represented with a crescent on top. This iconography, long hidden in plain sight, reflects one aspect of an historical affinity between Jews and Muslims
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    ISBN: 9789004227989 , 9789004227989 , 9004227989
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource ( 1 online resource 302 S.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Year of publication: 2012
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism Volume 150
    Series Statement: Brill online books and journals: E-books
    Series Statement: Journal for the study of Judaism Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Rozen-Tsevi, Yishai, 1971 - The Mishnaic Sotah ritual
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    Keywords: Rabbinical literature History and criticism ; Adultery (Jewish law) ; Women (Jewish law) ; Rabbinical literature History and criticism ; RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice ; Mishnah ; Sotah ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Adultery (Jewish law) ; Rabbinical literature ; History and criticism ; Women (Jewish law) ; Mishnah Sotah
    Abstract: Combining philological, anthropological and cultural tools, this study sheds new light on issues of rabbinic gender economy and sexual morality, and contributes to the nascent scholarship on the formation of the temple in the Mishnah
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    ISBN: 9789004217669
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 pages)
    Year of publication: 2011
    Series Statement: Jewish Latin America: issues and methods v. 1
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Returning to Babel
    Keywords: Jews Identity ; Jews Intellectual life 21st century ; Jews Social life and customs ; Jews Cultural assimilation ; Social integration ; Latin American literature Jewish authors ; History and criticism ; Jewish literature History and criticism ; HISTORY / Latin America / General ; HISTORY / Latin America / South America
    Abstract: Preliminary Material /Amalia Ran and Jean Axelrad Cahan -- Introduction: /Amalia Ran and Jean Axelrad Cahan -- Jewish Latin American Experiences, Past and Present Jewish Latin American Historiography: /Raanan Rein -- Educating Argentine Jews: /Adriana Brodsky -- The Jewish Latin American Writer and Tradition: /Sergio Waisman -- Jewishness as Literary Representation Should We Bury the Jewish Gaucho? A New Gerchunoff for the Twenty-First Century /Edna Aizenberg -- Hacer la América: /Joanna L. Mitchell -- Judaism, Sexuality, and the Nation in Francisco Goldman’s The Divine Husband /Ariana Vigil -- Jewish and lo Latinoamericano in the Arts Borges and the Kabbalah: /Saúl Sosnowski -- Music of the Underdog: /Moshe Morad -- Jewish Puberty in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: /Tzvi Tal -- The Notion of Otherness and the Question of Integration “The books that should not be missing in any Jewish home”: /Alejandro Dujovne -- Beyond Identity: /Nelson H. Vieira -- Plausible Alternatives in the Jewish Argentinean Integration Game /Lourdes Barranco-Cortés -- Otherness in El árbol de la Gitana /Dayana Soto and Caballero de Galicia -- Bibliography /Amalia Ran and Jean Axelrad Cahan -- Index /Amalia Ran and Jean Axelrad Cahan.
    Abstract: This volume offers a re-examination of some of the prevalent paradigms in Latin American Jewish Studies and an instigation to further explorations in this area. It sets out from an interdisciplinary standpoint, comprising literature, culture, history, cinematography, music and visual arts. This collection of articles seeks a wider range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives concerning Latin American Jewish experiences, and thereby offers a framework for innovative as well as traditional modes of analysis. It elaborates on themes of Jewish identity as represented in the history, cultures and societies of Latin America in the current era of hybridism and transnationalism
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  • 20
    ISBN: 9789047443841
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 398 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2010
    Series Statement: European Genizah Volume 1
    Series Statement: Brill ebook titles
    Series Statement: Studies in Jewish history and culture Volume 28
    Series Statement: European Genizah
    Series Statement: Studies in Jewish history and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als "Genizat Germania"
    DDC: 091.089924
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    Keywords: Genizat Germania (Project) ; Manuscripts, Hebrew Congresses ; Manuscripts, Aramaic Congresses ; Manuscripts, Medieval Congresses ; Paleography, Hebrew Congresses ; Judaism History Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 ; Rabbinical literature Bibliography ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Judaistik ; Mittelalter ; Jüdische Literatur ; Aramäisch ; Hebräisch ; Paläographie ; Epigraphik ; Judentum ; Genisa ; Genizat Germania (Project) ; Judaism ; History ; Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 ; Manuscripts, Aramaic ; Germany ; Congresses ; Manuscripts, Hebrew ; Germany ; Congresses ; Manuscripts, Medieval ; Europe ; Congresses ; Paleography, Hebrew ; Congresses ; Rabbinical literature ; Bibliography ; Electronic books ; Europa ; Deutschland ; Frankreich ; Österreich ; Italien ; Spanien ; Konferenzschrift 2007 ; Deutschland ; Genisa ; Hebräisch ; Aramäisch ; Handschrift ; Fragment ; Bucheinband ; Geschichte 500-1800 ; Deutschland ; Genisa ; Handschrift ; Hebräisch ; Aramäisch ; Bucheinband ; Geschichte 500-1800 ; Hebräisch ; Handschrift ; Juden ; Geschichte ; Judentum ; Christentum
    Abstract: Intro -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Introduction (Andreas Lehnardt) -- PART I STUDIES IN 'GENIZAT GERMANIA' -- Puzzling the Past: Reconstructing a Mahzor from Receipt Wrappings (Saskia Dönitz) -- Images Tell a Tale of Place and Time: A Methodological Study of Artwork in Service of Context (Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig) -- Reconstructing Manuscripts: The Liturgical Fragments from Trier (Elisabeth Hollender) -- Makulierte hebräische Handschriften in Eberhardsklausen- eine bibliotheks- und literaturgeschichtliche Untersuchung (Marco Brösch) -- The Discovery of Medieval Targum and Mahzor Fragments in Freiberg/Saxony (Andreas Kunz-Lübcke) -- PART II STUDIES IN THE "EUROPEAN GENIZAH -- Hebräische Dokumente und Geschichtsquellen in der "Europäischen Geniza" (Abraham David) -- Calamus or Chisel: On the History of the Ashkenazic Script (Edna Engel) -- An Early Ashkenazi Fragment of the Babylonian Talmud from the Czartoryski Museum in Cracow (Judith Olszowy-Schlanger) -- New Fragments of Unknown Biblical Commentaries from the "European Genizah" (Simcha Emanuel) -- 385 Printed Books of the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Bound with Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts in the Estense Library in Modena (Mauro Perani with the cooperation of Emmanuela Mongardi and Ezra Chwat) -- Commentaries on the Azharot and Other Liturgical Poems Found in the Biblioteca Civica of Alessandria (Saverio Campanini) -- Ein neues Fragment zu Sifre Devarim (Michael Krupp) -- PART III EUROPEAN PROJECTS -- Genizat Austria: The "Hebrew Manuscripts and Fragments in Austrian Libraries" Project (Josef Oesch) -- Hebrew Manuscript Fragments in the Czech Republic: A Preliminary Report (Daniel Polakovic) -- PART IV BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Bibliography of the "European Genizah" (Andreas Lehnardt) -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects -- Color Plates.
    Note: Einleitung: The present volume is a collection of papers read at the international conference “‘Genizat Germania’: Hebrew and Aramaic Binding Fragments from German Archives and Libraries,” held in Mainz in June 2007 , Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Leiden : BRILL
    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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  • 28
    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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    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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    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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    ISBN: 9789047410508 , 9789004152830
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    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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  • 32
    ISBN: 9789047411512 , 9789004154933
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    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 9
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Sicily, Volume 9 Corte Pretoriana and Notaries of Palermo
    Keywords: Cairo Genizah ; Jews Sicily ; History ; Sources
    Abstract: This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy is the first of the second series, illustrating the history of the Jews in Sicily based on notarial and court records. It is the sequel to the eight volumes of the first series. Notarial deeds drawn up by public notaries in Palermo and elsewhere and cases brought before the Pretorian Court in Palermo present a kaleidoscopic picture of the private lives of the Jews of Sicily during the last three centuries of their presence on the island. They illustrate the economic, social, and religious history of the Jewish minority and the relations with the Christian majority. Much information is provided on trade and commerce, crafts and professions, religious and family life. Some light is thrown also on the internal life of the communities, particularly the larger ones, including organization and institutions, the synagogue, education, customs and traditions. Although the surviving legal deeds present only a fraction of the total drawn up in those years, they are copious and abundant. Over 30,000 documents of this group were selected for publication. While some documents were dealt with at length, most had to be presented in summary form, giving only the bare essentials. Most appear here for the first time. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction will appear at the end of the series
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    ISBN: 9789047409236 , 9789004150522
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    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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    ISBN: 9789047411611 , 9789004155299
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    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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  • 35
    ISBN: 9789047409014 , 9789004149939
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    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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  • 36
    ISBN: 9789047410140 , 9789004152335
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 33
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Esoteric and Exoteric Aspects in Judeo-Arabic Culture
    Keywords: Jewish law Congresses ; Judeo-Arabic language Congresses ; Judeo-Arabic literature Congresses History and criticism ; Mysticism Congresses Judaism
    Abstract: This volume contains selected, refereed papers from the ninth conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies held at Emory University, Atlanta, in 1999. The title of this volume, Esoteric and Exoteric Aspects in Judeo-Arabic Culture highlights the theme running through many of the conference papers: the diversity and vitality of Judeo-Arabic culture. The volume represents the interdisciplinary nature of the field. There are articles on Jewish thought, philosophy and mysticism, language and linguistics, religious studies, intellectual and social history, law, biblical exegesis, and more. The book is an important contribution to our understanding of Judeo-Arabic society in the Middle Ages
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    ISBN: 9789047410676 , 9789004153189
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    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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  • 38
    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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    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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  • 40
    ISBN: 9789047405535 , 9789004138971
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 93
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als La guerre et les rites de guerre dans le judaïsme du deuxième Temple
    Keywords: Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D ; Military history in the Bible ; Purity, Ritual Biblical teaching ; Sacrifice Judaism ; War Religious aspects ; Judaism
    Abstract: This work deals with the Jewish warfare in the Hellenistic and Roman Antiquity from the point of view of the religious rites which, for the Ancients, were a necessary part of all social activity. The author rejects the traditional concept of "Holy War" and prefers to emphasise the diversity of representations of war in the Judaism of the Second Temple. The book deals with questions linked to the status of warriors and priests who were involved in war with regard to purity laws. It analyses the rituals specific to military operations. It deals with the Sabbath, with the war oracle of the ourim and toummim as well as the different types of sacrifices associated with war. The book presents a comprehensive but diverse and contrasted portrait of the Jewish practises and representations of war in Ancient times
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  • 41
    ISBN: 9789047415794 , 9789004146549
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    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: 9789047404200 , 9789004124271
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Uniform Title: Oudisraëlitische en vroegjoodse literatuur
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ancient Israelite and Early Jewish Literature
    Keywords: Bible Introductions ; Bible Introductions ; Dead Sea scrolls ; Apocryphal books (Old Testament) Introductions ; Apocryphal books (Old Testament) Introductions ; Apocryphes (Ancien Testament) Introductions
    Abstract: Ancient Israelite and Early Jewish Literature offers more than simply an introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible). The Hebrew Bible remains not only the primary quantitative source for our knowledge of the literature of Ancient Israel, it also enjoys decisive religious and cultural significance for both Judaism and Christianity. However, increased interest in Early Judaism as successor to the religion of Ancient Israel and background to the New Testament demands an introduction that guides the reader through the maze of Jewish literature dating from the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods. This introduction primarily offers a literary and historical-critical approach to the material it treats. Given the nature of certain Ancient Israelite inscriptions, the books of the Hebrew bible and the texts of Early Judaism, however, it contains some religio-historical or theological explanations where appropriate. In particular, the literary-historical analysis found in this volume underlines the canonical character of the Hebrew Bible. The book concludes with a helpful appendix that briefly explains technical concepts and exegetical methods
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  • 43
    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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    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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  • 45
    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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  • 46
    ISBN: 9789047408260 , 9789004146402
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    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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  • 47
    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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  • 48
    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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  • 49
    ISBN: 9789047416517 , 9789004140493
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    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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  • 50
    ISBN: 9789047407720 , 9789004144385
    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 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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  • 51
    ISBN: 9789047406426 , 9789004141094
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Jewish Identities in a Changing World 4
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Survival Through Integration : American Reform Jewish Universalism and the Holocaust
    Keywords: Morgenstern, Julian ; Antisemitism ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence ; Jews Cultural assimilation ; Reform Judaism Essence, genius, nature ; Zionism
    Abstract: The book focuses on the most prominent exponents of the universalistic ideology of American Reform Judaism in the 1930s and 1940s. Those who attempted to maintain unquestioning fealty to the principles of universalistic Reform, even in view of the disheartening realities of the Holocaust, are the heroes of the plot that unfolds here. The way they struggled for their beliefs should be viewed as a point of departure for a more general discussion of the challenge posed by the Holocaust to the modern Jewish belief in the possibility and desirability of full cultural and social Jewish integration into non-Jewish society at large
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  • 52
    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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  • 53
    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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  • 54
    ISBN: 9789047406068 , 9789004140127
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia 96
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jews and Muslims in Lower Yemen : A Study in Protection and Restraint, 1918-1949
    Keywords: Dhimmis (Islamic law) ; Jewish-Arab relations History 1917-1948 ; Jews Legal status, laws, etc ; Jews Social conditions 20th century ; Yemen, South Ethnic relations
    Abstract: This fascinating microhistory unveils networks of extended interpersonal relationships between Jewish villagers and members of their Muslim surroundings in the decades preceding their 1949 departure from Lower Yemen. In a multi-layered narrative crafted from letters and legal documents in Arabic and an accompanying supply of Judeo-Arabic narratives, the book portrays how religiously subordinated individuals strove to pursue their interests without forgoing the protection of the dominant majority. At once shedding new light on both Jewish history and on rural Yemeni-Muslim history, the work provides a rare, pre-republican (pre-1962) portrait of rural life in Lower Yemen while positioning the Jewish community in the context of hitherto little-understood social, legal, economic and political systems
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  • 55
    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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  • 56
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    Leiden : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789047415787 , 9789004148093
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 7
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Sicily, Volume 7 (1478-1489)
    Keywords: Cairo Genizah ; Jewish diaspora Sources History ; Jews Sources History 70-1789 ; Jews Sources History ; Jews Sources History
    Abstract: This volume in the series Documentary History of the Jews in Italy illustrates the history of the Jews in Sicily from 1478 to 1489. It is the sequel to the first six volumes and covers the events during the first years of the rule of King Ferdinand II. These include the prelude to the expulsion, which witnessed a further deterioration in the position of the Jews on the island. At the same time, the Jewish community on the island reached the points of its greatest expansion in population as well as economic prosperity. Some 900 documents--many of them published here for the first time--record the fortunes of the Jews and their relationship with the authorities and their Christian neighbours. Much new information has come to light, and many facets of Jewish life in Sicily have been uncovered. The abundance of historical records in the archives of the Crown and of local authorities again compares favourably with the relative scarcity of surviving documentation in earlier centuries. Therefore, many documents had to be reported in summary form. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction will appear at the end of the series on the history of the Jews of the island
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  • 57
    ISBN: 9789047407546 , 9789004144026
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    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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  • 58
    Online Resource
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    Leiden : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789047416845 , 9789004148055
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 26
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Central Problems of Medieval Jewish Philosophy
    Keywords: Jewish philosophy ; Philosophy, Medieval
    Abstract: This book deals with central issues of medieval Jewish philosophy. Among the subjects treated are divine immanence, the intellect, miracles, and esoteric writing and its limits. The work provides a new perspective on the history of Jewish philosophy in the Middle Ages. Relying on many as yet unpublished manuscripts, which enable it to offer new insights relating to such thinkers as Judah Halevi, Maimonides, and Gersonides, it also presents a new and original perception of the dynamics of Jewish thought in general
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  • 59
    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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  • 60
    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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  • 61
    ISBN: 9789047403999 , 9789004113572
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 96
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Law in the Documents of the Judaean Desert
    Keywords: Jewish law Congresses History To 1500 ; Sources ; Judaism Congresses History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D ; Sources
    Abstract: The discovery in the Judaean desert between 1951 and 1961 of documentary papyri from the period of the Bar-Kochba Revolt in the early second century opened for the first time a window on the lives of Jewish lay people on the periphery of Judaea in a critical period of history. By the year 2000 these texts were published in full. Of particular interest was the light they shed on the interplay of Jewish, Greek and Roman law in the Roman provinces of Judaea and Arabia. In the current volume leading scholars from Europe, America and Israel debate the major questions raised by these texts and offer new insights into the material and its implications
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  • 62
    ISBN: 9789047413110 , 9789004137974
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2004
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 87
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als L' «humanité de l'autre homme» dans la pensée juive ancienne
    Keywords: Brotherliness Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Golden rule ; Greek literature, Hellenistic Jewish authors ; History and criticism ; Theological anthropology Judaism
    Abstract: This book analyzes how humanism was conceived of in different philosophical schools during the Hellenistic and early Roman period, and how these ideas were debated in ancient Jewish thought. The term humanism refers to the idea that every person has duties towards his/her fellow human beings, for the sole reason that they all share a common nature or are bound by a form of kinship. The book also tries to determine to which extent Gen 1:26-27 (creation of human beings in God's image) and Lev 19:18 (the commandment to love one's neighbour, who is like oneself) could be interpreted in a humanistic way by ancient Jewish writers
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapitre I : La portée éthique de l'appartenance à l'humanité chez les philosophes grecs et romains -- 1. Les "pères fondateurs" -- 1.1 L'"amour de l'humanité", une idée pythagoricienne ? -- 1.2 Platon et les apories du Lysis -- 1.3 Aristote et Théophraste -- a) Aristote et la philia naturelle entre les hommes -- b) Théophraste et l' oikeiotès -- 1.4 Le premier stoïcisme et la formulation du concept d'oikeiôsis -- a) La philanthrôpia , un concept-clef de la philosophie stoïcienne ? -- b) Le cosmopolitisme de Zénon -- c) Chrysippe et l'élaboration du concept d' oikeiôsis -- 2. L'idée de philanthrôpia entre scepticisme et dogmatisme -- 2.1 Les critiques formulées par la Nouvelle Académie -- 2.2 Emergence et triomphe de l'humanisme classique -- a) L'évolution du stoïcisme en milieu romain: Panétius et Poseidonios -- b) L'Académie gagnée à l'humanisme : Antiochus d'Ascalon et Cicéron -- c) Le témoignage d'Arius Didyme sur l'éthique péripatéticienne -- 3. Humanisme et transcendance -- 3.1 Persistance et mutations de la critique néo-académicienne -- 3.2 La référence au divin dans l'humanisme stoïcien des deux premiers siècles de n. è -- Chapitre II : Le paradigme de la nature ou de la condition humaine dans la pensée juive ancienne -- 1. La règle d'or ou la commune nature humaine -- 2. La réflexion du Pseudo-Phocylide sur les aléas de l'existence humaine -- 3. Les conséquences éthiques de l'appartenance à l'humanité dans la pensée de Philon -- 3.1 La sociabilité naturelle de l'être humain et ses devoirs sociaux -- a) La sociabilité naturelle de l'être humain -- b) La critique de l'insociabilité -- c) Les devoirs humains -- 3.2 La parenté humaine universelle et ses conséquences -- 3.3 Le cas-limite des esclaves -- 3.4 La redéfinition de la parenté en fonction des vertus -- a) La vertu, véritable critère de la parenté -- b) Qu'est-ce que l'homme ? -- 4. La référence à la nature humaine dans 4 Maccabées : un usage rhétorique ? -- 4.1 Un texte à la fois rhétorique et philosophique -- 4.2 La défense des lois alimentaires -- 4.3 Les affections humaines -- Chapitre III : Le paradigme de la création -- 1. Les implications de la création de l'être humain à l'image de Dieu -- 1.1 Les principales interprétations de Gn 1:26-27 / Gn 2:7 dans la littérature juive de l'époque hellénistique et romaine -- a) La domination sur le monde -- b) La connaissance et l'intelligence -- c) L'immortalité -- 1.2 Création à l'image de Dieu et humanisme : des exceptions qui confirment la règle ? -- a) Le Targum Pseudo-Jonathan sur Dt 21:22-23 -- b) Le Livre des secrets d'Hénoch -- 1.3 Une portée éthique limitée -- a) Les relectures de Gn 9:6 -- b) Les différents types de parenté homme-Dieu chez Philon -- c) Création de l'homme à l'image de Dieu et dualisme -- 2. Paradigme de la création et principe de l' imitatio Dei -- 2.1 Le Siracide -- 2.2 La Lettre d'Aristée -- 2.3 La Sagesse de Salomon -- 2.4 Les prédications judéo-hellénistiques sur Jonas et Samson -- 2.5 Le principe de l' imitatio Dei chez Philon -- Chapitre IV : Ton prochain qui est comme toi -- 1. Lv 19:18 : une traduction discutée -- 2. « Celui qui est juste comme toi » -- 3. « Celui qui est un être humain comme toi » -- 4. Lv 19:18 et le paradigme de la création -- Conclusion -- Bibliographie -- Liste des sigles utilisés -- Index des auteurs et des textes anciens -- Index des auteurs modernes.
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  • 63
    ISBN: 9789047401605 , 9789004126145
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Year of publication: 2004
    Series Statement: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series 7
    Series Statement: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Online, ISBN: 9789004427556
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Saints and Role Models in Judaism and Christianity
    Keywords: Zaddikim Congresses ; Christian saints Congresses ; Holiness Congresses Judaism ; Holiness Congresses Christianity ; Christianity and other religions Judaism ; Judaism Relations ; Christianity
    Abstract: Preliminary Material /Marcel Poorthuis and Joshua Schwartz --Introduction /Marcel Poorthuis and Joshua Schwartz --Hermeneutics of Imitation: A Philosophical Approach to Sainthood and Exemplariness /Joachim Duyndam --Divine versus Human Leadership: An Examination of Joshua’s Succession /Elie Assis --Holy Men and Rabbis in Talmudic Antiquity /David Levine --Rabbinic Holy Men /Chana Safrai and Zeev Safrai --Prayers of Jews to Angels and Other Mediators in the First Centuries CE /Meir Bar-Ilan --Enoch and Melchizedek in Judaism and Christianity: A Study in Intermediaries /Marcel Poorthuis --Material Culture in the Land of Israel: Monks and Rabbis on Clothing and Dress in the Byzantine Period /Joshua Schwartz --Partnership between Heaven and Earth: The Sage as Religious Role Model in Canticles Rabbah /Birke Rapp-de Lange --Jewish and Christian Martyrs /Jan Willem van Henten --The Cult of the Seven Maccabean Brothers and Their Mother in Christian Tradition /Gerard Rouwhorst --Individuality, Exemplarity and Community: Athanasius’ Use of Two Biblical Characters in the Life of Antony /Nienke Vos --Job the Rebel: From the Rabbis to the Church Fathers /Martien Parmentier --Pious Intrepidness: Egeria and the Ascetic Ideal /Hanneke Reuling --The Byzantine Holy Person: The Case of Barsanuphius and John of Gaza /Aryeh Kofsky --‘The Rock on Which the Church is Founded’: Simon Peter in Jewish Folktale /Wout van Bekkum --Holiness as Gift and as Achievement in Late Medieval Funeral Sermons /Paul van Geest --Wandering between Transubstantiation and Transfiguration: Images of the Prophet Elijah in Western Christianity, 1200–1500 CE /Charles Caspers --“A Woman’s Voice is ‘Erva’”: The Female’s Voice and Silence—between the Talmudic Sages and Psychoanalysis /Admiel Kosman and Ruth Golan --New Models of the Sacred Leader at the Beginning of Hasidism /Ron Margolin --The Modern Saint: An Exploration of Sacral Interferences /Paul Post --Miraculous Women: Miracles, Religious Authority and Gender /Anne-Marie Korte --A Holy Father on the See of Moses? /Anton Houtepen --Index of Ancient Sources /Marcel Poorthuis and Joshua Schwartz --Index of Names and Subjects /Marcel Poorthuis and Joshua Schwartz --Jewish and Christian Perspective /Marcel Poorthuis and Joshua Schwartz.
    Abstract: This volume deals with the role of saints and exemplary individuals in Judaism and Christianity. Although sharing the Hebrew Bible and recognizing the same Biblical figures there, both religions have developed widely divergent perspectives upon the significance of these figures, although there are occasional common motifs and themes. Moreover, even the contrasting themes betray an underlying interaction between both religions as is clear from the contributions on, for example, Melchizedek, Elijah, the Desert Fathers, Rabbis on clothing, the Apostle Peter in Jewish tradition, the Maccabees in Christian tradition and the Biblical examples in Saint Antony the Hermit. The book examines Jewish and Christian perspectives upon saints and role models from the Biblical period to the present time. It will be of special importance to scholars and general readers interested in an interdisciplinary approach to theology, rabbinics, history, art history and much more
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  • 64
    ISBN: 9789047404996 , 9789004137530
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2004
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 86
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als An Aramaic Wisdom Text from Qumran : A New Interpretation of the Levi Document
    Keywords: Judaism ; Manuscripts, Aramaic ; Sacred texts
    Abstract: This volume deals with the Aramaic Levi Document, also known as Aramaic Levi or the Aramaic Testament of Levi. Chapter one contains a systematic reflection on the content of this Aramaic work, situates it in the historical context of the Second Temple period, and looks for an answer as to its literary structure and genre. Then in chapter two the manuscripts from Cairo Genizah, Mount Athos, and Qumran are edited together with their English translation, paleographical notes, and philological comments. Chapter three comments on each literary unit of the Document, its relation to the biblical text, pseudepigraphic Jewish literature, and scribal school practices in ancient Mesopotamia. At the end of the book, the reader may consult Aramaic, Greek, and Syriac concordances. Sixteen plates of photographs of all the manuscripts facilitate the reader's reference to the originals. The photographs of the Mount Athos manuscripts are published here for the very first time
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  • 65
    ISBN: 9789047413813 , 9789004123670
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2004
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 90
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dreamers, Scribes, and Priests : Jewish Dreams in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras
    Keywords: Dream interpretation History To 1500 ; Dreams History To 1500 ; Dreams Religious aspects ; Judaism
    Abstract: This investigation focuses on divinely-sent dreams in early Judaism and discusses their literary forms and socio-religious functions. It examines Jewish dreams in the Bible, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Josephus, setting them in the wider context of antecedent and contemporary dream cultures. Part One grounds the project in the dream traditions of the ancient Near East, Hebrew Bible, Greece, and Rome. Part Two investigates the unique emphases of early Jewish dreams, including: a priestly and scribal milieu, access to various planes of reality, new roles for dream messengers, and incubation rituals. Part Three explores implications for several related topics of study, including the rise of apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism, and the social history of early Judaism
    Description / Table of Contents: Dreams in the ancient Near East and Israel -- Dreams in Greece and Rome -- Dreams in Hellenistic Judaism: form, vocabulary and functions -- Dreams in Hellenistic Judaism: creative transformations and elaborations -- Reflections and implications.
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  • 66
    ISBN: 9789047407188 , 9789004143128
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2004
    Series Statement: Studies in Jewish History and Culture 11
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gottes Sprache in der philologischen Werkstatt : Hebraistik vom 15. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert
    Keywords: Christian Hebraists Congresses ; Hebrew language Congresses Religious aspects ; Christianity ; Judaism Congresses Relations ; Christianity
    Abstract: The study of the Hebrew language in Protestant Europe initiated the development of modern philology. Christian theology and Jewish tradition fostered Christian Hebraism, which functioned as a catalyst for many subjects in the humanities. This volume presents the results of a conference held in Wittenberg in October 2002. It evaluates the history of Christian Hebraism, from Jewish grammatical works up to the Hebrew training of Protestant missionaries. Prominent figures like Ludwig Geiger and Hermann L. Strack as well as different centres of Hebrew learning from Basel to Groningen are described in detail in fourteen essays. They focus on the influence of Humanism, Kabbalah and the renewed discussions about the philosophical works of Maimonides
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  • 67
    ISBN: 9789004473386 , 9780391041455
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2004
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Studies in Central European Histories 32
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shulamit and Margarete : Power, Gender, and Religion in a Rural Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe
    Keywords: Jews History ; 1096-1800 ; Jews Social conditions ; Jewish women History ; Jewish women Social conditions ; Jews History 1096-1800 ; Judaism Relations ; Christianity
    Abstract: Shulamit and Margarete takes a microhistorical look at a small village on the border of Germany and France in the eighteenth century. Drawing on the rich source material of the village, it casts a searching light on the boundaries created by language, states, religions, cultures, sex, and gender. By writing the history of the village from multiple perspectives, the author is able to uncover fascinating artefacts of a cultural contact between Christians and Jews, and to gain insights into the agency and experiences of women in rural society. The book is enhanced by a variety of sources and illustrations relating to Jewish history, such as the last will of Abraham Levy and the previously unknown portraits of Fromette Levy and Bernard Lipmann
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Preface to the English Edition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Approaches: The Village -- 3. Searching for Clues: Spheres of Female Agency in the Mirror of Biography -- 4. Contexts: Outlines of a Village Society -- 5. A Shift in Perspective: The History of the Jewish Community -- 6. "Woman-She is the House": Glimpses of Jewish Women's Lives -- 7. From the Margin to the Center: Christian-Jewish Relations -- 8. Concluding Reflections -- Appendix: Last Will of Abraham Jacob -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Authors.
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  • 68
    ISBN: 9789047401957 , 9789004129511
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    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: The Medieval Mediterranean 52
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jews, Muslims and Christians In and Around the Crown of Aragon : Essays in Honour of Professor Elena Lourie
    Keywords: Christians History ; Jews History ; Muslims History ; Aragon (Spain) Ethnic relations ; Aragon (Spain) History ; Spain History 711-1516
    Abstract: This volume, in honour of Professor Elena Lourie, focuses on various areas of interaction between Jews, Muslims and Christians in the late medieval Crown of Aragon and its environs. The articles deal with topics such as war, military campaigns, government, politics, and economics, relations between scholars of the different faiths and their sources, sexual relations and the politics of conversion, mythology and music. Other articles touch on issues such as vassalage, mercenaries, fiscal politics, communal politics and the inquisition. This book presents a mosaic of studies written by three generations of scholars who, using a broad variety of sources and methodologies, examine areas of great interest to Elena Lourie
    Description / Table of Contents: Abbreviations. ix -- Part One: Introduction -- Crusade, Colonisation and Dancing Rabbis: In and Around the Work of E. Lourie. 3 -- Harvey J. Hames -- Part Two: Politics, War And Law The Royal Accounts of the Crown of Aragon. 15 -- Jocelyn N. Hillgarth -- The Crusade against Murcia: Provisioning the Armies of James the Conqueror, 1264-1267. 35 -- Robert I. Burns -- A Society Organized for War? Córdoba in the Time of Ferdinand and Isabella. 75 -- John Edwards -- "Nam iudei servi regis sunt, et semper fisco regio deputati": The Jews in the Municipal Fuero of Teruel (1176-7). 97 -- David Abulafia -- Part Three: Minority And Majority Interaction -- Love Between Muslim and Jew in Medieval Spain: A Triangular Affair. 127 -- David Nirenberg -- "My Master, the Jew": Observations on Interfaith Scholarly Interaction in the Middle Ages. 157 -- Thomas F. Glick -- "Vassal and Friend". Strategies of Mudejar Submission and Resistance to Christian Power in Castile. 183 -- Ana Echevarria -- The Islamic "Beautiful Names of God" and the Lullian Art. 197 -- Charles Lohr -- A Song and Dance: Transcultural Practices of Daily Life in Medieval Spain. 207 -- Eleazar Gutwirth -- The Myth of Troy and Hercules as Reflected in the Writings of some Jewish Exiles from Spain. 229 -- Ram Ben Shalom -- Part Four: Case Studies -- Mahomet Abenadalill: A Muslim Mercenary in the Service of the Kings of Aragon (1290-1291). 257 -- Brian A. Catlos -- Revisiting the Wax-Press Affair in Morvedre (1326-1327): Jewish Fiscal Politics in the Kingdom of Valencia. 303 -- Mark D. Meyerson -- Solomon Anagni, Perpuntero of the King of Aragon and Deputy Merino of Saragossa (XIV Century). 321 -- Asuncíon Blasco Martínez -- An Inquisitorial Process against the Judiasing Juan del Escuela (1491-1492). 349 -- Carlos Carrete Parrondo -- Index. 355.
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  • 69
    ISBN: 9789047404866 , 9789004136939
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    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Jewish Identities in a Changing World 3
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Explorations in Jewish Historical Experience : The Civilizational Dimension
    Keywords: Jews Civilization ; Jews Identity ; Jews ; Israel Politics and government ; Israel Social conditions
    Abstract: This volume brings together several of Prof. S.N. Eisenstadt's essays written over the years on Jewish history and identity. The major argument of the essays follows the Weberian view of Jewish historical experience as that of a distinct civilization, as a distinct Great Religion, the first monotheistic civilization - without, however, accepting many of Weber's concrete analyses. The core of the argument that underlies these essays is, that the best way to understand the Jewish experience is to look on Jews not just as a religious or ethnic group, nation or "people", although they have been all of these, but as bearers of a distinct civilization. These essays examine the historical experience of the Jewish people and communities in ancient medieval and modern times in the framework of such civilizational analysis in which special attention is given to the analysis of Israeli society and to the continual changing place of Israel in a central component of Jewish identity, in line with the different historical experience and collective agendas of the Jewish communities
    Description / Table of Contents: Section I The Jewish Historical Experience in the Civilizational Framework CHAPTER ONE, The Format of Jewish History - Some Reflections on Weber's Ancient Judaism CHAPTER TWO, The Jewish Historical Experience in the Framework of Comparative Universal History CHAPTER THREE, The Jewish Experience in the Modern Era Section II The Zionist Movement and Israeli Story CHAPTER FOUR, Did Zionism Bring the Jews back to History? CHAPTER FIVE, Change and Continuity in Israeli Society CHAPTER SIX, The Mahapach of 1977 and the Transformation of Israeli Society CHAPTER SEVEN, Israeli Identity: Problems in the Development of the Collective Identity of an Ideological Society CHAPTER EIGHT, Israeli Politics and the Jewish Political Tradition: Principled Political Anarchism and the Rule of the Court CHAPTER NINE, Two New Democracies, the U.S. and Israel: Some Comparative Remarks Section III The Jewish Experience in the Contemporary Era CHAPTER TEN, The American Jewish Experience and American Pluralism: A Comparative Perspective CHAPTER ELEVEN, Patterns of Contemporary Jewish Identity CHAPTER TWELVE, The Jewish Experience in the Contemporary Era: Some Concluding Observations.
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    ISBN: 9789047414537 , 9789004138711
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    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 95
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ancient Judaism in its Hellenistic Context
    Keywords: Hellenism Congresses ; Jews Congresses Civilization ; Greek influences ; Jews Congresses History 168 B.C.-135 A.D ; Jews Congresses Civilization ; Judaism Congresses History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
    Abstract: This volume explores the ways in which Jews lived within the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman contexts, how they negotiated their religious and social boundaries in their own distinctive manner. Scholars demonstrate how the Jewish encounter with Hellenism led not to a conscious struggle with alien forces but rather in many instances to an active re-tailoring and re-shaping of tradition in light of their material, ideological and philosophical surroundings. That is to say, the Jews, a minority people, maintained their identity by adapting the trappings, to varying degrees, of their milieu. These essays also reflect many issues that emerge when we study the development of several aspects of Jewish Civilization through the ages in light of broad socio-political, cultural and philosophical contexts
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  • 71
    ISBN: 9789047402435 , 9789004131842
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    Series Statement: IJS Studies in Judaica 2
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Nationalism, Zionism and Ethnic Mobilization of the Jews in 1900 and Beyond
    Keywords: Jewish nationalism Congresses History 20th century ; Jews Congresses Identity ; Zionism Congresses
    Abstract: This volume engages diverse topics such as art, music, and radio broadcasting in the development of modern Jewish nationalism by leading scholars in their respective fields. It contains richly detailed studies that challenge existing historiography--from personal struggles with nationalism, to the lesser-known origins of the Balfour Declaration, from boisterous demonstrations on the streets of pre-World War I Galicia, to skirmishes between Jews in present-day Jerusalem. It examines how nationalism has worked in theory and practice for Jews and at times been fiercely resisted. Beginning with the memory of Theodor Herzl and his cohort at the London Zionist Congress of 1900, this book revisits the wider scene of Zionism's emergence, as we explore the imagination of, and the attempted national mobilization of Jewry throughout the twentieth century. Contributors include: Delphine Bechtel; Nachman Ben-Yehuda; Michael Berkowitz; Inka Bertz; Philip Bohlman; John M. Efron; Richard A. Freund; Francois Guesnet; Michael Löwy; Barbara Mann; Derek Penslar; James Renton; Aviel Roshwald; Joshua Shanes
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  • 72
    ISBN: 9789047402831 , 9789004136250
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    Series Statement: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology 91
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Immigration and Ethnic Formation in a Deeply Divided Society : The Case of the 1990s Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel
    Keywords: Immigrants ; Jews, Soviet Social conditions ; Social adjustment ; Social surveys
    Abstract: This book deals with the ethnic formation among the 1990s immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel, in light of both domestic changes, and developments in the Israel- Arab conflict. Based on a broad variety of quantitative and qualitative methods, the book presents a detailed analysis of identity patterns among these immigrants, their orientation in matters of religion, society, culture and politics, and their relationships with all the constituent groups in Israeli society - including the Palestinian minority. The book provides a new critical perspective on questions of immigration, ethnicity and society in Israel. The analysis is placed in a global theoretical context that challenges the dominant approach in the sociology of immigration in Israel, which is based on the Zionist paradigm
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction. -- Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel -- Methodology -- Immigrants' Survey -- Survey of the General Population -- Students' Survey -- Focus Groups -- Chapter 1. Theoretical Framework -- Definitions of "Ethnic Group" -- Immigration and Ethnic Formation -- Ethnic Mobilization -- The Reactive Perspective -- The Competitive Model of Ethnic Mobilization -- Criticism of the Reactive and Competitive Approaches -- Rational Choice Theory -- The Role of the State -- Chapter 2. Israeli Society: A Background -- Immigration and the Construction of Social Boundaries -- Unique vs. Typical Immigration -- An Ideological Value or a Means to Achieve Political Goals -- Immigration and Ethnic Formation in Israel -- Background of Jewish Ethnicity -- Ethnic Composition over Time -- Ethnicity as a Socio-Cultural Rift -- The Modernization-Establishment Approach -- The Melting Pot Ideology -- Counter-approaches to Ethnic Relations -- Ethnic mobilization -- Ethnicity and the Religious-Nonreligious Divide -- The Jewish-Arab Divide -- Background -- Policy toward the Palestinians in Israel -- Social Change -- Economic Deterritorialization -- Political Territorialization -- Multiculturalism vs. Tribalism in Israeli Society -- Chapter 3. The Jews of Russia and the Former Soviet Union: Background and -- Waves of Immigration -- Emigration by Russian/Soviet/FSU Jews -- The First Waves to Palestine -- Immigrants from the Soviet Union in the 1970s -- Ethiopia: A New Reservoir of Immigrants -- Aspirations for Aliya from the West -- The 1990s Wave -- Main Trends -- Differences between the 1970s and the 1990s Waves -- Chapter 4. Identity Patterns and Ethnic Formation -- Communal Ethnic Organizations -- Sources of Information, Russian-Language Media -- Motivation for Migration and Connection with the Home Country -- Self-Identification -- Non-Jewish immigrants -- The Other - Definition: How Veteran Israelis Perceive the Immigrants -- Chapter 5. Attitudes toward Civil Society and Freedom of Expression -- Character of Israel -- Attitudes toward Peace -- Freedom of Expression -- Communication Environments -- Permissiveness -- The Ranking of Rights -- Chapter 6. Political Organization -- Voting Patterns in the Knesset Elections -- Collective vs. Individual Factors behind the Voting Patterns -- Factors behind the Voting for Prime Minister -- The Elections of 2003 -- Local Elections -- Chapter 7. Immigrants versus Israeli Society -- Adjustment Patterns -- Residential Adjustment -- Economic Adjustment -- Social Adjustment -- Mutual Influence -- Immigrants' Social Distance from Other Groups in Israel -- Social Distance from Arabs -- Social Distance from other Jewish Groups -- Chapter 8. Attitudes of Veteran Groups toward Immigrants -- Attitudes in the Early 1990s -- Jewish Leadership -- Jewish Public -- The Arab Leadership -- Arab Public -- Trends over Time: A Decade later -- Internal Divisions within Jewish Populations -- Tolerance of Separate Immigrant Organizations -- Social Distance -- The Attitudes of the Younger Generation -- Social Distance as Felt by the Younger Generation -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- List of tables -- List of Figures.
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  • 73
    ISBN: 9789047405580 , 9789004139053
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    Series Statement: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies 36
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Picturing Yiddish : Gender, Identity, and Memory in the Illustrated Yiddish Books of Renaissance Italy
    Keywords: Illustration of books 16th century ; Yiddish imprints History 16th century
    Abstract: This is the first comprehensive study of the images in five profusely illustrated Yiddish books that were produced in sixteenth-century Italy: a manuscript of Jewish customs illustrated by its scribe, and two books of customs, a chivalric romance, and a book of fables, all printed at Christian presses in Venice and Verona. The long-neglected manuscript includes more than one hundred drawings, here reproduced for the first time, which are strikingly inventive and full of a joie de vivre that gives the lie to the lachrymose view of Jewish history. This volume, which explores how Yiddish imagery constructs women, Jewish memory, and Jewish identity, will interest art historians, feminist scholars, Jewish Studies specialists, and specialists in the history of the book
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    ISBN: 9789047413165 , 9789004138827
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    Series Statement: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 28
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jews in Islamic Countries in the Middle Ages
    Keywords: Ethnic relations ; Jews History To 1500 ; Islamic countries Ethnic relations
    Abstract: This book deals with the history of the Jews in Muslim countries, and consists of four parts; the central part is the second one which is a comprehensive history of the Jews of Iraq and Iran, from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries; the first part discusses the origin of the Jews in Yathrib (al-Madina) and the references to Jews in the founding document of the Muslim umma; the third part is a history of Sicily and its Jews during the period of Muslim rule; the fourth part deals with the role played by Jews in the economic life of the Muslim countries in the early Middle Ages. The studies are based mainly on Arab writings and on documents from the Cairo Geniza. Jews in Islamic Countries in the Middle Ages has been selected by Choice as Outstanding Academic Title (2005)
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  • 75
    ISBN: 9789047404934 , 9789004137394
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    Series Statement: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 20
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jews in An Iberian Frontier Kingdom : Society, Economy, and Politics in Morvedre, 1248-1391
    Keywords: Ethnic relations ; Jews History To 1500 ; Sephardim History To 1500
    Abstract: This book treats the tumultuous history of the Jews in the colonial kingdom of Valencia through focusing on one town, Morvedre. Based on archival sources, it explores the Jews' activities as settlers and officials, their role in the new kingdom's economic development, and their rapidly changing relations with the Christian conquerors and the subject Muslims. It dissects the Jewish community's internal social and political struggles while it dealt with the monarchy's heavy fiscal demands. It also considers the controversies surrounding Jewish moneylending and the Jews' embattled position during the rebellions and wars that rocked the kingdom in the fourteenth century. The book is important for students of Jewish history, Spanish history, and interfaith relations in the Middle Ages
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Note on Names and Money -- Maps -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Colonizing the Valencian Frontier -- Chapter 2: Putting the Jews in Their Place -- Chapter 3: Fiscal Servitude -- Chapter 4: The Yoke of Usury -- Chapter 5: Caught in the Crossfire -- Conclusion -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index.
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  • 76
    ISBN: 9789047400219 , 9789004113985
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    Series Statement: The Medieval Franciscans 2
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
    Keywords: Antisemitism Congresses History To 1500 ; Christianity and antisemitism Congresses History ; Friars Congresses History To 1500 ; Jews Congresses History To 1500
    Abstract: This volume deals with the friars, especially the Franciscans and Dominicans, in their writing and preaching about Jews and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The articles deal with such issues as Jews and Judaism in theology, biblical exegesis, apocalyptic thought, preaching, economics and art. Building on the pioneering work of Jeremy Cohen, this volume shows the complexity of Christian-Jewish relations in the life and writings of the mendicants on the eve of the modern world. It will be a useful volume for understanding medieval interreligious understanding and how Christians thought of Jews during the era in question
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Contributors -- Abbot Joachim of Fiore and the Conversion of the Jews, E. Randolph Daniel -- The antichrist and the Jews in Four Thirteenth-Century Apocalypse Commentaries, David Burr -- Archbishop Eudes Rigaud and the Jews of Normandy, 1248-1275, William Chester Jordan -- Intimate Enemies: Mendicant-Jewish Interaction in Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean Spain, Larry J. Simon -- Jews and Judaism in Peter Auriol's Sentences Commentary, Nancy L. Turner -- Franciscan Economics and Jews in the Middle Ages: From a Theological to an Economic Lexicon, Glacomo Todeschini -- Contempt for Friars and contempt for Jews in Late Medieval Germany, Christopher Ocker -- The Evolution of Francesc Eiximenis's Attitudes Towards Judaism, David J. Viera -- Samuel Granada and the Dominican Inquisitor: Jewish Magic and Jewish Heresy in Post-1391 -- Valencia, Mark D. Meyerson -- Leonardo's Dati's Sermon on the Circumcision of Jesus (1417), Thomas M. Izbicki -- OMF Conv., Alfonso de Espina on the Mosaic Law, Steven J. McMichael -- Anti-Jewish Preaching in the Fifteenth Century and Images of Preachers in Italian Renaissance Art Roberto Rusconi -- Jews, Franciscansm, and the First Monti di Pieta in Italy (1462-1500) Ariel Toaff -- Papal Mendicants or Medicant Popes: Continuity and Change in Papal Policies toward the Jews at the end of the Fifteenth Century Keneth R. Stow -- The Friars and the Jews: Messianism in Spain and Italy Circa 1500 John Edwards -- Limpieza versus Mission: Chruch, Religious Orders, and Conversion in the Sixteenth Century Anna Foa -- Index.
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  • 77
    ISBN: 9789401200905 , 9789042008502
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    Series Statement: On the Boundary of Two Worlds 1
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Vanished World of Lithuanian Jews
    Keywords: Jews Congresses Civilization ; Jews Congresses History ; Jews Congresses Social conditions
    Abstract: The Lithuanian Jews, Litvaks, played an important and unique role not only within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but in a wider context of Jewish life and culture in Eastern Europe, too. The changing world around them at the end of the nineteenth century and during the first decades of the twentieth had a profound impact not only on the Jewish communities, but also on a parallel world of the "others," that is, those who lived with them side by side. Exploring and demonstrating this development from various angles is one of the themes and objectives of this book. Another is the analysis of the Shoah, which ended the centuries of Jewish culture in Lithuania: a world of its own had vanished within months. This book, therefore, "recalls" that vanished world. In doing so, it sheds new light on what has been lost. The papers presented in this collection were delivered at the international conferences in Nida (1997) and Telšiai (2001), Lithuania. Participants came from Israel, the USA, Great Britain, Poland, Russia, Belarus, Germany, and Lithuania
    Description / Table of Contents: Leonidas DONSKIS: Preface -- John D. KLIER: Traditions of the Commonwealth: Lithuanian Jewry and the Exercise of Political Power in Tsarist Russia -- Darius STALIŪNAS: Changes in the Political Situation and the "Jewish Question" in the Lithuanian Gubernias of the Russian Empire (1855-April 1863) -- Theodore R. WEEKS: Politics, Society, and Antisemitism: Peculiarities of the Russian Empire and Lithuanian Lands -- Vladas SIRUTAVIČIUS: Notes on the Origin and Development of Modern Lithuanian Antisemitism in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- Ezra MENDELSOHN: Some Remarks on the Jewish Condition in Interwar East Central Europe -- Eglè BENDIKAITÉ: Expressions of Litvak Pro-Lithuanian Political Orientation c. 1906-c.1921 -- Česlovas LAURINAVIČIUS: Lithuanian General Aspects of Domestic Policy 1918-1940 -- Saulius SUŽIEDÈLIS: The Historical Sources for Antisemitism in Lithuania and Jewsih-Lithuanian Relation during the 1930s -- Verena DOHRN: State and Minorities. The First Lithuanian Republic and S.M. Dubnov's Concept of Cultural Autonomy -- Yitzhak ARAD: The Murder of the Jews in German-Occupied Lithuania (1941-1944) -- Arūnas BUBNYS: The Holocaust in Lithuania: An Outline of the Major Stages at their Results -- Gershon GREENBERG: Holocaust and Musar for the Telšiai Yeshivah: Avraham Yitshak and Eliyahu Meir Bloch -- Yevgeni ROZENBLAT: The Holocaust in the Western Regions of Belarus -- Martin C. DEAN: Lithuanian Participation in the Mass Murder of Jews in Belarus and Ukraine (1941-1944) -- Joachim TAUBER: Coming to Terms with a Difficult Past -- Summaries -- About the Authors.
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    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 6
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Sicily, Volume 6 (1458-1477)
    Keywords: 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 1458 to 1477. It is the sequel to the first five volumes and covers the events during the rule of King John. Although John continued the policies of his father Alphonso towards the Jews of the island, there is a distinct deterioration in their position during his times. After years of incitement by the members of the Mendicant Orders, anti-Jewish riots broke out in various parts of the Sicily. The worst of them was the massacre in Modica in 1474. During that period the Jewish minority of Sicily continued to flourish economically and socially. Nearly a thousand documents, many of them published here for the first time, record the fortunes of the Jews and their relationships 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 compares favourably with the relative scarcity of surviving documentation in earlier centuries. Therefore, again, many documents had to be reported in summary form. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction has been relegated to the end of the series on the Jews of the island
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  • 79
    ISBN: 9789004496538 , 9780391041752
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    Year of publication: 2004
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Resurrection of the Body in Early Judaism and Early Christianity : Doctrine, Community, and Self-Definition
    Keywords: 11.24 Jewish theology and philosophy ; 11.51 early Christianity ; Resurrection History of doctrines
    Abstract: How did the belief in resurrection become part of the symbolic construction of early Jewish and Christian communities? Why was it a marker for who did or did not belong in certain groups? Using insights from the social sciences and rhetorical studies, the author discusses the development of belief in resurrection in early Jewish circles and the growth of a resurrection apologetic in early Christianity. Examining materials on the Pharisees, Jewish liturgy, and the earliest rabbinic statements, as well as the theology of resurrection in Paul, Justin, Athenagoras, Irenaeus, and Tertullian, this study demonstrates the stability of certain tenets that coalesce around the concept of resurrection, and its utility as a shorthand for a community's theology and self-understanding
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  • 80
    ISBN: 9789004458765 , 9789042018235
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    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Value Inquiry Book Series 163
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Memory of the West : The Contemporaneity of Forgotten Jewish Thinkers
    Keywords: Benjamin, Walter Influence ; Cohen, Hermann Influence ; Kafka, Franz Influence ; Jewish philosophers ; Philosophy 20th century ; Jewish philosophers ; Philosophy History 20th century ; Philosophy, Modern 20th century
    Abstract: This book looks back in order to look forward. It is a sustained reflection on the great disillusion Europe experienced after World War I. Europeans understood that bombs had buried the Enlightenment. They knew that, to avoid catastrophe, they had to think anew. The catastrophe came, but Cohen, Benjamin, Kafka, and Rosenzweig had sounded the warning
    Description / Table of Contents: Editorial Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- PROLOGUE -- ONE The Death of Reason, the End of History, and the Decline of Philosophy? Approaching the Present -- TWO The Jewish Question -- THREE The Theoretical Strategy of Judaism -- FOUR A Philosophy of Experience -- FIVE Toward an Ethic of Compassion -- CONCLUSION -- Works Cited -- About the Author -- Index.
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  • 81
    ISBN: 9789047402961 , 9789004137899
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    Series Statement: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 19
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity : The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain
    Keywords: Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval ; Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts
    Abstract: This book discusses the decoration types of Sephardic illuminated Bibles. Unlike illuminated Passover manuscripts from the same period with their rich figurative and narrative picture cycles, Bibles are almost exclusively aniconic. Whereas the former borrow heavily from Christian art, the Bibles are entirely indebted to Islamic culture. The volume elaborates in particular on the cultural history of the decorative motifs and types of ornamentation in an era of cultural transition in Iberia and culture struggle within Spanish Jewry. The first two chapters describe the cultural, social and artistic background in which the Bibles were produced, whereas the other chapters describe the works of the different schools and discuss them within different cultural, historical and social contexts. The text is accompanied by 10 color plates and 141 black-and-white figures
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface. ix -- List of Illustrations. xiii -- List of Maps and Diagrams. xxv -- Introduction. 1 -- Chapter One Acculturation, Assimilation, and Convivencia: -- The Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages. 10 -- Islam and Christianity. 10 -- The Population of Al-Andalus. 15 -- Minorities in the Christian Lands. 16 -- The Mudéjar Communities. 17 -- The Jewish Communities. 19 -- Cultural Exchange. 20 -- Chapter Two The Artistic Environment of Illuminated Sephardic Bibles. 34 -- Manuscripts of the Qur"an. 34 -- Hebrew Manuscripts from the Middle East. 38 -- Christian Art in Spain. 50 -- The Art of the Mudéjares. 54 -- Chapter Three The Castilian Workshops of the Thirteenth Century. 57 -- The Earliest Illuminated Bible. 57 -- From the Marseilles Bible to the Damascus Keter. 61 -- The Parma Bible. 68 -- Joseph ben Judah ibn Merwas. 88 -- Echoes of Christian Art. 92 -- Chapter Four Joshua ibn Gaon and Joseph Hatsarfati. 98 -- Chapter Five The Catalan Workshops of the Fourteenth Century. 131 -- The Perpignan Bible and its Relatives. 131 -- Bibles from Barcelona and its Environs. 141 -- The Foa and Farhi Bibles and the Renewal of Islamic Motifs. 150 -- The King's Bible. 154 -- The Saragossa Bible. 155 -- A Closer Look at the Temple Depictions. 156 -- Decoration of the Masorah Magna. 168 -- Chapter Six Cultural Transition and the Art of the Hebrew Book. 171 -- Islamic Culture, Aniconism, and the Sephardic Bibles. 173 -- Christian Art, Pictorial Narrative, and the Sephardic Haggadot. 181 -- The Cultural Climate within Late Medieval Sephardic Jewry. 185 -- Joshua ibn Gaon and Joseph Hatsarfati. 199 -- Maimonides' Texts Decorated. 200 -- Chapter Seven Castilian Schools of the Fifteenth Century. 203 -- Micrographic Decoration in New Castile. 204 -- The First Kennicott Bible. 212 -- French and Italian Influences. 215 -- Conclusion. 220 -- Bibliography. 225 -- General Index. 235 -- Index of Manuscripts. 242.
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  • 82
    ISBN: 9789047402855 , 9789004136304
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    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 83
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Idea of Biblical Interpretation : Essays in Honor of James L. Kugel
    Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish ; Dead Sea scrolls ; Rabbinical literature History and criticism ; Rabbinical literature
    Abstract: The essays in this Festschrift honor James L. Kugel for his contribution to the field of biblical studies, in particular early biblical interpretation. The essays are organized in three roughly chronological categories. The first group treats some part of the Tanakh, ranging from the creation and Abraham stories of Genesis to the evolving conception of sacred writing in the prophetic literature. The second set of essays focuses chiefly on the literature of Second Temple Judaism, including Qumran and extra-biblical literature. The last group concerns the scriptural imagination at work in rabbinic literature, in Milton's Paradise Lost, in the anti-semitic work of Gerhard Kittel, up to the present in a treatment of Levinas and the Talmud
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  • 83
    ISBN: 9789047405566 , 9789004139022
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 29
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Search Scripture Well : Karaite Exegetes and the Origins of the Jewish Bible Commentary in the Islamic East
    Keywords: Japheth ben Ali ; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish To 1500 ; History ; Karaite manuscripts ; Karaites ; Karaites
    Abstract: The Jewish Bible commentary was created in the Islamic East during the tenth century by scholars seeking a rational, systematic approach to Scripture. Among its earliest champions were the Karaites, scripturalists who denied rabbinic authority. Seeking to restore Judaism to its biblical roots, they wrote numerous commentaries in Judeo-Arabic. Through the investigation of key topics, this book traces the contours of early Karaite biblical exegesis. Subjects covered include: halakhic indeterminacy; dream interpretation; the Song of Songs as salvation history; Psalms exegesis as liturgical commentary; and inter-religious polemics. The exegetes discussed include Ya'qub al-Qirqisani, Salmon b. Yeruhim, Sahl b. Masliah, and above all, Japheth b. Eli. Extensive selections from unpublished manuscripts are presented in English translation and the original Judeo-Arabic
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  • 84
    ISBN: 9789047402671 , 9789004133044
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies 35
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Marriage Rituals Italian Style : A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Jewish marriage customs and rites ; Judaism History 16th century ; Judaism History 17th century
    Abstract: Marriage Rituals Italian Style: A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews is the first comprehensive attempt to present the wealth of primary documents relating to marriage rituals in Jewish Italian communities - responsa, private letters, court protocols, defamating books, love stories, material objects - and place them in historical context. The book traces the chronological course of different phases of marriage (matchmaking, betrothal, the wedding day), and also adopts a thematic perspective. Marriage rituals mirror key issues in local Jewish culture: family life, gender, the youth sub-culture, sexuality, the uses of property, and the honor ethos. Jewish marriage rituals in Italy are revealed as surprisingly similar to those of their Catholic neighbors, and undergo similar change process
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  • 85
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    ISBN: 9789047406501 , 9789004141315
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    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 92
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Building Jewish in the Roman East
    Keywords: Architecture and religion ; Synagogue architecture
    Abstract: Archaeology has unearthed the glories of ancient Jewish buildings throughout the Mediterranean. But what has remained shrouded is what these buildings meant. Building Jewish first surveys the architecture of small rural villages in the Galilee in the early Roman period before examining the development of synagogues as "Jewish associations." Finally, Building Jewish explores Jerusalem's flurry of building activity under Herod the Great in the first century BCE. Richardson's careful work not only documents the culture that forms the background to any study of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity, but he also succeeds in demonstrating how architecture itself, like a text, conveys meaning and thus directly illuminates daily life and religious thought and practice in the ancient world
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  • 86
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    ISBN: 9789047402787 , 9789004135833
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    Series Statement: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 12
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Idea of History in Rabbinic Judaism
    Keywords: Historiography in rabbinical literature ; History Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Judaism History ; Philosophy ; Rabbinical literature History and criticism
    Abstract: History provides one way of marking time. But there are others, and the Judaism of the dual Torah, set forth in the Rabbinic literature from the Mishnah through the Talmud of Babylonia, ca. 200-600 C.E., defines one such alternative. This book tells the story of how a historical way of thinking about past, present, and future, time and eternity, the here and now in relationship to the ages, « that is, Scripture's way of thinking » gave way to another mode of thought altogether. This other model Neusner calls a paradigm, because a pattern imposed meaning and order on things that happened. Paradigmatic modes of thought took the place of historical ones. Thinking through paradigms, with a conception of time that elides past and present and removes all barriers between them, in fact governs the reception of Scripture in Judaism until nearly our own time. Neusner here explains through the single case of Rabbinic Judaism, precisely how that other way of reading Scripture did its work, and why, for so many centuries, that reading of the heritage of ancient Israel governed. At stake are [1] a conception of time different from the historical one and [2] premises on how to take the measure of time that form a legitimate alternative to those that define the foundations of the historical way of measuring time. Fully exposed, those alternative premises may prove as logical and compelling as the historical ones. The approach follows the documentary history of ideas, and individual chapters describe the treatment of historical topics in the Mishnah, the Talmud of the Land of Israel (a.k.a., the Yerushalmi), Genesis Rabbah, that is, ca. 200, 400, and 450 CE, and Pesiqta deRab Kahana, ca. 500 CE
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  • 87
    ISBN: 9789047401940 , 9789004129504
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    Series Statement: Jewish Identities in a Changing World 2
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Contemporary Jewries: Convergence and Divergence
    Keywords: Jews Identity ; Judaism 20th century
    Abstract: This is a book about Klal Yisrael , the worldwide commonwealth of the Jewish people. The main question asked, is whether one can still speak of 'one' Jewish people, encompassing all Jews in the world. The Jewish collective identity stands at new crossroads of multicultural ideologies and transnational diasporism. Jewry is experiencing an existential problem in today's changing society, shifting between convergence and unity on the one hand and divergence and division on the other hand. Quo vadis, O Jewish people? Rather than fully answering this question, researchers from Israel, the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Ukraine, Russia, France and Belgium try to open up the discussion in this book
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  • 88
    ISBN: 9789004494541 , 9789004130357
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    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 16
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rabbinic Narrative: A Documentary Perspective, Volume Three : Forms, Types and Distribution of Narratives in Song of Songs Rabbah and Lamentations Rabbah and a Reprise of Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan Text A
    Keywords: Narration in rabbinical literature ; Parables in rabbinical literature ; Rabbinical literature History and criticism
    Abstract: Each Rabbinic document, from the Mishnah through the Bavli, defines itself by a unique combination of indicative traits of rhetoric, topic, and particular logic that governs its coherent discourse. But narratives in the same canonical compilations do not conform to the documentary indicators that govern in these compilations, respectively. They form an anomaly for the documentary reading of the Rabbinic canon of the formative age. To remove that anomaly, this project classifies the types and forms of narratives and shows that particular documents exhibit distinctive preferences among those types. This detailed, systematic classification of Rabbinic narrative supplies these facts concerning the classification of narratives and their regularities: [1] what are the types and forms of narrative in a given document? [2] how are these distinctive types and forms of narrative distributed across the canonical documents of the formative age, the first six centuries C.E.? The answers for the documentary preferences are in Volumes One through Three, for the Mishnah-Tosefta, the Tannaite Midrash-compilations, and Rabbah-Midrash-compilations, respectively. Volume Four then sets forth the documentary history of each of the types of Rabbinic narrative, including the authentic narrative, the ma'aseh and the mashal. How the traits of the several types of narratives shift as the respective types move from document to document is spelled out in complete detail. This project opens an entirely new road toward the documentary analysis of Rabbinic narrative. It fills out an important chapter in the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon in the formative age
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  • 89
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    ISBN: 9789004500976 , 9789004129733
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    Series Statement: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies 32
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Abraham Ibn Ezra and the Rise of Medieval Hebrew Science
    Keywords: Ptolemy ; Science history ; Jewish astrology ; Judaism and science History
    Abstract: The main focus of this book is the study of Abraham Ibn Ezra's (1089-1167) scientific thought within the historical and cultural context of his times. His scientific contribution may be understood as the very embodiment of 'the rise of medieval Hebrew science', a process in which Jewish scholars gradually adopted the holy tongue as a vehicle to express secular and scientific ideas. The first part provides a comprehensive picture of Ibn Ezra's scientific corpus. The second part studies his linguistic strategy. The third and fourth parts study Ibn Ezra's introductions to his scientific treatises and the fifth part is devoted to studying four 'encounters' with Claudius Ptolemy, the main scientific character featuring in Ibn Ezra's literary work
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  • 90
    ISBN: 9789047402756 , 9789004135659
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jewish Studies Between the Disciplines / Judaistik zwischen den Disziplinen : Papers in Honor of Peter Schäfer on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday
    Keywords: Judaism History ; Mysticism Judaism ; Rabbinical literature History and criticism
    Abstract: Peter Schäfer who celebrated his 60th birthday on 29 June 2003 has left a decidedly firm imprint on the young discipline "Jewish Studies" in Germany, which could only be set up at a German university after the Shoah. For someone directing a "small" academic institution he has managed during his academic career to guide and influence a strikingly large number of students in their scholarly pursuits in the field. The collected essays of this volume encompass quite a variety of topics, whereby the focal points in Peter Schäfer's own research are not difficult to recognize in the themes chosen by his former students: mysticism and magic are most conspicuous, followed by Rabbinic Judaism and the studies on the Middle Ages and the Early Modern and Modern Periods. Of note is also the fact that the methodological approaches of these contributions are no less manifold than their themes. Part of the contributions of this book were submitted in English, and all the German-language texts have an English summary or abstract
    Note: "ISSN 1570-1522"--T.p. verso , Includes bibliographical references and index , English and German
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  • 91
    ISBN: 9789047402626 , 9789004132757
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Theodicy in the World of the Bible : The Goodness of God and the Problem of Evil
    Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Jewish religious literature History and criticism ; Middle Eastern literature History and criticism ; Rabbinical literature History and criticism ; Theodicy History of doctrines
    Abstract: Is it justice when deities allow righteous human beings to suffer? This question has occupied the minds of theologians and philosophers for many centuries and is still hotly disputed. All kinds of argument have been developed to exonerate the 'good God' of any guilt in this respect. Since Leibniz it has become customary to describe such attempts as 'theodicy', the justification of God. In modern philosophical debate this use of 'theodicy' has been questioned. However, this volume shows that it is still a workable term for a concept that originated much earlier than is commonly realised. Experts from many disciplines follow the emergence of the theodicy problem from ancient Near Eastern texts of the second millennium BCE through biblical literature, from both Old and New Testament, intertestamental writings including Qumran, Philo Judaeus and rabbinic Judaism
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  • 92
    ISBN: 9789004493926 , 9789004130364
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 17
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rabbinic Narrative: A Documentary Perspective, Volume Four : The Precedent and the Parable in Diachronic View
    Keywords: Narration in rabbinical literature ; Parables in rabbinical literature ; Rabbinical literature History and criticism
    Abstract: Each Rabbinic document, from the Mishnah through the Bavli, defines itself by a unique combination of indicative traits of rhetoric, topic, and particular logic that governs its coherent discourse. But narratives in the same canonical compilations do not conform to the documentary indicators that govern in these compilations, respectively. They form an anomaly for the documentary reading of the Rabbinic canon of the formative age. To remove that anomaly, this project classifies the types and forms of narratives and shows that particular documents exhibit distinctive preferences among those types. This detailed, systematic classification of Rabbinic narrative supplies these facts concerning the classification of narratives and their regularities: [1] what are the types and forms of narrative in a given document? [2] how are these distinctive types and forms of narrative distributed across the canonical documents of the formative age, the first six centuries C.E.? The answers for the documentary preferences are in Volumes One through Three, for the Mishnah-Tosefta, the Tannaite Midrash-compilations, and Rabbah-Midrash-compilations, respectively. Volume Four then sets forth the documentary history of each of the types of Rabbinic narrative, including the authentic narrative, the ma'aseh and the mashal. How the traits of the several types of narratives shift as the respective types move from document to document is spelled out in complete detail. This project opens an entirely new road toward the documentary analysis of Rabbinic narrative. It fills out an important chapter in the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon in the formative age
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  • 93
    ISBN: 9789004497047 , 9789004116092
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 71
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Concept of the Covenant in the Second Temple Period
    Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Dead Sea scrolls ; Alliances (Religion) Judaism ; History of doctrines ; Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 BC-210 AD ; Covenants Religious aspects ; Judaism ; History of doctrines ; Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
    Abstract: During the reign of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the Jews returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple. This Second Temple period is characterised by a changing mode of thinking. This volume traces the development of the concept of the covenant during this important era, by discussing relevant texts among the Apocrypha, such as Wisdom of Solomon; the Pseudepigrapha, especially the Dead Sea Scrolls and Jubilees; and the New Testament, such as the Pauline Letters. The authors deal with interesting concepts related to the idea of the covenant, such as law, wisdom, election, grace, the kingdom of God and even the role of food. This is an important piece of work for understanding the notion of the covenant in Judaism and Christianity, useful for theologians and historians, as well as students of the respective disciplines
    Description / Table of Contents: Covenant and the Old Testament -- Covenant and the Dead Sea scrolls -- Covenant and the Pseudepigrapha and Targums -- Covenant and Hellenistic Jewish literature -- Covenant and the New Testament.
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  • 94
    ISBN: 9789004501362 , 9789004129726
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies 34
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als L'Antisémitisme Éclairé : Inclusion et Exclusion depuis l'Époque des Lumières jusqu'à l'Affaire Dreyfus / Inclusion and Exclusion: Perspectives on Jews from the Enlightenment to the Dreyfus Affair
    Keywords: Antisemitism History 19th century ; Jews Social conditions 19th century
    Abstract: This volume principally deals with perceptions on Jews dating from the beginnings of their emancipation to the Dreyfus Affair. The title in French, and the original title of the colloquium in Hebrew, 'Enlightened Antisemitism' not only reflects the overall anti-religious (anti-Christian and, hence, by necessity, anti-Jewish) sentiments of an Enlightenment figure such as Voltaire, but also refers to those who justified either their philosemitism or antisemitism with erudition: Johann David Michaelis, Antoine Guénée, Charles Maurras, etc. With France as its focal point, the volume also contains essays that treat various perceptions of Jews during the same period in England, Germany, and Italy. Interdisciplinary in nature, this collection of essays treats the Jewish question from historical, literary, and sociological angles
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  • 95
    ISBN: 9789004496750 , 9789004129795
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    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Studies in Jewish History and Culture 7
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als An der Schwelle zur Moderne : Juden in der Renaissance
    Keywords: Cabala History ; Jews History 16th century ; Jews History 17th century ; Renaissance
    Abstract: The founders of the Wissenschaft des Judentums had a keen interest in Jewish erudition during the Renaissance, especially in Italy. Leopold Zunz, for example, regarded the work of Azaria de' Rossi as the point of departure for the historical-critical method upon which he based his "Science of Judaism". In the past two centuries, Jewish writings from the Renaissance have been edited and reinterpreted. In the areas of historiography, philosophy and Kabbala, we have important new findings from research conducted in recent years. For a short time now, scholars active in the field of Judaic studies in Germany have also been working in this area. This volume presents the results of a conference of younger scholars organized in Wittenberg by the Leopold Zunz Centre for the Study of European Judaism. It includes papers on the Bible and its exegesis, the literature of biblical commentary, traditions of Kabbala in its Jewish and Christian forms, and history and historiography
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  • 96
    ISBN: 9789004493803 , 9789004129542
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    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 79
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als God, Self, and Death : The Shape of Religious Transformation in the Second Temple Period
    Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 BC-210 AD ; Death in literature ; God in literature ; Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D ; Self in literature
    Abstract: This volume considers the emerging Jewish interest in an afterlife during the second temple period in relation to developing views of the deity and the self. In some circles God is understood as increasingly distant from the human sphere, and so justice must occur in another world or after death; at the same time, more autonomous constructions of the self in response to community breakdown suggest that reward and punishment come not only collectively, but also on the individual level in a post-mortem realm. The book traces the interconnections between these themes in Job and Ecclesiastes, Ben Sira and Daniel, then Wisdom of Solomon and 4 Ezra, crossing genre boundaries in an attempt to offer a more encompassing historical investigation
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  • 97
    ISBN: 9789047402237 , 9789004130340
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 15
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rabbinic Narrative: A Documentary Perspective, Volume Two : Forms, Types and Distribution of Narratives in Sifra, Sifré to Numbers, and Sifré to Deuteronomy
    Keywords: Narration in rabbinical literature ; Rabbinical literature History and criticism
    Abstract: Each Rabbinic document, from the Mishnah through the Bavli, defines itself by a unique combination of indicative traits of rhetoric, topic, and particular logic that governs its coherent discourse. But narratives in the same canonical compilations do not conform to the documentary indicators that govern in these compilations, respectively. They form an anomaly for the documentary reading of the Rabbinic canon of the formative age. To remove that anomaly, this project classifies the types and forms of narratives and shows that particular documents exhibit distinctive preferences among those types. This detailed, systematic classification of Rabbinic narrative supplies these facts concerning the classification of narratives and their regularities: [1] what are the types and forms of narrative in a given document? [2] how are these distinctive types and forms of narrative distributed across the canonical documents of the formative age, the first six centuries C.E.? The answers for the documentary preferences are in Volumes One through Three, for the Mishnah-Tosefta, the Tannaite Midrash-compilations, and Rabbah-Midrash-compilations, respectively. Volume Four then sets forth the documentary history of each of the types of Rabbinic narrative, including the authentic narrative, the ma'aseh and the mashal. How the traits of the several types of narratives shift as the respective types move from document to document is spelled out in complete detail. This project opens an entirely new road toward the documentary analysis of Rabbinic narrative. It fills out an important chapter in the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon in the formative age
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  • 98
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    Series Statement: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 10
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rituals and Ritual Theory in Ancient Israel
    Keywords: Judaism History To 70 A.D ; Judaism Liturgy ; Philosophy ; Ritual
    Abstract: This book, in many ways the first of its kind, addresses the issue of rituals and their embedded ritual theory, in the religion of ancient Israel. The leading idea of the book is that rituals are a autonomous form of expression of the human mind. The human mind expresses itself in rituals, as it does in language, the arts, and mathematics. Rituals are not performative translations of symbols and ideas, and in religion, of any kind of theology. Theology does not explain how rituals are done and how they accomplish what they claim to do. The book begins with a general discussion of what rituals are, and argues that the ritual theory of each ritual is not in any general theory of ritual but embedded in the ritual act itself. Every ritual is structured in such a way that its details create the behavioural logic that makes ritual work. The difference is explored between the early and institutionalised phases of the religion of ancient Israel. Here the role of the economic ethos is the focus of the discussion. The book explores the links between myth and rituals, arguing that the connectedness with ritual endows a story with a myth essence. Detailed discussions of various rituals exemplify the major theoretical discourse. The book is of interest to scholars in the areas of Halakhah (law and ritual), religious studies, and the anthropology of religion
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  • 99
    ISBN: 9789047401612 , 9789004126152
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    Series Statement: Themes in Biblical Narrative 5
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Eve's Children : The Biblical Stories Retold and Interpreted in Jewish and Christian Traditions
    Keywords: Apocryphal books (Old Testament) Congresses Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Christian literature, Early Congresses History and criticism ; Rabbinical literature Congresses History and criticism
    Abstract: This volume is devoted to the biblical stories about Eve's children, Cain, Abel, and Seth, and to the rewritings and explanations of these stories in a variety of early Jewish and Christian sources (Old Testament Apocrypha, Philo of Alexandria, Targumim, the New Testament, Rabbinic and Kabbalistic texts, Christian-Gnostic and Patristic Literature). Attention is given also to post-biblical stories speaking about Eve's daughters and to traditions in which Cain is viewed as the son of the Devil. Three essays examine how the biblical stories were re-used and evaluated in modern fiction, from Clemens Brentano and Lord Byron to John Steinbeck's East of Eden
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- PART ONE: EVE'S SONS AND DAUGHTERS -- Eve's Pain in Childbearing? Interpretations of Gen 3:l6a in Biblical and Early Jewish Texts, Jacques van Ruiten -- Eve's Children in the Targumim, Florentino García Martínez -- The Twin Sisters of Cain and Abel: A Survey of the Rabbinic Sources, Lieve M. Teugels -- Eve's Demonic Offspring. A Jewish Motif in German Literature, Marcel Poorthuis -- PART TWO: CAIN AND ABEL -- Brothers and Fratricide in the Ancient Mediterranean: Israel, Greece and Rome, ]an N. Bremmer -- Gen 4:1-16. From Paradise to Reality: The Myth of Brotherhood, Ed Noort -- Cain and Abel as Character Traits: A Study in the Allegorical Typology of Philo of Alexandria, Hindy Najman -- Abel's Speaking in Hebrews 11:4 and 12:24, Ton Hilhorst -- Augustine on Cain and Abel, Rick Benjamins -- Milk and Blood, Heredity and Choice: Byron's Readings of Genesis, Bernard Beatty -- The Symbol Story of the Human Soul: Cain and Abel in Steinbeck's East of Eden , Barend Van Heusden -- PART THREE: SETH -- Seth in Sirach (Ben Sira 49:16), Eibert Tigchelaar -- Seth and the Sethites in Early Syriac Literature, Jürgen Tubach -- Gnostic Ideas about Eve's Children and the Salvation of Humanity, Gerard P. Luttikhuizen -- Bibliography of Recent Studies, Annemieke ter Brugge -- Index to Ancient Texts.
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  • 100
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    ISBN: 9789047400073 , 9780391041899
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    Series Statement: Studies in Philo of Alexandria 1
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Italian Studies on Philo of Alexandria
    Keywords: Philo ; Jewish philosophy To 500
    Abstract: The essays collected in Italian Studies on Philo of Alexandria give an overview of the main trends of current Italian research on Philo of Alexandria, making much of this research accessible for the first time in the English language. Over the past few years, there has been renewed interest in Italy in research on Philo. Philo's thought can best be addressed in a multidisciplinary study to examine its complexity and its implications. The essays in the volume are accordingly approached from various perspectives: historical, linguistic, philological, and philosophical
    Description / Table of Contents: Philo of Alexandria and Christianity at its origins / Lucio Troiani -- Upon Philo's biblical text and the Septuagint / Anna Passoni dell'Aacqua -- The image of Israel in the writings of Philo of Alexandria / Liliana Rosso Ubigli -- Between Pindar and Philo : The Delos quotation / Enrica Salvaneschi -- Theatrical language in Philo's In flaccum / Francesca Calabi -- The "mysteries" in Philo of Alexandria / Angela Maria Mazzanti -- The stability of perfection / Paola Graffigna -- Philo and the Nazirite / Antonio Caccoari -- The "nameless principle" from Philo to Plotinus / Roberto Radice.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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