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  • New York, NY : Oxford University Press  (4)
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    The origin and character of God : ancient Israelite religion through the lens of divinity (2020)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780190072544
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 1073 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2020
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lewis, Theodore J., 1956 - The origin and character of God
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lewis, Theodore J., 1956 - The origin and character of God
    DDC: 296.3/11
    RVK:
    BC 8710
    Keywords: God (Judaism) ; Judaism History To 70 A.D ; Palestine Religion ; History ; Palestine Religious life and customs ; Israel ; Religion ; Frühjudentum ; Religiosität ; Israel ; Göttlichkeit ; Religion
    Abstract: "Few topics are as broad or as daunting as the God of Israel, that deity of the world's three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, who has been worshiped over millennia. In the Hebrew Bible, God is characterized variously as militant, beneficent, inscrutable, loving, and judicious. Who is this divinity that has been represented as masculine and feminine, mythic and real, transcendent and intimate? The Origin and Character of God is Theodore J. Lewis's monumental study of the vast subject that is the God of Israel. In it, he explores questions of historical origin, how God was characterized in literature, and how he was represented in archaeology and iconography. He also brings us into the lived reality of religious experience. Using the window of divinity to peer into the varieties of religious experience in ancient Israel, Lewis explores the royal use of religion for power, prestige, and control; the intimacy of family and household religion; priestly prerogatives and cultic status; prophetic challenges to injustice; and the pondering of theodicy by poetic sages. A volume that is encyclopedic in scope but accessible in tone, The Origin and Character of God is an essential addition to the growing scholarship of one of humanity's most enduring concepts"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: Klappentext
    URL: Literaturverzeichnis
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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  • 2
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    Mystifying Kabbalah : academic scholarship, national theology, and new age spirituality (2020)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780190086961
    Language: English
    Pages: 185 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Oxford studies in western esotericism
    Uniform Title: Sheʾelat ḳiyuma shel misṭiḳah Yehudit
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hus, Boʿaz, 1959 - Mystifying Kabbalah
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hus, Boʿaz, 1959 - Mystifying Kabbalah
    DDC: 296.7/12
    RVK:
    BD 5850
    Keywords: Mysticism Judaism ; History ; Cabala ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Judentum ; Mystizismus ; Kabbalistik ; Abulʿafyah, Avraham ben Shemuʾel 1240-1291 ; Kabbala
    Abstract: The book offers a study of the genealogy of the concept of "Jewish mysticism". It examines the major developments in the academic study of Jewish mysticism and its impact on modern Kabbalistic movements in the contexts of Jewish nationalism and New Age spirituality. Its central argument is that Jewish mysticism is a modern discursive construct and that the identification of Kabbalah and Hasidism as forms of mysticism, which appeared for the first time in the nineteenth century and became prevalent since the early twentieth, shaped the way in which Kabbalah and Hasidism are perceived and studied today. The notion of Jewish mysticism was established when western scholars accepted the modern idea that mysticism is a universal religious phenomenon of a direct experience of a divine or transcendent reality and applied it to Kabbalah and Hasidism. The term "Jewish mysticism" gradually became the defining category in the modern academic research of these topics. Mystifying Kabbalah examines the emergence of the category Jewish Mysticism and of the ensuing perception that Kabbalah and Hassidism are Jewish manifestations of a universal mystical phenomenon. It investigates the establishment of the academic field devoted to the research of Jewish mysticism, and delineates the major developments in this field. The book clarifies the historical, cultural, and political contexts that led to the identification of Kabbalah and Hassidism as Jewish mysticism, exposing the underlying ideological and theological presuppositions and revealing the impact of this "mystification" on contemporary forms of Kabbalah and Hasidism
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    The invention of Jewish theocracy : the struggle for legal authority in modern Israel (2020)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780190922740 , 0190922745
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 264 Seiten , 25 cm
    Year of publication: 2020
    Parallel Title: Online version Kaye, Alexander The invention of Jewish theocracy
    RVK:
    BD 6860
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Theokratie ; Zionismus ; Orthodoxes Judentum ; Israel ; Religious Zionism / Israel / History ; Religious Zionism / Philosophy ; Jewish law ; Religious Zionists / Israel / Attitudes ; Judaism and state / Israel ; Judaism and state ; Religious Zionism ; Religious Zionism / Philosophy ; Religious Zionists / Attitudes ; Israel ; History ; Israel ; Orthodoxes Judentum ; Zionismus ; Theokratie ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "This book is about the attempt of Orthodox Jewish Zionists to implement traditional Jewish law (halakha) as the law of the State of Israel. These religious Zionists began their quest for a halakhic sate immediately after Israel's establishment in 1948 and competed for legal supremacy with the majority of Israeli Jews who wanted Israel to be a secular democracy. Although Israel never became a halakhic state, the conflict over legal authority became the backdrop for a pervasive culture war, whose consequences are felt throughout Israeli society until today. The book traces the origins of the legal ideology of religious Zionists and shows how it emerged in the middle of the twentieth century. It further shows that the ideology, far from being endemic to Jewish religious tradition as its proponents claim, is a version of modern European jurisprudence, in which a centralized state asserts total control over the legal hierarchy within its borders. The book shows how the adoption (conscious or not) of modern jurisprudence has shaped religious attitudes to many aspects of Israeli society and politics, created an ongoing antagonism with the state's civil courts, and led to the creation of a new and increasingly powerful state rabbinate. This account is placed into wider conversations about the place of religion in democracies and the fate of secularism in the modern world. It concludes with suggestions about how a better knowledge of the history of religion and law in Israel may help ease tensions between its religious and secular citizens"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: The Halakhic state -- The pluralist roots of religious Zionism -- Isaac Herzog before Palestine -- A constitution for Israel according to the Torah -- Modernizing the Chief Rabbinate -- Failure an resistance -- "Gentile courts" in a Jewish state -- The persistence of Jewish theocracy
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  • 4
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    Archival historiography in Jewish antiquity (2020)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780190918729
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 218 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2020
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    RVK:
    BC 6690
    RVK:
    BC 6695
    RVK:
    BD 2700
    RVK:
    BC 6065
    Keywords: Bibel ; Bibel ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Archiv ; Frühjudentum ; Bible / Ezra / Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Bible / Nehemiah / Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Jews / History / 586 B.C.-70 A.D. ; Bible / Ezra ; Bible / Nehemiah ; Jews ; 586 B.C.-70 A.D. ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Bibel Esra ; Bibel Nehemia ; Frühjudentum ; Archiv ; Geschichtsschreibung
    Abstract: "If history is narrative, than Ezra-Nehemiah is only partly history. Well over half of Ezra-Nehemiah is not a narrative but rather a patchwork of cited texts that are frequently intervening in the story. The capacity of citations in Ezra-Nehemiah to offend the historiographical, aesthetic, and theological sensibilities of scholars in the last century invites us to renew the question of what citation accomplishes in this context. In this book, I label the citation style in Ezra-Nehemiah, "archival historiography." I argue that the act of citation in Ezra-Nehemiah forms an alternative site of archiving in Ezra-Nehemiah and this hybrid literary form prioritizes the assembly and organization of documents over the production of a seamless narrative. I begin this argument by comparing this literary form with archival institutions and practices across the landscape of the ancient Near East, contending that Ezra-Nehemiah adapts the symbolic power of these ancient collections. I then identify the role of the imperial archive within the narrative of Ezra-Nehemiah, where it surfaces as an axial and ambivalent source of political power. By reviewing the cited documents in Ezra-Nehemiah, this book argues that the act of citation is not, as has been commonly argued, solely or even primarily in the business of authorizing this account or symbolizing the fulfillment of prophetic promises. Rather, citation in Ezra-Nehemiah is aimed at reestablishing a community by organizing memory into retrievable texts. Archival historiography thus constitutes an essential act of communal recovery. Creating an archive within the pages of Ezra-Nehemiah represents the cultural vitality of the Judean community after the losses of exile and while living in the long shadow of imperial rule." --
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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