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    American Hebraist : Essays on Agnon and Modern Jewish Literature (2022)
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    ISBN: 9780271094670
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (284 p.)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination
    Keywords: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Hebrew ; Alan Mintz ; American Jewish history ; Hebrew Literature ; Holocaust ; Jewish Literature ; Jewish Theology ; S. Y. Agnon ; identity ; modern era
    Abstract: Alan Mintz (1947–2017) was a singular figure in the American Jewish literary landscape. In addition to publishing six authoritative books and numerous journal articles on modern and contemporary Jewish culture, Mintz contributed countless reviews and essays to literary journals, including the New Republic, the New York Times Book Review, and the Jewish Review of Books. Scattered in miscellaneous volumes and publications, these writings reveal aspects of Mintz’s scholarly personality that are not evident in his monographs.American Hebraist collects fifteen of Mintz’s most insightful articles and essays. The topics range from the life and work of Nobel Prize winner S. Y. Agnon—including a chapter from Mintz’s unfinished literary biography of that author—to Jewish and Israeli literature, the Holocaust, and a rare autobiographical essay. The chapters are introduced and contextualized by Mintz’s longtime colleague and friend David Stern, who opens the book by tracing the arc of Mintz’s intellectual career; the volume concludes with a personal essay and remembrance written by Beverly Bailis, the last student to complete a doctorate under Mintz’s direction.Brimming with erudition and intriguing biographical notes, American Hebraist provides new insights into the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s most important scholars of modern Hebrew literature. Students and scholars alike will benefit from this essential companion to Mintz’s scholarship
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Acknowledgments , American Hebraist: An Introduction , 1 Agnon’s Childhood , 2 Agnon in Jaffa: The Myth of the Artist as a Young Man , 3 Agnon Without End , 4 In the Seas of Youth , 5 On “The Sense of Smell” by S. Y. Agnon , 6 Reading Hahazanim , 7 Writing About Ourselves: Jewish Autobiography, Modern and Premodern , 8 Ahad Ha-Am and the Essay: The Vicissitudes of Reason , 9 Sefer Ha’aggadah: Triumph or Tragedy? , 10 Israeli Literature in the Minds of American Readers , 11 Haim Gouri at 90 , 12 Viva Voce: Vicissitudes of the Spoken Word in Hebrew Literature , 13 Knocking on Heaven’s Gate: Hebrew Literature and Wisse’s Canon , 14 Modern Hebrew Literature and Jewish Theology: Repositioning the Question , 15 Hebrew in America: A Memoir , Epilogue: Packing Up an Office; The Work of Mourning and the Creation of an Archive , In English
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    Yotvata : The Ze'ev Meshel Excavations (1974–1980): The Iron I “Fortress” and the Early Islamic Settlement (2022)
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    ISBN: 9781646022601
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (396 p.)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Monograph Series of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology ; Early Islamic settlement history ; Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University ; Yotvata excavations ; fortified Iron I site ; material culture in the greater Arabah region
    Abstract: This book presents the final report of the excavations at Yotvata, the largest oasis in the Arabah Valley, conducted by the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University in 1974–1980 under the direction of Dr. Zeʾev Meshel. The report covers two central sites: a fortified Iron I site and an Early Islamic settlement. The Iron I remains consist of an irregular casemate wall surrounding a courtyard. The location of this site suggests that the settlement was established in order to protect the water sources and to overlook and supervise the nearby crossroads. Based on the relative proximity of the site to Timna, it may be concluded that the oasis formed the main source of water and wood for the population involved in copper production in that region.The rich finds uncovered at the Early Islamic settlement—including a large courtyard building and a nearby bathhouse, among other structures—point to habitation from the end of the seventh to the early ninth century CE. The proximity of the settlement to a sophisticated irrigation system (qanat) and the administrative/economic ostraca discovered at the site suggest that it served as the center of an agricultural estate owned by an elite Muslim family. Among the unique finds is a large assemblage of locally produced, handmade pottery, which is thoroughly studied here.The findings from the excavations at the Yotvata oasis have made a major contribution to the study of Early Islamic settlement and material culture in the greater Arabah region and beyond
    Note: Frontmatter , CONTENTS , PREFACE , CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: THE YOTVATA OASIS , SECTION I YOTVATA HILL THE IRON I “FOR TRESS” AND OTHER REMAINS , PART I THE SITE IN CONTEXT , CHAPTER 2 YOTVATA: A “FORTRESS” ON A ROAD JUNCTION , PART II ARCHITECTURAL REMAINS , CHAPTER 3 THE EXCAVATIONS AND ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS , PART III ARTIFACTS , CHAPTER 4 THE POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE OF THE IRON I , CHAPTER 5 PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE IRON I POTTERY , CHAPTER 6 THE CERAMIC FINDS FROM THE NABATAEAN BUILT TOMB , CHAPTER 7 THE CHIPPED ST ONE COLLECTIONS: LITHIC PERSPECTIVES ON AN OASIS SITE IN THE ARABAH , CHAPTER 8 SHELL ARTIFACTS , CHAPTER 9 TWO BONE OBJECTS , CHAPTER 10 OSTRICH EGGSHELLS , CHAPTER 11 GROUND STONE TOOLS , CHAPTER 12 WORKED WOODEN OBJECTS FROM THE IRON I , CHAPTER 13 A WOOD COFFIN FROM THE NABATAEAN BUILT TOMB , CHAPTER 14 CORDS AND BASKETRY FROM THE IRON I AND TEXTILES FROM THE NABATAEAN BUILT TOMB , PART IV ECOFACTS , CHAPTER 15 ARCHAEOBOTANICAL REMAINS FROM THE IRON I “FORTRESS” AND THE NABATAEAN BUILT TOMB , CHAPTER 16 CHARCOAL SAMPLES FROM THE CHALCOLITHIC/EARLY BRONZE I SETTLEMENT , CHAPTER 17 DENDROARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORT ON THE COFFIN FROM THE NABATAEAN BUILT TOMB , CHAPTER 18 IRON I AND CHALCOLITHIC/EARLY BRONZE I F AUNA , CHAPTER 19 RADIOCARBON DATES , PART V CONCLUDING REMARKS , CHAPTER 20 MAṢṢEBOTH (STANDING STONES) IN GATES , CHAPTER 21 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS , ADDENDUM LATER EXCAVATIONS IN THE NABATAEAN BUILT TOMB , LIST OF LOCI , SECTION II THE EARLY ISLAMIC SETTLEMENT , PART VI ARCHITECTURAL REMAINS , CHAPTER 22 ARCHITECTURE AND STRATIGRAPHY , PART VII ARTIFACTS , CHAPTER 23 THE POTTERY , CHAPTER 24 PERFECTING LOCAL PRODUCTION OF DESERT POTTERY: PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF EARLY ISLAMIC WARES , CHAPTER 25 STONE AND METAL OBJECTS , CHAPTER 26 GLASS FINDS , CHAPTER 27 THE OSTRACA , CHAPTER 28 THE COINS , CHAPTER 29 TEXTILES, TEXTILE IMPRESSIONS AND A PLAIT , PART VIII ECOFACTS , CHAPTER 30 IDENTIFICATION OF DYES , CHAPTER 31 ARCHAEOBOTANICAL REMAINS FROM THE EARLY ISLAMIC SITE , CHAPTER 32 FAUNAL REMAINS , CHAPTER 33 MOLLUSCS , PART IX CONCLUDING REMARKS , CHAPTER 34 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS , LIST OF LOCI , In English
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    The Torah Unabridged : The Evolution of Intermarriage Law in the Hebrew Bible (2022)
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    ISBN: 9781646022199
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (150 p.)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible
    Keywords: RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament ; "ation ; 1 Kings ; Canaanites ; Covenant Code ; D code ; Deuteronomy ; Exodus ; Ezra ; Hebrew Bible ; Holiness Code ; Joshua ; Nehemiah ; Persian Yehud ; Yehud ; ancient Jewish Hermeneutics ; ancient Jewish exegesis ; biblical law ; exogamy ; gentiles ; inner-biblical interpretation ; intermarriage ; law ; legal exegesis ; legal interpretation ; marriage law ; marriage ; priestly law
    Abstract: The Torah Unabridged is a detailed examination of legal reasoning in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the exegetical operations by which biblical laws related to intermarriage were applied to circumstances and persons that lie outside the sphere of their explicit content, this book reconstructs the ways in which laws regarding intermarriage evolved, were interpreted, and were applied across time and place.William A. Tooman argues that the “exegetical impulse” to expand upon the gaps left by laws relating to marriage in the Torah is expressed in several distinctive ways in later texts in the Hebrew Bible. Adopting a diachronic approach, Tooman examines the techniques biblical writers used in their appropriation, expansion, and manipulation of legal ideas within earlier biblical texts in order to apply the laws to more situations, circumstances, and people. Tooman’s analysis reveals that from Exodus to Ezra-Nehemiah, legal reasoning on intermarriage moved in a singular direction: toward an ever-greater restriction of marriage between Israelites/Jews and gentiles. The final chapter sums up the ways that this was accomplished, summarizing the logical and exegetical operations executed in the process of expanding the relevance of these laws, and describing the hermeneutical assumptions that motivated the process.Grounded in a detailed philological analysis of the Hebrew texts, this tightly argued monograph is an important impetus to further debate in the field. It will be welcomed by biblical scholars and by specialists in the history of law
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Acknowledgments , List of Abbreviations and Sigla , Introduction. The Abridged Torah , Chapter 1. Explicit Intermarriage Laws in the Torah , Chapter 2. Deployment of Intermarriage Law in Joshua and Kings , Chapter 3. Deployment of Intermarriage Laws in Ezra–Nehemiah , Conclusion. The Unabridged Torah , Appendix 1. Annotated Catalogue of Biblical “Marriage” Laws , Appendix 2. Catalogue of Nonlegal Scriptural Texts Related to Marriage and Intermarriage , Bibliography , Ancient Source Index , In English
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    Aspect, Communicative Appeal, and Temporal Meaning in Biblical Hebrew Verbal Forms (2022)
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    ISBN: 9781646021895
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (232 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic 16
    Keywords: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Transliteration Key -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Comments on the State of Research -- Chapter 3. A Theory of Aspect and Tense -- Chapter 4. Progressive and Resultative Verbs in Biblical Hebrew -- Chapter 5. Communicative Appeal and the Semantics of the Biblical Hebrew Verb -- Chapter 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Abstract: This book provides a new explanation for what has long been a challenge for scholars of Biblical Hebrew: how to understand the expression of verbal tense and aspect.Working from a representative text corpus, combined with database queries of specific usages and surveys of examples discussed in the scholarly literature, Ulf Bergström gives a comprehensive overview of the semantic meanings of the verbal forms, along with a significant sample of the variation of pragmatically inferred tense, aspect, or modality (TAM) meanings. Bergström applies diachronic typology and a redefined concept of aspect to demonstrate that Biblical Hebrew verbal forms have basic aspectual and derived temporal meanings and that communicative appeal, the action-triggering function of language, affects verbal semantics and promotes the diversification of tense meanings. Bergström's overarching explanation of the semantic development of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system is an important contribution to the study of the evolution of the verbal system and meanings of individual verbs in the Hebrew Bible. Accessibly written and structured for seminar use, Bergström's study brings new perspectives to a debate that, in many ways, had reached a stalemate, and it challenges scholars working with TAM and the Biblical Hebrew verb to revisit their theoretical premises. Advanced students and scholars of Biblical Hebrew and other Semitic languages will find the study thought provoking, and linguists will appreciate its contributions to linguistic theory and typology
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    Jews of Iran : A Photographic Chronicle (2022)
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    ISBN: 9780271093635
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (128 p.) , 101 color illustrations/1 map
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination 13
    Keywords: Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
    Abstract: This book reveals one of the most beautiful and complicated untold stories of our time. Westerners often imagine Jews in Iran as a captive and oppressed community, alienated within their home nation yet restricted from leaving it. The reality is much more complex. Jews of Iran is a photographic journey through twenty-first-century Iran, providing a unique view of the country’s Jewish community in situations typically unknown to the Western world. Photojournalist Hassan Sarbakhshian spent two years living among Iran’s Jewish communities, joining them for holidays, family gatherings, and travels, and—with the help of fellow journalist Parvaneh Vahidmanesh—documenting how they lived. Moving beyond the well-known state and regional confrontations, the photos that Sarbakhshian took tell a broader story about a community of people who live in the figurative and literal middle. They are Iranian nationals by birth and by choice, and they are Jews by religious affiliation. Full loyalty to their country is expected, even as their ancestral homeland is at odds with their political homeland. This photographic chronicle illuminates the grey zone that they inhabit.Featuring over one hundred full-color photos, contextualized with extensive annotations, and accompanied by a substantive introduction written by historian Lior B. Sternfeld, Jews of Iran calls into question Western views of this religious community
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Acknowledgments , Introduction: Iranian Jews in the Twenty-First Century , Business and Everyday Life , Religious Life and Rituals , Conclusion , Bibliography , Index , In English
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    A Jewish Bestiary : Fabulous Creatures from Hebraic Legend and Lore (2021)
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    ISBN: 9780271092225
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (88 p.) , 35 color illustrations
    Year of publication: 2021
    Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Abstract: “Ask the beast and it will teach thee, and the birds of heaven and they will tell thee.” —Job 12:7In the Middle Ages, the bestiary achieved a popularity second only to that of the Bible. In addition to being a kind of encyclopedia of the animal kingdom, the bestiary also served as a book of moral and religious instruction, teaching human virtues through a portrayal of an animal’s true or imagined behavior. In A Jewish Bestiary, Mark Podwal revisits animals, both real and mythical, that have captured the Jewish imagination through the centuries.Originally published in 1984 and called “broad in learning and deep in subtle humor” by the New York Times, this updated edition of A Jewish Bestiary features new full-color renderings of thirty-five creatures from Hebraic legend and lore. The illustrations are accompanied by entertaining and instructive tales drawn from biblical, talmudic, midrashic, and kabbalistic sources. Throughout, Podwal combines traditional Jewish themes with his own distinctive style. The resulting juxtaposition of art with history results in a delightful and enlightening bestiary for the twenty-first century.From the ant to the ziz, herein are the creatures that exert a special force on the Jewish fancy
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Preface , A JEWISH Bestiary , The Ant , The Ass , The Azazel-Goat , The Barnacle Goose , The Bear , Behemoth , The Cock , The Crab , The Dove , The Fox , The Frog , The Gazelle , The Gnat , The Golden Calf , The Great Fish , The Hare , The Hoopoe , Leviathan , The Lion , Nebuchadnezzar as a Beast , The Ostrich , The Phoenix , The Ram , The Raven , The Red Heifer , The Re’em , The Salamander , The Scorpion , The Serpent , The Snail , The Spider , The Stork , The Swine , The Unicorn , Ziz , Selected Bibliography , In English
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    Historical Implications of Jewish Surnames in the Old Kingdom of Romania (2021)
    University Park, PA : Penn State University Press
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    ISBN: 9780271091952
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (308 p) , 6 maps
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies: Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture
    Keywords: Jews History ; Names, Personal Jewish ; History ; RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Charts, Maps, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Historical Background -- Chapter 2. Methodological Approach -- Chapter 3. Antiquity of Early Jewish Settlement Through the Prism of Surnames -- Chapter 4. Demographic Aspects: Rural and Urban Settlement; Internal Migrations -- Chapter 5. Socio- economic Profile of the Jewish Population -- Chapter 6. Jewish Identity as Reflected in Romanian Surnames: From Traditional Separation to Integration -- Chapter 7. The Romanian Authorities’ Attitude: From Invited Settlers to Undesired Subjects -- Chapter 8. A Case Study: Jewish Intellectuals and Romanian and Romanized Surnames -- Chapter 9. A Different Group: The Sephardim in the Old Kingdom -- General Conclusions -- Appendix 1. List of Jewish Intellectuals and Artists Active in Romania Prior to WWII -- Appendix 2. List of Surnames Used by Sephardic Jews in the Kingdom of Romania -- Appendix 3. A Dictionary of Jewish Romanian and Romanized Surnames -- Glossary -- Bibliography
    Abstract: Linguistic and semantic features in names—and surnames in particular—reveal evidence of historical phenomena, such as migrations, occupational structure, and acculturation. In this book, Alexander Avram assembles and analyzes a corpus of more than 28,000 surnames, including phonetic and graphic variants, used by Jews in Romanian-speaking lands from the sixteenth century until 1944, the end of World War II in Romania.Mining published and unpublished sources, including Holocaust-period material in the Yad Vashem Archives and the Pages of Testimony collection, Avram makes the case that through a careful analysis of the surnames used by Jews in the Old Kingdom of Romania, we can better understand and corroborate different sociohistorical trends and even help resolve disputed historical and historiographical issues. Using onomastic methodology to substantiate and complement historical research, Avram examines the historical development of these surnames, their geographic patterns, and the ways in which they reflect Romanian Jews’ interactions with their surroundings. The resulting surnames dictionary brings to light a lesser-known chapter of Jewish onomastics. It documents and preserves local naming patterns and specific surnames, many of which disappeared in the Holocaust along with their bearers.Historical Implications of Jewish Surnames in the Old Kingdom of Romania is the third volume in a series that includes Pleasant Are Their Names: Jewish Names in the Sephardi Diaspora and The Names of Yemenite Jewry: A Social and Cultural History, both of which are available from Penn State University Press. This installment will be especially welcomed by scholars working in Holocaust studies
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    First Isaiah and the disappearance of the gods (2021)
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    ISBN: 9781646021321
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (144 p)
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    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible 12
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lynch, Matthew J., 1979 - First Isaiah and the disappearance of the gods
    Keywords: Monotheism ; Rhetoric in the Bible ; RELIGION / Bible / Commentaries / Old Testament
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Rhetoric of Exaltation and Abasement in First Isaiah -- Chapter 2. Yahweh’s Exaltation in Isaiah 2:6–22 -- Chapter 3. Enemy Boasts and Prophetic Response in Isaiah 10 -- Chapter 4. The Folly of the Gods in Isaiah 19 -- Chapter 5. Conclusions and Comparison -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture
    Abstract: Isaiah 1–39 uses the unique term אלילים—usually translated as “idols”— more than anywhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Using this linguistic phenomenon as a point of departure, Matthew J. Lynch reexamines the rhetorical strategies of First Isaiah, revealing a stronger monotheizing rhetoric than previously recognized.Standard accounts of Israelite religion frequently insist that monotheism reached its apex during the exile, and especially in Deutero-Isaiah. By contrast, Lynch’s study brings to light an equally potent mode of monotheizing in First Isaiah. Lynch identifies three related rhetorical tendencies that emphasize yhwh’s supreme uniqueness: a rhetoric of avoidance, referring to other deities as idols (אלילים) to avoid conferring on them the status of gods (אלוהים); a rhetoric of exaltation, emphasizing yhwh’s truly exalted status in opposition to all that which exalted itself; and a rhetoric of abasement, fully subjugating all other claimants to absolute power—whether human or divine—before the divine king.Succinctly and persuasively argued, Lynch’s book will change how biblical scholars understand the nature and development of Israelite monotheism
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    Kabbalah and sex magic : a mythical-ritual genealogy (2021)
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    ISBN: 9780271091068
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 210 Seiten)
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Magic in history 23
    Series Statement: Magic in history
    Keywords: RELIGION / Judaism / Kabbalah & Mysticism ; Kabbala
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1 Powerful Bodies in the Shiʿur Qomah -- 2 Medicine and Magic in Assaf ’s Sefer Refuot and the Sefer Yetsirah -- 3 Microcosm, Rationalism, and Kabbalah -- 4 Feeling, Wisdom, and Sexuality in the Sefer Bahir -- 5 Medieval into Modern Sex Magic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Abstract: In this provocative book, Marla Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing extensively on Jewish myth and ritual, Segol tells the powerful story of the relationship between the divine and the human body in late antique Jewish esotericism, in medieval kabbalah, and in New Age ritual practice.Kabbalah and Sex Magic traces the evolution of a Hebrew microcosm that models the powerful interaction of human and divine bodies at the heart of both kabbalah and some forms of Western sex magic. Focusing on Jewish esoteric and medical sources from the fifth to the twelfth century from Byzantium, Persia, Iberia, and southern France, Segol argues that in its fully developed medieval form, kabbalah operated by ritualizing a mythos of divine creation by means of sexual reproduction. She situates in cultural and historical context the emergence of Jewish cosmological models for conceptualizing both human and divine bodies and the interactions between them, arguing that all these sources position the body and its senses as the locus of culture and the means of reproducing it. Segol explores the rituals acting on these models, attending especially to their inherent erotic power, and ties these to contemporary Western sex magic, showing that such rituals have a continuing life. Asking questions about its cosmology, myths, and rituals, Segol poses even larger questions about the history of kabbalah, the changing conceptions of the human relation to the divine, and even the nature of religious innovation itself. This groundbreaking book will appeal to students and scholars of Jewish studies, religion, sexuality, and magic
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    Rhetoric and the dead sea scrolls : purity, covenant, and strategy at Qumran (2021)
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    ISBN: 9780271090528
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (242 p) , 2 illustrations
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    Year of publication: 2021
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als McComiskey, Bruce, 1963 - Rhetoric and the dead sea scrolls
    Keywords: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Rhetorics of Identification, Distinction, and Persuasion in Miqsat Maʿaśeh ha-Torah (4QMMT) -- Chapter 2 Performative Rhetorical Strategies in the Rule of the Community (1QS) -- Chapter 3 Dissociation as a Rhetorical Strategy in the Damascus Document (CD) -- Chapter 4 Impurity and Purification as Material Rhetoric in the Purification Rules (4QTohorot A and B) and the Temple Scroll (11QT) -- Chapter 5 Hermeneutics/Rhetoric in the Book of Habakkuk and the Habakkuk Pesher (1QpHab) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Resources for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Index
    Abstract: Discovered in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient Israelite documents, many of which were written by a Jewish sectarian community at Qumran living in self-exile from the priesthood of the Second Temple. This first book-length study of the rhetoric of these texts illustrates how the Essenes employed different rhetorics over time as they struggled to understand God’s word and their mission to their people, who seemed to have turned away from God and his purposes.Applying methods of rhetorical analysis to six substantive texts—Miqṣat Maʿaśeh ha-Torah, Rule of the Community, Damascus Document, Purification Rules, Temple Scroll, and Habakkuk Pesher—Bruce McComiskey traces the Essenes’ use of rhetorical strategies based on identification, dissociation, entitlement, and interpretation. Through his analysis, McComiskey uncovers a unique, fascinating story of an ancient religious community that had sought to reintegrate into Temple life but, dejected, instead established itself as the new covenant people of God for this world, only to turn ultimately to a trust in a metaphysical afterlife.Presenting forms of ancient Jewish rhetoric largely uninfluenced by classical rhetoric, this book broadens our understanding of human and religious rhetorical practice, even as it provides new insight into the events that led to the emergence of the Talmudic period. Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls will be useful to scholars working in the fields of religious rhetoric, Jewish studies, and early Christianity
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    Times of transition : Judea in the early Hellenistic period (2021)
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    ISBN: 9781646021451
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 397 Seiten) , 35 color illustrations
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Mosaics : studies on ancient Israel 1
    Series Statement: Mosaics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Judea in the Long Third Century BCE (Veranstaltung : 2014 : Tel Aviv) Times of transition
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    BC 8740
    Keywords: HISTORY / Jewish ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Judäa ; Geschichte 336 v. Chr.-30 v. Chr. ; Hellenistisch-jüdische Literatur
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. The Chronological Frame, Politics and Identity -- 1. The Ptolemaic Period: A Dark Age in Jewish History? -- 2. Numismatic Evidence and the Chronology of the Fifth Syrian War -- 3. The Representation of the Victorious King -- 4. Aramaic, Paleo-Hebrew and “Jewish” Scripts in the Ptolemaic Period -- II. The History of Rural Settlement in Judea -- 5. Judah in the Early Hellenistic Period: An Archaeological Perspective -- 6. Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods -- 7. Coin Circulation in Judea during the Persian–Hellenistic Transition -- 8. Political Trends as Reflected in the Material Culture -- III. The Workings of Empires in Local and Comparative Perspectives -- 9. The Harbor of Akko-Ptolemaïs: Dates and Functions -- 10. The Achaemenid–Ptolemaic Transition -- 11. Sanctuaries, Priest-Dynasts and the Seleukid Empire -- 12. Gods in the Gray Zone -- 13. Sacred and Secular Activities in the Egyptian Temple Precincts (temenē) in the 3rd Century BCE -- 14. Searching for the Social Location of Literate Judean Elites in Early Hellenistic Times -- IV. The Pentateuch: Early Greek Translations and Receptions -- 15. The Idealization of Ptolemaic Kingship in the Legend of the Origins of the Septuagint -- 16. The Production of Greek Books in Alexandrian Judaism -- 17. The Septuagint: Translating and Adapting the Torah to the 3rd Century BCE -- 18. Greek Historians on Jews and Judaism in the 3rd Century BCE -- V. Biblical Texts in the 3rd Century BCE -- 19. How to Identify a Ptolemaic Period Text in the Hebrew Bible -- 20. No Prophetic Texts from the Hellenistic Period? -- 21. The Social Setting and Purpose of Early Judean Apocalyptic Literature -- 22. “To be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated” (Esther 7:4) -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Geographical Names -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Modern Authors
    Abstract: This multidisciplinary study takes a fresh look at Judean history and biblical literature in the late fourth and third centuries BCE. In a major reappraisal of this era, the contributions to this volume depict it as one in which critical changes took place.Until recently, the period from Alexander’s conquest in 332 BCE to the early years of Seleucid domination following Antiochus III’s conquest in 198 BCE was reputed to be poorly documented in material evidence and textual production, buttressing the view that the era from late Persian to Hasmonean times was one of seamless continuity. Biblical scholars believed that no literary activity belonged to the Hellenistic age, and archaeologists were unable to refine their understanding because of a lack of secure chronological markers. However, recent studies are revealing this period as one of major social changes and intense literary activity. Historians have shed new light on the nature of the Hellenistic empires and the relationship between the central power and local entities in ancient imperial settings, and the redating of several biblical texts to the third century BCE challenges the traditional periodization of Judean history.Bringing together Hellenistic history, the archaeology of Judea, and biblical studies, this volume appraises the early Hellenistic period anew as a time of great transition and change and situates Judea within its broader regional and transregional imperial contexts
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
    DOI: 10.1515/9781646021451
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