Time And Process In Ancient Judaism
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Author |
: Sacha Stern |
Publisher |
: Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages |
: 151 |
Release |
: 2003-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781909821798 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1909821799 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Time and Process in Ancient Judaism by : Sacha Stern
This illuminating study is about the absence of time as an entity in itself in ancient Judaism, and the predominance instead of process in the ancient Jewish world-view. Evidence is drawn from a complete range of Jewish sources from this period.
Author |
: Michael E. Stone |
Publisher |
: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2011-03-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802866363 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802866360 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Judaism by : Michael E. Stone
"In Ancient Judaism: New Visions and Views Michael Stone examines a broad range of basic issues in the study of Second Temple Judaism and calls for a radical rethinking of approaches to Jewish history. Stone challenges scholars and students to question theologically conditioned histories of ancient Judaism devised by later orthodoxies, whether Jewish or Christian, and to acknowledge religious experience as a major factor in the composition and transmission of ancient religious documents. He urges readers to look above and beyond the spectacles of tradition and cultural memory that too often distort their understanding of the ancient past. Addressing an assortment of topics regarding the authorship, transmission, and interpretation of the canonical Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, apocryphal and pseudepigraphic literature, and more, Stone's Ancient Judaism underscores the stunning complexity of both the raw data and the resulting picture of Judaism in antiquity."--Publisher description.
Author |
: Elisheva Carlebach |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2011-04-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674052543 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674052544 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Palaces of Time by : Elisheva Carlebach
Palaces of Time resurrects the seemingly banal calendar as a means to understand early modern Jewish life. Elisheva Carlebach has unearthed a trove of beautifully illustrated calendars, to show how Jewish men and women both adapted to the Christian world and also forged their own meanings through time.
Author |
: Lee I. Levine |
Publisher |
: University of Washington Press |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2012-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780295803821 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0295803827 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity by : Lee I. Levine
Generations of scholars have debated the influence of Greco-Roman culture on Jewish society and the degree of its impact on Jewish material culture and religious practice in Palestine and the Diaspora of antiquity. Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity examines this phenomenon from the aftermath of Alexander’s conquest to the Byzantine era, offering a balanced view of the literary, epigraphical, and archeological evidence attesting to the process of Hellenization in Jewish life and its impact on several aspects of Judaism as we know it today. Lee Levine approaches this broad subject in three essays, each focusing on diverse issues in Jewish culture: Jerusalem at the end of the Second Temple period, rabbinic tradition, and the ancient synagogue. With his comprehensive and thorough knowledge of the intricate dynamics of the Jewish and Greco-Roman societies, the author demonstrates the complexities of Hellenization and its role in shaping many aspects of Jewish life—economic, social, political, cultural, and religious. He argues against oversimplification and encourages a more nuanced view, whereby the Jews of antiquity survived and prospered, despite the social and political upheavals of this era, emerging as perpetuators of their own Jewish traditions while open to change from the outside world.
Author |
: Jacob Neusner |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2023-12-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004294097 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004294090 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Judaism in Late Antiquity by : Jacob Neusner
This collection of systematic Auseinandersetzungen articulates difference and spells out what is at issue. Learning atrophies when political consensus substitutes for criticism, and when other than broadly-accepted viewpoints, approaches, and readings find a hearing only with difficulty, if at all. The editors therefore have invited colleagues systematically to outline their views in an Auseinandersetzung with contrary ones. The several participants explain how, in broad and sweeping terms, they see the state of learning in their areas of special interest. The editors invited leading players in the USA, Europe, and the State of Israel, in the study of ancient Judaism, both in Second Temple Times and after 70 C.E. The work commences with a thoroughly fresh perspective of a theoretical question: what, in a religion so concerned with social norms and public policy, can we possibly mean by "law" when we speak of law in Judaism. It then proceeds with two chapters on Second Temple Judaism, and two on the special subject of the Dead Sea library. The two papers in the present part provide an overview of matters and a systematic, critical account of the fading consensus, respectively. The next set of papers ought to stand as the definitive account of the diverse viewpoints on a basic question of method. Because of the willingness of contending parties to meet one another in a single frame of discourse, the work is able to portray with considerable breadth the presently-contending viewpoints concerning the use of Rabbinic literature for historical purposes. Then proceed a number of other accounts of how matters look from the perspective of major participants in scholarly debate. At the same time as the requirements of historical-critical reading of the Rabbinic literature precipitated sustained and vigorous debate, other problems have attracted attention. Among these a critical issue emerges in the hermeneutics to govern the reading of the documents for the purposes of other-than-historical study, feminist interests, for example.
Author |
: Jonathan Klawans |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195177657 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195177657 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism by : Jonathan Klawans
Jonathan Klawans shows how the link between moral impurity and physical defilement, as understood by the ancient Hebrews, can be followed through to St Paul and the Christian era when the need for ritual purity was finally rejected.
Author |
: Ari Mermelstein |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 2021-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108831550 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108831559 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism by : Ari Mermelstein
Offers a theoretical account of the relationship between power, emotion, and identity through an analysis of ancient Jewish texts.
Author |
: Jonathan Klawans |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195395846 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195395840 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple by : Jonathan Klawans
Ancient Jewish sacrifice has long been misunderstood. Some find in sacrifice the key to the mysterious and violent origins of human culture. Others see these cultic rituals as merely the fossilized vestiges of primitive superstition. Some believe that ancient Jewish sacrifice was doomed from the start, destined to be replaced by the Christian eucharist. Others think that the temple was fated to be superseded by the synagogue. In Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple Jonathan Klawans demonstrates that these supersessionist ideologies have prevented scholars from recognizing the Jerusalem temple as a powerful source of meaning and symbolism to the ancient Jews who worshiped there. Klawans exposes and counters such ideologies by reviewing the theoretical literature on sacrifice and taking a fresh look at a broad range of evidence concerning ancient Jewish attitudes toward the temple and its sacrificial cult. The first step toward reaching a more balanced view is to integrate the study of sacrifice with the study of purity-a ritual structure that has commonly been understood as symbolic by scholars and laypeople alike. The second step is to rehabilitate sacrificial metaphors, with the understanding that these metaphors are windows into the ways sacrifice was understood by ancient Jews. By taking these steps-and by removing contemporary religious and cultural biases-Klawans allows us to better understand what sacrifice meant to the early communities who practiced it. Armed with this new understanding, Klawans reevaluates the ideas about the temple articulated in a wide array of ancient sources, including Josephus, Philo, Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, and Rabbinic literature. Klawans mines these sources with an eye toward illuminating the symbolic meanings of sacrifice for ancient Jews. Along the way, he reconsiders the ostensible rejection of the cult by the biblical prophets, the Qumran sect, and Jesus. While these figures may have seen the temple in their time as tainted or even defiled, Klawans argues, they too-like practically all ancient Jews-believed in the cult, accepted its symbolic significance, and hoped for its ultimate efficacy.
Author |
: Max Weber |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 522 |
Release |
: 2010-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439119181 |
ISBN-13 |
: 143911918X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Judaism by : Max Weber
Weber’s classic study which deals specifically with: Types of Asceticism and the Significance of Ancient Judaism, History and Social Organization of Ancient Palestine, Political Organization and Religious Ideas in the Time of the Confederacy and the Early Kings, Political Decline, Religious Conflict and Biblical Prophecy.
Author |
: Michael L. Satlow |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 457 |
Release |
: 2001-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691002552 |
ISBN-13 |
: 069100255X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jewish Marriage in Antiquity by : Michael L. Satlow
Marriage today might be a highly contested topic, but certainly no more than it was in antiquity. Ancient Jews, like their non-Jewish neighbors, grappled with what have become perennial issues of marriage, from its idealistic definitions to its many practical forms to questions of who should or should not wed. In this book, Michael Satlow offers the first in-depth synthetic study of Jewish marriage in antiquity, from ca. 500 B.C.E. to 614 C.E. Placing Jewish marriage in its cultural milieu, Satlow investigates whether there was anything essentially "Jewish" about the institution as it was discussed and practiced. Moreover, he considers the social and economic aspects of marriage as both a personal relationship and a religious bond, and explores how the Jews of antiquity negotiated the gap between marital realities and their ideals. Focusing on the various experiences of Jews throughout the Mediterranean basin and in Babylonia, Satlow argues that different communities, even rabbinic ones, constructed their own "Jewish" marriage: they read their received traditions and rituals through the lens of a basic understanding of marriage that they shared with their non-Jewish neighbors. He also maintains that Jews idealized marriage in a way that responded to the ideals of their respective societies, mediating between such values as honor and the far messier realities of marital life. Employing Jewish and non-Jewish literary texts, papyri, inscriptions, and material artifacts, Satlow paints a vibrant portrait of ancient Judaism while sharpening and clarifying present discussions on modern marriage for Jews and non-Jews alike.