Category: Judaism

By Shaye JD Cohen

ISBN-10: 3161503759

ISBN-13: 9783161503757

This quantity collects thirty essays via Shaye J.D. Cohen. First released among 1980 and 2006, those essays take care of a wide selection of issues and texts: Jewish Hellenism; Josephus; the Synagogue; Conversion to Judaism; Blood and Impurity; the boundary among Judaism and Christianity. What unites them is their philological orientation. a lot of those essays are shut reports of vague passages in Jewish and Christian texts.

The essays are united too through their universal assumption that the traditional global used to be a unmarried cultural continuum; that old Judaism, in all its expressions and types, was once a Hellenism; and that texts written in Hebrew proportion a global of discourse with these written in Greek. lots of those essays are recognized and feature been a lot mentioned in modern scholarship. between those are: "The importance of Yavneh" (the identify essay), "Patriarchs and Scholarchs," "Masada: Literary culture, Archaeological is still, and the Credibility of Josephus," "Epigraphical Rabbis," "The Conversion of Antoninus," "Menstruants and the Sacred in Judaism and Christianity," and "A short historical past of Jewish Circumcision Blood."

Survey of contents:

Jewish Hellenism the great thing about plant life and the great thing about Sarai - Sosates the Jewish Homer - The Destruction: From Scripture to Midrash - the importance of Yavneh - Patriarchs and Scholarchs - fake Prophets (4Q339), Netinim (4Q340), and Hellenism at Qumran

Josephus Josephus, Jeremiah, and Polybius - background and Historiography within the opposed to Apion of Josephus - Masada: Literary culture, Archaeological is still, and the Credibility of Josephus - Parallel old culture in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature - Alexander the nice and Jaddus the excessive Priest in accordance with Josephus - recognize for Judaism by means of Gentiles within the Writings of Josephus - Ioudaios to genos and comparable Expressions in Josephus

Synagogues and Rabbis Epigraphical Rabbis - Pagan and Christian facts at the historical Synagogue - have been Pharisees and Rabbis the Leaders of Communal Prayer and Torah learn in Antiquity? The facts of the recent testomony, Josephus, and the Early Church Fathers - where of the Rabbi within the Jewish Society of the second one Century

Conversion and Intermarriage used to be Judaism in Antiquity a Missionary faith? - Adolf Harnack's The undertaking and growth of Judaism: Christianity Succeeds the place Judaism Fails - Is `Proselyte Baptism' pointed out within the Mishnah? the translation of M. Pesahim 8:8 - The Conversion of Antoninus - On Murdering or Injuring a Proselyte - Solomon and the Daughter of Pharaoh: Intermarriage, Conversion, and the Impurity of ladies

Women and Blood Menstruants and the Sacred in Judaism and Christianity - Purity, Piety, and Polemic: Medieval Rabbinic Denunciations of `Incorrect' Purification Practices - a quick heritage of Jewish Circumcision Blood

Judaism and Christianity Judaism with no Circumcision and `Judaism' with out `Circumcision' in Ignatius - among Judaism and Christianity: the Semi-Circumcision of Christians based on Bernard Gui, his resources, and R. Eliezer of Metz - Does Rashi's Torah remark reply to Christianity? A comparability of Rashi with Rashbam and Bekhor Shor - A Virgin Defiled: a few Rabbinic and Christian perspectives at the Origins of Heresy

By Naftali Loewenthal

ISBN-10: 0226490459

ISBN-13: 9780226490458

By Michaela Engelmann

ISBN-10: 3110292386

ISBN-13: 9783110292381

Die Pastoralbriefe gelten seit Heinrich Julius Holtzmann als "unzertrennliche Drillinge." Interpretiert guy diese Briefe jedoch als literarisches Schriftencorpus, lassen sich die inhaltlichen Unterschiede zwischen ihnen nicht plausibel erklaren. Deshalb fragt die Untersuchung neu nach dem besonderen Profil der einzelnen Briefe und ihrem literarischen Verhaltnis. Im Ergebnis kann gezeigt werden, dass es sich beim ersten Timotheusbrief um das jungste Schreiben handelt. Sein Verfasser rezipiert die beiden anderen Pastoralbriefe bereits als Teil der Paulustradition.

By Ad; Neubauer

Excerpt from The booklet of Tobit: A Chaldee textual content From an specified Ms. within the Bodleian Library With different Rabbinical Texts, English Translations and the Itala

Jerome, in his preface to the interpretation of Tobit, says that he translated it from a Chaldee textual content. We provide his personal words:

'Chromatio et Heliodoro Episcopis Hieronymus Presbyter in Domino salutem.

'Mirari non desino exactionis vestrae instantiam: exigitis enim, ut librum Chaldaeo sermone conscriptum advert Latinum stylum traham, librum utique Tobiae, quem Hebraei do catalogo divinarum Seripturarum secantes, his, quae Apocrypha memorant, manciparunt. Feci satis desiderio vestro, non tamen meo studio. Arguunt enim nos Hebraeorum studia, et imputant nobis contra suum canonem Latinis auribus ista transferre. Sed melius esse judicans Pharisaeorum displicere judicio, et Episcoporum jussionibus deservire, institi ut potui. Et quia viciua est Chaldaeorum lingua sermoni Hebraico, utriusque linguae peritissimum loquacem reperiens, unius diei laborem arripui: et quidquid ille mihi Hebraicis verbis expressit, hoc ego, accito notario, sermonibus Latinis exposui. Orationibus vestris mercedem hujus operis compensabo, quum gratum vobis didicero me, quod jubere estis dignati, complesse.'

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By Geza Vermes

The production of the Christian Church is likely one of the most vital tales within the improvement of the world's historical past, but in addition some of the most enigmatic and little understood, shrouded in secret and misunderstanding.

Through a forensic, fabulous reexamination of all of the key surviving texts of early Christianity, Geza Vermes illuminates the origins of a religion and lines the evolution of the determine of Jesus from the fellow he was—a prophet recognizable because the successor to different Jewish holy males of the outdated Testament—to what he got here to symbolize: a mysterious, otherworldly being on the center of an important new faith. As Jesus's teachings unfold around the jap Mediterranean, hammered into position through Paul, John, and their successors, they have been reworked within the area of 3 centuries right into a centralized, state-backed creed worlds clear of its humble origins. Christian Beginnings tells the beautiful tale of the way a guy got here to be hailed because the Son consubstantial with God, and of the way a progressive, anticonformist Jewish subsect grew to become the reputable kingdom faith of the Roman Empire.

By Martin Hengel

ISBN-10: 0800602935

ISBN-13: 9780800602932

Judaism and Hellenism is a complete research of the effect of Hellenism on Judaism within the intertestamental interval via Martin Hengel, overdue professor of latest testomony Theology and Early Judaism on the collage of Tubingen. Judaism and Hellenism is very credible by way of its volume of fabric and exhaustive survey of the Hellenistic civilization relating to the advance of moment temple Judaism.

Hengel's thesis is that every one Judaism from concerning the mid-third century B.C.E. needs to be considered as Hellenistic within the strict feel in mild of the pervasive Hellenistic effect over either the Hellenized and the anti-Hellenization teams within the Diaspora and within the Palestine, throughout the Hellenistic political, societal, cultural, and monetary structures.

Hengel warned the harmful contrast among "the Greek-speaking Judaism of the western diaspora and the Aramaic/Hebrew conversing Judaism of Palestine or of Babylonia" (p. 193), a warning that has been steadily spotted through modern NT scholarship.

Hengel believed that the Hellenistic reform flow and the persecution by way of Antiochus IV propelled the post-exilic Jewish group to place even higher emphasis at the legislations as principal to Judaism, getting ready the theological historical past of the post-Hellenistic Judaism and the increase of the prophetic Christianity.

By Adam LeBor

ISBN-10: 0393343014

ISBN-13: 9780393343014

The millennia-old port of Jaffa, now a part of Tel Aviv, used to be referred to as the "Bride of Palestine," one of many actually cosmopolitan towns of the Mediterranean. There Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived, labored, and celebrated together—and it was once regular for the Arabs of Jaffa to wait a marriage on the condominium of the Jewish Chelouche kin or for Jews and Arabs to either assemble on the Jewish spice store Tiv and the Arab Khamis Abulafia's twenty-four-hour bakery. via intimate own interviews and generations-old memoirs, letters, and diaries, Adam LeBor provides us a very important examine the human lives at the back of the headlines—and a shiny narrative of cataclysmic change. 

ISBN-10: 0199934258

ISBN-13: 9780199934256

Carrying on with its individual culture of targeting primary political, sociological, and cultural problems with Jewish existence within the final century, quantity XXVI of the yearly reports in modern Jewry examines the visible revolution that has overtaken Jewish cultural existence within the 20th century onwards, with distinct consciousness given to the evolution of Jewish museums.

Bringing jointly top curators and students, Visualizing and displaying Jewish house and History treats a number of types of Jewish illustration in museums in Europe and the us ahead of the second one international battle and inquires into the character and proliferation of Jewish museums following the Holocaust and the autumn of Communism in Western and japanese Europe. additionally, a couple of essays devoted to six exhibitions that came about in Israel in 2008 to mark six a long time of Israeli artwork increases major matters at the courting among artwork and gender, and artwork and politics.

An introductory essay highlights the dramatic transformation within the appreciation of the visible in Jewish tradition. The scope of the symposium bargains one of many first scholarly makes an attempt to regard this subject in numerous international locations. additionally featured during this quantity are a provocative essay at the nature of antisemitism in twentieth-century English society; evaluate essays on Jewish fundamentalism and up to date works with reference to the Holocaust in occupied Soviet territories; and experiences of recent titles in Jewish Studies..

By Sean Freyne

ISBN-10: 0567084574

ISBN-13: 9780567084576

In his most recent e-book, Sean Freyne attracts on his designated wisdom of Galilean society within the Roman interval, in response to either literary and archaeological resources, to offer a clean and provocative analyzing of the Jesus-story inside of its Galilean atmosphere. Jesus, a Jewish Galilean makes a speciality of the non secular in addition to the social and political setting and examines the ways that the Jewish spiritual event had expressed itself in Galilee. It examines the ways that the Jewish culture in either the Pentateuch and the Prophets had developed notions of an incredible Galilee. those supplied the uncooked fabric for Jesus' personal reaction to the problems of the day, from which he formed his personal unique perspectives of Israel's recovery and his personal position in that project.

Although Freyne is involved with all contemporary scholarship concerning the historic Jesus, he brings his personal certain tackle the problems either with reference to Galilean society and Jesus' grounding in his personal spiritual culture. His Jesus is either Jewish and but certain in his matters and the ways that he responds to the ecological, social and spiritual problems with his personal time and position. Freyne seeks to retrieve the theological value of Jesus' personal message, whatever that has been overpassed within the pattern to provide him basically as a social reformer, whereas acknowledging the risks of modernising Jesus.

By Lesley Hazleton

ISBN-10: 0385524161

ISBN-13: 9780385524162

There's no girl with a worse recognition than Jezebel, the traditional queen who corrupted a country and met probably the most ugly fates within the Bible. Her identify by myself speaks of sexual decadence and promiscuity. yet what if this model of her tale, passed right down to us in the course of the a while, is only the single her enemies sought after us to think? What if Jezebel, faraway from being a conniving harlot, was once, actually, framed?
In this awesome new biography, Lesley Hazleton exhibits precisely how the proud and brave queen of Israel was once vilified and made into the very embodiment of wanton wickedness by way of her political and spiritual enemies. Jezebel brings readers again to the resource of the biblical tale, a wealthy and dramatic saga that includes evil schemes and underhanded plots, battle and treason, fake gods and falser people, and all with the destiny of whole international locations at stake. At its heart are only one girl and one man—the refined Queen Jezebel and the stark prophet Elijah. Their epic and finally tragic war of words pits tolerance opposed to righteousness, pragmatism opposed to divine dictates, and liberalism opposed to conservatism. it really is, in different phrases, the unique tale of the unholy marriage of intercourse, politics, and faith, and it leads to some of the most chillingly brutal scenes within the complete Bible.
Here eventually is the genuine tale of the increase and fall of this mythical woman—a notably diversified portrait with startling modern resonance in an international mired once more in spiritual wars.