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Author : Chad S. Spigel
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Jews
ISBN : 3161518799
Revised and expanded thesis (Ph.D.) - Duke University, Durham, NC, 2008.
Author : Steven H. Werlin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004298408
In The Ancient Synagogues of Southern Palestine, 300-800 C.E., Werlin reevaluates the art, architecture and archaeology of ten synagogues from late ancient southern Palestine.
Author : Catherine Hezser
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004339064
In Rabbinic Body Language Catherine Hezser examines the literary representation of non-verbal communication within rabbinic circles and in encounters with others in Palestinian rabbinic documents of late antiquity.
Author : Géza G. Xeravits
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110615616
This volume collects papers written during the past two decades that explore various aspects of late Second Temple period Jewish literature and the figurative art of the Late Antique synagogues. Most of the papers have a special emphasis on the reinterpretation of biblical figures in early Judaism or demonstrate how various biblical traditions converged into early Jewish theologies. The structure of the volume reflects the main directions of the author’s scholarly interest, examining the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and Late Antique synagogues. The book is edited for the interest of scholars of Second Temple Judaism, biblical interpretation, synagogue studies and the effective history of Scripture.
Author : Thomas Arthur Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190620547
Challenges the consensus view of the urban character of early Christianity Demonstrates that almost every scenario in reconstructing early Christian growth is mathematically improbable and in many case impossible unless a rural dimension of the Christian movement is factored in Points to the likelihood that the marginal and the rustic made up a larger part of its membership than is generally recognized.
Author : Jordan J. Ryan
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506438443
Reviewing what we now know about actual synagogues in the land of Israel and their public role in Jewish life and culture, Jordan J. Ryan shows that Gospel narratives placed in synagogues accurately reflect the ancient synagogue setting. He argues for the historical plausibility of the setting of these narratives and suggests that synagogue research must be a starting point for their interpretation. He further argues that Jesus‘s efforts at the restoration of Israel were intentionally aimed at the synagogue as an institution of public and political life.
Author : Risto Ilmari Uro,Paul V.M. Flesher
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004532359
This collection of over twenty essays brings together scholars from three continents to discuss the early synagogue. It addresses the questions of: When and where did the synagogue originate? What was its early distribution? What was its role in Judaism? The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004112544).
Author : Pierre J. Jordaan,Nicholas P. L. Allen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110466942
These fourteen selected essays were originally read at the LXXSA international conference: Construction, Coherence and Connotation in Septuagint, Apocryphal and Cognate Literature (28-30 August 2015), hosted by the North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. Here, the intention was to apply new critical theory and approaches to the fields of Old Testament Scripture as well as associated Apocryphal and Cognate literature, with a specific focus on the interrelated recurring theme of the Wisdom of the deity and its decryption and reception at various times in history. In this regard, it was felt that this theme and associated source texts had been largely overlooked in recent scholarship. Here the aim was to attract recent research by both leading national as well as international scholars which not only shed new light on Old Testament Apocrypha and so-called Pseudepigraphical literature but which also critically reviewed certain biblical wisdom texts which are foundational for both the Christian as well as Jewish communities. As a consequence, many of the essays deal with the apocryphal Wisdom of Sirach. However, important contributions may also be found apropos Micah, Daniel, Baruch, 2 Maccabees, Tobit, Susanna, Judith, and the works of Josephus Flavius.
Author : Dr Shulamit Laderman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004509580
This survey of ancient Jewish art traces Tabernacle implements and their iconographic development from the Second Temple period until late sixth century CE. It examines appearances of seven-branch menorah, Torah ark, and other motifs found in archeological discoveries of burial art synagogue decorations.
Author : Joseph Scales
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004692558
We understand the world around us in terms of built spaces. Such spaces are shaped by human activity, and in turn, affect how people live. Through an analysis of archaeological and textual evidence from the beginnings of Hasmonean influence in Galilee, until the outbreak of the First Jewish War against Rome, this book explores how Judaism was socially expressed: bodily, communally, and regionally. Within each expression, certain aspects of Jewish identity operate, these being purity conceptions, communal gatherings, and Galilee's relationship with the Hasmoneans, Jerusalem, and the Temple in its final days.
Author : Anders Runesson,Donald D. Binder,Birger Olsson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004161160
This volume gathers for the first time all of the primary source material on the early synagogues up through the Second Century C. E. Each entry contains bibliographic citations and interpretative comments. An Introduction frames the current state of synagogue research, while extensive indices allow for easy location of specific allusions.
Author : Andrew R. Krause
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004342040
In Synagogues in the Works of Flavius Josephus, Andrew Krause examines the historiographical tendenz and spatial rhetoric of Flavius Josephus, in order to clarify how his writings may be used responsibly in the reconstruction of first-century synagogues.
Author : David A Fiensy,James Riley Strange
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506401959
This second of two volumes on Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods focuses on the site excavations of towns and villages and what these excavations may tell us about the history of settlement in this important period. The important site at Sepphoris is treated with four short articles, while the rest of the articles focus on a single site and include site plans, diagrams, maps, photographs of artifacts and structures, and extensive bibliographic listings. The articles in the volume have been written by an international group of experts on Galilee in this period: Christians, Jews, and secular scholars, many of whom are also regular participants in the twenty site excavations featured in the volume. The volume also features detailed maps of Galilee, a gallery of color images, timelines related to the period, and helpful indices. Together with Volume 1: Life, Culture, and Society, this volume provides the latest word of these topics for the expert and nonexpert alike.
Author : Laura S. Lieber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190065461
"In this volume, Christian, Jewish, and Samaritan liturgical poetry from Late Antiquity (ca. 3rd-4th c. CE) is examined not only from within the context of religious traditions of biblical interpretation and conventions of prayer but also through the lenses of performance, entertainment, and spectacle. Recognizing that liturgical poets were as invested engaging their listeners as orators and actors were, this study analyses hymnody as a performative genre akin to oratory and theatre, the two primary modes of public performance from the wider societal context. Attention to liturgical poetry's "theatricality" draws our attention to a range of subjects, from how biblical stories were adapted to the liturgical stage, much in the way that the classical works of Greco-Roman antiquity were themselves popularized in this Late Antique period; to the adaptation of physical techniques and material structures to augment the ability of performers to engage their audiences. Specific techniques associated with both oratory and acting in antiquity will offer concrete means for elucidating the affinities of liturgical presentations and other modes of performance: indications of direct address, for example, and apostrophe, as well as the creation of character through speech (ethopoeia); and appeals to the audience's senses, including vivid descriptions (ekphrasis), a technique especially popular in antiquity. A serious consideration of performance also demands that we make the difficult leap to imagining the world beyond the page. While Late Antique hymnody has come down to the present primarily in textual form, the written word constitutes something quite remote from the actual experience these scripts reflect. We will thus attempt to consider more speculative but recognizably essential elements of these works' reception, including ways in which liturgical poetry could have borrowed from the gestures and body language of oratory, mime, and pantomime, and how poets may have used the physical spaces of performance and accelerated changes visible in the archaeological record"--
Author : Lutz Doering,Andrew R. Krause,Hermut Löhr
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647522159
The study of ancient Judaism has enjoyed a steep rise in interest and publications in recent decades, although the focus has often been on the ideas and beliefs represented in ancient Jewish texts rather than on the daily lives and the material culture of Jews/Judaeans and their communities. The nascent institution of the synagogue formed an increasingly important venue for communal gathering and daily or weekly practice. This collection of essays brings together a broad spectrum of new archaeological and textual data with various emergent theories and interpretative methods in order to address the need to understand the place of the synagogue in the daily and weekly procedures, community frameworks, and theological structures in which Judaeans, Galileans, and Jewish people in the Diaspora lived and gathered. The interdisciplinary studies will be of great significance for anyone studying ancient Jewish belief, practice, and community formation.