Iggeret Rabbi Jochanan Ben Zakkai

Author : Hanne Trautner-Kromann
Publisher : Valdemar
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9788797188811

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Iggeret Rabbi Jochanan ben Zakkai by Hanne Trautner-Kromann Pdf

The Judaica Department of The Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark, contains a copy of a letter from the year 53, written by Rabbi Jochanan ben Zakkai, who warns the Jews in Rome against Paul and Christianity. It was thought that the original letter belonged to the learned Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort from The Netherlands, who took the letter with him to the holy community of Gogin - גוגין – presumably Cochin on the Malabar Coast in South Western India. However, judging from the content and later ideas and particular words, the letter must be much younger and cannot have been written by Jochanan ben Zakkai. The manuscript itself contains an autograph by the scholar Salomo Dubno, presumably from around 1800. The analysis of the letter shows that it is composed according to the classical rhetorical pattern and that the main purpose is to warn the Jews against apostasy and especially to encourage them to keep their Jewish faith. It has not proven possible to date or place the letter with certainty, but it might be as late as from the 18th century. Hopefully, another scholar will some day be able to solve the enigmas of this remarkable letter, which falls within the tradition of Medieval Jewish polemics against Christianity.

Author : Mascha van Dort
Publisher : Mascha van Dort
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789464028386

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Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort, a learned Jewish-Christian man from Dordrecht by Mascha van Dort Pdf

A new, revised edition will be published in 2024. === Biography of Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort, 1712 - 1761. Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort was a learned Jewish-Christian man born in Holland in 1712. He converted in 1745 in Aachen from Judaism to Christianity, and went to Sri Lanka in 1754 to work as a preceptor of Oriental Languages at the Seminary in Colombo for the Dutch East India Company. He wrote three books in German about conversion. However he is most famous as the translator of the excerpts of the Chronicles of the Jews from Cochin, India, and the Hebrew translation of the Quran, which resides in the Library of Congress in Washington. He also allegedly possessed a manuscript called the Iggeret Rabbi Jochanan ben Zakkai, now in possession of The Royal Danish Library. Until now information about his life was scarcely available. This book aims to give more insights into his life, and to provide context to the aforementioned books and the manuscript. It reveals among many other things that van Dort also translated the Hebrew New Testament, residing in the Cambridge Library. Ir. Mascha van Dort (1968) studied Applied Physics at the Technical University of Delft in The Netherlands. In her work she is inspired to learn more about what makes people tick, in different cultures and different times. She uses a fact based approach and did research in over 14 different archives across the globe to find out everything there is to know about Leopold, while analyzing it afterwards in a framework which connects historical context and environment, personal needs and attitudes to actions and behavior. The book offers unique insights into Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort’s character and uncovers new facts about the background of his works. With contributions of professor Hanne Trautner-Kromann and colorful images of 18th century drawings and paintings of Dordrecht, Aachen, Colombo and Cochin. Hebrew translations and explanations by professor Meir Bar-Ilan.

Author : Gershom Bader
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015014748993

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The Encyclopedia of Talmudic Sages by Gershom Bader Pdf

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Judaism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Life of Yohanan Ben Zakkai by Jacob Neusner Pdf

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1970-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004021388

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A Life of Rabban Yohanan Ben Zakkai by Jacob Neusner Pdf

Author : Berel Wein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025987772

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פרקי אבות by Berel Wein Pdf

Author : Adin Steinsaltz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004140978

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Talmudic Images by Adin Steinsaltz Pdf

This book is a collection of thirteen intimate portraits of selected Talmudic Personalities.

Author : Carol Bakhos,Alyssa M. Gray
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781951498962

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Making History by Carol Bakhos,Alyssa M. Gray Pdf

Essays in this volume honor Richard L. Kalmin, one of the leading scholars of rabbinic literature. Volume contributors explore a variety of topics related to Kalmin’s wide-ranging work from the development of the Talmud to rabbinic storytelling, from the transmission of tales across geographic and cultural boundaries to ancient Jewish and Iranian interactions. Many of the essays reflect current trends in how scholars use ancient Jewish literary sources to address questions of historical import. Contributors include Carol Bakhos, Beth A. Berkowitz, Noah Bickart, Robert Brody, Joshua Cahan, Shaye J. D. Cohen, Steven D. Fraade, Shamma Friedman, Alyssa M. Gray, Judith Hauptman, Christine Hayes, Catherine Hezser, Marc Hirshman, David Kraemer, Marjorie Lehman, Kristen Lindbeck, Jonathan S. Milgram, Chaim Milikowsky, Michael L. Satlow, Marcus Mordecai Schwartz, Seth Schwartz, Burton L. Visotzky, and Sarah Wolf.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004509214

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A Life of Rabban Yoḥanan ben Zakkai (ca. 1-80 C.E.) by Jacob Neusner Pdf

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Rabbis
ISBN : UOM:39015004306158

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A Life of Yohanan Ben Zakkai, Ca.1-80 C.E. by Jacob Neusner Pdf

Author : Peter J. Tomson
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161546198

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Studies on Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries by Peter J. Tomson Pdf

The present volume gathers up studies by Peter J. Tomson, written over thirty-odd years, that deal with ancient Jewish law and identity, the teachings of Jesus, the letters of Paul, and the historiiography of early Jews and Christians. Notable subject areas are Jewish purity laws, divorce law, and the use of the name 'Jews'. The author also examines Jesus' teachings as understood in their primary and secondary contexts, the various situations Paul's highly differentiated rhetoric may have addressed, and the causes contributing to the growing tension between Jews and Christians and the so-called parting of the ways.

Author : Peter J. Tomson,Joshua J. Schwartz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004278479

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Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: How to Write Their History by Peter J. Tomson,Joshua J. Schwartz Pdf

The papers in this volume are organized around the ambition to reboot the writing of history about Jews and Christians in the first two centuries CE. There are three focal points: (1) the varieties of Jewish and Christian expression in late Second Temple times, (2) the socio-economic, military, and ideological processes during the period of the revolts, and (3) the post-revolt Jewish and Christian identities that emerged. As such, the volume is part of a larger project that is to result in a source book and a history of Jews and Christians in the first and second centuries.

Author : Fred Rosner
Publisher : Feldheim Publishers
Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 1583305920

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Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics by Fred Rosner Pdf

Ethical issues in modern medicine are of great concern and interest to all physicians and health-care providers throughout the world, as well as to the public at large. Jewish scholars and ethicists have discussed medical ethics throughout Jewish history.

Author : Agata Bielik-Robson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110768343

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The Marrano Way by Agata Bielik-Robson Pdf

The Marrano phenomenon is a still unexplored element of Western culture: the presence of the borderline Jewish identity which avoids clear-cut cultural and religious attribution and – precisely as such – prefigures the advent of the typically modern "free-oscillating" subjectivity. Yet, the aim of the book is not a historical study of the Marranos (or conversos), who were forced to convert to Christianity, but were suspected of retaining their Judaism "undercover." The book rather applies the "Marrano metaphor" to explore the fruitful area of mixture and cross-over which allowed modern thinkers, writers and artists of the Jewish origin to enter the realm of universal communication – without, at the same time, making them relinquish their Jewishness which they subsequently developed as a "hidden tradition." The book poses and then attempts to prove the "Marrano hypothesis," according to which modern subjectivity derives, to paraphrase Cohen, "out of the sources of the hidden Judaism": modernity begins not with the Cartesian abstract ego, but with the rich self-reflexive self of Michel de Montaigne who wrestled with his own marranismo in a manner that soon became paradigmatic to other Jewish thinkers entering the scene of Western modernity, from Spinoza to Derrida. The essays in the volume offer thus a new view of a "Marrano modernity," which aims to radically transform our approach to the genesis of the modern subject and shed a new light on its secret religious life as surviving the process of secularization, although merely in the form of secret traces.

Author : Jonathan Garb
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004694231

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Does God Doubt? R. Gershon Henoch Leiner’s Thought in Its Contexts by Jonathan Garb Pdf

Does God Doubt? shows that Rabbi Gershon Henoch Leiner of Radzin considered God to be revealed as doubt. Thus, according to this profound and important nineteenth-century Hasidic leader, doubt is an essential aspect of the human condition, and especially of religious life. His position is shown to be remarkably bold and unique compared to kabbalistic writing, and especially to the Hasidic worlds to which he belonged. At the same time, the roots of his thought are located in earlier discussions of doubt as one of the highest parts of the divine world. Doubt about, in, and of God is part of the Hasidic contribution to modernity.