Jewish Identity In Early Rabbinic Writings

Author : Stern
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004332768

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Jewish Identity in Early Rabbinic Writings is more than a question of legal status: it is the experience of being Jewish or of 'Jewishness' in all its social and cultural dimensions. This work describes this experience as it emerges in Talmudic and Midrashic sources. Besides the question of “who is a Jew?”, topics include the contrast between Israel and the non-Jews, the physical embodiment of Jewish identity, the 'boundaries' of Israel and resistance to assimilation. Jewish identity, it is argued, hinges essentially on the Divine commandments (mitzvot) and on Israel's perceived proximity with the Divine. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, including the theories of William James and Merleau-Ponty, this study raises important issues in anthropology, as well as accounting for central aspects of early rabbinic Judaism.

Author : Sacha Stern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9004100121

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Jewish identity in early rabbinic writings by Sacha Stern Pdf

Author : Jordan Rosenblum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521195980

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Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism by Jordan Rosenblum Pdf

Food often defines societies and even civilizations. Through particular commensality restrictions, groups form distinct identities. This identity is enacted daily, turning the biological need to eat into a culturally significant activity. In this book, Jordan D. Rosenblum explores how food regulations and practices helped to construct the identity of early rabbinic Judaism. Bringing together the scholarship of rabbinics with that of food studies, this volume first examines the historical reality of food production and consumption in Roman-era Palestine. It then explores how early rabbinic food regulations created a distinct Jewish, male, and rabbinic identity.

Author : Sacha Stern
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781909821798

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Time and Process in Ancient Judaism by Sacha Stern Pdf

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 : Moshe Lavee
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004352056

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The Rabbinic Conversion of Judaism by Moshe Lavee Pdf

In The Rabbinic Conversion of Judaism, Moshe Lavee offers an account of crucial internal developments in the rabbinic corpus, showing how the Babylonian Talmud challenged and extended the rabbinic model of conversion to Judaism.

Author : Hyam MacCoby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988-05-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521285534

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Early Rabbinic Writings by Hyam MacCoby Pdf

Rabbinic texts are often cited in New Testament and Old Testament studies, but hitherto there has been no easy way for a student to grasp the scope and variety of the relevant rabbinic writings. This book introduces the student to the full range of the early rabbinic writings, with a thorough introduction and notes, so that both a bird's eye view of the literature as well as close aquaintance with typical and important texts can be obtained. This will enable the reader to embark on further study with a clearer orientation. The book also aims to correct many mistaken views about rabbinic Judaism arising from outdated conceptions of the relation between Christianity and Judaism.

Author : Raimo Hakola
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047407256

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Identity Matters by Raimo Hakola Pdf

The book suggests that John’s portrayal of the Jews is not a response to Jewish persecution of early Christians. It proposes instead that the exclusive faith in Jesus led the Johannine Christians to abandon some basic markers of Jewish identity.

Author : Benedikt Eckhardt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004210462

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Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba by Benedikt Eckhardt Pdf

Based on an interdisciplinary conference held in Münster, this volume discusses the interrelation between political change and Jewish identity in the three centuries between the Maccabean and the Bar Kokhba revolt (168 BCE – 135 CE).

Author : Erich S. Gruen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110375558

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The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism by Erich S. Gruen Pdf

This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. His many articles on this subject have, however, appeared mostly in conference volumes and Festschriften, and have therefore not had wide circulation. By putting them together in a single work, this will bring the essays to the attention of a much broader scholarly readership and make them more readily available to students in the fields of ancient history and early Judaism. The pieces are quite varied, but develop a number of connected and related themes: Jewish identity in the pagan world, the literary representations by Jews and pagans of one another, the interconnections of Hellenism and Judaism, and the Jewish experience under Hellenistic monarchies and the Roman empire.

Author : Jörg Frey,Daniel R. Schwartz,Stephanie Gripentrog
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004158382

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Jewish Identity in the Greco-Roman World by Jörg Frey,Daniel R. Schwartz,Stephanie Gripentrog Pdf

The book addresses critical issues of the formation and development of Jewish identity in the late Second Temple period. How could Jewish identity be defined? What about the status of women and the image of 'others'? And what about its ongoing influence in early Christianity?

Author : Mira Balberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520280632

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Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature by Mira Balberg Pdf

This book explores the ways in which the early rabbis reshaped biblical laws of ritual purity and impurity and argues that the rabbisÕ new purity discourse generated a unique notion of a bodily self. Focusing on the Mishnah, a Palestinian legal codex compiled around the turn of the third century CE, Mira Balberg shows how the rabbis constructed the processes of contracting, conveying, and managing ritual impurity as ways of negotiating the relations between oneÕs self and oneÕs body and, more broadly, the relations between oneÕs self and oneÕs human and nonhuman environments. With their heightened emphasis on subjectivity, consciousness, and self-reflection, the rabbis reinvented biblically inherited language and practices in a way that resonated with central cultural concerns and intellectual commitments of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean world. Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature adds a new dimension to the study of practices of self-making in antiquity by suggesting that not only philosophical exercises but also legal paradigms functioned as sites through which the self was shaped and improved.

Author : Heerak Christian Kim
Publisher : The Hermit Kingdom Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1596890479

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Jewish Law and Identity by Heerak Christian Kim Pdf

JEWISH LAW AND IDENTITY is the second book in the Hermit Kingdom Studies in Christianity and Judaism, an academic monograph series in Hebrew, Jewish, and Early Christian Studies. This book contains 9 academic essays relating to the theme of Jewish law and identity. Chapter one compares English contract law (Law of Privity of Contracts) with Jewish contract law as found in the book of Genesis (the Abrahamic covenant). Chapters two and three discuss Jewish Rabbinic Law and its relevance for understanding Jewish identity in the period of the composition of the documents. Chapters four, five and seven discuss Jewish individual and group identity as found in the Old Testament, particularly in relation to the religious practice (Temple worship) and political institutions (the monarchy) of ancient Israel. Chapter six is a theoretical discussion for understanding identity in relation to rituals. The author proposes "the atomic theory", utilizing the scientific concept of the atom with nucleus and electrons, applied in a social-scientific and humanistic way to texts and social realities. Chapter eight discusses the book of Acts and its interaction with Jewish identity and the impact of the movement founded by Jesus of Nazareth. Chapter nine discusses Jewish identity as seen through the pseudepigraphic text of the Psalms of Solomon and its relevant for the late Second Temple period. All the academic essays in the book discuss Jewish law and identity in a creative, and ground-breaking way in light of the most recent research trends. The essays represented here include important academic papers delivered at international conferences, like the Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting and the Australia and New Zealand Theological Society continental conference. This book is useful for using in college/university teaching and for advanced research in Jewish studies.

Author : Sarit Kattan Gribetz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691242095

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Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism by Sarit Kattan Gribetz Pdf

How the rabbis of late antiquity used time to define the boundaries of Jewish identity The rabbinic corpus begins with a question–“when?”—and is brimming with discussions about time and the relationship between people, God, and the hour. Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism explores the rhythms of time that animated the rabbinic world of late antiquity, revealing how rabbis conceptualized time as a way of constructing difference between themselves and imperial Rome, Jews and Christians, men and women, and human and divine. In each chapter, Sarit Kattan Gribetz explores a unique aspect of rabbinic discourse on time. She shows how the ancient rabbinic texts artfully subvert Roman imperialism by offering "rabbinic time" as an alternative to "Roman time." She examines rabbinic discourse about the Sabbath, demonstrating how the weekly day of rest marked "Jewish time" from "Christian time." Gribetz looks at gendered daily rituals, showing how rabbis created "men's time" and "women's time" by mandating certain rituals for men and others for women. She delves into rabbinic writings that reflect on how God spends time and how God's use of time relates to human beings, merging "divine time" with "human time." Finally, she traces the legacies of rabbinic constructions of time in the medieval and modern periods. Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism sheds new light on the central role that time played in the construction of Jewish identity, subjectivity, and theology during this transformative period in the history of Judaism.

Author : Simcha Fishbane
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004158337

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Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Literature by Simcha Fishbane Pdf

This study of early Rabbinic texts provides fresh and fascinating insights into the attitudes of the Rabbis towards "outsiders."

Author : Beatrice Lawrence
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004348929

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Jethro and the Jews by Beatrice Lawrence Pdf

In Jethro and the Jews, Beatrice J. W. Lawrence explores rabbinic texts interpreting the identities and roles of Moses’ father-in-law, revealing him to be a locus of anxiety concerning conversion, community boundaries, intermarriage, and non-Jews.