Jews In A Graeco Roman World

Author : Martin Goodman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191518362

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Jews in a Graeco-Roman World by Martin Goodman Pdf

This book contains studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world. Some of the sixteen contributors are specialists in Jewish history, others in classics. They tackle from different angles the extent to which Jews in this period differed from other peoples in the Mediterranean region, and how much Jewish evidence can be used for the history of the wider classical world. The authors make extensive use not only of types of evidence familiar to classicists, such as inscriptions and the writing of Josephus, but also Jewish religious literature, including rabbinic texts. The various studies demonstrate that, although Jews lived to some extent apart from others and with distinctive customs, in many ways this showed the cultural presuppositions and preoccupations of their gentile contemporaries. The book aims to encourage wider use of the Jewish evidence by classicists and will be important for all students of the classical world.

Author : Peter Schäfer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134403172

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The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World by Peter Schäfer Pdf

Examines Judaism in Palestine throughout the Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great's conquest in 334 BC to its capture by the Arabs in AD 636.

Author : Martin Goodman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Jews
ISBN : OCLC:300424179

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Jews in a Graeco-Roman World by Martin Goodman Pdf

Author : Judith Lieu,Professor of New Testament Studies Judith M Lieu
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199262892

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Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World by Judith Lieu,Professor of New Testament Studies Judith M Lieu Pdf

Judith Lieu's study explores how a sense of being a Christian was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world. By exploring this theme she reveals what made early Christianity so distinctive and separate.

Author : Yair Furstenberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004321694

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Jewish and Christian Communal Identities in the Roman World by Yair Furstenberg Pdf

The studies in this volume examine the unique communal patterns among Jews and Christians within Roman civic culture and their diverse responses to shared challenges under Imperial rule.

Author : Steven Fine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521844916

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Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World by Steven Fine Pdf

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Author : Peter Schäfer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134371372

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The History of the Jews in Antiquity by Peter Schäfer Pdf

First Published in 1995, the main emphasis of this book is on the political history of the Jews in Palestine, where "political" is to be understood not as the mere succession of rulers and battles but as the interaction between political activity and social, economic and religious circumstances. A particular concern is the investigation of social and economic conditions in the history of Palestinian Judaism.

Author : Peter Schafer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1090031390

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The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World by Peter Schafer Pdf

Author : Doron Mendels
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567080447

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Memory in Jewish, Pagan and Christian Societies of the Graeco-Roman World by Doron Mendels Pdf

The ten studies in this book explore the phenomenon of public memory in societies of the Graeco-Roman period. Mendels begins with a concise discussion of the historical canon that emerged in Late Antiquity and brought with it the (distorted) memory of ancient history in Western culture. The following nine chapters each focus on a different source of collective memory in order to demonstrate the patchy and incomplete associations ancient societies had with their past, including discussions of Plato’s Politeia, a site of memory of the early church, and the dichotomy existing between the reality of the land of Israel in the Second Temple period and memories of it.Throughout the book, Mendels shows that since the societies of Antiquity had associations with only bits and pieces of their past, these associations could be slippery and problematic, constantly changing, multiplying and submerging. Memories, true and false, oral and inscribed, provide good evidence for this fluidity.

Author : Margaret H. Williams
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Hellenism
ISBN : 3161519019

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Jews in a Graeco-Roman Environment by Margaret H. Williams Pdf

A collection of articles published previously.

Author : Judith Lieu,John North,Tessa Rajak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135081881

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The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire by Judith Lieu,John North,Tessa Rajak Pdf

In the period of Roman domination there were communities of Jews, some still in Palestine, some dispersed in and around the Roman Empire; they had to face at first the world-wide power of the pagan Romans and later on the emergence of Christianity as an Empire-wide religion. How they coped with these dramatic changes and how they influenced the new forms of religious life that emerged in this period provide the main themes of The Jews Among Pagans and Christians. Essays by the leading scholars in the field together with the introduction by the editors, offer new approaches to understanding the role of Judaism and the pattern of religious interaction characteristic of the period.

Author : Jack Lightstone
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0231502761

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Commerce of the Sacred by Jack Lightstone Pdf

Jack Lightstone's Commerce of the Sacred remains an original and influential contribution to Judaic studies. Lightstone offers critical perspectives on the practices and beliefs of Greco-Roman Jews who lived outside of Palestine and beyond rabbinic control or influence. He investigates their influence on early Christians and examines how the two communities defined themselves in relation to each another. He challenges the view of Judaism as a single set of practices and beliefs and argues that Jews of the Greco-Roman Diaspora did not retain a shared, biblical 'perception of the world' centered on the Jerusalem temple. Rather, they believed multiple points of contact between God and man could be made through particular rites: prayer in the presence of the sacred scrolls, pleas for help at the tombs of dead saints and martyrs, and the interventions of holy men with alleged supernatural powers, to name a few. Many early Christians also participated in this Judaic 'commerce of the sacred', blurring the social and religious boundaries that distinguished Jews and Christians. Lightstone innovatively combines approaches from the history of religions and social anthropology to provide a different picture of Judaism during this period. Featuring a new foreword and an updated bibliography, Commerce of the Sacred resituates the Jews in the Greco-Roman world.

Author : Heather A. McKay
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004507449

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Sabbath and Synagogue by Heather A. McKay Pdf

Sabbath worship as a communal event does not feature in the Hebrew Bible. In the context of the first century CE, according to Philo and Josephus, the sabbath gatherings took place only for the purpose of studying the law, and not for the liturgical recital of psalms or prayer. Classical authors depict Jews spending the sabbath at home. Jewish inscriptions provide no evidence of sabbath-worship in prayer-houses (proseuchai), while the Mishnah prescribes no special communal sabbath activities. The usual picture of Jews going on the sabbath to the synagogue to worship thus appears to be without foundation. It is even doubtful that there were synagogue buildings, for "synagogue" normally meant "community." The conclusion of this study, that there is no evidence that the sabbath was a day of communal Jewish worship before 200 CE, has far-reaching consequences for our understanding of early Jewish-Christian relationships. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Author : Tessa Rajak
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047400196

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The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome by Tessa Rajak Pdf

Twenty-seven interdisciplinary essays on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, exemplifying a wide range of techniques, by a well-known scholar. Three are previously unpublished, including a reappraisal of the Judaism and Hellenism debate and a study of the Sardis synagogue. The book's overall coherence derives from the author's long-standing interests in the analysis of texts as documents of cultural and religious interaction, and in how Jewish communities were woven into the social fabric of Greek cities in the Hellenistic and Roman East. The four sections are: Greeks and Jews, Josephus, The Jewish Diaspora and Epigraphy, and finally Beyond the Greeks and Romans, essays which extend into Christian literature and on to the nineteenth century reception of the Judaism/Hellenism dichotomy. Scholars and students from a wide variety of backgrounds will benefit. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Author : Molly Whittaker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1984-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521242517

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Jews and Christians: Volume 6 by Molly Whittaker Pdf

The aim of this book is to give access to sources which illustrate Graeco-Roman views on Jews and Christians from 200 BC to AD 200. Passages range from longer extracts written by historians to short incidental references by disparate authors which throw light on attitudes towards beliefs and social customs. The pagan religious background, especially the Mystery religions, is also described and illustrated by selected passages, so that the reader may have some idea of the general religious climate during this period. Every quotation is prefixed by a brief biography of the author and all passages have been translated into English, with explanatory comment when necessary. Connecting essays act as summaries and focus the attention on essential issues. These, together with a chronological chart and maps should enable a student coming fresh to the subject, without previous specialized knowledge, to see the period in historical perspective.