Tertullian On Idolatry And Mishnah Avodah Zarah

Author : Stephanie E. Binder
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
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Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004235489

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Tertullian, On Idolatry and Mishnah Avodah Zarah by Stephanie E. Binder Pdf

This work studies and compares systematically the text of Tertullian, an African Church Father of the third century CE, on idolatry with the rabbinic Mishnah Avodah Zarah, on the same subject, dating roughly from the same period. Similarities and differences between the Jewish and Christian approaches to idolatry are examined and accounted for. The research is inscribed in the wider framework of discussions on the “parting of the ways” between Jews and Christians. It also addresses related questions such as the role of the rabbis in second and third century Judaism in the Land of Israel and in the Diaspora; relations between Jews living in those places; interactions between Jews and pagans, Christians and pagans, Jews and Christians...

Author : J. Christopher Edwards
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781506490953

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Crucified by J. Christopher Edwards Pdf

The accusation that Jews executed Jesus is perhaps the most overlooked of all Christianity's troubling traditions. In this study, J. Christopher Edwards shines a light on this forgotten tradition in which Christians rewrite their history to blame Jews for the crucifixion of Jesus.

Author : Dan Jaffé
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004184107

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Kaiphas by Dan Jaffé Pdf

This book is dealing with the relations between the Rabbinical Judaism and the Early Christianity. It studies the continuities and the mutations and clarifies the factors of influences and the polemics between these two traditions. Ce livre s'int resse aux relations entre le juda sme rabbinique et le christianisme primitif. Il tudie les continuit s et les ruptures et clarifie les facteurs d'influences et les pol miques entre les deux traditions.

Author : Robin M. Jensen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520345423

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From Idols to Icons by Robin M. Jensen Pdf

"From Idols to Icons tells the fascinating history of the dramatic shift in Christian attitudes toward sacred images from the third through the early seventh century. From attacks on the cult images of polytheism to the emergence of Christian narrative iconography to the appearance of portrait type representations of holy figures, this book examines the primary theological critiques as well as defenses of holy images in light of the surviving material evidence for early Christian visual art. Against the assumption that fourth- and fifth-century Christians simply forgot or ignored their predecessors' censure and reverted to more alluring pagan practices, Robin M. Jensen contends that each stage of this profound change was uniquely Christian. Through a careful consideration of the cult of saints' remains, devotional portraits, and pilgrimage to sacred sites, Jensen shows how the Christian devotion to holy images came to be rooted in their evolving conviction that the divinity was accessible in and through visible objects. Even the briefest glance at a museum's holdings or an introductory textbook demonstrates how profoundly influential this belief would be on the course of Western art for the next fifteen hundred years"--

Author : Michael Pregill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192593634

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The Golden Calf between Bible and Qur'an by Michael Pregill Pdf

This book explores the story of the Israelites' worship of the Golden Calf in its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim contexts, from ancient Israel to the emergence of Islam. It focuses in particular on the Qur'an's presentation of the narrative and its background in Jewish and Christian retellings of the episode from Late Antiquity. Across the centuries, the interpretation of the Calf episode underwent major changes reflecting the varying cultural, religious, and ideological contexts in which various communities used the story to legitimate their own tradition, challenge the claims of others, and delineate the boundaries between self and other. The book contributes to the ongoing reevaluation of the relationship between Bible and Qur'an, arguing for the necessity of understanding the Qur'an and Islamic interpretations of the history and narratives of ancient Israel as part of the broader biblical tradition. The Calf narrative in the Qur'an, central to the qur'anic conception of the legacy of Israel and the status of the Jews of its own time, reflects a profound engagement with the biblical account in Exodus, as well as being informed by exegetical and parascriptural traditions in circulation in the Qur'an's milieu in Late Antiquity. The book also addresses the issue of Western approaches to the Qur'an, arguing that the historical reliance of scholars and translators on classical Muslim exegesis of scripture has led to misleading conclusions about the meaning of qur'anic episodes.

Author : Moshe Halbertal,Avishai Margalit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X002141122

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Idolatry by Moshe Halbertal,Avishai Margalit Pdf

Ranging with authority from the Talmud to Maimonides, from Marx to Nietzsche and on to G.E. Moore, this account of a subject central to our culture also has much to say about metaphor, myth, and the application of philosophical analysis to religious concepts and sensibilities.

Author : Mike Humphreys
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004462007

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A Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm by Mike Humphreys Pdf

Twelve scholars contextualize and critically examine the key debates about the controversy over icons and their veneration that would fundamentally shape Byzantium and Orthodox Christianity.

Author : Reuven Chaim Klein
Publisher : Mosaica Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781946351463

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God versus Gods by Reuven Chaim Klein Pdf

Author : Christine Graef
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532608278

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The Jewish Concern for the Church by Christine Graef Pdf

The voices of Messianic rabbis and believers have been collected in this volume to share concerns about the gap that remains between Jews and the church. For the past fifteen centuries, the church has been predominantly Gentile. Jews of faith were not considered Jews, but as "converted." Today, as Messianic congregations multiply and church denominations try to find their way back to the original principles of the early church, the church is challenged to repair this relationship, deepen its understanding of the apostles' vision of one new man, and be edified by the meaning in appointed observances that extended to graft in the wild olive branches. "For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility" (Eph 2:14).

Author : Tertullian
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519523815

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On Idolatry by Tertullian Pdf

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, commonly referred to as Tertullian (c. 160 - c. 220 AD), was raised in Carthage. He was thought to be the son of a Roman centurion, a trained lawyer, and an ordained priest. These assertions rely on the accounts of Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History, and St. Jerome's De viris illustribus (On famous men). Tertullian is the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature. He also was a notable early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy. Tertullian has been called "the father of Latin Christianity"and "the founder of Western theology." Though conservative, he did originate and advance new theology to the early Church. He is perhaps most famous for being the oldest extant Latin writer to use the term Trinity (Latin trinitas),and giving the oldest extant formal exposition of a Trinitarian theology.[Other Latin formulations that first appear in his work are "three Persons, one Substance" as the Latin "tres Personae, una Substantia" . He wrote his trinitarian formula after becoming a Montanist; his ideas were at first rejected as heresy by the church at large, but later accepted as Christian orthodoxyScant reliable evidence exists to inform us about Tertullian's life. Most history about him comes from passing references in his own writings.

Author : Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798887191409

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Idolatry by Alon Goshen-Gottstein Pdf

Idolatry, or its Hebrew equivalent Avodah Zarah ̧ is a fundamental feature of a Jewish view of other religions. All religions must pass the test of whether they are compliant with a Jewish view of religions as being free from the worship of another God. With the advance in interfaith relations, positions have been affirmed that clear most major contemporary religions from the charge of idolatry. What remains of “idolatry” once it no longer serves as a tool for evaluating other faiths? Does the category continue to have theological appeal? What are its internal uses? A cadre of Jewish scholars and thought leaders explore in this volume what the continuing relevance of “idolatry” is and how it might continue to inform our religious horizons, allowing us to distinguish between good and bad religion, both within Judaism and beyond.

Author : Sergey Dolgopolski,James Adam Redfield
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253070692

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Talmud and Philosophy by Sergey Dolgopolski,James Adam Redfield Pdf

Wide-ranging and astutely argued, Talmud and Philosophy examines the intersections, partitions, and mutual illuminations and problematizations of Western philosophy and the Talmud. Among many philosophers, the Talmud has been at best an idealized and remote object and, at worst, if noticed at all, an object of curiosity. The contributors to this volume collectively ignite and probe a new mode of inquiry by approaching the very question of partitions, conjunctions, and disjunctions between the Talmud and philosophy as the guiding question of their inquiry. Rather than using the Talmud and its modes of argumentation to develop existing philosophical themes, these essays probe the question of how the Talmud as an intellectual discipline sheds new light on the unfolding of philosophy in the history of thought.

Author : Graham Stanton,Guy G. Stroumsa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521590372

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Tolerance and Intolerance in Early Judaism and Christianity by Graham Stanton,Guy G. Stroumsa Pdf

The essays in this book consider issues of tolerance and intolerance faced by Jews and Christians between approximately 200 BCE and 200 CE. Several chapters are concerned with many different aspects of early Jewish-Christian relationships. Five scholars, however, take a difference tack and discuss how Jews and Christians defined themselves against the pagan world. As minority groups, both Jews and Christians had to work out ways of co-existing with their Graeco-Roman neighbours. Relationships with those neighbours were often strained, but even within both Jewish and Christian circles, issues of tolerance and intolerance surfaced regularly. So it is appropriate that some other contributors should consider 'inner-Jewish' relationships, and that some should be concerned with Christian sects.

Author : William Vernon Harris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004147171

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The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries by William Vernon Harris Pdf

This collection of essays by contemporary historians considers how after two centuries of scholarship we can best explain Christianity's rise to dominance.

Author : Tertullian of Tertullian of Carthage
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1981861815

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On Idolatry by Tertullian of Tertullian of Carthage Pdf

Tertullian discusses how living as a Christian in a world where paganism is embedded in every social occasion. Can a Christian go to (e.g) a pagan wedding? Tertullian is dealing with the general issue of living differently from the unbelievers, who are steeped in idol-worship. He deals with the negative side, of what to avoid, and lists a few ways in which this may be done.