The Experience Of Jewish Liturgy

Author : Debra Reed Blank
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004208032

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The Experience of Jewish Liturgy by Debra Reed Blank Pdf

Menahem Schmelzer, widely recognized for his expertise in Jewish manuscripts and piyyut, has also influenced Jewish liturgical research of the past half century. This collection of sixteen academic studies, by Israeli, European, and American scholars, honors Schmelzer's contribution. The contributors represent three generations, and their topics and methods testify to the vast subject area that Jewish liturgy has become. The articles explore a wide variety of texts and ritual occasions, the relationship between text and worship experience, and implications for related areas such as mysticism; most apply the methods of other subject areas such as liguistics to liturgical study and its implications for related fields. "...this volume, as a whole, is as much a testimony to the enduring centrality of the librarian in scholarship as it is a collection of essays on "the experience of Jewish liturgy." Wide ranging in scope, these essays are an accurate snapshot of the state of research, illustrating the wealth of material awaiting publication, the need for revisiting prior assumptions, and also the limits of our scholarship." Yoel Kahn, Congregation Beth El, Berkeley

Author : Emma O'Donnell
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814663424

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Remembering the Future by Emma O'Donnell Pdf

Common to both Judaism and Christianity is a heightened engagement with time within liturgical practice, in which collective religious memory and anticipation come together to create a unique sense of time. Exploring the nebulous realms of religious experience and the sense of time, Remembering the Future charts the ways that the experience of time is shaped by the traditions of Judaism and Christianity and experienced within their ritual practices. Through comparative explorations of traditional Jewish and Christian understandings of time, contemporary oral testimonies, and discussions of the work of select twentieth-century Jewish and Christian thinkers, this book maps the temporal landscapes of the religious imagination. Maintaining that the sense of time is integral to Jewish and Christian religious experience, Remembering the Future makes a notable contribution to interreligious studies and liturgical studies. It sheds light on essential aspects of religious experience and finds that the intimacy of the experience of time grants it the capacity to communicate across religious boundaries, subtly transgressing obstacles to interreligious understanding.

Author : Steven Leonard Jacobs
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451418590

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The Jewish Experience by Steven Leonard Jacobs Pdf

Explores the richness and meaning of Jewish life through history, introducing the basics of Jewish history, the tradition of texts, key philosophical and theological issues and thinkers, the Judaic calendar, contemporary global concerns and what the future may portend for Judaism. Original.

Author : Eric L. Friedland
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878201570

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Were Our Mouths Filled With Song by Eric L. Friedland Pdf

Since the period in which the Jewish liturgy was standardized, there has hardly been a time when it was not somehow in a state of flux. Eric L. Friedland explores the countless ways that the Siddur, Mahzor, and Haggadah have been adjusted, amplified, or transformed so as to faithfully mirror modern Jews' understanding of themselves, their place in society, and their sancta. In the tradition of liturgologists such as Elbogen, Idelsohn, and Petuchowski, Friedland focuses on latter-day adaptations of the prayerbook, giving proper recognition to the recent concern for intellectual integrity, cultural congruity, group and individual self-redefinition, and honest speech in Jewish prayer. The prayerbooks themselves are witnesses to innovation in the Jewish liturgy. From David Einhorn's Olath Tamid (Baltimore 1855), to Isaac Mayer Wise's Minhag Amerika (Cincinnati 1857) and Marcus Jastrow's 1873 revision of Benjamin Szold's Abodath Israel (Baltimore 1864), Friedland analyzes evidence of creativity in British and American Reform Jewish liturgy. Various rites for the Days of Awe provide a particularly accurate glimpse of how Jewish communities here and abroad experience the sacred, consider eternal mysteries, and communicate with God. Friedland also sets the Reform Gates of Prayer in historical and denominational perspective by considering it alongside the Reconstructionist Kol Haneshamah, and the Israeli Progressive HaAvodah shebaLev. The state and direction of liturgical change emerges from a survey of commonalities and divergences in nineteenth- and twentieth-century prayerbooks in terms of Sephardic and mystical influences, attitudes toward the messianic hope, and collective sentiments of forgiveness or vengeance toward Israel's enemies. Liturgical approaches to the commemoration of the Ninth of Av suggest that even an ancient fast day can recover relevance, credibility, and authenticity for Liberal Jews in the postmodern era.

Author : Steven Kepnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198042795

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Jewish Liturgical Reasoning by Steven Kepnes Pdf

Liturgy, a complex interweaving of word, text, song, and behavior is a central fixture of religious life in the Jewish tradition. It is unique in that it is performed and not merely thought. Because liturgy is performed by a specific group at a specific time and place it is mutable. Thus, liturgical reasoning is always new and understandings of liturgical practices are always evolving. Liturgy is neither preexisting nor static; it is discovered and revealed in every liturgical performance. Jewish Liturgical Reasoning is an attempt to articulate the internal patterns of philosophical, ethical, and theological reasoning that are at work in synagogue liturgies. This book discusses the relationship between internal Jewish liturgical reasoning and the variety of external philosophical and theological forms of reasoning that have been developed in modern and post liberal Jewish philosophy. Steven Kepnes argues that liturgical reasoning can reorient Jewish philosophy and provide it with new tools, new terms of discourse and analysis, and a new sensibility for the twenty-first century. The formal philosophical study of Jewish liturgy began with Moses Mendelssohn and the modern Jewish philosophers. Thus the book focuses, in its first chapters, on the liturgical reasoning of Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, and Franz Rosenzweig. However, it attempts to augment and further develop the liturgical reasoning of these figures with methods of study from Hermeneutics, Semiotic theory, post liberal theology, anthropology and performance theory. These newer theories are enlisted to help form a contemporary liturgical reasoning that can respond to such events as the Holocaust, the establishment of the State of Israel, and interfaith dialogue between Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Author : Ruth Langer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780810886179

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Jewish Liturgy by Ruth Langer Pdf

How do Jews pray and why? What do the prayers mean? From where did this liturgy come and what challenges does it face today? Such questions and many more, spanning the centuries and continents, have driven the study of Jewish liturgy. But just as the liturgy has changed over time, so too have the questions asked, the people asking them, and the methods used to address them. Jewish Liturgy: A Guide to Research enables the reader to access the rich bibliography now available in English. In this volume, Ruth Langer, an expert on Jewish liturgy, provides an annotated description of the most important books and articles on topics ranging historically from the liturgy of the Second Temple period and the Dead Sea Scrolls to today, addressing the synagogue itself and those gathered in it; the daily, weekly, and festival liturgies and their components; home rituals and the life cycle; as well as questions of liturgical performance and theology. Introductions to every section orient the reader and provide necessary background. Christians seeking to understand Jewish liturgy, either that of Jesus and the early church or that of their Jewish contemporaries, will find this volume invaluable. It’s also an important reference for anyone seeking to understand how Jews worship God and how that worship has evolved over time.

Author : Lawrence A. Hoffman,Janet R. Walton
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268160579

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Sacred Sound and Social Change by Lawrence A. Hoffman,Janet R. Walton Pdf

Teachers, students, composers, performers, and other practitioners of sacred sound will appreciate this volume because, unlike any book currently available on sacred music, it treats the history, development, current practices, composition, and critical views of the liturgical music of both the Jewish and Christian traditions. Contributors trace Jewish music from its place in Hebrew Scriptures through the nineteenth-century Reform movement. Similar accounts of Christian music describe its growth up to the Protestant Reformation, as well as post-Reformation development. Other essays explore liturgical music in contemporary North America by analyzing it against the backdrop of the continuous social change that characterizes our era.

Author : Ernest H. Rubinstein
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438418186

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An Episode of Jewish Romanticism by Ernest H. Rubinstein Pdf

Examining romanticism in the thought of Jewish philosopher, Franz Rosenzweig, this book compares his magnum opus, The Star of Redemption, with Leo Baeck's essay, "Romantic Religion," and Friedrich Schelling's Philosophy of Art, texts representing two distinct and, to a large extent, opposed interpretations of romanticism. Rosenzweig's thought was shaped by two intellectual histories: Germany's and Judaism's. Because romanticism had such a definite impact on modern German writing and thought, it becomes a question whether, and to what extent, Rosenzweig, too, was a romantic. Part of the force of the question derives from the tensions sometimes noted between Jewish and romantic worldviews. In this book, author Ernest Rubinstein shows The Star of Redemption to be along the spectrum of ideas that extends between Baeck and Schelling, and thus illustrates a qualified romanticism.

Author : Abraham Zebi Idelsohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Jews
ISBN : OCLC:762283155

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Jewish Liturgy by Abraham Zebi Idelsohn Pdf

Author : Jakob J. Petuchowski
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1978-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781909821507

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Theology and Poetry by Jakob J. Petuchowski Pdf

In the Middle Ages, unconventional theological views were often expressed in poetic form. Jakob Petuchowski provides parallel texts of ten medieval theological poems in the standard liturgy that express unconventional and daring theological ideas, each with a commentary on the poem and its author, and a survey of Jewish thought on its particular theme.

Author : Reuven Hammer
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307772558

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Entering Jewish Prayer by Reuven Hammer Pdf

This engaging and informative book provides an introduction to the liturgy of the Siddur--the Jewish prayerbook. More than a "how-to" guide, this resource deals with basic issues for the modern worshiper, the historial compilation of the Siddur, and much more.

Author : Steven Kepnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195313819

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Jewish Liturgical Reasoning by Steven Kepnes Pdf

Been done before, Kepnes reimagines the role of liturgy in the Jewish tradition and constructs a new theology for the modern world."--Résumé de l'éditeur

Author : Geraldine Heng
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603295192

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Teaching the Global Middle Ages by Geraldine Heng Pdf

While globalization is a modern phenomenon, premodern people were also interconnected in early forms of globalism, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Looking across civilizations, this volume takes a broad view of the Middle Ages in order to foster new habits of thinking and develop a multilayered, critical sense of the past. The essays in this volume reach across disciplinary lines to bring insights from music, theater, religion, ecology, museums, and the history of disease into the literature classroom. The contributors provide guidance on texts such as the Thousand and One Nights, Sunjata, Benjamin of Tudela's Book of Travels, and the Malay Annals and on topics such as hotels, maps, and camels. They propose syllabus recommendations, present numerous digital resources, and offer engaging class activities and discussion questions. Ultimately, they provide tools that will help students evaluate popular representations of the Middle Ages and engage with the dynamics of past, present, and future world relationships.

Author : Stefan C. Reif
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110485851

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Jews, Bible and Prayer by Stefan C. Reif Pdf

In his articles Stefan Reif deas with Jewish biblical exegesis and the close analysis of the evolution of Jewish prayer texts. Some fourteen of these that appeared in various collective volumes are here made more easily available, together with a major new study of Numbers 13, an introduction and extensive indexes. Reif attempts to establish whether there is any linguistic, literary and exegetical value in the traditional Jewish interpretation of the Hebrew Bible for the modern scientific approach to such texts and whether such an approach itself is always free of theological bias. He demonstrates how Jewish liturgical texts may illuminate religious teachings about wisdom, history, peace, forgiveness, and divine metaphors. Also clarified in these essays are notions of David, Greek and Hebrew, divine metaphors, and the liturgical use of the Hebrew Bible.

Author : Albert Gerhards,Clemens Leonhard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004162013

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Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship by Albert Gerhards,Clemens Leonhard Pdf

"Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship" presents the reworked results of the discussions at an interdisciplinary symposium held in Aachen, Germany, on recent trends in the study of Jewish and Christian liturgies. It introduces diverse subjects pertaining to its topic an shows their interrelationship.