Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Judaism - General

This book investigates the contemporary conceptions of the Jewish figure on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. Taking on what has been said about Shakespeare's Shylock and Marlowe's Barabas in the last centuries, the author analyses seven other, largely ignored plays to enhance the image we have today of the early modern stage-Jew. In tracing the image of Jewish figures in medieval literature and in early modern travel reports, the foundation of the Elizabethan idea of 'Jewishness' is laid out. Further, the author challenges some arguments which have become axiomatic over time, such as...

Measuring Change provides voluminous data substantiating the claim that students can and do experience personal formation in the context of Christian higher education. This volume is a one-of-a-kind, mixed-methods analysis of Canby Bible College (CBC) alumnae. By means of a three-part research instrumentation, CBC graduates assess and articulate the transformational journey they gained as a Bible Collegian. Ultimately, Measuring Change contends that Christian education should be more about personal transformation than information acquisition, thus making a robust case for...

Der vierte Band des Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae umfasst die Inschriften der Gebiete Iudaeas und Idumaeas von der Zeit Alexanders bis zum Ende der byzantinischen Herrschaft im 7. Jahrhundert in allen Sprachen, die damals fur Inschriften verwendet wurden: Griechisch, Latein, Hebraisch, Aramaisch, Samaritanisch, Christlich-Palastinisches Aramaisch, Georgisch, Armenisch. Die mehr als 1300 Texte sind geographisch nach den Fundorten in etwa von Lydda im Nordwesten bis Masada im Sudosten geordnet. Der Band erfasst u.a. Stadte wie Bethlehem, En Gedi, Eleutheropolis, Emmaus, Hebron,...

The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) is a thirty-volume series that renders the current state of knowledge on the origins and development of the Bible in its different canonic forms in Judaism and Christianity. Furthermore, it documents the history of the Bible's reception, not only in the Christian churches and the Jewish Diaspora, but also in literature, art, music, and film, as well as in Islam and other religious traditions and current religious movements.

EBR moves into new terrain - the realm of reception history. The encyclopedia...

• Historical context
• Chapter-by-chapter summaries
• Important quotes
• Fascinating trivia
• Glossary of terms
• Supporting...

This book tells the story of mid-20th century Jewish America through the eyes of Bernice Cohen Schwartz, born in NYC in 1923. The oldest daughter of a family of Eastern European origin, Bernice had an American-born mother, but in other things was similar to her contemporaries, reflecting the lives of a generation of pre-WWI urban Jews in America with immigrant parents.

Her life story reflects much of the development of American Jewry during the middle of the 20^th century: the Great Depression, the Second World War, the development of Zionism, the response to the...