Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Judaism - History

The sabbatical year law in Lv 25,1-7 stipulates the rest of the land and includes foreigners in the list of the beneficiaries, differently from the fallow year law in Ex 23,10-11 and from the debt-release law in Dt 15,1-11. These characteristic features originate from the universalism of creation theology of the Holiness Code: the sabbatical year law in Leviticus aims to practice the God's creation order in Gn 1-2,4a in human history. Moreover, this law functions as a criterion of the interpretation of the history of Israel; the exilic tragedy in Babylonia has been caused by the negligence...

Grit Schorch hat die erste umfassende Untersuchung zur Sprachauffassung des judischen Philosophen Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) vorgelegt und damit ein Desiderat der Forschung erfullt.
Die Analyse von Mendelssohns Sprachphilosophie fuhrt den Leser quer durch die deutschen und hebraischen Teile seines Oeuvres. Die derart neu gewonnene Perspektive auf Ubersetzungstheorie, Asthetik, Metaphysik, Logik, Offenbarungsauffassung und Politik lasst einen erkenntnis- und wissenschaftstheoretischen Fallibilismus hervortreten, der von Mendelssohn in der Philosophie des judischen Mittelalters...

In the second part of Wechselseitige Wahrnehmung, the Gottingen Academy presents additional conference papers on the ways that Islam and Christianity perceived one another and on the reception of pagan religions by Renaissance humanists.

Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents. Comprising only a few ancient verses, the story of Adam and Eve has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of our fears and desires, as both a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness.

Tracking the tale into the deep past, Greenblatt uncovers the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural investment over centuries that made these...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden ausgewahlte Responsa des Rabbi Meir von Rothenburg (um 1200-1293), die sich mit drangenden Rechtsfragen seiner Zeit beschaftigen, ubersetzt und untersucht. Dabei werden seine Entscheidungen mit Bezug auf den historischen Kontext bewertet. Die Studie macht die Argumentationsstruktur der behandelten Rechtsgutachten im Ruckgriff auf die Traditionsliteratur einsichtig und erschliet die komplizierte Struktur der Texte. Vergleiche mit der Rechtssituation der Umgebungskultur machen Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten deutlich und erlauben Einblicke in das judische...

Archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic, and historical research is used to illuminate the meaning and function of temples in both Jewish and Greco-Roman cultures. This evidence is then brought into a dialogue with a literary analysis of how the temple functions as a symbol in Revelation.

Die Arbeit untersucht den altisraelitischen Opferkult und die Priestergenealogien der hebraischen Bibel aus religionsgeschichtlicher und kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive.

Im ersten Teil wird die kollektive Biographie der aharonidischen Hohenpriesterschaft uber Genealogien-Analysen erschlossen. Der Beginn ihres Hohenpriesteramts kann in das 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. datiert werden. Eine mehrdimensionale Annaherung an das Levitentum lat sich nachweisen.

Im zweiten Teil werden Opferriten (Ex 12 und Lev 1-7) analysiert und kulturwissenschaftlich als Kommunikationsmedien...

Most historical Jesus and Gospel scholars have supposed three hypotheses of unidirectionality: geographically, the more Judaeo-Palestinian, the earlier; modally, the more oral, the earlier; and linguistically, the more Aramaized, the earlier. These are based on the chronological assumption of'the earlier, the more original'. These four long-held hypotheses have been applied as authenticity criteria. However, this book proposes that linguistic milieus of 1st-century Palestine and the Roman Near East were bilingual in Greek and vernacular languages and that the earliest church in Jerusalem...

This book presents,...

Part ethnography, part history, and part memoir, this volume chronicles the complex past and dynamic present of an ancient Mizrahi community. While intimately tied to the Central Asian landscape, the Jews of Bukhara have also maintained deep connections to the wider Jewish world. As the community began to disperse after the fall of the Soviet Union, Alanna E. Cooper traveled to Uzbekistan to document Jewish life before it disappeared. Drawing on ethnographic research there as well as among immigrants to the US and Israel, Cooper tells an intimate and personal story about what it means to...

Part ethnography, part history, and part memoir, this volume chronicles the complex past and dynamic present of an ancient Mizrahi community. While intimately tied to the Central Asian landscape, the Jews of Bukhara have also maintained deep connections to the wider Jewish world. As the community began to disperse after the fall of the Soviet Union, Alanna E. Cooper traveled to Uzbekistan to document Jewish life before it disappeared. Drawing on ethnographic research there as well as among immigrants to the US and Israel, Cooper tells an intimate and personal story about what it means to...

Honorable Mention for the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer book award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History presented by the Association for Jewish Studies

No matter what we would make of Jesus, says Schalom Ben-Chorin, he was first a Jewish man in a Jewish land. Brother Jesus leads us through the twists and turns of history to reveal the figure who extends a "brotherly hand" to the author as a fellow Jew.

Ben-Chorin's reach is astounding as he moves easily between literature, law, etymology, psychology, and theology to recover "Jesus' picture from the Christian overpainting." A commanding scholar of the historical Jesus who also devoted his life to widening Jewish-Christian dialogue, Ben-Chorin ranges across such events as the wedding at...

Judentum und Christentum haben ihre offiziell beauftragten Amtstrager, um die vielfaltigen Aufgaben der Gemeinschaft zu erfullen: zu sammeln und zu lehren, seelsorglich tatig zu sein und zu predigen, Gottesdienste zu leiten und Lebenshilfe zu geben, Rituale zu vollziehen am Beginn des Lebens, an dessen Ende und mitten im Leben, in religiosen Fragen zu entscheiden, administrativ tatig zu werden und vielleicht sogar ‛zwischen Himmel und Erde' zu vermitteln.
Die konkreten Verwirklichungsformen und Funktionen des Amtes (und der Amtstrager) sind dabei einem standigen Wandel...