Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Judaism - History

This is the first in-depth biography of Rebecca Gratz (1781-1869), the foremost American Jewish woman of the nineteenth century. Perhaps the best-known member of the prominent Gratz family of Philadelphia, she was a fervent patriot, a profoundly religious woman, and a widely known activist for poor women. She devoted her life to confronting and resolving the personal challenges she faced as a Jew and as a female member of a prosperous family. In using hundreds of Gratz's own letters in her research, Dianne Ashton reveals Gratz's own blend of Jewish and American values and explores the...

Von den Erkenntnissen der modernen Ubersetzungswissenschaft wird in der Septuagintaforschung bisher nur wenig Gebrauch gemacht. Die vorliegende Studie wendet die Skopostheorie auf das griechische Numeribuch an und ermittelt dadurch den "Sitz im Leben" der Ubersetzung. Das griechische Numeribuch prasentiert sich als ein Dokument der alexandrinischen Diaspora, dessen Skopos in einem Spannungsfeld zwischen Historisierung und Aktualisierung liegt.

A word conventionally imbued with melancholy meanings, "diaspora" has been used variously to describe the cataclysmic historical event of displacement, the subsequent geographical scattering of peoples, or the conditions of alienation abroad and yearning for an ancestral home. But as Daniel Boyarin writes, diaspora may be more constructively construed as a form of cultural hybridity or a mode of analysis. In "A Traveling Homeland, " he makes the case that a shared homeland or past and traumatic dissociation are not necessary conditions for diaspora and that Jews carry their homeland with...

Economic inequity is an issue of worldwide concern in the twenty-first century. Although these issues have not troubled all people at all times, they are nonetheless not new. Thus, it is not surprising that Judaism has developed many perspectives, theoretical and practical, to explain and ameliorate the circumstances that produce serious economic disparity. This volume offers an accessible collection of articles that deal comprehensively with this phenomenon from a variety of approaches and perspectives.

Within this framework, the fourteen authors who contributed to Wealth and...

The notably negative presentation of the Jews is a frequently raised topic of discussion about the Gospel of Peter, but this phenomenon has not been examined in detail until now. This book offers the first detailed narratological analysis of the depiction of the Jews in the Gospel of Peter and examines it in the context of theological history.

This is the first biography in English of Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522), based upon the new critical edition of his correspondence. Reuchlin became most famous as the Catholic defender of Jewish books at the beginning of the 16th century, clarifying the Catholic Church's position toward the Jews. The book contributes to the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Declaration on Relations with the Jews of the Second Vatican Council in 1965.

Franz Posset, PhD, Dipl.-Theol., is internationally known as Catholic Luther scholar, specializing in the theology and history of the...

Die Studie beleuchtet bedeutende Personlichkeiten des politischen, geistigen und kunstlerisch-kulturellen Lebens in Wien um 1900, die zwischen 1885 und 1915 vom Judentum zum Protestantismus ubertraten. Darunter finden sich bekannte Namen wie Alfred Adler, Victor Adler, Egon Friedell, Edmund Husserl, Lise Meitner, Elise Richter, Arnold Schonberg, Otto Weininger und Alexander Zemlinsky. Was veranlasste diese Menschen im katholisch gepragten Wien des Fin de Siecle zu einem solchen Schritt? Die Beweggrunde fur einen Religionswechsel waren vielschichtig und komplex. Der zeitgenossische...

Many books of the Hebrew Bible were either composed in some form or edited during the Exilic and post-Exilic periods among a community that was to identify itself as returning from Babylonian captivity. At the same time, a dearth of contemporary written evidence from Judah/Yehud and its environs renders any particular understanding of the process within its social, cultural and political context virtually impossible. This has led some to label the period a dark age or black box - as obscure as it is essential for understanding the history of Judaism. In recent years, however,...