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Martin Hengels Die Zeloten von 1961 stellt auch nach uber 50 Jahren die wichtigste Untersuchung zu den judischen Aufstandsbewegungen des 1. Jahrhunderts n.Chr. dar. Hengel betont darin den radikal-religioesen Hintergrund des judischen Widerstandes gegen Rom. Die Beitrage dieses Bandes gehen auf ein Symposion zuruck, das anlasslich des 85. Geburtstags von Martin Hengel, der 2009 verstorben ist, und der Neuauflage der Zeloten an der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultat Tubingen abgehalten wurde.In s...

A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women changed the way we see the world. But many have vanished from our collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrli...

Jewish religious practice has been transformed by the Kabbalists of Safed in the sixteenth century. They brought new meaning and importance to many Biblical and rabbinic commandments and created new rituals that have become central practices for Jews of all denominations. This volume describes the origins of these traditions and explains the mystical meaning of these specific practices and rituals. Some of these innovations include: Kabbalat Shabbat, inviting the Ushpizin to the Sukkah, Tikkun L...

the volume researches Baruch chapters 4-5 in the following successive steps. The first step is a structural analysis of the three different units of the chapters, 4:5-29; 4:30-5:6; 5:7-9, during which the structure of the greater units (strophes, cantos) will be investigated, together with the structural relationship of these units with each other. After this, the biblical background of the passages is explored. The Scriptural passages that prove to be authoritative or influential for the author...

The religious history of Palestine has not yet been studied as that of an ordinary, Roman province. Until now, scholars have mainly highlighted the two, monotheistic religions, Judaism and Christianism. If Palestinian uniqueness comes actually from them, pagan Palestine little differed from the rest of the Roman - especially eastern - world and was in fact a real religious mix due to its history in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Nicole Belayche examines the pagan part, quantitatively the maj...

Why did ancient historians include geographical descriptions in their historical works? How does the spatial description fulfill its goal? In this book, Yuval Shahar discusses these two questions, showing that the answers depend on the particular historian and the genre in which he is writing. He analyzes and compares the presentation of geographical space in the writings of Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius and Strabo, with selected illustrations from early Latin historiography. It is clear from...

In der Zeit des Zweiten Tempels finden sich unterschiedliche Konzeptionen, um Zugange zur transzendenten Gottheit zu erschliessen. Der Bogen reicht etwa von der Gegenwart Gottes im "Wort" und in der mit Weisheit gefugten Schoepfungsordnung uber personifizierte bzw. personale "Mittlerfiguren", in denen Gott begegnet, bis hin zu kultischen und mystisch-visionaren Vorstellungen. Unterschiedliche Epochen und Kontexte versuchen die Gottesprasenz neu zu interpretieren, indem sie Modelle aus den umgebe...

Die Trias von Juden, Heiden, Christen scheint die religioese Welt der roemischen Kaiserzeit klar und uberschaubar zu ordnen. Bei naherem Hinsehen zeigt sich jedoch, dass dieses Modell zu sehr simplifiziert, da es weder den Selbst- und den Fremdbeschreibungen in ihrer Vielfalt gerecht wird, noch den jeweiligen Identitatskonzepten oder den Mechanismen diverser Exklusionen und Inklusionen. Der vorliegende Band verdeutlicht dies am Beispiel interdisziplinarer Einzelstudien aus Kleinasien, aber auch...

Anhand der insgesamt zehn Erzahlungen von Israels Murren in der Wuste zeigt Walter Buhrer, dass und wie Auslegung und deutende Aneignung der biblisch gewordenen Texte kein erst nachbiblisches Phanomen, sondern bereits pragend fur Entstehungs- und Kanonisierungsprozesse der Texte selbst sind. An den Murrerzahlungen koennen Fortschreibungs- und Auslegungsprozesse in den biblisch gewordenen Texten syn- und diachron in den einzelnen Erzahlungen, Kapitel und Buch ubergreifend, im Rahmen der Textgesch...

In Wise Men and Their Tales, a master teacher gives us his fascinating insights into the lives of a wide range of biblical figures, Talmudic scholars, and Hasidic rabbis. The matriarch Sarah, fiercely guarding her son, Isaac, against the negative influence of his half-brother Ishmael; Samson, the solitary hero and protector of his people, whose singular weakness brought about his tragic end; Isaiah, caught in the middle of the struggle between God and man, his messages of anger and sorrow count...

Articles examine the city of Jerusalem and other Jewish communities of the Mediterranean diaspora, as reflected in the writings of Luke, Josephus and Philo. Topics covered include social identity, everyday life and religious practice. This will be of interest to students of Roman history, biblical studies, ancient Judaism and Hellenistic history.

Were there groups in Ancient Judaism that cultivated esoteric knowledge and transmitted it secretly? With the discovery and burgeoning study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and particularly of the documents legislating the social structure of the Qumran group, the foremost paradigm for analysis of the group's social structure has become the "sect." This is still dominant, having replacing the monastic paradigm used by some of the earliest scholars of the Scrolls. But after studying what has been writte...

"Valuable, wise, and quietly moving" (Chicago Tribune), This Is My God is Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Herman Wouk's famous introduction to Judaism. A miracle of brevity, This Is My God guides readers through the world's oldest practicing religion with all the power, clarity, and wit of Wouk's celebrated novels. "Anyone who wants to know what orthodox Judaism means to an informed and intelligent orthodox Jew, who is at the same time thoroughly American in outlook and culture, will do well to...