From Text To Context: The Turn To History In Modern Judaism
Essays examining the emergence of Jewish scholarship during the period 1818 - 1919, concentrating on the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.
Early Christianity And Hellenistic Judaism
These studies break new ground in the exploration of early Christianity and Judaism towards the end of the Second Temple period.Professor Borgen introduces fresh perspectives on many central issues in...
Genesis 49 In Its Literary And Historical Context
This text deals with the "blessing of Jacob" (Genesis 49) in all its aspects, discussing philological, literary and historical problems. After an introductory chapter a translation of Genesis 49 and a...
The Deuteronomic School: History, Social Setting, And Literature
After a brief review of the current state of research on the Deuteronomistic History (DtrH), Person proposes four perspectives to move the argument forward and to gain new insights: the use of text-cr...
Gentile Impurities And Jewish Identities: Intermarriage And Conversion From The Bible To The Talmud
In ancient Jewish culture the ideas of purity and impurity defined the socio-cultural boundaries between Jews and Gentiles. Hayes argues that different views of the possibility of conversion, based on...
The City In Roman Palestine
This book is a study of the city and urban life in Roman Palestine during the Talmudic period, 100-400 B.C. Rather than focus on a specific city, Daniel Sperber synthesizes what is known about city li...
The Popes And The Jews In The Middle Ages
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Judaism Before Jesus: The Ideas And Events That Shaped The New Testament World
Book Description Turning the page from Malachi to Matthew, we skip a lot of history. In fact it is something like missing several key episodes in an ongoing television saga. The setting and main plot ...
Imagining The Holocaust
In "Imagining the Holocaust," Daniel R. Schwarz examines widely read Holocaust narratives which have shaped the way we understand and respond to the events of that time. He begins with first person na...
Severus Of Minorca: Letter On The Conversion Of The Jews
This book provides an edited text, introduction, and the first English translation of a central document in the history of religious coercion in late antiquity: Severus of Minorca's Letter on the Conv...
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