Author : Peter Schäfer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1134403178
Examines Judaism in Palestine throughout the Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great's conquest in 334 BC to its capture by the Arabs in AD 636.
Author : Peter Schäfer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 17,13 MB
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1134371373
First Published in 1995, the main emphasis of this book is on the political history of the Jews in Palestine, where "political" is to be understood not as the mere succession of rulers and battles but as the interaction between political activity and social, economic and religious circumstances. A particular concern is the investigation of social and economic conditions in the history of Palestinian Judaism.
Author : Judith Lieu
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199291427
'I am a Christian' is the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others; but what did this confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructed? This book is a highly original exploration of how a sense of being 'a Christian', or of 'Christian identity', was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world. Contemporary discussions of identity provide the background to a careful study of early Christian texts from the first two centuries. Judith Lieu shows that there were similarities and differences in the ways Jews and others were thinking about themselves, and asks what made early Christianity distinctive.
Author : Steven Fine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 2005-06-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521844918
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Author : Martin Goodman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 1998-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191518360
This book contains studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world. Some of the sixteen contributors are specialists in Jewish history, others in classics. They tackle from different angles the extent to which Jews in this period differed from other peoples in the Mediterranean region, and how much Jewish evidence can be used for the history of the wider classical world. The authors make extensive use not only of types of evidence familiar to classicists, such as inscriptions and the writing of Josephus, but also Jewish religious literature, including rabbinic texts. The various studies demonstrate that, although Jews lived to some extent apart from others and with distinctive customs, in many ways this showed the cultural presuppositions and preoccupations of their gentile contemporaries. The book aims to encourage wider use of the Jewish evidence by classicists and will be important for all students of the classical world.
Author : James K. Aitken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 1107001633
This comprehensive survey of Jewish-Greek society's development examines the exchange of language and ideas in biblical translations, literature and archaeology.
Author : Tessa Rajak
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9047400194
Twenty-seven interdisciplinary essays on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, exemplifying a wide range of techniques, by a well-known scholar. Three are previously unpublished, including a reappraisal of the Judaism and Hellenism debate and a study of the Sardis synagogue. The book's overall coherence derives from the author's long-standing interests in the analysis of texts as documents of cultural and religious interaction, and in how Jewish communities were woven into the social fabric of Greek cities in the Hellenistic and Roman East. The four sections are: Greeks and Jews, Josephus, The Jewish Diaspora and Epigraphy, and finally Beyond the Greeks and Romans, essays which extend into Christian literature and on to the nineteenth century reception of the Judaism/Hellenism dichotomy. Scholars and students from a wide variety of backgrounds will benefit. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
Author : Martin Goodman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004153098
These collected studies, previously published in diverse places between 1990 and 2006, discuss important and controversial issues in the study of the development of Judaism in the Roman world from the first century C.E. to the fifth.
Author : Heather A. McKay
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9004295836
Sabbath worship as a communal event does not feature in the Hebrew Bible. In the context of the first century CE, according to Philo and Josephus, the sabbath gatherings took place only for the purpose of studying the law, and not for the liturgical recital of psalms or prayer. Classical authors depict Jews spending the sabbath at home. Jewish inscriptions provide no evidence of sabbath-worship in prayer-houses (proseuchai), while the Mishnah prescribes no special communal sabbath activities. The usual picture of Jews going on the sabbath to the synagogue to worship thus appears to be without foundation. It is even doubtful that there were synagogue buildings, for 'synagogue' normally meant 'community'. The conclusion of this study, that there is no evidence that the sabbath was a day of communal Jewish worship before 200 CE, has far-reaching consequences for our understanding of early Jewish-Christian relationships. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
Author : Benjamin Isaac
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1107135893
This book explores how the Graeco-Roman world suffered from major power conflicts, imperial ambition, and ethnic, religious and racist strife.
