Seeking out the land : land of Israel traditions in ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan literature (200 BCE-400 CE) /

Seeking out the land : land of Israel traditions in ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan literature (200 BCE-400 CE) /

Seeking out the Land describes the study of the Holy Land in the Roman period and examines the complex connections between theology, social agenda and the intellectual pursuit. Holiness as a theological concept determines the intellectual agenda of the elite society of writers seeking to describe th...

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Main Author: Safrai, Zeev.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2018.

Series: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series 32.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004327917.

Subjects:

Samaritan literature.
Palestine > In rabbinical literature.
Palestine > In Christianity > Early works to 1800.
Palestine > In literature.
Palestine > Historical geography.

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Call Number: BM496.9.P25

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page /
  • Zeʾev Safrai
  • Editorial Statement /
  • Zeʾev Safrai
  • Acknowledgements /
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  • List of Illustrations /
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  • Abbreviations /
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  • Introduction /
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  • The Geography of the Land in Second Temple Literature /
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  • The Description of the Land of Israel in Josephus' Works /
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  • The Land in Rabbinic Literature /
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  • The Evolution of the Concept of the Sanctity of the Land /
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  • The Land in Early Christian Literature /
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  • The Land in Samaritan Literature /
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  • Jewish and Christian Sacred Sites in the Holy Land /
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  • Concern with the Land in the Roman-Byzantine Period: An Overview /
  • Zeʾev Safrai
  • Back Matter
  • Literature /
  • Zeʾev Safrai.