Was 70 CE a watershed in Jewish history? : on Jews and Judaism before and after the destruction of the Second Temple /

Was 70 CE a watershed in Jewish history? : on Jews and Judaism before and after the destruction of the Second Temple /

The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 CE, which put an end to sacrificial worship in Israel, is usually assumed to constitute a major caesura in Jewish history. But how important was it? What really changed due to 70? What, in contrast, was already changing before 70 or remained basically...

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Other Authors: Schwartz, Daniel R., Weiss, Zeev, 1959-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 78.
Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity Online, ISBN: 9789004365223.

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Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) > Congresses.
Judaism > History > To 70 A.D. > Congresses.
Jews > History > To 70 A.D. > Congresses.

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Call Number: BM655 .W37 2012

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Was 70 CE a Watershed in Jewish History? Three Stages of Modern Scholarship, and a Renewed Effort /
  • Daniel R. Schwartz
  • "Found Written in the Book of Moses": Priests in the Era of Torah /
  • Martha Himmelfarb
  • The Other Side of Israelite Priesthood: A Sociological-Anthropological Perspective /
  • Gideon Aran
  • "A Kingdom of Priests": Did the Pharisees Try to Live Like Priests? /
  • Hanan Birenboim
  • Sectarianism Before and After 70 CE /
  • Jodi Magness
  • Were Priests Communal Leaders in Late Antique Palestine? The Archaeological Evidence /
  • Zeev Weiss
  • Place beyond Place: On Artifacts, Religious Technologies, and the Mediation of Sacred Place /
  • Ori Schwarz
  • Priests and Priesthood in Philo: Could He Have Done without Them? /
  • Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer
  • Sanctity and the Attitude towards the Temple in Hellenistic Judaism /
  • Noah Hacham
  • Doing without the Temple: Paradigms in Judaic Literature of the Diaspora /
  • Michael Tuval
  • The Rising Power of the Image: On Jewish Magic Art from the Second Temple Period to Late Antiquity /
  • Naama Vilozny
  • Jewish Exorcism Before and After the Destruction of the Second Temple /
  • Gideon Bohak
  • The Emergence of a New Jewish Art in Late Antiquity /
  • Lee I. Levine
  • Legal Midrash between Hillel and Rabbi Akiva: Did 70 CE Make a Difference? /
  • Paul Mandel
  • Liturgy Before and After the Temple's Destruction: Change or Continuity? /
  • Esther G. Chazon
  • Liturgy, Poetry, and the Persistence of Sacrifice /
  • Michael D. Swartz
  • Setting the Stage: The Effects of the Roman Conquest and the Loss of Sovereignty /
  • Nadav Sharon
  • Temple and Identity in Early Christianity and in the Johannine Community: Reflections on the "Parting of the Ways" /
  • Jörg Frey
  • Religious Reactions to 70: The Limitations of the Evidence /
  • Martin Goodman
  • Epilogue: 70 CE After 135 CE-The Making of a Watershed? /
  • Ruth A. Clements
  • Index of Ancient Names and Toponyms
  • Index of Modern Authors.