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Strangers in the Land: Traveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Mediaeval Times /
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This volume explores the ways in which representatives of different monotheistic traditions perceived and described or experienced themselves as "the other." This central category - which includes not only those of different religions, but also converts, foreigners, sectarians, and women - is studied from various perspectives in a range of texts composed by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim authors during late antique and mediaeval times. Conceptualizations of such "others" are often intrinsically related to the idea of exile, another important category that is analysed in this work.
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1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004693319
Ritual dynamics in Jewish and Christian contexts : between Bible and liturgy /
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Ritual Dynamics in Jewish and Christian Contexts investigates questions that arise in modern ritual studies concerning Jewish and Christian religious communities: How did their religious rituals develop? Where did different ritual communities and their ritual texts interact? How did religious communities and their authoritative texts respond to change, and how did change influence religious rituals? The volume is a product of the interdisciplinary and international research efforts taken by the Research Centre "Dynamics of Jewish Ritual Practices in Pluralistic Contexts from Antiquity to the Present" at the Universität Erfurt (Germany) and unites the voices of important senior and emerging scholars in the field. It focuses on antiquity and the medieval period but also considers examples from the early modern and modern period in Europe
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004405950
Human Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Tradition.
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This volume asks to which extent ancient practices and traditions of human sacrifice are reflected in medieval and modern Judeo-Christian times. The first part of the volume, on antiquity, focuses on rituals of human sacrifice and polemics against it, as well as on transformations of human sacrifice in the Israelite-Jewish and Christian cultures, while the Ancient Near East and ancient Greece are not excluded. The second part of the volume, on medieval and modern times, discusses human sacrifice in Jewish and Christian traditions as well as the debates about euthanasia and death penalty in the Western world.
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1 online resource. :
9789047409403
Life and loyalty : a study in the socio-religious culture of Syria and Mesopotamia in the Graeco-Roman period based on epigraphical evidence /
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The formula 'for the life of' is often found in votive inscriptions, cast in Aramaic and other languages, which originate from the Syrian-Mesopotamian desert and adjacent areas and which roughly date from the first three centuries A.D. They belong to objects like statues and altars that usually were erected in temples and other structures with a ritual or sacred function. The inscriptions establish a relationship between the dedicator and one or more beneficiaries, those persons for whose life the dedication was made. Since the social context evidently bears on both the meaning of the inscriptions as well as the status of the dedications, this volume deals with the nature of the relationships and the socio-religious function the dedications perform.
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1 online resource (xii, 375 pages) : color illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-366) and index. :
9789004295865 :
0927-7633 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The Ancient Eastern Mediterranean : centennial symposium, 1889-1989. /
: "Papers presented at a symposium to celebrate the centennial year of the Chicago Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, March 31, 1990, edited by Eleanor Guralnick"--cover pages1. : 73 pages, [27] pagesof plates : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 0960904220
Jewish identity and politics between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba : groups, normativity, and rituals /
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The 300 years between the beginning of Maccabean resistance against Seleucid rule and the end of the Bar Kokhba revolt were formative for the development of Jewish identity in antiquity. The frequent political changes (from Seleucid to Hasmonean, Herodian and Roman rule) presented profound challenges to Jewish self-understanding. Political adjustments were coupled with internal reconfigurations. We witness the invention and reinterpretation of rituals, the emergence of new religious groups, and the use of scripture as argument. This volume brings together the perspectives of scholars of different background in order to make use of the multifaceted evidence. The interdisciplinary approach leads to a comprehensive picture of the interrelation between identity and politics in this crucial period of ancient Jewish history.
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1 online resource (vi, 282 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004218512 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Il complesso monumentale di Baitokaike (Hoson Sulaiman - Siria) /
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The architecture of the temple at Baitokaike shares the characteristics that are typical of the Phoenician region, especially during the imperial era. This study aims to deepen our knowledge, proposing new chronological phases of the site, starting from the time when it was an open cult place, through the architectural analysis of its buildings.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (vii, 116 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784917753 (ebook) :
The exegetical encounter between Jews and Christians in late antiquity /
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The 'Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity' is a collection of essays examining the relationship between Jewish and Christian biblical commentators. The contributions focus on analysis of interpretations of the book of Genesis, a text which has considerable importance in both Christian and Jewish tradition. The essays cover a wide range of Jewish and Christian literature, including primarily rabbinic and patristic sources, but also apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, Philo, Josephus and Gnostic texts. In bringing together the studies of a variety of eminent scholars on the topic of 'Exegetical Encounter', the book presents the latest research on the topic and illuminates a variety of original approaches to analysis of exegetical contacts between the two sets of religious groups. The volume is significant for the light it sheds on the history of relations between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004182189 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Pesher Naḥum : texts and studies in Jewish history and literature from Antiquity through the Middle Ages presented to Norman (Naḥum) Golb /
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xxiv, 359 pages, 55 pages, [13] pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map, portraits ; 30 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9781885923875 (alk. paper)
1885923872
25 siècles de bain collectif en Orient Proche-Orient, Égypte et péninsule Arabique : balaneia = thermae = hammāmāt : actes du 3e colloque international Balnéorient
: French or English. : 4 volumes (1245 pages) illustrations (some color), maps, plans 33 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (v. 4, p. [1171]-1245). : 978-2724706420
25 siècles de bain collectif en Orient Proche-Orient, Égypte et péninsule Arabique : balaneia = thermae = hammāmāt : actes du 3e colloque international Balnéorient
: French or English. : 4 volumes (1245 pages) illustrations (some color), maps, plans 33 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (v. 4, p. [1171]-1245). : 978-2724706420