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Book Synopsis Sasanian Jewry and Its Culture by : Daniel M. Friedenberg
Download or read book Sasanian Jewry and Its Culture written by Daniel M. Friedenberg and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impressive collection of Jewish signet rings and seals from the Sasanian Empire
Book Synopsis A Prince Without a Kingdom by : Geoffrey Herman
Download or read book A Prince Without a Kingdom written by Geoffrey Herman and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2012 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Exilarchs, professed scions of the biblical Davidic royal line, were leaders of the Jews of Babylonia in antiquity. They were said to be powerful political figures and to lead a decadent lifestyle. Their princely trappings and high-handed manner were legend. They were reported to be completely assimilated into Persian culture. Geoffrey Herman examines the evidence, culled mainly from the Talmudic and Geonic literature, subjecting the institution of the Exilarchate to literary-historical and source-critical analysis. In addition, Herman innovatively utilizes comparative sources from the fields of Iranian studies and Persian Christianity to find the truth underlying the accounts of the historical Exilarchs.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism by : Gwynn Kessler
Download or read book A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism written by Gwynn Kessler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative approach to the study of ten centuries of Jewish culture and history A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism explores the Jewish people, their communities, and various manifestations of their religious and cultural expressions from the third century BCE to the seventh century CE. Presenting a collection of 30 original essays written by noted scholars in the field, this companion provides an expansive examination of ancient Jewish life, identity, gender, sacred and domestic spaces, literature, language, and theological questions throughout late ancient Jewish history and historiography. Editors Gwynn Kessler and Naomi Koltun-Fromm situate the volume within Late Antiquity, enabling readers to rethink traditional chronological, geographic, and political boundaries. The Companion incorporates a broad methodology, drawing from social history, material history and culture, and literary studies to consider the diverse forms and facets of Jews and Judaism within multiple contexts of place, culture, and history. Divided into five parts, thematically-organized essays discuss topics including the spaces where Jews lived, worked, and worshiped, Jewish languages and literatures, ethnicities and identities, and questions about gender and the body central to Jewish culture and Judaism. Offering original scholarship and fresh insights on late ancient Jewish history and culture, this unique volume: Offers a one-volume exploration of “second temple,” “Greco-Roman,” and “rabbinic” periods and sources Explores Jewish life across most of the geographic places where Jews or Judaeans were known to have lived Features original maps of areas cited in every essay, including maps of Jewish settlement throughout Late Antiquity Includes an outline of major historical events, further readings, and full references A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism: 3rd Century BCE - 7th Century CE is a valuable resource for students, instructors, and scholars of Jewish studies, religion, literature, and ethnic identity, as well as general readers with interest in Jewish history, world religions, Classics, and Late Antiquity.
Book Synopsis Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians by : Geoffrey Herman
Download or read book Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians written by Geoffrey Herman and published by Gorgias PressLlc. This book was released on 2014 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume explores the contacts between Jews and Christians within the broader religious and cultural context of the Sasanian Empire. It collects the proceedings of a workshop that took place on March 17-18th, 2010, in Bochum"--Summary.
Book Synopsis Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests by : Jason Sion Mokhtarian
Download or read book Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests written by Jason Sion Mokhtarian and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests brings into mutual fruition the fields of Talmudic Studies and Ancient Iranology, two historically distinct disciplines. Mokhtarian offers a revisionist history of the rabbis of late antique Persia who produced the Babylonian Talmud, perhaps the most important corpus in the Jewish sacred canon. While most research on the Talmud assumes that the rabbis were an insular group isolated from the cultural horizon outside of the rabbinic academies, this book contextualizes the rabbis and Talmud within a broader socio-cultural orbit by drawing from a wide range of sources from Sasanian Iran, including Middle Persian Zoroastrian literature, archaeological evidence, and the Jewish Aramaic magical bowls"--Provided by publisher.
Author :Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert Publisher :Cambridge University Press ISBN 13 :1139827421 Total Pages :351 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (398 download)
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature by : Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature written by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-28 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the rabbinic texts of late antiquity. The editors, themselves well-known interpreters of Rabbinic literature, have gathered an international collection of scholars to support students' initial steps in confronting the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus. Unlike other introductions to Rabbinic writings, the present volume includes approaches shaped by anthropology, gender studies, oral-traditional studies, classics, and folklore studies.
Book Synopsis Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests by : Jason Sion Mokhtarian
Download or read book Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests written by Jason Sion Mokhtarian and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...examines the impact of the Persian Zoroastrian Empire on rabbinic identity and authority as expressed in the Babylonian Talmud."--
Book Synopsis Memory and Identity in Sasanian Persia by : Touraj Daryaee
Download or read book Memory and Identity in Sasanian Persia written by Touraj Daryaee and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Touraj Daryaee shows how the idea of Iran - its attributes, mores, values, boundaries and traditions - was brought to the Zoroastrian, Jewish and Christian populations of the Sasanian Empire and accepted and internalized by these religious communities. By tracing the political accommodations reached in the the Sasanian court back to the Zoroastrian texts of the Avesta, Daryaee demonstrates why scholars, scribes and the state continued to emulate and propagate the memory of the Peshdadian, Kayanian and Sasanian empires - even into the Islamic period. Memory and Identity in Sasanian Persia will be an essential work for scholars of Iran, Zoroastrianism and those seeking to understand the history of Middle-Eastern antiquity.
Book Synopsis "Frightful Persecutions" Or "Persians Who Protect Us?" by : Dana Mirsky
Download or read book "Frightful Persecutions" Or "Persians Who Protect Us?" written by Dana Mirsky and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the rule of the Sasanian dynasty (224-651 CE), the last of the Persian empires before the rise of Islam, Jewish scholarship flourished, resulting in the creation of the Babylonian Talmud, which remains one of the most important texts within the Jewish tradition. Scholars today often describe the experience of these Babylonian Jewish communities as one of bloodshed and persecution at the hands of the Sasanian kings. This study seeks to deconstruct this paradigm of violence, to demonstrate that the Sasanians did not habitually persecute the Jews and re-evaluate the nature of the relationship between the Babylonian Jews and the Sasanian kings of kings. Did such a relationship exist, and if so, how did the Jews fit into the heavily Zoroastrian political system of the Sasanian government? A closer look at the sources, which include the Babylonian Talmud and The Book of Tradition, the 12th-century history and defense of rabbinical Judaism reveals that many of the stories of so-called persecution are frequently taken out of context or do not provide sufficient support for this depiction of consistent, unprovoked Sasanian violence towards the Jews. The rejection of this traditional view consequently calls for a reconsideration of the portrayal of Zoroastrianism as violent and fanatical, as many high-ranking Zoroastrian priests had ties to or were a part of the Sasanian aristocracy. In fact, it appears as if Zoroastrianism generally allowed for the integration, rather than the exclusion of other religions. Considering the stories of interactions between Sasanians and Jews -- both violent and non-violent -- from a different perspective from that of previous scholarship reveals a far less violent and oppressive interpretations of the Babylonian Jewish experience in the Sasanian empire. Tales of persecution in particular, far from showing that the Jews had no political standing in the Sasanian empire, actually imply the opposite. A re-examination of the sources reveals that the Babylonian Jews regularly participated in Sasanian politics and successfully cultivated relationships with the Sasanian aristocracy.
Book Synopsis Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity by : Jaś Elsner
Download or read book Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity written by Jaś Elsner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the problems for studying art and religion in Eurasia arising from ancestral, colonial and post-colonial biases in historiography.
Download or read book The Literature of the Sages written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume abandons the document-based approach of standard introductions and investigates aggregates of classical rabbinic texts through three broad perspectives – intertextuality, east and west, halakhah and aggadah – generating fresh insights that will reset the scholarly agenda.
Book Synopsis The Iranian Talmud by : Shai Secunda
Download or read book The Iranian Talmud written by Shai Secunda and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iranian Talmud reexamines the Babylonian Talmud—one of Judaism's most central texts—in the light of Persian literature and culture, providing an unprecedented and accessible overview to the vibrant world of pre-Islamic Iran that shaped the Bavli.
Book Synopsis The Archaeology and Material Culture of the Babylonian Talmud by : Markham J. Geller
Download or read book The Archaeology and Material Culture of the Babylonian Talmud written by Markham J. Geller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Babylonian Talmud remains the richest source of information regarding the material culture and lifestyle of the Babylonian Jewish community, with additional data now supplied by Babylonian incantation bowls. Although archaeology has yet to excavate any Jewish sites from Babylonia, information from Parthian and Sassanian Babylonia provides relevant background information, which differs substantially from archaeological finds from the Land of Israel. One of the key questions addresses the amount of traffic and general communications between Jewish Babylonia and Israel, considering the great distances and hardships of travel involved.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism by : Gwynn Kessler
Download or read book A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism written by Gwynn Kessler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative approach to the study of ten centuries of Jewish culture and history A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism explores the Jewish people, their communities, and various manifestations of their religious and cultural expressions from the third century BCE to the seventh century CE. Presenting a collection of 30 original essays written by noted scholars in the field, this companion provides an expansive examination of ancient Jewish life, identity, gender, sacred and domestic spaces, literature, language, and theological questions throughout late ancient Jewish history and historiography. Editors Gwynn Kessler and Naomi Koltun-Fromm situate the volume within Late Antiquity, enabling readers to rethink traditional chronological, geographic, and political boundaries. The Companion incorporates a broad methodology, drawing from social history, material history and culture, and literary studies to consider the diverse forms and facets of Jews and Judaism within multiple contexts of place, culture, and history. Divided into five parts, thematically-organized essays discuss topics including the spaces where Jews lived, worked, and worshiped, Jewish languages and literatures, ethnicities and identities, and questions about gender and the body central to Jewish culture and Judaism. Offering original scholarship and fresh insights on late ancient Jewish history and culture, this unique volume: Offers a one-volume exploration of “second temple,” “Greco-Roman,” and “rabbinic” periods and sources Explores Jewish life across most of the geographic places where Jews or Judaeans were known to have lived Features original maps of areas cited in every essay, including maps of Jewish settlement throughout Late Antiquity Includes an outline of major historical events, further readings, and full references A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism: 3rd Century BCE - 7th Century CE is a valuable resource for students, instructors, and scholars of Jewish studies, religion, literature, and ethnic identity, as well as general readers with interest in Jewish history, world religions, Classics, and Late Antiquity.
Author :Shai Secunda / Yitz Landes Publisher :University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN 13 :0812209044 Total Pages :273 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (122 download)
Book Synopsis The Iranian Talmud by : Shai Secunda / Yitz Landes
Download or read book The Iranian Talmud written by Shai Secunda / Yitz Landes and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, has been a text central and vital to the Jewish canon since the Middle Ages, the context in which it was produced has been poorly understood. Delving deep into Sasanian material culture and literary remains, Shai Secunda pieces together the dynamic world of late antique Iran, providing an unprecedented and accessible overview of the world that shaped the Bavli. Secunda unites the fields of Talmudic scholarship with Old Iranian studies to enable a fresh look at the heterogeneous religious and ethnic communities of pre-Islamic Iran. He analyzes the intercultural dynamics between the Jews and their Persian Zoroastrian neighbors, exploring the complex processes and modes of discourse through which these groups came into contact and considering the ways in which rabbis and Zoroastrian priests perceived one another. Placing the Bavli and examples of Middle Persian literature side by side, the Zoroastrian traces in the former and the discursive and Talmudic qualities of the latter become evident. The Iranian Talmud introduces a substantial and essential shift in the field, setting the stage for further Irano-Talmudic research.
Book Synopsis ARAM 26 Black & White Paperback by : ARAM SOCIETY
Download or read book ARAM 26 Black & White Paperback written by ARAM SOCIETY and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jews written by John Efron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jews: A History, second edition, explores the religious, cultural, social, and economic diversity of the Jewish people and their faith. The latest edition incorporates new research and includes a broader spectrum of people - mothers, children, workers, students, artists, and radicals - whose perspectives greatly expand the story of Jewish life.
