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Saints and Role Models in Judaism and Christianity

Author : Marcel Poorthuis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047401603
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Saints and Role Models in Judaism and Christianity written by Marcel Poorthuis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the role of saints and exemplary individuals in Judaism and Christianity. Although sharing the Hebrew Bible and recognizing the same Biblical figures there, both religions have developed widely divergent perspectives upon the significance of these figures, although there are occasional common motifs and themes. Moreover, even the contrasting themes betray an underlying interaction between both religions as is clear from the contributions on, for example, Melchizedek, Elijah, the Desert Fathers, Rabbis on clothing, the Apostle Peter in Jewish tradition, the Maccabees in Christian tradition and the Biblical examples in Saint Antony the Hermit. The book examines Jewish and Christian perspectives upon saints and role models from the Biblical period to the present time. It will be of special importance to scholars and general readers interested in an interdisciplinary approach to theology, rabbinics, history, art history and much more.

Interaction Between Judaism and Christianity in History, Religion, Art, and Literature

Author : Marcel Poorthuis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004171509
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Interaction Between Judaism and Christianity in History, Religion, Art, and Literature by : Marcel Poorthuis

Download or read book Interaction Between Judaism and Christianity in History, Religion, Art, and Literature written by Marcel Poorthuis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains essays dealing with complex relationships between Judaism and Christianity, taking a bold step, assuming that no historical period can be excluded from the interactive process between Judaism and Christianity, conscious or unconscious, as either rejection or appropriation

A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission

Author : Gabriele Boccaccini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190863099
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission by : Gabriele Boccaccini

Download or read book A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission written by Gabriele Boccaccini and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions, but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus not as an artificial collection of reconstructed texts--a body of hypothetical originals--but rather from the perspective of the preserved materials, examined in their religious, social, and political contexts. It also considers the other, non-Christian, channels of the survival of early Jewish materials, including Rabbinic, Gnostic, Manichaean, and Islamic. This unique project brings together scholars from many different fields in order to map the trajectories of early Jewish texts and traditions among diverse later cultures. It also provides a comprehensive and comparative introduction to this new field of study while bridging the gap between scholars of early Judaism and of medieval Christianity.

Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship

Author : Albert Gerhards
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047422414
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship written by Albert Gerhards and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting new insights into the history and interaction between Jewish and Christian liturgy and worship, the various contributions offer a deeper understanding of the identity of Judaism and Christianity. It addresses issues such as: – Is the Eucharistic Prayer a ‘Berakha’ and what information is available for the reconstruction of the history of the Jewish ‘Grace after Meals’? – How does Jewish liturgy rework the Bible, and are Christians and Jews using similar methods when they create liturgical poetry on the basis of a biblical text? – Which texts of the Cairo Genizah are of direct importance for the history of Christian liturgies, and are Christian creeds in fact Prayers or Hymns? – What does it mean that both Jews and Christians recite Isaiah's "Holy, Holy, Holy" at important points in their respective liturgies? Questions like these brought together scholars and specialists from different disciplines to share their recent insights at a conference in Aachen, Germany, and to offer the reader a fascinating discourse on a broad range of aspects of Jewish and Christian liturgies.

An Introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations

Author : Edward Kessler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139487302
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations written by Edward Kessler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relations between Christians and Jews over the past two thousand years have been characterised to a great extent by mutual distrust and by Christian discrimination and violence against Jews. In recent decades, however, a new spirit of dialogue has been emerging, beginning with an awakening among Christians of the Jewish origins of Christianity, and encouraging scholars of both traditions to work together. An Introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations sheds fresh light on this ongoing interfaith encounter, exploring key writings and themes in Jewish-Christian history, from the Jewish context of the New Testament to major events of modern times, including the rise of ecumenism, the horrors of the Holocaust, and the creation of the state of Israel. This accessible theological and historical study also touches on numerous related areas such as Jewish and interfaith studies, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, international relations and the political sciences.

The Watchers in Jewish and Christian Traditions

Author : Angela Kim Harkins
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0800699785
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Watchers in Jewish and Christian Traditions written by Angela Kim Harkins and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the origin of the Watchers tradition is the single enigmatic reference in Genesis 6 to the sons of God who had intercourse with human women, producing a race of giants upon the earth. That verse sparked a wealth of cosmological and theological speculation in early Judaism. Here leading scholars explore the contours of the Watchers traditions through history, tracing their development through the Enoch literature, Jubilees, and other early Jewish and Christian writings. This volume provides a lucid survey of current knowledge and interpretation of one of the most intriguing theological motifs of the Second Temple period.

Ordinary Saints

Author : Stuart C. Devenish
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625647468
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Saints written by Stuart C. Devenish and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does God manifest himself in the world? Through the righteous lives of his holy people (the saints). As a religion of witnesses, Christianity is dependent upon its saints (defined as activated disciples) to "testify" to the grace of Christ and the kingdom of God. Their lives are walking billboards of the value of Jesus' teaching and authenticity of Christianity as an ancient spiritual pathway. This is a book about saints who are alive now, and whose everyday acts of kindness and goodness announce that God is at work in the world. Like Jesus, their Master, they are the message, the messenger, and the working model of the kingdom of God, in a lesser key. In following Jesus, ordinary saints are willing to give away their lives in order to convey the substance of their faith to a watching world. If ever there was a time when saints need to live courageously for Christ in the world, it is now. But it will take conviction, credibility, and a great deal of audacity. Ordinary Saints explores what it means to be a saint in the twenty-first century, by exploring the depth-dimensions of saints' lives, bodies, emotions, values, and relationships.

Writing and Reading War

Author : Brad E. Kelle
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589833546
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Writing and Reading War written by Brad E. Kelle and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2008 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meaning of war: definitions for the study of war in ancient Israelite literature / Frank Ritchel Ames -- Concepts of war in the Hebrew Bible: a plaidoyer for book-oriented study / Jacob L. Wright -- Fighting in writing: warfare in histories of ancient Israel / Megan Bishop Moore -- Assyrian military practices and Deuteronomy's laws of warfare / Michael G. Hasel -- Siege warfare imagery and the background of a biblical curse / Jeremy D. Smoak -- Wartime rhetoric: prophetic metaphorization of cities as female / Brad E. Kelle -- Family metaphors and social conflict in Hosea / Alice A. Keefe -- "We have seen the enemy, and he is only a 'she'": the portrayal of warriors as women / Claudia D. Bergmann -- Conquest reconfigured: recasting warfare in the redaction of Joshua / Daniel Hawk -- "Go back by the way you came": an internal textual critique of Elijah's violence in 1 Kings 18-19 / Frances Flannery -- Shifts in Israelite war ethics and early Jewish historiography of plundering / Brian Kvasnica -- Gideon at Thermopylae?: on the militarization of miracle in biblical narrative and "battle maps" / Daniel l. Smith-Christopher.

Crossing Confessional Boundaries

Author : John Renard
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520287916
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Confessional Boundaries written by John Renard and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably the single most important element in Abrahamic cross-confessional relations has been an ongoing mutual interest in perennial spiritual and ethical exemplars of one another’s communities. Ranging from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages, Crossing Confessional Boundaries explores the complex roles played by saints, sages, and Friends of God in the communal and intercommunal lives of Christians, Muslims, and Jews across the Mediterranean world, from Spain and North Africa to the Middle East to the Balkans. By examining these stories in their broad institutional, social, and cultural contexts, Crossing Confessional Boundaries reveals unique theological insights into the interlocking histories of the Abrahamic faiths.

A Language for the Soul

Author : Stuart C. Devenish
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666754579
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book A Language for the Soul written by Stuart C. Devenish and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-10-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers Christian spiritual instructors a language for the soul uncovered from the storehouses of Christianity’s ancient living spiritual tradition. That language describes the deep soul movements that unfold in the interior life of believers in response to the Divine invitation. It presents an accessible language of the soul for use in today’s professional, educational, ministerial, and everyday life situations. The end product is an experiential dictionary comprised of sixty word-concepts, which name and explore the inward human reactions to the whispering of God’s Spirit. Those reactions result from inward desires that lead to the embrace of faith, the quest for consecration, and the journey of discipleship. Nurturing these intra-personal choices and commitments is the central task of Christian ministry, but many faith instructors remain unaware of these critical inner-life processes. More than other resources available today, this experiential dictionary informs, enriches, and intensifies the spiritual journeys of genuine disciples and seekers. The volume is tailored for seminaries, churches, schools, and community settings. It has application to the training of ministry leaders, the instruction of believers, and in supporting the growing number of secular mystics who are open to merging their journeys of self-discovery with the quest for Christ-discovery.

Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic

Author : David Frankfurter
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004390758
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic written by David Frankfurter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of academic debates about the utility of the term “magic” and the cultural meaning of ancient words like mageia or khesheph, this Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic seeks to advance the discussion by separating out three topics essential to the very idea of magic. The three major sections of this volume address (1) indigenous terminologies for ambiguous or illicit ritual in antiquity; (2) the ancient texts, manuals, and artifacts commonly designated “magical” or used to represent ancient magic; and (3) a series of contexts, from the written word to materiality itself, to which the term “magic” might usefully pertain. The individual essays in this volume cover most of Mediterranean and Near Eastern antiquity, with essays by both established and emergent scholars of ancient religions. In a burgeoning field of “magic studies” trying both to preserve and to justify critically the category itself, this volume brings new clarity and provocative insights. This will be an indispensable resource to all interested in magic in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, ancient Greece and Rome, Early Christianity and Judaism, Egypt through the Christian period, and also comparative and critical theory. Contributors are: Magali Bailliot, Gideon Bohak, Véronique Dasen, Albert de Jong, Jacco Dieleman, Esther Eidinow, David Frankfurter, Fritz Graf, Yuval Harari, Naomi Janowitz, Sarah Iles Johnston, Roy D. Kotansky, Arpad M. Nagy, Daniel Schwemer, Joseph E. Sanzo, Jacques van der Vliet, Andrew Wilburn.

Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity

Author : Julia Watts Belser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107113350
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity written by Julia Watts Belser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes rabbinic responses to drought and disaster, revealing how the Talmudi grapples with problems of power, ethics, and ecology in Jewish late antiquity.

The Specter of the Jews

Author : Ari Finkelstein
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520298721
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Specter of the Jews written by Ari Finkelstein and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the generation after Constantine the Great elevated Christianity to a dominant position in the Roman Empire, his nephew, the Emperor Julian, sought to reinstate the old gods to their former place of prominence—in the face of intense opposition from the newly powerful Christian church. In early 363 c.e., while living in Syrian Antioch, Julian redoubled his efforts to hellenize the Roman Empire by turning to an unlikely source: the Jews. With a war against Persia on the horizon, Julian thought it crucial that all Romans propitiate the true gods and gain their favor through proper practice. To convince his people, he drew on Jews, whom he characterized as Judeans, using their scriptures, institutions, practices, and heroes sometimes as sources for his program and often as models to emulate. In The Specter of the Jews, Ari Finkelstein examines Julian’s writings and views on Jews as Judeans, a venerable group whose religious practices and values would help delegitimize Christianity and, surprisingly, shape a new imperial Hellenic pagan identity.

Late Antique Jewish and Christian Travelogues

Author : Reuven Kiperwasser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111566498
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Late Antique Jewish and Christian Travelogues written by Reuven Kiperwasser and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-12-16 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on travel narratives as a setting for spelling out both cultural exchanges and identity building, the present volume maps a variety of strategies employed in travelogues by Christians and Jews in the late antique Roman East. The first part sheds light on the shared cultural background – folkloric or mythic – reflected in late antique Jewish and Christian sea-travel stories, and the various attempts to adapt it to a specific religious agenda. While the comparative analysis of the sources from two textual communities emphasizes their different religious agendas, it also allows for restoring patterns of the broader background with which they converse. The second part highlights Christian perceptions of the Land of Israel in missionary enterprises and in the eschatological visions. The travelogues offer a window on the interplay between shared inheritance and new agendas within the dialectical development of religious traditions in Late Antiquity.

Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud

Author : Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107023017
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud by : Michal Bar-Asher Siegal

Download or read book Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud written by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of connections between Christian monastic texts and Babylonian Talmudic traditions.

The Exegetical Encounter Between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity

Author : Emmanouela Grypeou
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004177272
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Exegetical Encounter Between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity written by Emmanouela Grypeou and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Demonic Desires

Author : Ishay Rosen-Zvi
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204204
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Demonic Desires written by Ishay Rosen-Zvi and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Demonic Desires, Ishay Rosen-Zvi examines the concept of yetzer hara, or evil inclination, and its evolution in biblical and rabbinic literature. Contrary to existing scholarship, which reads the term under the rubric of destructive sexual desire, Rosen-Zvi contends that in late antiquity the yetzer represents a general tendency toward evil. Rather than the lower bodily part of a human, the rabbinic yetzer is a wicked, sophisticated inciter, attempting to snare humans to sin. The rabbinic yetzer should therefore not be read in the tradition of the Hellenistic quest for control over the lower parts of the psyche, writes Rosen-Zvi, but rather in the tradition of ancient Jewish and Christian demonology. Rosen-Zvi conducts a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the some one hundred and fifty appearances of the evil yetzer in classical rabbinic literature to explore the biblical and postbiblical search for the sources of human sinfulness. By examining the yetzer within a specific demonological tradition, Demonic Desires places the yetzer discourse in the larger context of a move toward psychologization in late antiquity, in which evil—and even demons—became internalized within the human psyche. The book discusses various manifestations of this move in patristic and monastic material, from Clement and Origin to Antony, Athanasius, and Evagrius. It concludes with a consideration of the broader implications of the yetzer discourse in rabbinic anthropology.