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Commerce of the Sacred
Mediation of the Divine Among Jews in the Greco-Roman Diaspora
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In this classic work, Jack N. Lightstone offers groundbreaking perspectives on the practices and beliefs of the Jews who lived outside of Palestine and beyond rabbinic control or influence. Lightstone also investigates the influence of Greco-Roman Jews on early Christians and how the two communities defined themselves in relation to one another.Lightstone's influential work, first published in 1984 and now available in a new edition, inventively combines the theoretical and conceptual approaches of the history of religions and social anthropology to shed new light on the worldview of the Greco...
In this classic work, Jack N. Lightstone offers groundbreaking perspectives on the practices and beliefs of the Jews who lived outside of Palestine and beyond rabbinic control or influence. Lightstone also investigates the influence of Greco-Roman Jews on early Christians and how the two communities defined themselves in relation to one another.
Lightstone's influential work, first published in 1984 and now available in a new edition, inventively combines the theoretical and conceptual approaches of the history of religions and social anthropology to shed new light on the worldview of the Greco-Roman Jews. Rather than viewing Judaism as a single set of practices and beliefs, Lightstone points to the existence of various "Judaisms." He argues that Jews of the Greco-Roman Diaspora did not retain a shared, biblical "perception of the world" centered on the Jerusalem temple. Rather, they reconfigured their world as one in which multiple points of contact between God and man could be made through particular rites. Prayer in the presence of the sacred rolls, the interventions of holy men with alleged supernatural powers, the supplication of dead saints and martyrs at their tombs-all these were perceived to open conduits to Heaven. Many early Christians also participated in this Judaic "commerce of the sacred," often blurring the social and religious boundaries that distinguished Jews and Christians.
Lightstone's influential work, first published in 1984 and now available in a new edition, inventively combines the theoretical and conceptual approaches of the history of religions and social anthropology to shed new light on the worldview of the Greco-Roman Jews. Rather than viewing Judaism as a single set of practices and beliefs, Lightstone points to the existence of various "Judaisms." He argues that Jews of the Greco-Roman Diaspora did not retain a shared, biblical "perception of the world" centered on the Jerusalem temple. Rather, they reconfigured their world as one in which multiple points of contact between God and man could be made through particular rites. Prayer in the presence of the sacred rolls, the interventions of holy men with alleged supernatural powers, the supplication of dead saints and martyrs at their tombs-all these were perceived to open conduits to Heaven. Many early Christians also participated in this Judaic "commerce of the sacred," often blurring the social and religious boundaries that distinguished Jews and Christians.