The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hezser, Catherine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume focuses on the major issues and debates in the study of Jews and Judaism in late antiquity (3rd to 7th c. C.E.), providing cutting-edge surveys of the state of scholarship, main topics and research questions, methodological approaches, and avenues for future research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315280950
• Artikelnr.: 69685453

Autorenporträt

Catherine Hezser is Professor of Jewish Studies at SOAS, University of London. After her Habilitation in Jewish Studies at the Free University Berlin she taught at Trinity College Dublin, University of Oslo, and SOAS, University of London, and was a research professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has published numerous books and articles on Jews and Judaism in antiquity, with a focus on social history and daily life, the Talmud Yerushalmi, and Jews within the context of Graeco-Roman and Byzantine-Christian societies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity
Catherine Hezser; PART I: Jews in the Byzantine Empire; 2. From Roman Palestine to a Christian "Holy Land"
Hagith Sivan; 3. Changes in the Infrastructure and Population of Byzantine Palestine
Claudine Dauphin; 4. Jews
Judaism
and the Christianization of the Roman Empire
Seth Schwartz; 5. Jews and the Imperial Cult
Holger Zellentin; PART II: Judaism and Christianity; 6. Jews and the Emergence of Christianity
Maren R. Niehoff; 7. Synagogues and Churches as the Centers of Local Communities
Alexei Sivertsev; 8. The Rabbinic Representation of Jesus and His Followers
Thierry Murcia; 9. The Church Fathers on Jews and Judaism
Burton L. Visotzky; 10. Institutionalization
"Orthodoxy"
and Hierarchy
Hayim Lapin; PART III: Rabbis
Jurists
Philosophers
and Holy Men; 11. Rabbis and the Image of the Intellectual
Catherine Hezser; 12. Rabbis and Jurists in the Roman East
Yair Furstenberg; 13. Personal Representations of the Holy
Michael L. Satlow; 14. Attitudes Toward the Body
Catherine Hezser; 15. Travel Narratives and the Construction of Identity
Joshua Levinson; PART IV: The Creation of Rabbinic Literature; 16. From Oral Discourse to Written Documents
Reuven Kiperwasser; 17. Antiquarianism
Scholasticism
and Rabbinic Anthologies
Catherine Hezser; 18. Rabbinic Literature and Roman-Byzantine Legal Compilations
Marton Ribary; 19. Rabbinic and Patristic Interpretations of the Bible
Carol Bakhos; 20. Jewish Letter Writing in Late Antiquity
Lutz Doering; PART V: The Development of a Jewish Visual Culture; 21. Visuality in Rabbinic Judaism
Karen B. Stern; 22. The Appearance of Jewish Figural Art
Lee I. Levine; 23. Synagogue Architecture
Decoration
and Furnishings
Zeev Weiss; 24. A Shared Visual Language
Rachel Hachlili; 25. The Liturgical Performance of Identity
Ophir Münz-Manor; PART VI: Rabbinic Culture in Sasanian Persia; 26. Jewish and Persian Leadership Structures
Geoffrey Herman; 27. Babylonian Jewish Communities
Simcha Gross; 28. Babylonian Judaism and Zoroastrianism
Shai Secunda; 29. Representations of Persia in the Babylonian Talmud
Jason Zion Mokhtarian; PART VII: The Expansion of the Jewish Diaspora; 30. Jews in Late Antique Rome
Samuele Rocca; 31. Jews in Late Antique Egypt
Rodrigo Laham Cohen; 32. Jews in Late Antique Syria and Arabia
Maurice Sartre; 33. Jews in Asia Minor
Paul Trebilco; 34. Jewish Communities in North Africa
Stéphanie É. Binder and Thomas Villey.