series: Studia Judaica

Published by De Gruyter

Studia Judaica

Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums

Edited by: Charlotte Fonrobert, Elisabeth Hollender, Matthias Lehmann, Alexander Samely and Michael Zank
Founded by: Ernst L. Ehrlich

ISSN: 0585-5306

Overview
Volumes

After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921–2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.

Topics

book: Origins of Hebrew Liturgical Rhetoric and Poetics

Book 2024

Origins of Hebrew Liturgical Rhetoric and Poetics

Magic, Midrash and Merkavah Mysticism

Joseph Yahalom

Volume 136 in this series

This book follows the origins of the Kedushta, a sequence of poems that leads up to the epitome of Jewish prayer, the Kedusha or Sanctus. It tracks back the earliest forms of prayer in late antiquity and by doing so defines the main characteristics of this genre, both from the standpoint of Rhetoric and poetics. This genre draws from Midrash and Mysticism- adjacent literary forms that influence liturgical poetry.

How has such an enigmatic and complex liturgical genre survived the twists and turns of history and is recited to this day, for over 1500 years?

The answer to this question pertains to both form and content. When analyzing form, we address rhyme, alphabetical acrostics, and different poetic forms. Those all have a specific rhetorical function in determining the structure of the poem, pushing it forward, and musically aligning the different segments. The form cannot be detached from narratology, referencing early midrash and mysticism. In addition, the emotional approach of the private prayer can express one's existential pain as part of an oppressed community. We can follow the composition of the prayer book for each community over the ages, through the first millennium, starting with Geniza fragments to the European prayer books. Finally, these poems use of sophisticated etymology, correlation by sound, leads to innovative Medieval interpretation of the Torah.

It seems that the combination of a public recitation, simulating a divine choir, the musicality of the text and emotional depth all contributed to this eternal poetic genre to penetrate cross cutting traditions of prayer throughout the ages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111449388
ISBN:: 9783111449388
ISBN:: 9783111449074
ISBN:: 9783111449616
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Overviews and Introductions
Subject:: Jewish Culture
Subject:: Jewish Culture, other
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish Life
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sefer Brantshpigl

Book 2024

Sefer Brantshpigl

Edited and translated by Morris M. Faierstein

Altschul-Yerushalmi Altschul-Yerushalmi, Morris M. Faierstein

Volume 131 in this series

Sefer Brantshpigl is an important Yiddish religious/ethical work first published in Cracow, 1596. It was reprinted six more times into the beginning of the eighteenth century and is an important source for the social and religious life of Central/East European Jewry in the Early Modern period. This volume is the first complete translation of this text into English with annotations and scholarly introduction. The author, Moshe Henochs Altschul-Yerushalmi was a member of what has become to be known as the "secondary intelligentsia." Little is known about his life, other than that he lived in Prague. His son, Henoch Altschul, was the Shamash of the Jewish community of Prague from 1603–1633. He examined all aspects of Jewish social and religious life in seventy-six chapters. Each chapter discusses a specific topic. Not only does he describe what is good and critiques what he finds to be lacking, but he buttresses his arguments with citations from the whole range of rabbinic literature. One aspect that is particularly interesting is his citation of kabbalistic sources in his arguments. He cites kabbalistic sources more than sixty times and even devotes a whole chapter to the kabbalistic night ritual of Tikkun Hazot.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111414683
ISBN:: 9783111414683
ISBN:: 9783111415895
ISBN:: 9783111413044
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Diaspora
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Early Jewish Literature
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Holiness and Law

Book 2024

Holiness and Law

Kabbalistic Customs and Sexual Abstinence in Hasidism

Benjamin Brown

Volume 129 in this series

Hasidic groups have myriad customs. While ordinary Jewish law (halakhah) denotes the “bar of holiness” mandated for the ordinary Jew, these customs represent the higher threshold expected of Hasidim, intended to justify their title as hasidim (“pious”). How did the hasidic masters perceive the enactment of these new norms at a time in which the halakhah had already been solidified? How did they explain the normative power of these customs over communities and individuals, and how did they justify customs that diverged from the positive halakhah? This book analyzes the answers given by nineteenth-century hasidic authors. It then examines a test case: kedushah (“holiness”), or sexual abstinence among married men, a particularly restrictive norm enacted by several twentieth-century hasidic groups. Through the use of theoretical tools and historical contextualization, the book elucidates the normative circles of hasidic life, their religious and social sources and their interrelations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111359052
ISBN:: 9783111359052
ISBN:: 9783111359212
ISBN:: 9783111358970
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish Life
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Prayer Rites of Synagogal Worship and their Historical Development

Book 2023

The Prayer Rites of Synagogal Worship and their Historical Development

Edited and translated by Stefan C. Reif An English Translation of the German Edition of Berlin 1859

Leopold Zunz, Stefan C. Reif, Renate Egger-Wenzel

Volume 6 in the series Rethinking Diaspora

Volume 125 in this series

Given Leopold Zunz’s difficult German style and the tight conciseness of his presentation, it is hardly surprising that no English translation of his Die Ritus (1859) has been published. The Hebrew edition of 2016 does not aim to place this pioneering work in the context of Jewish liturgical history, sometimes opts for a paraphrase, rather than a literal translation, and does not always make it easy to distinguish Zunz from later scholarship. There are undoubtedly English-speaking scholars in current academia who are unacquainted with German and Modern Hebrew but would benefit from reading this classic study. This volume therefore links Die Ritus with Zunz’s other scholarly works by way of a brief introduction, provides a faithful translation, without the result reading more like German than English. It reproduces Zunz’s footnotes in his own highly abbreviated form but offers as an appendix to the introductory essay a bibliographical list that explains references that may not be obvious even to a learned reader. Readers of English will now be able to reach their own conclusions about the stature of Zunz, about his contributions to the study of Jewish liturgy, and, indeed, about any shortcomings that there may have been in his scholarly, theological and political tendencies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111142500
ISBN:: 9783111142500
ISBN:: 9783111143033
ISBN:: 9783111139685
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: German-Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: German-Jewish History
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Transmission of the Pentateuch

Book 2023

The Transmission of the Pentateuch

Analysis of Variants Due to Graphic Similarity between MT and SP

Hila Dayfani

Volume 13 in the series Studia Samaritana

Volume 124 in this series

The volume focuses on variants between the Masoretic Text and the Samaritan Pentateuch prompted
by graphic similarities between letters. As a phenomenon that occurs during the transmission of ancient texts, an in-depth study of the linguistic and paleographic background of these variants provides fruitful ground for the exploration of the Pentateuch transmission.
This volume gathers all the relevant variants from the Masoretic Text and the Samaritan Pentateuch, comparing them to further witnesses, primarily the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint. Each case is examined independently through a linguistic analysis of the variants, their process of development and an evaluation of which version is preferable (when possible). It then presents a statistical analysis of the data.
Moreover, the volume offers a paleographic analysis of the interchanging letters in the three relevant scripts – Hebrew, Jewish, and Samaritan script. Through this process it determines the script in which the variants have occurred and estimates the chronological framework of the variants.
This study has implications for the textual history of the Samaritan Pentateuch and, more broadly, for the distribution of the Pentateuch and the extent of its transmission in the late Second Temple period.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110981254
ISBN:: 9783110981254
ISBN:: 9783110981360
ISBN:: 9783110798043
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Jewish Languages
Subject:: Hebrew
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Samaritans
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Jüdische Kinderbibeln in der Zeit der Haskala

Book Ahead of Publication 2024

Jüdische Kinderbibeln in der Zeit der Haskala

Dorothea M. Salzer

Volume 123 in this series

The present study aimes at a detailed examination of the Jewish Children’s Bibles that were published between 1796 and 1821 and are part of the literary production of the Jewish Enlightenment. It describes the corpus and provides three detailed and representative analyses, contextualizing their results in the religious, cultural, literary and educational discourses of the time. In addition, the analysis of the Hebrew texts found in these Children’s Bibles provides one of the first substantial contributions to the study of the Hebrew language used at the time and in the intellectual context of the Berlin Haskala. The book demonstrates that Jewish Children’s Bibles should be understood in terms of intra- and interlingual cultural translations.
The study builds upon the results of the preceeding study of the same author With the Bible into the Modern Age. Origin and Development of Jewish Children’s Bibles. While the latter provides a comprehensive description of the genre in terms of literary, social and religion history, from its emergence in the Jewish Enlightenment until the 21st century, the present volume focusses exclusively at the Children’s Bibles of the Haskala, serving as an important literary and pedagogical medium for it and thus contributing to it. As a result, the corpus of Mascilic Jewish Children’s Bibles is a crucial source for the understanding of the Jewish Enlightenment, especially in regard to the popularization and the pedagogical implementation of its concepts and visions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111062068
ISBN:: 9783111062068
ISBN:: 9783111061405
ISBN:: 9783111062860
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Thought
Subject:: German-Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Culture
Subject:: Jewish Culture, other
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Mit der Bibel in die Moderne

Book 2023

Mit der Bibel in die Moderne

Entstehung und Entwicklung jüdischer Kinderbibeln

Dorothea M. Salzer

Volume 122 in this series

Jewish literature explicitly addressing children as readers started to emerge in the late 18th century, in the wake of the Jewish Enlightenment. The proponents of Jewish Enlightenment conceived the increased engagement with the Hebrew Bible as a way to build on Jewish traditions, while at the same time engaging with new ideas and expectations with respect to Judaism, that were articulated and followed by both Jews and non-Jews. As a result, the genre of Jewish Children's Bibles emerged, offering a selection of texts of the Hebrew Bible, often in a reworked version. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Jewish Children’s Bible became the most popular genre of Jewish religious educational media. The selection and revision of the Biblical texts presented in these books followed a specific pedagogical, philosophical, and religious agenda, in an explicit effort to correspond to both the requirements and needs of the children as well as the expectations of their respective social contexts.
The present study is based on numerous analyses of Jewish Children’s Bibles, their underlying concepts, their design, and of the texts contained in them, applying different methodological perspectives, especially religious history, history of literature, philology, and cultural studies. Bringing the insights emerging from these analyses together and combining them, the book aims at providing, for the first time, a comprehensive history of Jewish Children’s Bibles, from the beginning in the late 18th until the 21st century, contextualizing the different manifestations of the genre within the social and religious processes of transfer, transformation, and innovation that happened at their time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110748741
ISBN:: 9783110748741
ISBN:: 9783110748864
ISBN:: 9783110748673
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Thought
Subject:: German-Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Culture
Subject:: Jewish Culture, other
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Studien zur jüdischen Bibel

Book Ahead of Publication 2025

Studien zur jüdischen Bibel

Johann Maier (†), Franz David Hubmann, Josef Oesch

Volume 121 in this series

Johann Maier, a Judaist who died in 2019, was one of Germany’s most renowned Jewish scholars. A selection of his important writings, some of them groundbreaking, on the history, religious history, and literature of Judaism is presented in this volume along with a comprehensive index of his writings.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110788495
ISBN:: 9783110788495
ISBN:: 9783110788310
ISBN:: 9783110788563
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Early Christian Scripture and the Samaritan Pentateuch

Book 2024

Early Christian Scripture and the Samaritan Pentateuch

A Study in Hexaplaric Manuscript Activity

Volume 12 in the series Studia Samaritana

Volume 119 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110760798
ISBN:: 9783110760798
ISBN:: 9783110760699
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Samaritans
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE

Book 2022

The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE

Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations

John Van Maaren

Volume 118 in this series

Recent research has considered how changing imperial contexts influence conceptions of Jewishness among ruling elites (esp. Eckhardt, Ethnos und Herrschaft, 2013). This study integrates other, often marginal, conceptions with elite perspectives. It uses the ethnic boundary making model, an empirically based sociological model, to link macro-level characteristics of the social field with individual agency in ethnic construction. It uses a wide range of written sources as evidence for constructions of Jewishness and relates these to a local-specific understanding of demographic and institutional characteristics, informed by material culture. The result is a diachronic study of how institutional changes under Seleucid, Hasmonean, and Early Roman rule influenced the ways that members of the ruling elite, retainer class, and marginalized groups presented their preferred visions of Jewishness. These sometimes-competing visions advance different strategies to maintain, rework, or blur the boundaries between Jews and others. The study provides the next step toward a thick description of Jewishness in antiquity by introducing needed systematization for relating written sources from different social strata with their contexts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787450
ISBN:: 9783110787450
ISBN:: 9783110787481
ISBN:: 9783110787382
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Book of the People

Book 2023

The Book of the People

The Hebrew Encyclopedic Project and the National Self

Dan Tsahor

Volume 117 in this series

Hebrew encyclopedias have an intriguing history. The genre, which began as modest initiatives to disseminate general knowledge and strengthen literacy among Russian Jews, quickly became the most popular in modern Hebrew literature, with tens of thousands of subscribers to publications such as Encyclopaedia Hebraica and Encyclopaedia Biblica.
The makers of these vast bodies of knowledge hoped to demonstrate Hebrew’s mimetic power and the vitality of newly created Jewish research institutions. They also hoped that the encyclopedias would be an essential tool in shaping and reshaping Zionist national culture and nurturing an ideal national persona. Thus, the printed pages of the encyclopedias give us unique access to what Zionists were saying about themselves, how they perceived their neighbors, and what they were hoping for the future, thereby going beyond the official Zionists documents, newspaper articles, and the writings of intellectuals that have been used extensively by historians to narrate national consciousness.
By bringing to the fore these unique texts, The Book of the People presents common perceptions of memory and collective identity that often do not fit with the narratives offered by historians of Zionism. In doing so, the book also exposes ethical codes that regulated the production of Zionist knowledge and endowed the encyclopedias with a rare status as a bona fide source for truths by people from diverse political and social backgrounds.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111062464
ISBN:: 9783111062464
ISBN:: 9783111063027
ISBN:: 9783111061375
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: History of Knowledge
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Zionism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Humanity Divided

Book 2021

Humanity Divided

Martin Buber and the Challenges of Being Chosen

Manuel Duarte de Oliveira

Volume 116 in this series

With exacting scholarship and fecund analysis, Manuel Oliveira probes through the lens of Martin Buber (1878-1965) the theological and political ambiguities of Israel’s divine election. These ambiguities became especially pronounced with the emergence of Zionism. Wary, indeed, alarmed by the tendency of some of his fellow Zionists to conflate divine chosenness with nationalism, Buber sought to secure the theological significance of election by both steering Zionism from hypertrophic nationalism and by a sustained program to revalorize what he called alternately “Hebrew Humanism.”

As Oliveira demonstrates, Buber viewed the idea of election teleologically, espousing a universal mission of Israel, which effectively calls upon Zionism to align its political and cultural project to universal objectives. Thus, in addressing a Zionist congress, he rhetorically asked, “What then is this spirit of Israel of which you are speaking? It is the spirit of fulfillment. Fulfillment of what? Fulfillment of the simple truth that man has been created for a purpose (...) Our purpose is the upbuilding of peace (...) And that is its spirit, the spirit of Israel (...) the people of Israel was charged to lead the way to righteousness and justice.”

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110741087
ISBN:: 9783110741087
ISBN:: 9783110741186
ISBN:: 9783110740745
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: ›Arbeit des Himmels‹

Book 2022

›Arbeit des Himmels‹

Jüdische Konzeptionen rituellen Schreibens in der europäischen Kultur des Mittelalters

Annett Martini

Volume 115 in this series

This study deals with conceptions of ritual writing of Torah scrolls in the pluralistic context of the European culture of France and Germany from the 11th to the 14th centuries. On the basis of sources hitherto hardly noticed in research, the author deals with modifications and innovations regarding central aspects of the production of the sacred scrolls against the background of the surrounding Christian culture.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110722062
ISBN:: 9783110722062
ISBN:: 9783110722215
ISBN:: 9783110721904
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Thought
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kabbala und Haskala

Book 2022

Kabbala und Haskala

Isaak Satanow (1732–1804) zwischen jüdischer Gelehrsamkeit, moderner Physik und Berliner Aufklärung

Elke Morlok

Volume 114 in this series

This book examines the unique synthesis created by the Jewish Enlightenment scholar Isaak Satanow (1734–1804) between Jewish tradition, scientific research, and his philosophical search for truth with the help of Kabbalah. It confronts his ambivalent reception in scholarly discourse and questions conventional categories of analysis in Haskalah research, such as assimilation, rationalism, secularization, and educational reform.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110716320
ISBN:: 9783110716320
ISBN:: 9783111518565
ISBN:: 9783110716429
ISBN:: 9783110714845
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Thought
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Polemical and Exegetical Polarities in Medieval Jewish Cultures

Book 2021

Polemical and Exegetical Polarities in Medieval Jewish Cultures

Studies in Honour of Daniel J. Lasker

Ehud Krinis, Nabih Bashir, Sara Offenberg, Shalom Sadik

Volume 113 in this series

In his academic career, that by now spans six decades, Daniel J. Lasker distinguished himself by the wide range of his scholarly interests. In the field of Jewish theology and philosophy he contributed significantly to the study of Rabbinic as well as Karaite authors. In the field of Jewish polemics his studies explore Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew texts, analyzing them in the context of their Christian and Muslim backgrounds. His contributions refer to a wide variety of authors who lived from the 9th century to the 18th century and beyond, in the Muslim East, in Muslin and Christian parts of the Mediterranean Sea, and in west and east Europe.
This Festschrift for Daniel J. Lasker consists of four parts. The first highlights his academic career and scholarly achievements. In the three other parts, colleagues and students of Daniel J. Lasker offer their own findings and insights in topics strongly connected to his studies, namely, intersections of Jewish theology and Biblical exegesis with the Islamic and Christian cultures, as well as Jewish-Muslim and Jewish-Christian relations. Thus, this wide-scoped and rich volume offers significant contributions to a variety of topics in Jewish Studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110702262
ISBN:: 9783110702262
ISBN:: 9783110702323
ISBN:: 9783110700626
Subject:: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Subject:: Interreligious Studies
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Reception of Jewish Texts
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Concept of ›Ruach Ra‘ah‹ in Contemporary Rabbinic Responsa (1945–2000)

Book 2021

The Concept of ›Ruach Ra‘ah‹ in Contemporary Rabbinic Responsa (1945–2000)

Possible Relations between Knowledge of the Physical World and Traditional Knowledge in Rabbinic Judaism

Leon Mock

Volume 112 in this series

The concept of ‘Ruakh Ra‘ah’ (Evil Spirit), is extremely rare in the Tanach, but is found much more frequently in post-Biblical rabbinic literature and even more in publications by rabbis of the last two centuries. This study focuses on the quite neglected period of responsa literature after the Second World War until the present. This literature consist fo answers given to questions about religious rules. The notion of the 'evil spirit' is strongly connected to the ritual of washing hands in the morning, but also before a meal, in connection with sexual relations and with visiting a graveyard. The washing of hands is supposed to be necessary to ward off bad influences. This ritual can be understood in between mysticism, gender studies, magic and embodied religion.

This book analyses the meaning and role of the ‘Ruakh Ra‘ah’ in a corpus of almost 200 rabbinic orthodox response from 1945-2000. What happens to the term Ruakh Ra‘ah in these modern responsa? Does the ritual persist without being associated with the Ruakh Ra‘ah, or does the term continue to be linked to the ritual, but reinterpreted in cause of the possible tension between the traditional rabbinic paradigm and the modern scientific knowledge paradigm. The connection between this ritual and the stratification of the (ultra) orthodox society and cosmological representations offers a clue to the rationale of this practice. Questions of identity, gender and community boundaries that divide insiders from outsiders (Jewish and non-Jewish) seem to be related to the discourse in the corpus on this ritual.

As the Ruakh Ra‘ah stands at the intersection between magical perceptions, religion (ritual), and premodern science (medicine) it is suitable as a possible test case for the way in which modern rabbinic responsa deal with other archaic terms and concepts that are related or comparable to the Ruakh Raah. This book is relevant to the debate on the relation of religion to the modern world as it provides insights into the ways contemporary believers deal with the modern world, and the various mechanisms to deal with potential discrepancies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699883
ISBN:: 9783110699883
ISBN:: 9783110699890
ISBN:: 9783110699784
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Jewish Life
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Reform Judaism and Darwin

Book 2019

Reform Judaism and Darwin

How Engaging with Evolutionary Theory Shaped American Jewish Religion

Daniel R. Langton

Volume 111 in this series

Darwin provoked Jewish as well as Christian thinkers so that many felt obliged to establish oppositional, alternative, synthetic, or complimentary models relating Jewish religion to his theory of natural selection. This book examines a range of leading nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American progressive Jewish thinkers, with the primary focus being rabbis Kohler, Wise, Hirsch, Krauskopf, and Hahn, although many others are covered. Key themes include the widespread commitment to universal evolutionism, that is, the application of biological evolutionary theory to other realms (e.g. history, religion, cosmic), and the particular fascination with the evolution of ethical systems within human societies, bearing in mind mankind’s bestial origins and the new challenges for understanding religious authority and revelation. It is argued that Reform Jewish discussions about the nature of God have been more profoundly shaped by engagement with evolutionary theory than has been recognized before, and that evolutionary thought provides the key framework for understanding Reform Judaism itself. The precise nature of Jewish Reform engagement with Christian proponents of theistic evolution are important, as are their interest in alternative evolutionists to Darwin, such as Spencer and Haeckel.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110664119
ISBN:: 9783110664119
ISBN:: 9783110659139
ISBN:: 9783110661224
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Thought
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Samaritans in Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Perspectives

Book 2018

The Samaritans in Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Perspectives

Jan Dusek

Volume 11 in the series Studia Samaritana

Volume 110 in this series

The volume contributes to the knowledge of the Samaritan history, culture and linguistics. Specialists of various fields of research bring a new look on the topics related to the Samaritans and the Hebrew and Arabic written sources, to the Samaritan history in the Roman-Byzantine period as well as to the contemporary issues of the Samaritan community.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110617306
ISBN:: 9783110617306
ISBN:: 9783110616279
ISBN:: 9783110616101
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish History and Culture
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Samaritans
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Order as Meaning

Book 2024

Order as Meaning

Chronology, Sequence, and Juxtaposition in the Bible With an Essay by Daniel Frank

Isaac Gottlieb

Volume 109 in this series

Jewish Bible commentary in the Middle Ages took on two aspects, the Sephardic and the Ashkenazic. The first, Spanish interpretation, developed in a Muslim surrounding, which appreciated secular studies, the sciences, and Arabic literature, much of which it had translated from Greek. These studies made their mark on Bible exegesis, which sought the simple straightforward sense (peshat) of a verse and its grammatical meaning. The Ashkenazic school, however, situated in France and Germany, was firmly anchored in the rabbinic study hall and its exegesis was a continuation of the methods of Midrash and Aggadah as practiced in Mishnah and Talmud.
In the beginning of the twelfth century, Ashkenazic commentary in northern France took on a new face. Contact with the outside world, including Christian scholarship, and partial knowledge of general studies, brought the Ashkenazi Jewish commentators to the realization that the Bible, besides being a religious text, was also literature. As literature, many features including the order of biblical pericopes or units attracted attention. The classic commentators, Rashi in France, Ibn Ezra in Toledo and Ramban (Nahmanides) in northern Spain all dealt with biblical order. Order as Meaning cites many cases of sequential arrangement and juxtaposition taken from the rabbinic period as well as from the above three commentators, explaining what there was to learn from such a study.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110585155
ISBN:: 9783110585155
ISBN:: 9783110584554
ISBN:: 9783110584509
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Thought
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Modern Jewish Scholarship on Islam in Context

Book 2019

Modern Jewish Scholarship on Islam in Context

Rationality, European Borders, and the Search for Belonging

Ottfried Fraisse

Volume 108 in this series

This volume highlights the role of Jewish scholars within the field of Oriental studies in the 19th and 20^th century. It discusses their views of Islam and the "Orient" in the context of concepts such as orientalism, colonialism, and modernity. The analysis shows that Jewish oriental research provides a way of understanding some of the particularities of the boundaries between European frameworks of thought.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110446890
ISBN:: 9783110446890
ISBN:: 9783110446098
ISBN:: 9783110444919
Subject:: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Subject:: Interreligious Studies
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: German-Jewish History
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Poet and the World

Book 2019

The Poet and the World

Festschrift for Wout van Bekkum on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday

Joachim Yeshaya, Elisabeth Hollender, Naoya Katsumata

Volume 107 in this series

A collection of seventeen essays on pre-modern Hebrew poetry in honor of Wout van Bekkum. The articles in this volume all seek to examine how the religious, cultural, and social context in which the poet functioned impacted on and is visible, either explicitly or more elliptically, in their poetical oeuvre. For this purposes a broad understanding of "world" has been accepted, including both the natural world and the constructed one (society, culture, language) as well as the spiritual and emotional world. History, a pillar of the man-made constructed world, has been used to determine the boundaries: from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, and—in instances where the topic connects to older traditions—to Early Modern Judaism, i.e. pre-modern Hebrew (and Aramaic) poetry. The articles in this volume, in the breadth of their temporal and spatial range and their multiplicity of approaches and methodologies, highlight the richness of contemporary scholarship on Hebrew poetry. The volume invites the reader to engage with this astonishing body of poetry, while providing a glimpse into the world of the payṭanim, and the cultures and societies from which they drew their ininspiration and to which they made such important contributions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110599237
ISBN:: 9783110599237
ISBN:: 9783110600759
ISBN:: 9783110594423
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish History and Culture
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Early Jewish Literature
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Priests in Exile

Book 2019

Priests in Exile

The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period

Meron M. Piotrkowski

Volume 4 in the series Rethinking Diaspora

Volume 106 in this series

Priests in Exile is the first comprehensive scholarly opus in English to reconstruct the history of the mysterious Temple of Onias, a Jewish temple built by a Jerusalemite high priest in his Egyptian exile that functioned in parallel with the Temple of Jerusalem.

Piotrkowski’s book addresses a topic that is mysterious, important and anomalous: a Jewish community of mercenary priests in the (Egyptian) Diaspora in which the priestly sacrificial ritual was carried out daily over a period of more than two hundred years until the first century CE, outlasting the Jerusalem Temple by about three years.

Although the book focuses on the very circumscribed topic of the parallel Temple it casts a wide net, placing the story in the context of Jewish Diaspora life in ancient times. Ancient topics and texts are brought to bear, including papyri, epigraphy, archaeology, as well as the modern literature. Piotrkowski throws new light on a fascinating episode of ancient Jewish history that is usually left in the dark.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110593358
ISBN:: 9783110593358
ISBN:: 9783110591125
ISBN:: 9783110591071
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish History and Culture
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Diaspora
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Volume 2 A Bilingual Edition of Pesiqta Rabbati

Book 2022

Volume 2 A Bilingual Edition of Pesiqta Rabbati

Volume 2: Chapters 23-52

Rivka Ulmer

Part of the multi-volume work A Bilingual Edition of Pesiqta Rabbati

Volume 105 in this series

The present edition and translation of the rabbinic work Pesiqta Rabbati is a critical Hebrew edition, including a modern English translation on facing pages. Pesiqta Rabbati contains rabbinic homilies for Jewish holy days and special Sabbaths.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110551952
ISBN:: 9783110551952
ISBN:: 9783110551273
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Bible, Qumran, and the Samaritans

Book 2018

The Bible, Qumran, and the Samaritans

Magnar Kartveit, Gary N. Knoppers

Volume 10 in the series Studia Samaritana

Volume 104 in this series

Discoveries on Mount Gerizim and in Qumran demonstrate that the final editing of the Hebrew Bible coincides with the emergence of the Samaritans as one of the different types of Judaisms from the last centuries BCE. This book discusses this new scholarly situation.

Scholars working with the Bible, especially the Pentateuch, and experts on the Samaritans approach the topic from the vantage point of their respective fields of expertise. Earlier, scholars who worked with Old Testament/Hebrew Bible studies mostly could leave the Samaritan material to experts in that area of research, and scholars studying the Samaritan material needed only sporadically to engage in Biblical studies.

This is no longer the case: the pre-Samaritan texts from Qumran and the results from the excavations on Mount Gerizim have created an area of study common to the previously separated fields of research. Scholars coming from different directions meet in this new area, and realize that they work on the same questions and with much common material.This volume presents the current state of scholarship in this area and the effects these recent discoveries have for an understanding of this important epoch in the development of the Bible.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110581416
ISBN:: 9783110581416
ISBN:: 9783110580372
ISBN:: 9783110710526
ISBN:: 9783110575224
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: facet.subjectFacet.TL-02-11
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Samaritans
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Visual Aspects of Scribal Culture in Ashkenaz

Book 2019

Visual Aspects of Scribal Culture in Ashkenaz

Shaping the 'Small Book of Commandments' (SeMaK)

Ingrid M. Kaufmann

Volume 103 in this series

The medieval Ashkenazi manuscripts of the Small Book of Commandments (Sefer Mitzvot Katan, or ‘SeMaK’ for short), which was written by Isaac of Corbeil, attest a scribal culture in which rabbinical knowledge and piety were combined with creative freedom in manuscript design.

This study is concerned with the creation, composition and circulation of manuscripts of the SeMaK and concentrates on the book as an artefact. The focus of the author’s attention is the manuscripts’ material nature, their artistic embellishment and the personal touches that scribes added to them. With the act of writing a text and decorating a SeMaK manuscript, they ‘appropriated’ the text, so to speak, giving it a character of its very own. They drew on a visual language in the process – or rather, on visual languages, which occupy a special place between pure writing culture and pure painting culture. It was in this area ‘in between’ the two that spontaneous touches arose, ranging from changes in the physical arrangement of the text (mise-en-page) to drawings and doodles added in the margins.

An examination of paratextual elements broadens the reader’s knowledge about Jewish scribal culture and grants insights into medieval book art, material culture and Judeo-Christian co-existence in the Middle Ages as well as throwing some light on Jewish values, ideals and eschatological hopes.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110574418
ISBN:: 9783110574418
ISBN:: 9783110573626
ISBN:: 9783110569384
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Reception of Jewish Texts
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Jewish Historiography Between Past and Future

Book 2019

Jewish Historiography Between Past and Future

200 Years of Wissenschaft des Judentums

Paul Mendes-Flohr, Rachel Livneh-Freudenthal, Guy Miron

Volume 102 in this series

From its modest beginnings in 1818 Berlin, Wissenschaft des Judentums has burgeoned into a scholarly discipline pursued by a vast cadre of scholars. Now constituting a global community, these scholars continue to draw their inspiration from the determined pioneers of Wissenschaft des Judentums in nineteenth and twentieth Germany. Beyond setting the highest standards of philological and historiographical research, German Wissenschaft des Judentums had a seminal role in creating modern Jewish discourse in which cultural memory supplemented traditional Jewish learning. The secular character of modern Jewish Studies, initially pursued largely in German and subsequently in other vernacular languages (e.g. French, Dutch, Italian, modern Hebrew, Russian), greatly facilitated an exchange with non-Jewish scholars, and thereby encouraging mutual understanding and respect.

The present volume is based on papers delivered at a conference, sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, by scholars from North American, Europe, and Israel. The papers and attendant deliberations explored ramified historical and methodological issues. Taken as a whole, the volume represents a tribute to the two hundred year legacy of Wissenschaft des Judentums and its singular contribution to not only modern Jewish self-understand but also to the unfolding of humanistic cultural discourse.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110554618
ISBN:: 9783110554618
ISBN:: 9783110553697
ISBN:: 9783110553543
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Overviews and Introductions
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism

Book 2018

Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism

Daniel Reiser

Volume 101 in this series

This book analyzes and describes the development and aspects of imagery techniques, a primary mode of mystical experience, in twentieth century Jewish mysticism. These techniques, in contrast to linguistic techniques in medieval Kabbalah and in contrast to early Hasidism, have all the characteristics of a full screenplay, a long and complicated plot woven together from many scenes, a kind of a feature film. Research on this development and nature of the imagery experience is carried out through comparison to similar developments in philosophy and psychology and　is fruitfully contextualized within broader trends of western and eastern mysticism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110535884
ISBN:: 9783110535884
ISBN:: 9783110710496
ISBN:: 9783110534085
ISBN:: 9783110533941
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Seder Eliyahu

Book 2018

Seder Eliyahu

A Narratological Reading

Constanza Cordoni

Volume 100 in this series

The book is concerned with a so called ethical midrash, Seder Eliyahu (also known as Tanna debe Eliyahu), a post-talmudic work probably composed in the ninth century. It provides a survey of the research on this late midrash followed by five studies of different aspects related to what is designated as the work’s narratology. These include a discussion of the problem of the apparent pseudo-epigraphy of the work and of the multiple voices of the text; a description of the various narrative types which the work, itself as a whole of non-narrative character, makes use of; a detailed treatment of Seder Eliyahu’s parables and most characteristic first person narratives (an extremely unusual form of narrative discourse in rabbinic literature); as well as a final chapter dedicated to selected women stories in this late midrash. As it emerges from the survey in chapter 1 such a narratologically informed study of Seder Eliyahu represents a new approach in the research on a work that is clearly the product of a time of transition in Jewish literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110531879
ISBN:: 9783110531879
ISBN:: 9783110710472
ISBN:: 9783110529425
ISBN:: 9783110531305
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Samuel Hirsch

Book 2022

Samuel Hirsch

Philosopher of Religion, Advocate of Emancipation and Radical Reformer

Judith Frishman, Thorsten Fuchshuber

Volume 97 in this series

Rabbi Samuel Hirsch (Thalfang 1815 – Chicago 1889) was instrumental in the development of Reform Judaism in Europe and the USA. This volume is the first lengthy publication devoted to this striking personality whose significance was no less than that of his contemporaries Abraham Geiger and David Einhorn.
En route from Thalfang via Dessau and Luxembourg to Philadelphia, Hirsch left his mark on societal, religious, and philosophical developments in manifold ways. By the time he was appointed Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in Luxembourg in 1843, he had already written many of his most important works on the philosophy of religion. In them he engaged in debate with the Young Hegelians on the importance of Judaism, the religion that, more than any other, enabled the human actualization of freedom so central to Hegel’s philosophy.
Over time Hirsch took an increasingly radical stance on issues such as Jewish rituals and mixed marriage. The goal of his reforms was not assimilation. He strove to strengthen Judaism to meet the demands of modernity and enable its survival in the modern era.
Hirsch’s story is key to understanding the transnational history of Reform Judaism and the struggle of Jews to secure a place in history and society.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110476392
ISBN:: 9783110476392
ISBN:: 9783111518596
ISBN:: 9783110475289
ISBN:: 9783110464344
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Jewish Culture
Subject:: Jewish Culture, other
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Ze’enah U-Re’enah

Book Open Access 2017

Ze’enah U-Re’enah

A Critical Translation into English

Morris M. Faierstein

Volume 96 in this series

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This book is the first scholarly English translation of the Ze’enah U-Re’enah, a Jewish classic originally published in the beginning of the seventeenth century, and was the first significant anthological commentary on the Torah, Haftorot and five Megillot. The Ze’enah U-Re’enah is a major text that was talked about but has not adequately studied, although it has been published in two hundred and seventy-four editions, including the Yiddish text and partial translation into several languages. Many generations of Jewish men and women have studied the Torah through the Rabbinic and medieval commentaries that the author of the Ze’enah U-Re’enah collected and translated in his work. It shaped their understanding of Jewish traditions and the lives of Biblical heroes and heroines. The Ze’enah U-Re’enah can teach us much about the influence of biblical commentaries, popular Jewish theology, folkways, and religious practices. This translation is based on the earliest editions of the Ze’enah U-Re’enah, and the notes annotate the primary sources utilized by the author.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110461039
ISBN:: 9783110461039
ISBN:: 9783110459500
ISBN:: 9783110460445
ISBN:: 9783110460322
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Isaak Alfasis Kodifizierung des talmudischen Rechts im Sefer ha-Halakhot zum Traktat Pesachim

Book 2019

Isaak Alfasis Kodifizierung des talmudischen Rechts im Sefer ha-Halakhot zum Traktat Pesachim

Nicola Kramp-Seidel

Volume 95 in this series

Isaac Alfasi (1013–1103) is respected as one of the major Medieval scholars of Jewish law and his Sefer ha-Halakhot is an important work of codification. This study examines his work on the Tractate Pesachim. The main focus is on Alfasi’s engagement with his main source, the Babylonian Talmud, and the ways he found additional sources for his arguments through the reassembly, addition, and deletion of existing sources.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110650402
ISBN:: 9783110650402
ISBN:: 9783110649901
ISBN:: 9783110649321
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Thought
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Reception of Jewish Texts
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Thinking in Translation

Book 2019

Thinking in Translation

Scripture and Redemption in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig

Orr Scharf

Volume 94 in this series

Thinking in Translation posits the Hebrew Bible as the fulcrum of the thought of Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), underpinning a unique synthesis between systematic thinking and biblical interpretation. Addressing a lacuna in Rosenzweig scholarship, the book offers a critical evaluation of his engagement with the Bible through a comparative study of The Star of Redemption and his Bible translation with Martin Buber. The book opens with Rosenzweig's rejection of German Idealism and fascination with the sources of Judaism. It then analyzes the unique hermeneutic approach he developed to philosophy and scripture as a symbiosis of critique and cross-fertilization, facilitated by translation. An analysis of the Star exposes Rosenzweig's employment of translation in grafting biblical verses unto the philosophical discussion. It is followed by a reading that demonstrates how his Bible translation reflects an attempt to re-valorize the Tanakh as a distinctively Jewish scripture, over and against Christian appropriations. Thinking in Translation recasts Rosenzweig's life's work as a project of melding Judaism and modernity in an attempt to secure their spiritual and intellectual survival.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110476897
ISBN:: 9783110476897
ISBN:: 9783110764154
ISBN:: 9783110475166
ISBN:: 9783110475272
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Thought
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Jewish Culture
Subject:: Jewish Culture, other
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Isaac Breuer (1883-1946)

Book 2015

Isaac Breuer (1883-1946)

Philosophie des Judentums angesichts der Krise der Moderne

Denis Maier

Volume 93 in this series

The focus of this study, the religious scholar Isaac Breuer (1883–1946), is one of the most important figures in 20^th century German-Jewish neo-orthodoxy. Like many of his contemporaries, Breuer interpreted the early 20^th century world as a time of great crisis. The heart of his specifically orthodox Jewish philosophy of crisis was his promotion of halachic observance of the Torah.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110445640
ISBN:: 9783110444421
ISBN:: 9783110445640
ISBN:: 9783110445374
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Thought
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tibåt Mårqe

Book 2019

Tibåt Mårqe

The Ark of Marqe Edition, Translation, Commentary

Abraham Tal

Volume 9 in the series Studia Samaritana

Volume 92 in this series

Tibåt Mårqe is a collection of midrashic compositions, which, in the main, rewrites the Pentateuch, expanding its sometimes laconic presentation of events and precepts. Most of it aims at providing the reader with theological, didactic and philosophical teachings, artistically associated with the passages of the Torah. Here and there poetic pieces are embedded into its otherwise prosaic text. Tibåt Mårqe is attributed to the 4th century scholar, philosopher and poet, Mårqe.
This publication of Tibåt Mårqe follows the monumental Hebrew edition of Ze’ev Ben-Hayyim, Tibåt Mårqe, a Collection of Samaritan Midrashim (Jerusalem 1988), based on a 16th century manuscript. Though he recognized the precedence of an earlier manuscript, dated to the 14th century, Ben-Hayyim was compelled to prefer the former, given the fragmentary state of the latter. He printed its fragments in parallel with the younger one, to which his annotations and discussions chiefly pertain. With the recent discovery of a great portion of the missing parts of the 14th century manuscript, this edition endeavors to present the older form of the composition. The present book may be relevant to people interested in literature,language, religion, and Samaritan studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110436433
ISBN:: 9783110436433
ISBN:: 9783110442328
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Eclipse of Humanity

Book 2016

The Eclipse of Humanity

Heschel’s Critique of Heidegger

Lawrence Perlman

Volume 91 in this series

It has been widely assumed that Heschel's writings are poetic inspirations devoid of philosophical analysis and unresponsive to the evil of the Holocaust. Who Is Man? (1965) contains a detailed phenomenological analyis of man and being which is directed at the main work of Martin Heidegger found primarily in Being and Time (1927) and Letter on Humanism (1946).

When the analysis of Who Is Man? is unapacked in the light of these associations it is clear that Heschel rejected poetry and metaphor as a means of theological elucidation, that he offered a profound examination of the Holocaust and that the major thrust of his thinking eschews Heidegerrian deconstruction and the postmodernism that ensued in its phenomenological wake.

Who Is Man? contains direct and indirect criticisms of Heidegger's notions of 'Dasein', 'thrownness', 'facticity' and 'submission' to name a few essential Heideggerian concepts. In using his ontological connective method in opposition to Heidegger's 'ontological difference', Heschel makes the argument that the biblical notion of Adam as a being open to transcendence stands in oppostion to the philosophical tradition from Parmenides to Heidegger and is the only basis for a redemptive view of humanity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110435443
ISBN:: 9783110435443
ISBN:: 9783110441888
ISBN:: 9783110434187
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Thought
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Heidegger
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: "Let the Wise Listen and add to Their Learning" (Prov 1:5)

Book 2016

"Let the Wise Listen and add to Their Learning" (Prov 1:5)

Festschrift for Günter Stemberger on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday

Constanza Cordoni, Gerhard Langer

Volume 90 in this series

This Festschrift honours Günter Stemberger on the occasion of his 75th birthday on 7 December 2015 and contains 41 articles from colleagues and students. The studies focus on a variety of subjects pertaining to the history, religion and culture of Judaism – and, to a lesser extent, of Christianity – from late antiquity and the Middle Ages to the modern era.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110435283
ISBN:: 9783110435283
ISBN:: 9783110441031
ISBN:: 9783110429336
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Roman Rule and Jewish Life

Book 2022

Roman Rule and Jewish Life

Collected Papers

Hannah M. Cotton, Ofer Pogorelsky

Volume 89 in this series

Hannah M Cotton’s collected papers focus on questions which have fascinated her for over four decades: the concrete relationships between law, language, administration and everyday life in Judaea and Nabataea in particular, and in the Roman world as a whole. Many of the papers, especially those devoted to the Judean Desert documents of the 2nd century CE have been widely cited. Others, having appeared in less accessible publications, may not have received the attention they deserve.　 On the whole, rather than addressing the grand narratives of world or national history, they look at the texture of life, seeking to provide tentative answers to historical questions and interpretations by paying fine attention to the details of literary and, especially, documentary evidence. Taken together they illuminate fundamental, often legal, questions concerning daily life and the exercise of Roman rule and administration in the early imperial period, and especially, their impact on life as it was lived in the province and the period where Roman and Jewish history fatefully intersected. The volume includes a complete bibliography of her publications.

　

　

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110770438
ISBN:: 9783110770438
ISBN:: 9783110191448
ISBN:: 9783110770605
ISBN:: 9783111518534
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: Historical, Political and Cultural Background
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Temple Portals

Book 2016

Temple Portals

Studies in Aggadah and Midrash in the Zohar

Oded Yisraeli, Liat Keren

Volume 88 in this series

This monograph discusses the Zohar, the most important book of the Kabbalah, as a late strata of the Midrashic literature. The author concentrates on the 'expanded' biblical stories in the Zohar and on its relationship to the ancient Talmudic Aggadah. The analytical and critical examination of these biblical themes reveals aspects of continuity and change in the history of the old Aggadic story and its way into the Zoharic corpus. The detailed description of this literary process also reveals the world of the authors of the Zohar, their spiritual distress, mystical orientations, and self-consciousness.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110432558
ISBN:: 9783110432558
ISBN:: 9783110607451
ISBN:: 9783110432763
ISBN:: 9783110439502
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Land and Temple

Book 2020

Land and Temple

Field Sacralization and the Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism

Benjamin D. Gordon

Volume 87 in this series

This exploration of the Judean priesthood’s role in agricultural cultivation demonstrates that the institutional reach of Second Temple Judaism (516 BCE–70 CE) went far beyond the confines of its houses of worship, while exposing an unfamiliar aspect of sacred place-making in the ancient Jewish experience. Temples of the ancient world regularly held assets in land, often naming a patron deity as landowner and affording the land sanctity protections. Such arrangements can provide essential background to the Hebrew Bible’s assertion that God is the owner of the land of Israel. They can also shed light on references in early Jewish literature to the sacred landholdings of the priesthood or the temple.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110421026
ISBN:: 9783110421026
ISBN:: 9783110776706
ISBN:: 9783110425468
ISBN:: 9783110421163
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Jewish Culture
Subject:: Jewish Culture, other
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Volume 1 Chapters 1-22

Book 2018

Volume 1 Chapters 1-22

Part of the multi-volume work A Bilingual Edition of Pesiqta Rabbati

Volume 86 in this series

The present edition and translation of the rabbinic work Pesiqta Rabbati is a critical Hebrew edition, including a modern English translation on facing pages. Pesiqta Rabbati contains rabbinic homilies for Jewish holy days and special Sabbaths.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110418101
ISBN:: 9783110418101
ISBN:: 9783110417951
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tractates Ta'aniot, Megillah, Hagigah and Mo'ed Qatan (Mašqin)

Book Open Access 2015

Tractates Ta'aniot, Megillah, Hagigah and Mo'ed Qatan (Mašqin)

Part of the multi-volume work The Jerusalem Talmud > Second Order: Mo‘ed

Volume 85 in this series

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The present volume is the seventeenth and last in this series of the Jerusalem Talmud. The four tractates of the Second Order - Ta'aniot, Megillah, Hagigah, Mo'ed Qatan (Mašqin) - deal with different fasts and holidays as well as with the pilgrimage to the Temple. The texts are accompanied by an English translation and presented with full use of existing Genizah texts and with an extensive commentary explaining the Rabbinic background.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110412895
ISBN:: 9783110411652
ISBN:: 9783110412895
ISBN:: 9783110681277
ISBN:: 9783110412932
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: "Religio licita?"

Book 2017

"Religio licita?"

Rom und die Juden

Görge K. Hasselhoff, Meret Strothmann

Volume 84 in this series

This volume examines the pertinence of the designation religio licita to Judaism and its relevance for describing the relationship between the Roman state and Judaism. This question applies not only to Judaism but also to the process of differentiation between Judaism and Christianity, for from the beginning of the 3^rd century, the term was used exclusively by Christian writers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110410051
ISBN:: 9783110410051
ISBN:: 9783110410136
ISBN:: 9783110406559
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Dialogue as a Trans-disciplinary Concept

Book Open Access 2015

Dialogue as a Trans-disciplinary Concept

Martin Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue and its Contemporary Reception

Paul Mendes-Flohr

Volume 83 in this series

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This volume of essays constitutes a critical evaluation of Martin Buber’s concept of dialogue as a trans-disciplinary hermeneutic method. So conceived, dialogue has two distinct but ultimately convergent vectors. The first is directed to the subject of one’s investigation: one is to listen to the voice of the Other and to suspend all predetermined categories and notions that one may have of the Other; dialogue is, first and foremost, the art of unmediated listening. One must allow the voice of the Other to question one’s pre-established positions fortified by professional, emotional, intellectual and ideological commitments. Dialogue is also to be conducted between various disciplinary perspectives despite the regnant tendency to academic specialization. In recent decades‚ an increasing number of scholars have come to share Buber’s position to foster cross-disciplinary conversation, if but to garner, as Max Weber aruged, “useful questions upon which he would not so easily hit upon from his own specialized point of view.” Accordingly, the objective of this volume is to explore the reception of Buber’s philosophy of dialogue in some of the disciplines that fell within the purview of his own writings: Anthropology, Hasidism, Religious Studies, Psychology and Psychiatry.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110402223
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037915-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040222-3
ISBN:: 9783110402377
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Thought
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: A Mirror of Rabbinic Hermeneutics

Book 2015

A Mirror of Rabbinic Hermeneutics

Studies in Religion, Magic, and Language Theory in Ancient Judaism

Giuseppe Veltri

Volume 82 in this series

Rabbinic hermeneutics in ancient Judaism reflects this multifaceted world of the text and of reality, seen as a world of reference worth commentary. As a mirror, it includes this world but perhaps also falsifies reality, adapting it to one's own aims and necessities. It consists of four parts:
Part I, considered as introduction, is the description of the "Rabbinic Workshop" (Officina Rabbinica), the rabbinic world where the student plays a role and a reformation of a reformation always takes place, the world where the mirror was created and manufactured.
Part II deals with the historical environment, the world of reference of rabbinic Judaism in Palestine and in the Hellenistic Diaspora (Reflecting Roman Religion);
Part III focuses on magic and the sciences, as ancient (political and empirical) activities of influence in the double meaning of receiving and adopting something and of attempt to produce an effect on persons and objects (Performing the Craft of Sciences and Magic).
Part IV addresses the rabbinic concern with texts (Reflecting on Languages and Texts) as the main area of "influence" of the rabbinic academy in a space between the texts of the past and the real world of the present.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110366419
ISBN:: 9783110368376
ISBN:: 9783110366419
ISBN:: 9783110552768
ISBN:: 9783110437782
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Minhagim

Custom and Practice in Jewish Life

Joseph Isaac Lifshitz, Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig, Simha Goldin, Jean Baumgarten, Hasia Diner

Volume 3 in the series Rethinking Diaspora

Volume 81 in this series

Parallel to the Halakhic laws, the minhagim (customs) are dependent on local practices and the regional schools of sages and rabbis. The minhagim played a decisive role in the history of the Jewish communities and in the formation of traditions of religious rulings. They gave stability, continuity, and authority to the local institutions.

The impact of Jewish custom on daily life cannot be overestimated. Evolving spontaneously as an ascending process, it presents undercurrents that emanate from the folk, gradually bringing about changes that eventually become part of the legislative code. It further reflects influences of social, cultural, and mythological tendencies and local historical elements of every-day life of the period.

The aim of this volume is to examine the concept of minhag in the broadest sense of the word. Focusing on the relationship between various types of customs and their impact on every aspect of Jewish life, the volume studies the historical, anthropological, religious, and cultural development and function of rites and rituals in establishing the Jewish self-definition and the identity of the local communities that adhered to them. The volume’s articles cover the subject of custom from three perspectives: an analysis of the theoretical and legal definition of custom, an analysis of the social and historical aspects of custom, and an anecdotal study of several particular customs.

Customs are a wonderful historical prism by which to examine fluctuations and changes in Jewish life.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110357523
ISBN:: 9783110357523
ISBN:: 9783110386653
ISBN:: 9783110354232
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Overviews and Introductions
Subject:: Jewish Culture
Subject:: Jewish Culture, other
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tractates Šeqalim, Sukkah, Roš Haššanah, and Yom Tov (Besah)

Book Open Access 2014

Tractates Šeqalim, Sukkah, Roš Haššanah, and Yom Tov (Besah)

Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

Part of the multi-volume work The Jerusalem Talmud > Second Order: Mo‘ed

Volume 80 in this series

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This volume of the Jerusalem Talmud publishes four tractates of the Second Order, Šeqalim, Sukkah, Roš Haššanah, and Yom Tov. These tractates deal with financial issues concerning the Temple service, with the festival of Tabernacles, the observations at New Year, as well as with holiday observation in general. The tractates are vocalized by the rules of Rabbinic Hebrew accompanied by an English translation and an extensive commentary.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110357486
ISBN:: 9783110354362
ISBN:: 9783110357486
ISBN:: 9783110681253
ISBN:: 9783110386639
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Thy Father’s Instruction

Book 2022

Thy Father’s Instruction

Reading the Nuremberg Miscellany as Jewish Cultural History

Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig

Volume 2 in the series Rethinking Diaspora

Volume 79 in this series

The Nuremberg Miscellany [Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Bibliothek, 8° Hs. 7058 (Rl. 203)] is a unique work of scribal art and illumination. Its costly parchment leaves are richly adorned and illustrated with multicolour paint and powdered gold. It was penned and illustrated in southern Germany – probably Swabia – in 1589 and is signed by a certain Eliezer b. Mordechai the Martyr.

The Miscellany is a relatively thin manuscript. In its present state, it holds a total of 46 folios, 44 of which are part of the original codex and an additional bifolio that was attached to it immediately or soon after its production.

The book is a compilation of various Hebrew texts, most of which pertain to religious life. Others are home liturgies, Biblical exegeses, comments on rites and customs, moralistic texts, homiletic and ethical discourses, and an extensive collection of home liturgies, its major part being dedicated to the life cycle.

The unparalleled text compilation of the Nuremberg Miscellany on the one hand, and the naïve, untrained illustrations on the other hand, are puzzling. Its illustrations are hardly mindful of volume, depth or perspective, and their folk-art nature suggests that an unprofessional artist, possibly even the scribe himself, may have executed them. Whoever the illustrator was, his vast knowledge of Jewish lore unfolds layer after layer in a most intricate way. His sharp eye for detail renders the images he executed a valid representation of contemporary visual culture.

The iconography of the Nuremberg Miscellany, with its 55 decorated leaves, featuring 25 text illustrations, falls into two main categories: biblical themes, and depictions of daily life, both sacred and mundane. While the biblical illustrations rely largely on artistic rendering and interpretation of texts, the depictions of daily life are founded mainly on current furnishings and accoutrements in Jewish homes. The customs and rituals portrayed in the miscellany attest not only to the local Jewish Minhag, but also to the influence and adaptation of local Germanic or Christian rites. They thus offer first-hand insights to the interrelations between the Jews and their neighbors.

Examined as historical documents, the images in the Nuremberg Miscellany are an invaluable resource for reconstructing Jewish daily life in Ashkenaz in the early modern period. In a period from which only scanty relics of Jewish material culture have survived, retrieving the pictorial data from images incorporated in literary sources is of vital importance in providing the missing link. Corroborated by similar objects from the host society and with descriptions in contemporary Jewish and Christian written sources, the household objects, as well as the ceremonial implements depicted in the manuscript can serve as effective mirrors for the material culture of an affluent German Jewish family in the Early Modern period.

The complete Nuremberg Miscellany is reproduced in the appendix of this book.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110414196
ISBN:: 9783110414196
ISBN:: 9783110414288
ISBN:: 9783110354218
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: German-Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Diaspora
Subject:: German-Jewish History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Death in Jewish Life

Book Open Access 2014

Death in Jewish Life

Burial and Mourning Customs Among Jews of Europe and Nearby Communities

Stefan C. Reif, Andreas Lehnardt, Avriel Bar-Levav

Volume 1 in the series Rethinking Diaspora

Volume 78 in this series

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Jewish customs and traditions about death, burial and mourning are numerous, diverse and intriguing. They are considered by many to have a respectable pedigree that goes back to the earliest rabbinic period. In order to examine the accurate historical origins of many of them, an international conference was held at Tel Aviv University in 2010 and experts dealt with many aspects of the topic. This volume includes most of the papers given then, as well as a few added later. What emerges are a wealth of fresh material and perspectives, as well as the realization that the high Middle Ages saw a set of exceptional innovations, some of which later became central to traditional Judaism while others were gradually abandoned. Were these innovations influenced by Christian practice? Which prayers and poems reflect these innovations? What do the sources tell us about changing attitudes to death and life-after death? Are tombstones an important guide to historical developments? Answers to these questions are to be found in this unusual, illuminating and readable collection of essays that have been well documented, carefully edited and well indexed.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339185
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033861-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033918-5
ISBN:: 9783110552164
ISBN:: 9783110377484
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Hebrew between Jews and Christians

Book 2023

Hebrew between Jews and Christians

Daniel Stein Kokin

Volume 77 in this series

Though typically associated more with Judaism than Christianity, the status and sacrality of Hebrew has nonetheless been engaged by both religious cultures in often strikingly similar ways. The language has furthermore played an important, if vexed, role in relations between the two. Hebrew between Jews and Christians closely examines this frequently overlooked aspect of Judaism and Christianity's common heritage and mutual competition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339826
ISBN:: 9783110339826
ISBN:: 9783111619958
ISBN:: 9783110389517
ISBN:: 9783110338638
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish Languages
Subject:: Hebrew
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tractates Pesahim and Yoma

Book Open Access 2013

Tractates Pesahim and Yoma

Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

Part of the multi-volume work The Jerusalem Talmud > Second Order: Mo‘ed

Volume 74 in this series

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This volume of the Jerusalem Talmud comprises the fourth and fifth tractates of the Second Order. Pesahim introduces the prescriptions regarding Passover; Yoma covers regulations related to Yom Kippur, especially the role of the Kohen Gadol and the order of services. The tractates are vocalized by the rules of Rabbinic Hebrew with an English translation. They are presented with full use of existing Genizah texts and with an extensive commentary explaining the Rabbinic background necessary for understanding the texts.

the author is Professor Emeritus at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU. He is the author of numerous publications in the fields of mathematics, Jewish studies, and philosophy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110315981
ISBN:: 9783110315912
ISBN:: 9783110315981
ISBN:: 9783110681246
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Talmuda de-Eretz Israel

Book 2014

Talmuda de-Eretz Israel

Archaeology and the Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine

Steven Fine, Aaron Koller

Volume 73 in this series

Talmuda de-Eretz Israel: Archaeology and the Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine brings together an international community of historians, literature scholars and archaeologists to explore how the integrated study of rabbinic texts and archaeology increases our understanding of both types of evidence, and of the complex culture which they together reflect. This volume reflects a growing consensus that rabbinic culture was an “embodied” culture, presenting a series of case studies that demonstrate the value of archaeology for the contextualization of rabbinic literature. It steers away from later twentieth-century trends, particularly in North America, that stressed disjunction between archaeology and rabbinic literature, and seeks a more holistic approach.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512875
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-485-5
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-287-5
ISBN:: 9781614518518
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Classical Archaeology
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Ethnos und Herrschaft

Book 2013

Ethnos und Herrschaft

Politische Figurationen judäischer Identität von Antiochos III. bis Herodes I.

Benedikt Eckhardt

Volume 72 in this series

In the nearly 200 years between Antiochos III and Herod I, Judea experienced a rapid shift in forms of rule. Yet how did changes in the representation of rule affect the conception of the Judaic ethnos held by rulers and subjects? This exploration makes apparent the contingencies and variability of ethnic figurations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110309171
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030895-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030917-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: Historical, Political and Cultural Background
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Studies in Classical Hebrew

Book 2014

Studies in Classical Hebrew

Moshe Bar-Asher

Volume 71 in this series

Professor Moshe Bar-Asher, Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University and long-time president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, has published more than 200 articles and sixteen books and edited aboout 90 books and collections. The vast majority of his work has been accessible, however, only to specialists who read modern Hebrew or French. Bar-Asher’s groundbreaking articles on the dialects of rabbinic literature are classics. In more recent years he has brought the same breadth and depth of grammatical knowledge, and philological acumen, to the study of older classical Hebrew texts, including literary and epigraphic texts.
This volume presents studies of individual words and verses within the Bible, as well as broader thematic discussions of biblical language and its long reception-history, down through medieval scribes and modern lexicographers. Also represented are Bar-Asher’s penetrating studies of Qumran texts and languages, which illuminate both the linguistic traditions reflected in these texts and the scribal culture from which they emerged. The third section contains studies of Mishnaic Hebrew. There are both sweeping surveys of the field and its accomplishments and challenges, and studies of specific phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical features.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110300390
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030024-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030039-0
ISBN:: 9783110485936
ISBN:: 9783110367829
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish Languages
Subject:: Hebrew
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Languages of Asia
Subject:: Semitic Languages
Subject:: Semitic Languages, other
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Samaritaner und die Bibel / The Samaritans and the Bible

Book 2012

Die Samaritaner und die Bibel / The Samaritans and the Bible

Historische und literarische Wechselwirkungen zwischen biblischen und samaritanischen Traditionen / Historical and Literary Interactions between Biblical and Samaritan Traditions

Jörg Frey, Ursula Schattner-Rieser, Konrad Schmid

Volume 7 in the series Studia Samaritana

Volume 70 in this series

The history and writings of the Samaritans remain an often overlooked subject in the field of biblical studies. This volume, which assembles papers presented at a 2010 symposium held in Zurich, illuminates the history of the Samaritans as well as passages that address them in biblical sources. Through a subsequent comparison to perspectives found in Samaritan sources concerning biblical, early Jewish, and early Christian history, we are presented with counterpoising perceptions that open up new opportunities for discourse.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110294361
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029409-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029436-1
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tractates Šabbat and ‘Eruvin

Book Open Access 2012

Tractates Šabbat and ‘Eruvin

Part of the multi-volume work The Jerusalem Talmud > Second Order: Mo‘ed

Volume 68 in this series

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This volume of the Jerusalem Talmud publishes the first two tractates of the Second Order, Šabbat and ‘Eruvin. These tractates deal with discussion of all regulations regarding Shabbat, the weekly day of rest, including the activities prohibited on Shabbat. The tractate ‘Eruvin covers questions of definition of what is allowed to do on Shabbat. The Second Order is the last one to be published in Heinrich W. Guggenheimer’s edition of the Jerusalem Talmud.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110289039
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028900-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028903-9
ISBN:: 9783110681260
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Moses Mendelssohns Sprachpolitik

Book 2012

Moses Mendelssohns Sprachpolitik

Grit Schorch

Volume 67 in this series

This book is the first comprehensive study on Moses Mendelssohn’s (1729–1786) language philosophy. While guiding the reader through his œuvre, a new perspective is gained that brings Mendelssohn closer to the skeptical currents of Enlightenment. The dialectics of human and sacred language play a constitutive role for his language theory as well as for his aesthetics and metaphysics, and finally lead into the political idea of a just, social order. Thus, he developed an important alternative to monolingual, national language concepts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110275629
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027559-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027562-9
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Aesthetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Samaria, Samarians, Samaritans

Book 2011

Samaria, Samarians, Samaritans

Studies on Bible, History and Linguistics

József Zsengellér

Volume 6 in the series Studia Samaritana

Volume 66 in this series

Papers in this volume were presented at the seventh international conference of the Société d’Études Samaritaines held at the Reformed Theological Academy of Pápa, Hungary in July 17–25, 2008. The discussed Samaritan topics permeate different areas of biblical studies: The question of the Samaritan Pentateuch has a serious impact on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible. The pre-Samaritan text-type among the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as the dating and isolation of Samaritan features of the Samaritan Pentateuch provide fresh and important data for gaining a better understanding of the composition of the Torah/Pentateuch. New reconstructions of the early history of the Samaritans have a great effect on the history of the Jewish people in the Persian and Hellenistic period. As a distinct group in the centuries around the turn of the Common Era in Palestine, Samaritans played an important role in the social and religious formation of early Judaism and early Christianity. Living for centuries under Islamic rule, Samaritans provide a good example of linguistic, cultural and religious developments experienced by ethnic and religious group in Islamic contexts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110268201
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026804-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026820-1
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Wissenschaft in Öffentlichkeit

Book 2012

Wissenschaft in Öffentlichkeit

Die Wissenschaft des Judentums und ihre Zeitschriften

Kerstin von der Krone

Volume 65 in this series

The science of Judaism brought a radical change in the perspective on Jewish history and culture. This book applies, for the first time, the perspective of history of communication and of science to examine the journals of this academically peripheral and transnational movement for Jewish studies. On this basis, the Jewish scholarly press of the 19th and early 20th centuries is revealed as the essential medium for communication between scholars and as the primary forum for a Jewish scholarly discourse.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110267068
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026613-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026706-8
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: History of Literary Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Rabbi - Pastor - Priest

Book 2013

Rabbi - Pastor - Priest

Their Roles and Profiles Through the Ages

Walter Homolka, Heinz-Günther Schöttler

Volume 64 in this series

Both Judaism and Christianity have authorized clergy, charged with fulfilling a multitude of tasks in their respective communities. They teach, provide pastoral care, and preach. They lead worship, hold services and offer counseling regarding all aspects of life. They perform religious rites at the beginning and end of life as well as in-between. They make decisions regarding religious questions, serve as administrators, and possibly even mediate ‛between heaven and earth’.
The concrete forms of realization and the functions of the office are not only defined through theological specification but are also subject to trends and influences. This in turn leads to constant change and adaptation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110266962
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026601-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026696-2
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Pastoral Counseling
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Theodicy of Culture and the Jewish Ethos

Book 2012

Theodicy of Culture and the Jewish Ethos

David Koigen’s Contribution to the Sociology of Religion

Martina Urban

Volume 63 in this series

This volume presents the theory of culture of the Russian‑born German Jewish social philosopher David Koigen (1879–1933). Heir to Hermann Cohen’s neo‑Kantian interpretation of Judaism, he transforms the religion of reason into an ethical Intimitätsreligion. He draws upon a great variety of intellectual currents, among them, Max Scheler’s philosophy of values, the historical sociology of Max Weber, the sociology of religion of Émile Durkheim, Ernst Troeltsch and Georg Simmel and American pragmatism. Influenced by his personal experience of marginality in German academia yet the same time unconstrained by the dictates of the German Jewish discourse, Koigen shapes these theoretical strands into an original argument which unfolds along two trajectories: theodicy of culture and ethos. Distinguished from ethics, ethos identifies the non-formal factors that foster a group’s sense of collective identity as it adapts to continuous change. From a Jewish perspective, ethos is grounded in the biblical covenant as the paradigm of a social contract and corporate liability. Although the normative content of the covenantal ethos is subject to gradual secularization, its metaphysical and existential assumptions, Koigen argues, continue to inform Jewish self-understanding. The concept of ethos identifies the dialectic of tradition as it shapes Jewish religious consciousness, and, in turn, is shaped by the evolving cultural and axiological sensibilities. In consonance, Jewish identity cannot be reduced to ethnicity or a purely secular culture. Urban develops these fragmentary and inchoate theories into a sociology of religious knowledge and suggests to read Koigen not just as a Jewish sociologist but as the first sociologist of Judaism who proposes to overcome the dogmatic anti-metaphysical stance of European sociology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110247732
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024772-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024773-2
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Other 20th-Century Thinkers
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Many Pious Women

Book 2011

Many Pious Women

Edition and Translation

Harry Fox, Justin Jaron Lewis

Volume 62 in this series

This work is of importance to anyone with an interest in whether women, especially Jewish Ashkenazic women, had a Renaissance. It details the participation in the Querelle des Femmes and Power of Women topos as expressed in this hagiographic work on the lives of biblical women including the apocryphal Judith. The Power of Women topos is discussed in the context of the reception of the Amazon myth in Jewish literature and the domestication of powerful female figures. In the Querelle our author pleads with husbands for generosity and respect for their wives’ piety. Whether women living in the Renaissance experienced a renaissance is a debate raging since Joan Kelly raised the possibility that this historic phenomenon essentially did not affect women. The question is raised with reference to the women depicted in Many Pious Women. These topics find their expression in a richly annotated translation with extensive introductory essays of a unique 16th–century manuscript in Western Yiddish (Judeo–German) written in Italy. The text will also be useful to scholars of the history of Yiddish and theorists of its development. Women everywhere, gender and Renaissance scholars, Yiddishists and linguists will all welcome this work now available for the very first time in the original text with an English translation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110262087
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026205-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026208-7
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: Germanic Languages, other
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tractates Ševu'ot and 'Avodah Zarah

Book Open Access 2011

Tractates Ševu'ot and 'Avodah Zarah

Part of the multi-volume work The Jerusalem Talmud > Fourth Order: Neziqin

Volume 61 in this series

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This is volume 13 of the edition of the complete Jerusalem Talmud. Within the Fourth Order Neziqin (“damages”), these two tractates deal with various types of oaths and their consequences (Ševu‛ot) and laws pertaining to Jews living amongst gentiles, including regulations about the interaction between Jews and “idolators” (‛Avodah Zarah).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110258066
ISBN:: 9783110258059
ISBN:: 9783110258066
ISBN:: 9783110681147
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: German-Jewish Thought Between Religion and Politics

Book 2012

German-Jewish Thought Between Religion and Politics

Festschrift in Honor of Paul Mendes-Flohr on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday

Christian Wiese, Martina Urban

Volume 60 in this series

Since the Enlightenment period, German-Jewish intellectuals have been prominent voices in the multi-facetted discourse on the reinterpretation of Jewish tradition in light of modern thinking. Paul Mendes-Flohr, one of the towering figures of current scholarship on German-Jewish intellectual history, has made invaluable contributions to a better understanding of the religious, cultural and political dimensions of these thinkers’ encounter with German and European culture, including the tension between their loyalty to Judaism and the often competing claims of non-Jewish society and culture. This volume assembles essays by internationally acknowledged scholars in the field who intend to honor Mendes-Flohr’s work by portraying the abundance of religious, philosophical, aesthetical and political aspects dominating the thinking of those famous thinkers populating German Jewry's rich and complex intellectual world in the modern period. It also provides a fresh theoretical outlook on trends in Jewish intellectual history, raising new questions concerning the dialectics of assimilation. In addition to that, the volume sheds light on thinkers and debates that hitherto have not been accorded full scholarly attention.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110247756
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024774-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024775-6
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Thought
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Samson Raphael Hirsch

Book 2011

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Jüdische Erfahrungswelten im historischen Kontext

Roland Tasch

Volume 59 in this series

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888) was one of those personalities without whom any presentation of the development of German Jewry would remain fragmentary. His name is inseparable with that of the secession movement, a new organizational form which severed all ties to the Jewish “Main Community” (Großgemeinde). Hirsch was so eloquent in expressing his ideas, which once again placed festivals and rituals at the center of Jewish life, that he not only influenced the young Gerschom Scholem, but also Franz Rosenzweig’s work Star of Redemption.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110251104
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025109-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025110-4
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Humanistische Kabbala im Barock

Book 2011

Humanistische Kabbala im Barock

Leben und Werk des Abraham Cohen de Herrera

Gerold Necker

Volume 58 in this series

The author reconstructs the adventurous life of the Kabbalist Abraham Cohen de Herrera (d. 1635) in the context of his mystic works. Herrera wrote a synthesis between Christian-oriented Renaissance philosophy, humanistic educational tradition and the kabbalistic ideas of Isaac Luria. His biography is exemplary for the importance of Jewish families, who previously had undergone forced baptism in Spain, in the economic and political structures of the major European powers in the early Baroque period.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110252217
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025220-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025221-7
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Jüdische Existenz in der Moderne

Book 2013

Jüdische Existenz in der Moderne

Abraham Geiger und die Wissenschaft des Judentums

Christian Wiese, Walter Homolka, Thomas Brechenmacher

Volume 57 in this series

In this book, internationally renowned historians reconstruct the biography and intellectual development of the rabbi and historian Abraham Geiger (1810–1874). The focus is on Geiger’s intellectual defense of Judaism’s right to exist, his efforts for a modernizing reform of the Jewish communities as well as his interpretation of the relationship of Judaism to Christianity and Islam, which is also important for the current interreligious dialogue.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110247596
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024758-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024759-6
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Reclaiming the Hebrew Bible

Book 2011

Reclaiming the Hebrew Bible

German-Jewish Reception of Biblical Criticism

Ran HaCohen, Michelle Engel

Volume 56 in this series

The 19th century saw the rise of Biblical Criticism in German universities, culminating in Wellhausen’s radical revision of the history of biblical times and religion. For German-Jewish intellectuals, the academic discipline promised emancipation from traditional Christian readings of Scripture – but at the same time suffered from what was perceived as anti-Jewish bias, this time in scholarly robes. “Reclaiming the Hebrew Bible”‎ describes the German-Jewish strategies to cope with Biblical Criticism – varying from an enthusiastic welcome in the early decades, through modified adoption in Jewish Reform circles, to resolute rejection in the Orthodox camp. The study surveys the awareness and attitudes towards Biblical Criticism in the popular German-Jewish periodicals, and analyzes in depth the works of the first modern Jewish historian I. M. Jost (1793–1860), of the theologian S. L. Steinheim (1789–1866), and of the Reform activist Siegmund Maybaum (1844–1919).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110247572
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024756-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024757-2
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Entdeckung des Christentums in der Wissenschaft des Judentums

Book 2010

Die Entdeckung des Christentums in der Wissenschaft des Judentums

Görge K. Hasselhoff

Volume 54 in this series

This collective volume explores an aspect of the “Science of Judaism” which has received little attention up until now. In common use, this term is almost exclusively associated with the scholarly analysis of Judaism. In contrast, the authors of this volume illuminate the different encounters of Jewish scholars with Christianity and the impact of these encounters on the establishment of their Judaism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110246292
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024628-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024629-2
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Religion in Europe
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Samaritans – Past and Present

Book 2010

Samaritans – Past and Present

Current Studies

Menachem Mor, Friedrich V. Reiterer, Waltraud Winkler

Volume 5 in the series Studia Samaritana

Volume 53 in this series

The articles in this volume originated from lectures given in two meetings devoted to the Samaritans. The first was the sixth conference of the Société d’Etudes Samaritaines, which took place at the University of Haifa in July 2004. The second meeting was part of the SBL International Conference in Vienna, July 2007.
The volume reflects the current state of research on the Samaritans. It presents a wide spectrum of approaches, including historical questions, the political, religious and social context of the Samaritans in the past and present, linguistic approaches, the role of the Samaritans in the Talmudic literature, and questions of identity of the Samaritans up to now.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212839
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019497-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021283-9
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Egyptian Cultural Icons in Midrash

Book 2009

Egyptian Cultural Icons in Midrash

Rivka Ulmer

Volume 52 in this series

Rabbinic midrash included Egyptian religious concepts. These textual images are compared to Egyptian culture. Midrash is analyzed from a cross-cultural perspective utilizing insights from the discipline of Egyptology. Egyptian textual icons in rabbinic texts are analyzed in their Egyptian context.
Rabbinic knowledge concerning Egypt included: Alexandrian teachers are mentioned in rabbinic texts; Rabbis traveled to Alexandria; Alexandrian Jews traveled to Israel; trade relations existed; Egyptian, as well as Roman and Byzantine, artifacts relating to Egypt.
Egyptian elements in the rabbinic discourse: the Nile inundation, the Greco-Roman Nile god, festivals, mummy portraits, funeral customs, language, Pharaohs, Cleopatra VII, magic, the gods Isis and Serapis. The hermeneutical role of Egyptian cultural icons in midrash is explored. Methods applied: comparative literature; semiotics; notions of time and space; the dialectical model of Theodor Adorno; theories of cultural identity by Jürgen Habermas; iconography (Mary Hamer); landscape theory; embodied fragments of memory (Jan Assmann).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110223934
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022392-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022393-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tractates Sanhedrin, Makkot, and Horaiot

Book Open Access 2010

Tractates Sanhedrin, Makkot, and Horaiot

Part of the multi-volume work The Jerusalem Talmud > Fourth Order: Neziqin

Volume 51 in this series

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Volume 12 in the edition of the complete Jerusalem Talmud. Tractates Sanhedrin and Makkot belong together as one tractate, covering procedural law for panels of arbitration, communal rabbinic courts (in bare outline) and an elaborate construction of hypothetical criminal courts supposedly independent of the king’s administration. Tractate Horaiot, an elaboration of Lev. 4:1–26, defines the roles of High Priest, rabbinate, and prince in a Commonwealth strictly following biblical rules.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219616
ISBN:: 9783110219609
ISBN:: 9783110219616
ISBN:: 9783110680706
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Gender and Dialogue in the Rabbinic Prism

Book 2012

Gender and Dialogue in the Rabbinic Prism

Admiel Kosman, Edward Levin

Volume 50 in this series

The author applies the fields of gender studies, psychoanalysis, and literature to Talmudic texts. In opposition to the perception of Judaism as a legal system, he argues that the Talmud demands inner spiritual effort, to which the trait of humility and the refinement of the ego are central. This leads to the question of the attitude to the Other, in general, and especially to women. The author shows that the Talmud places the woman (who represents humility and good-heartedness in the Talmudic narratives) above the character of the male depicted in these narratives as a scholar with an inflated sense of self-importance.
In the last chapter (that in terms of its scope and content could be a freestanding monograph) the author employs the insights that emerged from the preceding chapters to present a new reading of the Creation narrative in the Bible and the Rabbinic commentaries. The divine act of creation is presented as a primal sexual act, a sort of dialogic model of the consummate sanctity that takes its place in man’s spiritual life when the option of opening one’s heart to the other in a male-female dialogue is realized.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110218640
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020705-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021864-0
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Law
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Midrasch Wajoscha

Book 2009

Midrasch Wajoscha

Edition – Tradition – Interpretation

Elisabeth Wies-Campagner

Volume 49 in this series

Until recently this mediaeval Aggadic Midrash, with its homiletic interpretation of verses from Genesis and Exodus, was known only in one of the two first-print variations. Besides the Akedah, this version of the Midrash also contains a final chapter with apocalyptic motifs such as Gog and Magog and the Antichrist Armilus. An examination of an earlier version based on 17 manuscripts dating from the 13th century to the first print of 1519, indicates that it can be seen as the forerunner or basis of the known version, also first printed in 1519. A key element of this early version is the introduction of the guardian angel of Egypt called Uzza and a commentary on Exodus 15:1-18, which includes parts of the story of Moses and the ten plagues. Extensive text analysis has revealed both early and contemporary sources, whilst comparisons with mediaeval Ashkenazic Synagogue poetry indicate the influence of historical events such as the crusades. Parts of both forms of tradition were absorbed in Yiddish and rhyming vernacular, probably in the 15th century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212952
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021294-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021295-2
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Mythology and Folk Literature
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Midrash and Multiplicity

Book 2009

Midrash and Multiplicity

Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer and the Renewal of Rabbinic Interpretive Culture

Steven Daniel Sacks

Volume 48 in this series

Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer represents a late development in “midrash”, or classical rabbinic interpretation, that has enlightened, intrigued and frustrated scholars of Jewish culture for the past two centuries. Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer’s challenge to scholarship includes such issues as the work’s authorship and authenticity, an asymmetrical literary structure as well as its ambiguous relationship with a variety of rabbinic, Islamic and Hellenistic works of interpretation. This cluster of issues has contributed to the confusion about the work’s structure, origins and identity. Midrash and Multiplicity addresses the problems raised by this equivocal work, and uses Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer in order to assess the nature of “midrash”, and the renewal of Jewish interpretive culture, during its transition to the medieval era of the early “Geonim”.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212822
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020922-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021282-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Von Hiob zu Horkheimer

Book 2009

Von Hiob zu Horkheimer

Gesammelte Schriften zum Judentum und seiner Umwelt

Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich, Walter Homolka, Tobias Barniske

Volume 47 in this series

The well-known Judaic scholar and historian, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007), started his academic career in 1940 at the Berlin College for Judaic Studies. In 1943 he successfully fled from Nazi Germany to Switzerland. He held academic posts at the Universities of Zurich, Basle, Frankfurt/Main and Berlin.

From an early stage in his career, Ehrlich worked for dialogue between Jews and Christians. During the Second Vatican Council he was an adviser to Cardinal Augustin Bea drafting the statement Nostrae Aetate dealing with relations between the Catholic Church and non-Christian religions.

This volume in the series Studia Judaica brings together Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich’s writings on the history, theology and ethics of Judaism and it honors the founder of the series Studia Judaica. They illustrate the breadth of his academic interests and testify to his life-long efforts to make knowledge about Jewish religion and culture available to a wide readership.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212709
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020257-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021270-9
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Overviews and Introductions
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Inner-Midrashic Introductions and Their Influence on Introductions to Medieval Rabbinic Bible Commentaries

Book 2009

Inner-Midrashic Introductions and Their Influence on Introductions to Medieval Rabbinic Bible Commentaries

Michel G. Distefano

Volume 46 in this series

The opening sections of some exegetical Midrashim deal with the same type of material that is found in introductions to medieval rabbinic Bible commentaries. The application of Goldberg’s form analysis to these sections reveals the new form “Inner-Midrashic Introduction” (IMI) as a thematic discourse on introductory issues to biblical books. By its very nature the IMI is embedded within the comments on the first biblical verse (1:1). Further analysis of medieval rabbinic Bible commentary introductions in terms of their formal, thematic, and material characteristics, reveals that a high degree of continuity exists between them and the IMIs, including another newly discovered form, the “Inner-Commentary Introduction”. These new discoveries challenge the current view that traces the origin of Bible introduction in Judaism exclusively to non-Jewish models. They also point to another important link between the Midrashim and the commentaries, i.e., the decomposition of the functional form midrash in the new discoursive context of the commentaries. Finally, the form analysis demonstrates how larger discourses are formed in the exegetical Midrashim.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110213690
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021368-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021369-0
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Medieval Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tractates Bava Qamma, Bava Mesi'a, and Bava Batra

Book Open Access 2008

Tractates Bava Qamma, Bava Mesi'a, and Bava Batra

Part of the multi-volume work The Jerusalem Talmud > Fourth Order: Neziqin

Volume 45 in this series

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The present volume is the eleventh in the series of the Jerusalem Talmud, the first in a three volume edition, translation, and commentary of the Fourth Order Neziqin.
The thirty chapters of Neziqin that deal with most aspects of Civil Law are usually divided into three parts, or “gates”, known as the First Gate, Bava qamma, the Middle Gate, Bava mesi‘a, and the Last Gate, Bava batra.

In contrast to the Babylonian Talmud, the treatment in the Jerusalem Talmud is fragmentary. The reason for this is a matter of controversy, discussed in the Introduction to the Tractate.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110217995
ISBN:: 9783110209433
ISBN:: 9783110217995
ISBN:: 9783110681154
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Konzeption des Messias bei Maimonides und die frühmittelalterliche islamische Philosophie

Book 2009

Die Konzeption des Messias bei Maimonides und die frühmittelalterliche islamische Philosophie

Francesca Yardenit Albertini

Volume 44 in this series

Moses Maimonides (1138–1204) supported a concept of the Messiah which was radically new within the Jewish tradition. The author of the present volume examines whether and to what extent this concept can be traced back to Early Medieval Islamic philosophy. She devotes particular attention to the religio-philosophical, philological, historical and political aspects of such an encounter. Starting from Islamic receptions of Plato’s and Aristotle’s thinking and from Karaitic theology, she undertakes a detailed analysis of the figure of the Messiah-King, of the notion of the “world to come” and of national and supra-national eschatology regarding the days of the Messiah.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212655
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020636-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021265-5
Subject:: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Islamic Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tractate Qiddušin

Book Open Access 2008

Tractate Qiddušin

Part of the multi-volume work The Jerusalem Talmud > Third Order: Našim

Volume 43 in this series

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This volume concludes the edition, translation, and commentary of the third order of the Jerusalem Talmud. The pentateuchal expression lqkh 'ššh “to take as wife” is more correctly translated either as “to acquire as wife” or “to select as wife”. The Tractate Qiddušin deals with all aspects of acquisition as well as the permissible selections of wives and the consequences of illicit relations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110971262
ISBN:: 9783110202908
ISBN:: 9783110971262
ISBN:: 9783110681215
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Piyyut Commentary in Medieval Ashkenaz

Book 2008

Piyyut Commentary in Medieval Ashkenaz

Elisabeth Hollender

Volume 42 in this series

In medieval Ashkenaz piyyut commentary was a popular genre that consisted of ‛open texts’ that continued to be edited by almost each copyist. Although some early commentators can be identified, it is mainly compilers that are responsible for the transmitted form of text. Based on an ample corpus of Ashkenazic commentaries the study provides a taxonomy of commentary elements, including linguistic explanations, treatment of hypotexts, and medieval elements, and describes their use by different commentators and compilers. It also analyses the main techniques of compilation and the various ways they were employed by compilers. Different types of commentaries are described that target diverse audiences by using varied sets of commentary elements and compilatory techniques. Several commentaries are edited to illustrate the different commentary types.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110204094
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019664-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020409-4
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Preaching in Judaism and Christianity

Book 2008

Preaching in Judaism and Christianity

Encounters and Developments from Biblical Times to Modernity

Alexander Deeg, Walter Homolka, Heinz-Günther Schöttler

Volume 41 in this series

It is a widespread idea that the roots of the Christian sermon can be found in the Jewish derasha. But the story of the interrelation of the two homiletical traditions, Jewish and Christian, from New Testament times to the present day is still untold. Can homiletical encounters be registered? Is there a common homiletical history - not only in the modern era, but also in rabbinic times and in the Middle Ages? Which current developments affect Jewish and Christian preaching today, in the 21st century? And, most important, what consequences may result from this mutual perception of Jewish and Christian homiletics for homiletical research and the practice of preaching?

This book offers the papers of the first international conference (Bamberg, Germany, 6th to 8th March 2007) which brought together Jewish and Christian scholars to discuss Jewish and Christian homiletics in their historical development and relationship and to sketch out common homiletical projects.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110205244
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019665-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020524-4
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Overviews and Introductions
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Homiletics
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Letters

Edition, Translation and Introduction

Isaac Abravanel, Cedric Cohen Skalli

Volume 40 in this series

Almost five hundred years after his death, Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) remains a legendary figure of Sephardic history, and above all of the Expulsion of 1492. There are numerous “portraits” that have been painted of him by pre-modern and modern scholars. And still we hesitate and cannot discern which is the true one. This first critical edition of Abravanel’s Portuguese and Hebrew letters opens a unique window on a complex cultural process of assimilation and dissimulation of humanism among the fifteenth-century Jewish elite. On the one hand, it establishes Abravanel’s assimilation of Iberian humanism and of major aspects of the Petrarchian consolatio; on the other hand, it points at the strategies used by him to dissimulate and adapt humanism to Jewish leadership. The duality of Jewish humanists like Don Isaac was obviously a great richness, but it indicated as well their difficulty in expressing themselves coherently and comprehensively in one of the two agoras - Jewish or Christian – in which they were involved as literati and writers. The present edition and study of Abravanel’s Portuguese and Hebrew letters sheds a new light on the complexity of this new figure of the Jewish humanist.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110896664
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019492-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089666-4
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tractates Gittin and Nazir

Book Open Access 2007

Tractates Gittin and Nazir

Part of the multi-volume work The Jerusalem Talmud > Third Order: Našim

Volume 39 in this series

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The ninth volume of this edition, translation, and commentary of the Jerusalem Talmud contains two Tractates.
The first Tractate, “Documents”, treats divorce law and principles of agency when written documents are required. Collateral topics are the rules for documents of manumission, those for sealed documents whose contents may be hidden from witnesses, the rules by which the divorced wife can collect the moneys due her, the requirement that both divorcer and divorcee be of sound mind, and the rules of conditional divorce. The second Tractate, “Nazirites”, describes the Nasirean vow and is the main rabbinic source about the impurity of the dead.

As in all volumes of this edition, a (Sephardic rabbinic) vocalized text is presented, with parallel texts used as source of variant readings. A new translation is accompanied by an extensive commentary explaining the rabbinic background of all statements and noting Talmudic and related parallels. Attention is drawn to the extensive Babylonization of the Giṭṭin text compared to genizah texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110898897
ISBN:: 9783110194593
ISBN:: 9783110898897
ISBN:: 9783110681239
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Hebrew Bible Reborn

Book 2007

The Hebrew Bible Reborn

From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books. A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism

Yaacov Shavit, Mordechai Eran, Chaya Naor

Volume 38 in this series

This work, the first of its kind, describes all the aspects of the Bible revolution in Jewish history in the last two hundred years, as well as the emergence of the new biblical culture.

It describes the circumstances and processes that turned Holy Scripture into the Book of Books and into the history of the biblical period and of the people – the Jewish people. It deals with the encounter of the Jews with modern biblical criticism and the archaeological research of the Ancient Near East and with contemporary archaeology.

The middle section discusses the extensive involvement of educated Jews in the Bible-Babel polemic at the start of the twentieth century, which it treats as a typological event.

The last section describes at length various aspects of the key status assigned to the Bible in the new Jewish culture in Europe, and particularly in modern Jewish Palestine, as a “guide to life” in education, culture and politics, as well as part of the attempt to create a new Jewish man, and as a source of inspiration for various creative arts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110200935
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019141-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020093-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Problems with Prayers

Book 2006

Problems with Prayers

Studies in the Textual History of Early Rabbinic Liturgy

Stefan C. Reif

Volume 37 in this series

Much of the primary research summarized here relates to Cambridge Genizah manuscripts, a thousand-year-old source that testifies to liturgical (as well, of course, as non-liturgical) developments that greatly predate other source material. When the research is concerned with pre-Genizah history, the Genizah evidence is also relevant since the historian of religious ideas must ultimately decide how to date, characterize, and conceptualize its contents and how to explain where they vary significantly from what became, or is regarded (rightly or wrongly) as having become, the standard rabbinic liturgy sanctioned by the Iraqi Jewish authorities from the ninth to the eleventh century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110895384
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019091-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089538-4
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: King Herod: A Persecuted Persecutor

Book 2007

King Herod: A Persecuted Persecutor

A Case Study in Psychohistory and Psychobiography

Aryeh Kasher, Eliezer Witztum, Karen Gold

Volume 36 in this series

The enigma of King Herod as a cruel bloodthirsty tyrant on the one hand, and a great builder on the other is discussed in a systematic modern historical and psychological study. It seeks to unravel the contradictory historic mystery of the man and his deeds. After A. Schalit's König Herodes, this study is a new comprehensive, pioneering study on the intriguing personality of Herod, also using the insights of psychology. Herod's mental state reached an acute level, consistent with the DSM-IV diagnosis for "Paranoid Personality Disorder". He grew up with an ambiguous identity and suffered from feelings of inferiority. Haunted by persecutory delusions, he executed almost any suspect of treason, including his wife and three sons.

The Hebrew original text was Winner of the Ya'acov Bahat Prize for Non-Fiction Hebrew Literature for 2006.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110200874
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018964-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020087-4
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: Historical, Political and Cultural Background
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Jewish Pesach and the Origins of the Christian Easter

Book 2006

The Jewish Pesach and the Origins of the Christian Easter

Open Questions in Current Research

Clemens Leonhard

Volume 35 in this series

The study assesses the main issues in the current debate about the early history of Pesach and Easter and provides new insights into the development of these two festivals. The author argues that the prescriptions of Exodus 12 provide the celebration of the Pesach in Jerusalem with an etiological background in order to connect the pilgrim festival with the story of the Exodus. The thesis that the Christian Easter evolved as a festival against a Jewish form of celebrating Pesach in the second century and that the development of Easter Sunday is dependent upon this custom is endorsed by the author’s close study of relevant texts such as the Haggada of Pesach; the “Poem of the four nights” in the Palestinian Targum Tradition; the structure of the Easter vigil.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110927818
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018857-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092781-8
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Overviews and Introductions
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Liturgical Studies
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tractate Ketubot

Book Open Access 2006

Tractate Ketubot

Sixth Order: Tahorot. Tractate Niddah

Part of the multi-volume work The Jerusalem Talmud > Third Order: Našim

Volume 34 in this series

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The Tractate Ketubot ("marriage contracts") discusses inter alia the sum specified at the time of marriage to be paid in the event of divorce or the husband's death, together with the mutual obligations of man and wife, the wife's property, the law of inheritance in the female line and the widow's rights.

The Tractate Nidda ("Female impurity") regulates conduct during menstruation (cf. Lev 15:19ff) and after birth (Lev 12); further topics are women's life stages, puberty and various medical questions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910209
ISBN:: 9783110190335
ISBN:: 9783110910209
ISBN:: 9783110681222
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Franz Joseph Molitor und die jüdische Tradition

Book 2006

Franz Joseph Molitor und die jüdische Tradition

Studien zu den kabbalistischen Quellen der "Philosophie der Geschichte". Mit einem Anhang unveröffentlichter Briefe von F. von Baader, E.J. Hirschfeld, F.J. Molitor und F.W.J. Schelling

Katharina Koch

Volume 33 in this series

This is the first systematic presentation of the life and work of the Frankfurt-based philosopher and Christian cabbalist F.J. Molitor (1779-1860) against the background of his dealings with Judaism.

Molitor represented the utopia of the Christian cabbala, which sees the oldest evidence of divine revelation in Jewish esotericism. His occupation with Jewish literature over a period of more than 40 years led to his being admired by the great intellectuals of his time, but also resulted in his poverty and social isolation. This study restores a hitherto largely neglected thinker to his rightful place in German intellectual history in the first half of the 19th century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110925173
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018892-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092517-3
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: "The Words of a Wise Man's Mouth are Gracious" (Qoh 10,12)

Book 2005

"The Words of a Wise Man's Mouth are Gracious" (Qoh 10,12)

Festschrift for Günter Stemberger on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday

Mauro Perani

Volume 32 in this series

In this volume of collected papers, acknowledged authorities in Jewish Studies mark the milestones in the development of the Jewish religion from ancient times up to the present. They also take full account of the interactions between Judaism and its ancient and Christian environment.

The renowned Viennese scholar Günter Stemberger is honoured with this festschrift on the occasion of his 65th birthday.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110901399
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018849-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090139-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tractates Sotah and Nedarim

Book Open Access 2005

Tractates Sotah and Nedarim

Part of the multi-volume work The Jerusalem Talmud > Third Order: Našim

Volume 31 in this series

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This volume, the second of a five-volume edition of the third order of the Jerusalem Talmud, deals in part I (Soṭah) with the ordeal of the wife suspected of adultery (Num 5) and the role of Hebrew in the Jewish ritual. Part II (Nedarim) is concerned with Korban and similar expressions, vows and their consequences, and vows of women (Num 30).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110891829
ISBN:: 9783110186680
ISBN:: 9783110891829
ISBN:: 9783110681178
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Trias of Maimonides / Die Trias des Maimonides

Book 2005

The Trias of Maimonides / Die Trias des Maimonides

Jewish, Arabic, and Ancient Culture of Knowledge / Jüdische, arabische und antike Wissenskultur

Georges Tamer

Volume 30 in this series

Jewish religion, Greek philosophy and Islamic thought mold the philosophy and theology of Maimonides and characterize his work as an excellent example of the fruitful transfer of culture in the Middle Ages. The authors show various aspects of this cultural cross-fertilization, despite religious and ethnic differences. The studies prompt thoughts on a question which is important for the present and the future: How may the different religions, cultures and concepts of knowledge continue to be conveyed in synthesis?

The volume publishes the lectures given at the July 2004 international congress at the occasion of the 800th anniversary of Maimonides’ death.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110922653
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018399-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092265-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tractate Yebamot

Book Open Access 2004

Tractate Yebamot

Part of the multi-volume work The Jerusalem Talmud > Third Order: Našim

Volume 29 in this series

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This, the first volume of a five-volume edition of the third order of the Jerusalem Talmud, deals with Jewish marital law and related topics. The volume is concerned with levirate marriage, considering other Jewish sects at the same time, with forbidden marriages and the judicial treatment of missing husbands, with the incapability to marry, and with the status of married juveniles.

The publication of one volume per year is planned.

Key feature

· Continuation of the well-received English-Aramaic edition

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919264
ISBN:: 9783110182910
ISBN:: 9783110919264
ISBN:: 9783110681161
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Studien zur jüdischen Bibel und ihrer Geschichte

Book 2004

Studien zur jüdischen Bibel und ihrer Geschichte

Johann Maier

Volume 28 in this series

The volume contains studies on the genesis of the Hebrew Bible and its function in the framework of the Jewish religion. In addition, it presents papers on individual Bible passages, which deal mainly with the self-representation and self-assertion of Judaism. Some of the essays had already been published, but have now been revised and updated.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110894981
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018209-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089498-1
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Overviews and Introductions
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Glauben und Wissen im Zeitalter der Reformation

Book 2004

Glauben und Wissen im Zeitalter der Reformation

Der salomonische Tempel bei Abraham ben David Portaleone (1542–1612)

Gianfranco Miletto

Volume 27 in this series

In the upheavals of the 15^th and 16^th centuries, Judaism and the Catholic Church were both confronted with the question of the compatibility of tradition and the new view of the world. While the Catholic Church defended familiar modes of thought to maintain its authority, some representatives of Jewish culture saw the contrast between the old and new worlds as a fundamental moral issue. Both found an ideal model for representing their cultural and political ideas in the symbol of the Solomonic Temple.

The aim of this study is to demonstrate parallels and to reconstruct the environment in which the Shilte ha-gibborim of Abraham ben David Portaleone were written.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110891560
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018150-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089156-0
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Pirke de-Rabbi Elieser

Book 2004

Pirke de-Rabbi Elieser

Nach der Edition Venedig 1544 unter Berücksichtigung der Edition Warschau 1852

Dagmar Börner-Klein

Volume 26 in this series

This first German translation of Pirke de-Rabbi Elieser (approx. 9^th cent.) is based on the Venice printed edition of 1544, which is the textual basis for the textus receptus (Warsaw 1852) with the commentary by David Luria (1798-1855). The deletions made for the 1852 Warsaw edition are marked in the Hebrew text which is included with the translation. These marked passages make it clear that the deletions in the 1852 Warsaw edition related particularly to comments which could have been seen as polemical by non-Jews.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110911497
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018111-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091149-7
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Moses ibn Tibbons Kommentar zum Hohelied und sein poetologisch-philosophisches Programm

Book 2004

Moses ibn Tibbons Kommentar zum Hohelied und sein poetologisch-philosophisches Programm

Synoptische Edition, Übersetzung und Analyse

Otfried Fraisse

Volume 25 in this series

The commentary that Moses ibn Tibbon (approx. 1195 - 1275) wrote on the Song of Solomon serves in this book as an example of the interlacing between Judaic-Arabic philosophy and Judaism’s traditional interpretation of hymns of praise. The authentic text is first established through philological manuscript analysis, a step that allows the true contour of Moses ibn Tibbon’s philosophy to emerge. He sought to render an exoteric materialist reinterpretation of the esoteric-metaphysical philosophy of Maimonides. This attempt not only aimed at a democratization of knowledge in medieval Jewish society but also led Moses ibn Tibbon to a philosophy of language that based the cognitive act on the aesthetic experience of the reader.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919578
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017900-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091957-8
Subject:: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Jüdisches Alltagsleben in einer mittelalterlichen Stadt

Book 2003

Jüdisches Alltagsleben in einer mittelalterlichen Stadt

Responsa des Rabbi Meir von Rothenburg

Barbara Mattes

Volume 24 in this series

Selected responsa of Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (ca. 1200-1293), which deal with pressing legal issues of his time, are translated and examined. His decisions are evaluated in their historical context. The study delineates the framework of the argumentation in these advisory opinions and makes the complicated structure of the texts accessible. Comparisons with the legal situation of the surrounding culture show differences and similarities and offer insights into everyday Jewish life.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110914429
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017917-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091442-9
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tractates Ma'aser Seni, Hallah, 'Orlah, and Bikkurim

Book Open Access 2003

Tractates Ma'aser Seni, Hallah, 'Orlah, and Bikkurim

Part of the multi-volume work The Jerusalem Talmud > First Order: Zeraim

Volume 23 in this series

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This volume concludes the edition, translation, and commentary of the first order of the "Jerusalem Talmud". It contains four small but important tractates.

The first, Ma‘aser Šeni, deals with Second Tithe (Deut. 14:22-27) and the fourth-year fruit of a newly planted tree (Lev. 19:24). This is sanctified food, to be consumed by the laity at the holy precinct, for which redemption is expressly authorized. The tractate deals in large part with the problems of redemption of dedicated food. In addition, there is a long section on the interpretation of dreams, and a detailed description of the ceremony of presentation of the tithe in the Temple.

The second tractate, Hallah, details the application of the general rules of heave to the Cohen’s part of any bread dough.

The third tractate, ‘Orlah, the fruit of a newly planted tree during the first three years (Lev. 19:23), treats this as paradigm for all food whose usufruct is forbidden, and most of the tractate discusses the problems that may arise if any such food is not immediately disposed of.

The last tractate, Bikkurim, describes the rules for selection and presentation of First Fruits in the Temple on or after Pentecost. The rite is given in detail, with an excursus on the honor due elders.

A first appendix shows the position of the Tosephta as intermediary between Yerushalmi and Babli tradition, with a distinct slant towards Babylonian positions. A second appendix tries to identify the main authors of the tractates of this first order.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110906752
ISBN:: 9783110177633
ISBN:: 9783110906752
ISBN:: 9783110681307
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Pluralistic Halakhah

Book 2003

The Pluralistic Halakhah

Legal Innovations in the Late Second Commonwealth and Rabbinic Periods

Paul Heger

Volume 22 in this series

This study examines by a meticulous analysis of abundant rabbinic citations the pluralism of the Halakhah in the pre-70 period which stands in contrast to the fixed Halakhah of later periods. The Temple's destruction provoked, for political motives, the initiation of this significant shift, which protracted itself, in developmental stages, for a longer period. The transition from the Tannaitic to the Amoraic era was a consequential turning point on the extended path from flexibility to rigidity in Jewish law.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110901214
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017636-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090121-4
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tractates Terumot and Ma'serot

Book Open Access 2002

Tractates Terumot and Ma'serot

Edition, Translation, and Commentary

Part of the multi-volume work The Jerusalem Talmud > First Order: Zeraim

Volume 21 in this series

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First Order: Zeraïm / Tractates Terumot and Ma'serot is the forth volume in the edition of the Jerusalem Talmud, a basic work in Jewish Patristics.

The volume presents the fundamental Jewish texts on obligatory gift to priests, and tithes to Levites, and the poor. In addition, it contains the main health regulations developed within Jewish ritual law, the rules of Jewish solidarity, and a discussion of the rules, taken for granted in the Babylonian Talmud, under which minute amounts of inadvertently added forbidden material may be disregarded.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110908466
ISBN:: 9783110174366
ISBN:: 9783110908466
ISBN:: 9783110681284
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tractates Kilaim and Seviit

Book Open Access 2001

Tractates Kilaim and Seviit

Part of the multi-volume work The Jerusalem Talmud > First Order: Zeraim

Volume 20 in this series

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First Order: Zeraïm / Tractates Kilaim and Ševiït ist der dritte Band in der Edition des Jerusalemer Talmuds und ein grundlegendes Werk der Jüdischen Patristik.

Der Band präsentiert grundlegende jüdische Texte aus dem Bereich der Landwirtschaft: verbotene Mischungen von Saaten, Tieren und Geweben (Kilaim) sowie das Verbot landwirtschaftlicher Tätigkeit im Sabbatjahr, in dem auch alle Schulden zu erlassen sind (Ševiït).

Dieser Teil des Jerusalemer Talmuds hat so gut wie keine Entsprechung im Babylonischen Talmud. Ohne seine Kenntnis bleiben die diesbezüglichen Regeln der jüdischen Tradition unverständlich.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110849196
ISBN:: 9783110171228
ISBN:: 9783110849196
ISBN:: 9783110681314
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tractates Peah and Demay

Book Open Access 2000

Tractates Peah and Demay

Part of the multi-volume work The Jerusalem Talmud > First Order: Zeraim

Volume 19 in this series

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First Order: Zeraïm / Tractate Peah and Demay is the second volume in the edition of the Jerusalem Talmud, a basic work in Jewish Patristic. It presents basic Jewish texts on the organization of private and public charity, and on the modalities of coexistence of the ritually observant and the non-observant. This part of the Jerusalem Talmud has almost no counterpart in the Babylonian Talmud. Its study is prerequisite for an understanding of the relevant rules of Jewish tradition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110816587
ISBN:: 9783110166910
ISBN:: 9783110816587
ISBN:: 9783110681338
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tractate Berakhot

Book Open Access 2000

Tractate Berakhot

Edition, Translation, and Commentary

Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

Part of the multi-volume work The Jerusalem Talmud > First Order: Zeraim

Volume 18 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110800487
ISBN:: 9783110165913
ISBN:: 9783110800487
ISBN:: 9783110681321
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Abraham ibn Esras langer Kommentar zum Buch Exodus

Book 2000

Abraham ibn Esras langer Kommentar zum Buch Exodus

Bd 1: Parascha Schemot bis Beschalach (Ex 1–17). Bd 2: Parascha Jitro bis Pekudej (Ex 18–40)

Abraham Ibn Esra, Dirk U. Rottzoll

Volume 17 in this series

The medieval biblical scholar Abraham ibn Ezra was born about 1089 CE in Spain, emigrated shortly before 1140 to Italy, and later went on to France and England. He died in the year 1164. On the basis of the Warsaw textual edition as well as several manuscripts, this work in two volumes offers a German edition of Abraham ibn Ezra’s long commentary on the book of Exodus, written in the year 1153 in France.

In addition to the critical translation, accompanied by extensive commentary, there are two comprehensive introductions at the beginning of the present edition: the first deals among other things with the questions of whether Abraham ibn Ezra is the author of the commentary edited, and when and where he wrote it. The second is concerned with the sources employed by Abraham ibn Ezra; therefore the edition becomes a basic introduction to Jewish exegesis of the Bible in the classical period.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110803242
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016475-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080324-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Hermeneutic Biography in Rabbinic Midrash

Book 1996

Hermeneutic Biography in Rabbinic Midrash

The Body of this Death and Life

Aharon R. E. Agus

Volume 16 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110816037
ISBN:: 9783110816037
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Abraham ibn Esras Kommentar zur Urgeschichte

Book 1996

Abraham ibn Esras Kommentar zur Urgeschichte

Mit einem Anhang: Raschbams Kommentar zum ersten Kapitel der Urgeschichte

Abraham Ibn Esra, Dirk U. Rottzoll

Volume 15 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110816051
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015068-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081605-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Rabbinischer Kommentar zum Buch Genesis

Book 1994

Rabbinischer Kommentar zum Buch Genesis

Darstellung der Rezeption des Buches Genesis in Mischna und Talmud unter Angabe targumischer und midraschischer Paralleltexte

Dirk U. Rottzoll

Volume 14 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110887150
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014231-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088715-0
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Mysticism, Magic and Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism

Book 1995

Mysticism, Magic and Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism

International Symposium held in Frankfurt a.M. 1991

Karl Erich Grözinger, Joseph Dan

Volume 13 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110871753
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013744-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087175-3
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Abraham ibn Esras Kommentare zu den Büchern Kohelet, Ester und Rut

Book 1999

Abraham ibn Esras Kommentare zu den Büchern Kohelet, Ester und Rut

Avraham Ben-Me'ir Ibn-'Ezra, Dirk U. Rottzoll

Volume 12 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110802252
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016452-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080225-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Mysticism in Rabbinic Judaism

Book 1982

Mysticism in Rabbinic Judaism

Studies in the History of Midrash

Ira Chernus

Volume 11 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110852066
ISBN:: 9783110852066
ISBN:: 9783110085891
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Solidarität mit den Leidenden im Judentum

Book 1978

Solidarität mit den Leidenden im Judentum

Rachel Rosenzweig

Volume 10 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110838084
ISBN:: 9783110838084
ISBN:: 9783110059397
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Overviews and Introductions
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Prayer in the Talmud

Book 1977

Prayer in the Talmud

Joseph Heinemann

Volume 9 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110842449
ISBN:: 978-3-11-004289-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084244-9
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Rivalität zwischen Engeln und Menschen

Book 1975

Rivalität zwischen Engeln und Menschen

Untersuchungen zur rabbinischen Engelvorstellung

Peter Schäfer

Volume 8 in this series

Die vorliegende Untersuchung geht davon aus, daß abstrakte Kategorien
wie die des „reinen Gottesbegriffes", der „Transzendenz Gottes" oder der
„Vermeidung von Anthropomorphismen" von außen an die rabbinischen Texte
herangetragen werden und nicht geeignet sind, diese zu erhellen. Denkformen,
unter denen eine bestimmte Vorstellung zu subsumieren und von denen her
sie zu interpretieren ist, können sich nur aus der rabbinischen Literatur selbst
ergeben. Der Ausgangspunkt der Arbeit war daher die Sammlung und Sichtung
sämtlicher Stellen in der rabbinischen Literatur, in denen die Engel erwähnt
werden.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110830507
ISBN:: 978-3-11-004632-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083050-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Studien zum jüdischen Neuplatonismus

Book 1973

Studien zum jüdischen Neuplatonismus

Die Religionsphilosophie des Abraham Ibn Ezra

Hermann Greive

Volume 7 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110826999
ISBN:: 978-3-11-004116-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082699-9
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Medieval Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Einführung in die Mischna

Book 1971

Einführung in die Mischna

Chanoch Albeck, Tamar Galewski

Volume 6 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110838848
ISBN:: 9783110838848
ISBN:: 9783110064292
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Untersuchungen über die Vorstellung von der Schekhinah in der frühen rabbinischen Literatur

Book 1969

Untersuchungen über die Vorstellung von der Schekhinah in der frühen rabbinischen Literatur

Talmud und Midrach

Arnold M. Goldberg

Volume 5 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110831207
ISBN:: 9783110831207
ISBN:: 9783110013474
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: König Herodes

Book 2001

König Herodes

Der Mann und sein Werk

Abraham Schalit, Daniel Schwartz, Jehoshua Amir

Volume 4 in this series

Ein faszinierendes Lebensbild des letzten großen Königs von Judäa
Ein kulturgeschichtliches Panorama der Zeit um Christi Geburt
Eingeleitet von Daniel R. Schwartz, einem ausgewiesenen Kenner des Themas

Herodes der Große ist eine der schillerndsten politischen Figuren der frühen römischen Kaiserzeit. Seiner Bekanntschaft mit Antonius und Kaiser Augustus verdankte er den Aufstieg zum König von Judäa. Seinem Volk verhasst, war er ein äußerst gewiefter Realpolitiker: Einerseits akzeptierte er die Gegebenheiten der römischen Herrschaft und erschien vielen dadurch als Verräter am nationalen und religiösen Erbe; andererseits stärkte er aber auch die jüdische Identität durch den prachtvollen Ausbau des Jerusalemer Tempels, dessen Westmauer noch heute als Klagemauer ein zentrales Symbol jüdischer Frömmigkeit ist.

Schalits epochale Biographie bricht mit der parteilichen Geschichtsschreibung seiner Quellen und deutet Herodes konsequent als Realpolitiker, der die Machtverhältnisse im Römischen Reich richtig einschätzte und in diesem Rahmen seine eigene Macht durch geschicktes Taktieren, aber auch durch rücksichtslose politische Morde ausbaute. Zugleich spiegelt das Buch die Auseinandersetzung des Autors um Fragen von Macht und Widerstand nach der Erfahrung des Holocaust.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110887853
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017036-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088785-3
ISBN:: 9783110013467
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: Historical, Political and Cultural Background
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Ursprung und Anfänge der Kabbala

Book 2001

Ursprung und Anfänge der Kabbala

Gershom Scholem, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich, Joseph Dan

Volume 3 in this series

Der gebürtige Berliner Gershom Scholem (1897 - 1982), der 1923 nach Jerusalem emigrierte, wurde einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit zunächst hauptsächlich als der Freund und Nachlaßverwalter Walter Benjamins, als Schüler, Verehrer und Antipode Martin Bubers und als Kritiker Franz Rosenzweigs bekannt. Erst in den letzten Jahrzehnten wurde die ungewöhnliche Breite und Tiefe seines Denkens zunehmend als herausragender Beitrag zur europäischen Geistesgeschichte erkannt. Heute gilt Scholem als einer der führenden Intellektuellen Westeuropas und Amerikas und einer der wichtigsten Juden des 20. Jahrhunderts überhaupt.

Im Zentrum von Scholems schier unüberschaubaren Veröffentlichungen stand die Erforschung der als Kabbala bezeichneten jüdischen Mystik und mittelalterlichen Esoterik. Erst durch seine kritische Erfassung und Untersuchung der Quellen wurde es möglich, diese reichen, geheimnisvollen und versunkenen Traditionen jüdischer Geschichte zu entschlüsseln. Aus der Fülle seiner Publikationen ragt das Buch über "Ursprung und Anfänge der Kabbala" (1948 auf Hebräisch erschienen) heraus, das Scholem im persönlichen Gespräch als sein Hauptwerk bezeichnete.

Die Neuauflage dieses Klassikers wird durch ein Geleitwort von Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich eröffnet, dessen persönlicher Verbindung zu Scholem und unermüdlichem Einsatz es zu verdanken ist, daß Scholems Werk 1962 überhaupt in einer deutschen Ausgabe erscheinen konnte. In einem ausführlichen Nachwort würdigt Joseph Dan, Schüler und Nachfolger Scholems auf dem Lehrstuhl für jüdische Mystik an der Hebräischen Universität von Jerusalem, Scholems epochalen Beitrag zur kritischen Erforschung der jüdischen Mystik.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110887273
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017253-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088727-3
ISBN:: 9783110013450
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Geschichte der Juden im Zeitalter des Talmud

Book 1962

Geschichte der Juden im Zeitalter des Talmud

In den Tagen von Rom und Byzanz

Michael Avi-Yonah

Volume 2 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110831191
ISBN:: 9783110831191
ISBN:: 9783110013443
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Overviews and Introductions
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: On the Trial of Jesus

Book 1974

On the Trial of Jesus

Paul Winter, T. A. Burkill, Geza Vermes

Volume 1 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110825404
ISBN:: 978-3-11-002283-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082540-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Form and Function of Proverbs in Ancient Israel

Book 1974

The Form and Function of Proverbs in Ancient Israel

John M. Thompson

Volume 1 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110808155
ISBN:: 9783110808155
ISBN:: 9789027926753
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Functional Theories of Grammar
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: On the Trial of Jesus

Book 1961

On the Trial of Jesus

Paul Winter

Volume 1 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111386638
ISBN:: 978-3-11-102574-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-138663-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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