Going and Coming Home in Diasporan Pilgrimage: The Case of Philo's Ἱεροποµποί and Diaspora-Homeland Relations in Alexandrian Jewish Perspective

This article focuses on how community-sanctioned pilgrimage to Jerusalem could be employed to establish both the homeland and the diaspora as places of belonging. As a case study, I will analyze Philo's portrayal of the ἱεροποµποί—a term unique to Philo used to describe those chosen to carry of...

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Main Author: Trotter, Jonathan R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2019, Volume: 50, Issue: 1, Pages: 26-51
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Temple (Jerusalem, Motiv) / Philo, Alexandrinus 25 BC-40 / Jewish studies / Culture / Memory / Diaspora (social sciences) (Religion) / Judaism / Home / Pilgrimage / Tax
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
Further subjects:B cultural memory
B Philo of Alexandria
B Diaspora (social sciences)
B temple tax
B Pilgrimage
B Jerusalem Temple
B Homelands
B Second Temple Judaism
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