A companion to late ancient Jews and Judaism: third century BCE to seventh century CE
Introduction / Gwynn Kessler and Naomi Koltun-Fromm -- Where Jews Lived in the West? / Ross Kraemer -- Jewish Towns and Neighborhoods in Roman Palestine and Persian Babylonia / Mika Ahuvia -- Late Ancient Jewish Languages / Azzan Yadin-Israel -- Literature of the Jews, Fourth Century B.C.E. to Secon...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ
Wiley Blackwell
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | Blackwell companions to the ancient world
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Early Judaism
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B Judaism / History 300 BC-700 |
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Collection of essays
B Jews History 70-638 B Jews History 586 B.C.-70 A.D B Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D B Judaism History Talmudic period, 10-425 B Judaism ; Talmudic period B Judaism ; Post-exilic period (Judaism) B History B Jews B Rabbinical literature History and criticism B Rabbinical literature B Judaism ; Medieval and early modern period B Judaism History Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 B Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Summary: | Introduction / Gwynn Kessler and Naomi Koltun-Fromm -- Where Jews Lived in the West? / Ross Kraemer -- Jewish Towns and Neighborhoods in Roman Palestine and Persian Babylonia / Mika Ahuvia -- Late Ancient Jewish Languages / Azzan Yadin-Israel -- Literature of the Jews, Fourth Century B.C.E. to Second Century C.E. / Eva Mroczek -- Rabbinic Literature / Michal Bar Asher-Siegal -- Material Culture of the Second Temple Period (pre-70 C.E.) / Karen B. Stern -- How Do Jews Matter? Exploring Late-Ancient Mediterranean Jews and Jewishness through Material Culture / Cynthia M. Baker -- Material Culture of the Jews in the Sasanian Empire / Jason S. Mokhtarian -- Non-Jewish Sources for Late Ancient Jewish History / Naomi Koltun-Fromm -- Contesting Identities: The Splitting Channels from Israelite to Jew / Yair Furstenberg -- Imagining Judaism after 70 C.E. / Jonathan Klawans -- Rabbis and the Poor in Palestinian Amoraic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud / Alyssa M. Gray -- Diaspora and Center / Joshua Burns -- Jews and their Others (New Testament) / Sandy L. Haney -- Rabbis and their Others / Mira Beth Wasserman -- What is Jewish Law? -- Jewish Legal Culture and Thought in Antiquity (Fifth C. B.C.E. -- Seventh C. C.E.) / Natalie B. Dohrmann -- Arabian Judaism at the Advent of Islam: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of Judaism / Aaron Hughes -- Sexualities and Il/licit Relationships in Late Ancient Jewish Literatures / Federico Dal Bo -- Embodied Scriptural Practice Among Late Ancient Jews / Elizabeth Shanks-Alexander -- Bodies that Matter: Piety and Sin / Jane L. Kanerak -- Rabbinic Gender: Beyond Male and Female / Gwynn Kessler -- Disability Studies in Jewish Culture in Late Antiquity: Gender, Body and Violence amidst Empire / Julia Watts Belser -- Gender, Sex and Witchcraft in Late Ancient Judaism / Sara Ronis -- Domestic Spaces / Meredith J. C. Warren -- "Do Not Say 'I am Poor and Cannot Seek out Knowledge": The House of Study and Education in the Second Temple Period / Cana Werman -- Locating Diaspora Jewish Philanthropy in the Ancient Mediterranean Public Arena / Shira L. Lander -- Sacred Spaces / Sarit Kattan Gribetz -- Jewish Prayer, Liturgy and Ritual / Laura S. Lieber -- Agriculture and Industry / John Mandsanger. "This companion volume brings together 30 scholarly essays covering many different topics within the larger subject of late ancient Jews and Judaism. Organized thematically these essays explore identity, gender, material culture, sacred and domestic spaces, as well as literary motifs and theological questions and issues within late ancient Jewish history, historiography and methodology. Chronologically these essays cover material from the third century BCE to the seventh century CE. Geographically these essays map out late ancient Jewish life and remains throughout the Mediterranean world and the ancient Middle East. The purpose of this volume is not to retell the political or social history in a linear fashion, but to explore the subject area from many facets and points of inquiry. In addition, by pulling our lens to the wider setting of "late antiquity" and our geography to Mediteranean and Middle East, these essays highlight the variety of Jews, Judaisms, and Jewish expressions that flourished across these spaces and time periods. Yet in addition, this volume demonstrate the ways in which our scholarly constructs of ancient history (e.g. "Roman," or "Hellenistic") or Jewish history ("second temple," or "rabbinic") can be reconstructed, and productively so, when studied through other varied and creative lenses. There are many, many volumes that focus on the "second temple" period or sources or the rabbinic period or sources. People have tended to shy away from one volume that includes both because they are seen as two separate corpuses of works and time periods and too vast to cover well in one volume. The idea behind this volume was to try to blur the lines between these literatures and chronologies to highlight the similarities and crossovers between the two (that there is no hard and fast line between "second temple" and "post-second temple/rabbinic") rather than to reinforce the binary between the two. Thus "Late Ancient" creates multifaceted and, we think, more useful, ways of categorizing the material, literary and cultural artifacts of this period. I also hope that the maps we have produced are a key selling point as they map out Jewish settlement and remains across these periods and geographies, periods and geographies that are often isolated one from another in other scholarship"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1119113849 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1002/9781119113843 |