Envisioning Judaism

Ra'anan Boustan (Herausgegeben von) Born 1971; 2004 PhD from Princeton University; 2004-06 Assistant Professor of Early Judaism at the University of Minnesota; 2006-10 Assistant Professor of Ancient and Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles; 2010-17 Associate Professor of Ancient and Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles; 2009-12 Director at the Center for the Study of Religion; since 2017 Research Scholar in the Program for Judaic Studies at Princeton University.Annette Yoshiko Reed (Herausgegeben von) Born 1973; Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard University.Alex Ramos (Mit / Unter Mitarbeit von) B.A. from University of Nebraska-Lincoln; M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School; currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

• Volume 1Imre Shefer: For Peter Schäfer on the Occasion of his 70th BirthdayPart IThe History of the Jews in AntiquitySeth Schwartz: Was there a "Common Judaism" after the Destruction? - Philip S. Alexander: Was the Ninth of Av Observed in the Second Temple Period? Reflections on the Concept of Continuing Exile in Early Judaism - Doron Mendels: Can We Read a Historical Text as a Musical Score? A New Approach to Polyphony and Simultaneity in 1 Maccabees - Tessa Rajak: The Maccabaean Martyrs in Jewish Memory: Jerusalem and Antioch - Daniel R. Schwartz: Humbly Second-Rate in the Diaspora? Philo and Stephen on the Tabernacle and the Temple - Werner Eck: Wie römisch war das caput Iudaeae, die Colonia Prima Flavia Caesariensis? - Catherine Hezser: Dirt and Garbage in the Ancient Jewish Religious Imagination and in Daily Life - Joshua Schwartz: Jews at the Dice Table: Gambling in Ancient Jewish Society Revisited - David Goodblatt: Who is the Brother of Jesus? On Tripartite Naming Formulas in Ancient Jewish and Middle Aramaic Inscriptions - Nicholas de Lange: Reflections on Jewish Identity in Late AntiquityPart IIHistory and Theology of Rabbinic JudaismSteven D. Fraade: Moses and Adam as Polyglots - Aharon Oppenheimer: Burial: Rules and Practice in the Tannaitic Period - Gregg E. Gardner: Cornering Poverty: Mishnah Pe'ah, Tosefta Pe'ah, and the Re-imagination of Society in Late Antiquity - David Kraemer: Adornment and Gender in Rabbinic Judaism - Lee I. Levine: The Emergence of the Patriarchate in the Third Century - Maren R. Niehoff: Biographical Sketches in Genesis Rabbah - Moulie Vidas: Greek Wisdom in Babylonia - Ronen Reichman: Aspects of Judicial and Legislative Decision-Making in the Talmudic Legal Discourse - Holger M. Zellentin: Jerusalem Fell after Betar: The Christian Josephus and Rabbinic Memory - Ra'anan Boustan: The Contested Reception of The Story of the Ten Martyrs in Medieval Midrash - Martin Jacobs: The Sacred Text as a Mental Map: Biblical and Rabbinic "Place" in Medieval Jewish Travel WritingPart IIITradition and Redaction in Rabbinic LiteratureGottfried Reeg: The First Chapter of Berakhot: A Compendium of Mishnaic Essentials - Hayim Lapin: Towards a Digital Critical Edition of the Mishnah - Günter Stemberger: Mekhilta de-R. Yishmael: Some Aspects of its Redaction - Judith Hauptman: A Synchronic and Diachronic Reading of Mishnah Shabbat 2:6. On the Topic of Why Women Die in Childbirth - Leib Moscovitz: Shemu῾ata Kan: Towards the Resolution of a Terminological Crux in the Talmud Yerushalmi - Richard Kalmin: Targum in the Babylonian TalmudPart IVHekhalot and Magical StudiesMichael D. Swartz: Three-Dimensional Philology: Some Implications of the Synopse zur Hekhalot-Literatur - Annelies Kuyt: Visions in Hekhalot Literature: Reflections on Terminology - Michael Meerson: Physiognomy and Somatomancy: The Ways That Never Crossed - Yaacov Shavit: "He was Thoth in Everything": Why and When King Solomon Became Both Magister omnium physicorum and Master of Magic - Gideon Bohak and Mark Geller: Babylonian Astrology in the Cairo Genizah - Dorothea M. Salzer: How to Use the Hebrew Bible to Harm Your Neighbor: The Use of Biblical Quotations in Curse Texts Found in the Cairo Genizah - Gideon Bohak and Klaus Herrmann: Tefillat Rav Hamnuna Sava: Genizah Fragments and Medieval Manuscripts - Ulrike Hirschfelder: Torat ha-Mashiah in the Context of Apocalyptic Traditions in Ashkenazi Hekhalot Manuscripts - Bill Rebiger: Non-European Traditions of Hekhalot Literature: The Yemenite EvidenceVolume 2Part VPaths to the DivineGiuseppe Veltri: Do/Did the Jews Believe in God? The Skeptical Ambivalence of Jewish Philosophy of Religion - William Horbury: Benjamin the Mystic (Ps 67:28 LXX) - Eduard Iricinschi: Interroga Matricem Mulieris: The Secret Life of the Womb in 4 Ezra and Sethian Cosmology - Martha Himmelfarb: The Messiah Son of Joseph in Ancient Judaism - Rainer Enskat: Demiurg, Saviour, or …? Remarks on Platonic Alternatives to Gnostic Conceptions of God and Piety - Elaine Pagels: How Athanasius, Subject to Christian Emperors, Read John's Apocalypse into His Canon - Carlos Fraenkel: Philo of Alexandria, Hasdai Crescas, and Spinoza on God's Body - Joseph Dan: Conflicting Views of the Origins of Evil in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah - Gerold Necker: The Female Messiah: Gender Perspectives in Kabbalistic Eschatology and Christian SoteriologyPart VIThe Birth of Judaism from the Spirit of Christianity?Annette Yoshiko Reed: When did Rabbis become Pharisees? Reflections on Christian Evidence for Post-70 Judaism - Adam H. Becker: Polishing the Mirror: Some Thoughts on Syriac Sources and Early Judaism - Azzan Yadin-Israel: Qabbalah, Deuterôsis, and Semantic Incommensurability: A Preliminary Study - Daniel Boyarin: The Talmud in Jesus: How Much Jewishness in Mark's Christ? - Shaye J. D. Cohen: Antipodal Texts: B. Eruvin 21b-22a and Mark 7:1-23 on the Tradition of the Elders and the Commandment of God - Tal Ilan: Jesus and Joshua ben Perahiah: A Jewish-Christian Dialogue on Magic in Babylonia - John G. Gager and Mika Ahuvia: Some Notes on Jesus and his Parents: From the New Testament Gospels to the Toledot Yeshu - Sarit Kattan Gribetz: Jesus and the Clay Birds: Reading Toledot Yeshu in Light of the Infancy Gospels - Elliot R. Wolfson: Patriarchy and the Motherhood of God in Zoharic Kabbalah and Meister EckhartPart VIIJews and Christians in the Middle Ages and BeyondMichael Fishbane: Polysystem and Piyyut: The Poetics of a Yotzer by R. Meshullam b. Qalonymos - Hanna Liss: "Like a Camel Carrying Silk": Initial Considerations on the Use of the Masorah in Medieval Hebrew Commentaries - Andreas Lehnardt: Meshal Qadmonim: A Newly Discovered Ashkenazic Binding Fragment of an Unknown Maqama from the Cathedral Library of Freising, Germany - Yaacob Dweck: A Hebrew Book List by Leon Modena - Peter Kuhn: Steinchen, Gras und Erdenstaub: Ursprung und Bedeutung jüdischer Friedhofsbräuche - Matthias B. Lehmann: Rabbinic Emissaries from Palestine and the Making of a Modern Jewish Diaspora: A Philanthropic Network in the Eighteenth Century - William Chester Jordan: Learning about Jews in the Classroom: A Thirteenth-Century Witness, UCLA Library, Rouse MS 17 - David Stern: Erhard von Pappenheim: A Portrait of a Hitherto Unstudied Early Christian Hebraist - Reimund Leicht: Johannes Reuchlin's Lost Polemical Manuscript and the Archetype of the Nizzahon Vetus: A Reconstruction - Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann: Eine Wiedergeburt des Judentums aus dem Geist des Christentums: Schellings und Rosenzweigs spekulative Philologie der Unverfügbarkeit - Stefan C. Reif: Has More than a Century of Genizah Research Adjusted Jewish Notions of Scholarship, History, and Identity? Some Reflections and SpeculationsList of Publications by Peter Schäfer