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"Sefer Yeṣirah" and Its Contexts
Other Jewish Voices
Av Tzahi Weiss
Inbunden, 2018
746 kr
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Sefer Yeṣirah, or "Book of Formation," is one of the most influential Jewish compositions of late antiquity. First attested to in the tenth century C.E. and attributed by some to the patriarch Abraham himself, Sefer Yeṣirah claims that the world was created by the powers of the decimal number …
Envisioning Islam
Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World
Häftad, 2017
387 kr
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The first Christians to encounter Islam were not Latin-speakers from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speakers from Constantinople but Mesopotamian Christians who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Under Muslim rule from the seventh century onward, Syriac Christians wrote the most extensive …
Iranian Talmud
Reading the Bavli in Its Sasanian Context
Av Shai Secunda
E-bok, 2013
504 kr
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Although the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, has been a text central and vital to the Jewish canon since the Middle Ages, the context in which it was produced has been poorly understood. Delving deep into Sasanian material culture and literary remains, Shai Secunda pieces together the dynamic world of …
Envisioning Islam
Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World
Inbunden, 2015
1200 kr
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The first Christians to encounter Islam were not Latin-speakers from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speakers from Constantinople but Mesopotamian Christians who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Under Muslim rule from the seventh century onward, Syriac Christians wrote the most extensive …
Rebuilding the House of Israel
Architectures of Gender in Jewish Antiquity
Inbunden, 2002
931 kr
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This book investigates the mappings of ideas about sexual and ethnic difference in Galilee during the centuries following the last Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire—centuries that saw major socioeconomic changes in the region, as well as the development of that small community of Jewish …
Remains of the Jews
The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2003
877 kr
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Remains of the Jews studies the rise of Christian Empire in late antiquity (300-550 C.E.) through the dense and complex manner in which Christian authors wrote about Jews in the charged space of the "holy land." The book employs contemporary cultural studies, particularly postcolonial criticism, to …
Sex Lives of Saints
An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography
E-bok, 2010
427 kr
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Has a repressive morality been the primary contribution of Christianity to the history of sexuality? The ascetic concerns that pervade ancient Christian texts would seem to support such a common assumption. Focusing on hagiographical literature, Virginia Burrus pursues a fresh path of …
Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom
The School of Nisibis and the Development of Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia
E-bok, 2013
1157 kr
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The School of Nisibis was the main intellectual center of the Church of the East in the sixth and early seventh centuries C.E. and an institution of learning unprecedented in antiquity. Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom provides a history both of the School and of the scholastic culture of …
Saving Shame
Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects
E-bok, 2013
415 kr
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Virginia Burrus explores one of the strongest and most disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame. While Christianity has frequently been implicated in the conversion of ancient Mediterranean cultures from shame- to guilt-based and, thus, in the emergence …
Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World
E-bok, 2013
1092 kr
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Between the years 350 and 500 a large body of Latin artes grammaticae emerged, educational texts outlining the study of Latin grammar and attempting a systematic discussion of correct Latin usage. These texts-the most complete of which are attributed to Donatus, Charisius, Servius, Diomedes, …
Aliens and Sojourners
Self As Other in Early Christianity
E-bok, 2012
913 kr
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Early Christians spoke about themselves as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners, asserting that otherness is a fundamental part of being Christian. But why did they do so and to what ends? How did Christians' claims to foreign status situate them with respect to each other and to the larger …
Spectacles of Empire
Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation
E-bok, 2013
893 kr
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The book of Revelation presents a daunting picture of the destruction of the world, complete with clashing gods, a multiheaded beast, armies of heaven, and the final judgment of mankind. The bizarre conclusion to the New Testament is routinely cited as an example of the early Christian renunciation …
Writing and Holiness
The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East
E-bok, 2013
562 kr
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Drawing on comparative literature, ritual and performance studies, and the history of asceticism, Derek Krueger explores how early Christian writers came to view writing as salvific, as worship through the production of art. Exploring the emergence of new and distinctly Christian ideas about …
Kissing Christians
Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church
E-bok, 2013
978 kr
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In the first five centuries of the common era, the kiss was a distinctive and near-ubiquitous marker of Christianity. Although Christians did not invent the kiss-Jewish and pagan literature is filled with references to kisses between lovers, family members, and individuals in relationships of power …
Monastic Bodies
Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe
E-bok, 2013
1157 kr
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Shenoute of Atripe led the White Monastery, a community of several thousand male and female Coptic monks in Upper Egypt, between approximately 395 and 465 C.E. Shenoute's letters, sermons, and treatises-one of the most detailed bodies of writing to survive from any early monastery-provide an …
Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity
E-bok, 2013
1027 kr
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In Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity, Jeremy M. Schott examines the ways in which conflicts between Christian and pagan intellectuals over religious, ethnic, and cultural identity contributed to the transformation of Roman imperial rhetoric and ideology in the early …
Border Lines
The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity
E-bok, 2010
479 kr
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The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one religion known as Judaism before the birth of Christ, which then took on a hybrid identity. Even …
Scripture As Logos
Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash
Av Azzan Yadin
E-bok, 2013
1092 kr
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The study of midrash-the biblical exegesis, parables, and anecdotes of the Rabbis-has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years. Most recent scholarship, however, has focused on the aggadic or narrative midrash, while halakhic or legal midrash-the exegesis of biblical law-has received relatively little …
Demonic Desires
"Yetzer Hara" and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity
E-bok, 2011
1092 kr
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In Demonic Desires, Ishay Rosen-Zvi examines the concept of yetzer hara, or evil inclination, and its evolution in biblical and rabbinic literature. Contrary to existing scholarship, which reads the term under the rubric of destructive sexual desire, Rosen-Zvi contends that in late antiquity the …
Founding the Fathers
Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America
E-bok, 2011
1336 kr
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Through their teaching of early Christian history and theology, Elizabeth A. Clark contends, Princeton Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School, Yale Divinity School, and Union Theological Seminary functioned as America's closest equivalents to graduate schools in the humanities during the …
Specters of Paul
Sexual Difference in Early Christian Thought
E-bok, 2011
978 kr
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The first Christians operated with a hierarchical model of sexual difference common to the ancient Mediterranean, with women considered to be lesser versions of men. Yet sexual difference was not completely stable as a conceptual category across the spectrum of formative Christian thinking. Rather, …
Corporeal Imagination
Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity
E-bok, 2012
489 kr
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With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of matter. In The Corporeal Imagination, Patricia Cox Miller argues instead that ancient Christianity took a material turn between the fourth …
Common Justice
The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews Under Early Islam
E-bok, 2011
1132 kr
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In A Common Justice Uriel I. Simonsohn examines the legislative response of Christian and Jewish religious elites to the problem posed by the appeal of their coreligionists to judicial authorities outside their communities. Focusing on the late seventh to early eleventh centuries in the region …
Death of a Prophet
The End of Muhammad's Life and the Beginnings of Islam
E-bok, 2011
554 kr
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The oldest Islamic biography of Muhammad, written in the mid-eighth century, relates that the prophet died at Medina in 632, while earlier and more numerous Jewish, Christian, Samaritan, and even Islamic sources indicate that Muhammad survived to lead the conquest of Palestine, beginning in 634-35. …
Muhammad Is not the Father of Any of Your Men
The Making of the Last Prophet
E-bok, 2011
554 kr
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The Islamic claim to supersede Judaism and Christianity is embodied in the theological assertion that the office of prophecy is hereditary but that the line of descent ends with Muhammad, who is the seal, or last, of the prophets.While Muhammad had no natural sons who reached the age of maturity, …
Narrating the Law
A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories
E-bok, 2011
978 kr
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In Narrating the Law Barry Scott Wimpfheimer creates a new theoretical framework for considering the relationship between law and narrative and models a new method for studying talmudic law in particular.Works of law, including the Talmud, are animated by a desire to create clear usable precedent. …
Christ Circumcised
A Study in Early Christian History and Difference
E-bok, 2012
1336 kr
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In the first full-length study of the circumcision of Jesus, Andrew S. Jacobs turns to an unexpected symbol-the stereotypical mark of the Jewish covenant on the body of the Christian savior-to explore how and why we think about difference and identity in early Christianity.Jacobs explores the …
Textual Mirrors
Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self
Av Dina Stein
E-bok, 2012
1132 kr
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As they were entering Egypt, Abram glimpsed Sarai's reflection in the Nile River. Though he had been married to her for years, this moment is positioned in a rabbinic narrative as a revelation. "Now I know you are a beautiful woman," he says; at that moment he also knows himself as a desiring …
Thorns in the Flesh
Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity
E-bok, 2012
1068 kr
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The literature of late ancient Christianity is rich both in saints who lead lives of almost Edenic health and in saints who court and endure horrifying diseases. In such narratives, health and illness might signify the sanctity of the ascetic, or invite consideration of a broader theology of …
Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 1
Conversion and Apostasy, 373-388 C.E.
E-bok, 2012
1228 kr
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Augustine of Hippo is history's best-known Christian convert. The very concept of conversio owes its dissemination to Augustine's Confessions, and yet, as Jason BeDuhn notes, conversion in Augustine is not the sudden, dramatic, and complete transformation of self we likely remember it to be. …
