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Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship
New Insights into its History and Interaction
Av Albert Gerhards, Clemens Leonhard
Inbunden, 2007
2479 kr
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Presenting new insights into the history and interaction between Jewish and Christian liturgy and worship, the various contributions offer a deeper understanding of the identity of Judaism and Christianity. It addresses issues such as:– Is the Eucharistic Prayer a ‘Berakha’ and what information is …
Actuality of Sacrifice
Past and Present
Av Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2831 kr
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Sacrifice is a well known form of ritual in many world religions. Although the actual practice of animal sacrifice was largely abolished in the later history of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, it is still recalled through biblical stories, the ritual calendar and community events. The essays in …
Mapping the New Testament
Early Christian Writings as a Witness for Jewish Biblical Exegesis
Av Serge Ruzer
Inbunden, 2007
2479 kr
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This volume discusses links between the exegetical trends current in various Second Temple Jewish circles and patterns of New Testament conversation with Jewish Scripture. The standard focus on Jewish background of Christianity is complemented here by an alternative direction: the “mapping” of New …
Iconoclasm and Iconoclash
Struggle for Religious Identity
Av Willem van Asselt, Paul van Geest m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
2831 kr
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This book focuses on iconoclastic controversies and, in particular, their impact on the creation of religious identities. In the history of Jewish, Christian and Muslim culture, religious identity was not only formed through historical claims, but also through the use of certain images: ‘images of …
Interaction between Judaism and Christianity in History, Religion, Art and Literature
Av Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua J. Schwartz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
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This volume contains a variety of essays that deal with the complex relationships between Judaism and Christianity. From the Jewish side, particularly in Orthodox circles, there is a position maintaining the independence of Judaism from outside influences including Christianity. Traditional …
Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity
Av Emmanouela Grypeou, Helen Spurling
Inbunden, 2009
2425 kr
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The ‘Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity’ is a collection of essays examining the relationship between Jewish and Christian biblical commentators. The contributions focus on analysis of interpretations of the book of Genesis, a text which has considerable importance …
Establishing Boundaries
Christian-Jewish Relations in Early Council Texts and the Writings of Church Fathers
Inbunden, 2010
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This book addresses the ongoing close relations between ordinary Christians and Jews on a daily basis at a time when church leaders were increasingly trying to establish boundaries between Christians and other religious groupings, especially Jews.Until recently, most historical studies of late …
Salvation through Spinoza
A Study of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany
Inbunden, 2011
2425 kr
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Despite his reputation as a heretic, Baruch Spinoza was one of the major heroes of the Jewish cultural Renaissance in Weimar Germany. This study traces Weimar Jewry's infatuation with Spinoza as it was manifested in scholarship, the popular press, and novels. It tells of how Jews, who found …
Adam, Satan, and the King of Tyre
The Interpretation of Ezekiel 28:11-19 in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2012
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The oracle against the King of Tyre, found in Ezekiel 28.12-19, is a difficult text that inspired diverse interpretations in Late Antiquity. For example, according to one rabbinic tradition the text spoke of the first man, Adam, while the Church Fathers found in the same text a description of the …
Images of Cosmology in Jewish and Byzantine Art
God’s Blueprint of Creation
Inbunden, 2013
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Does the design of the Tabernacle in the wilderness correspond to God’s blueprint of Creation? The Christian Topography, a sixth-century Byzantine Christian work, presents such a cosmology. Its theory is based on the “pattern” revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai when he was told to build the …
Tertullian, On Idolatry and Mishnah Avodah Zarah
Questioning the Parting of the Ways between Christians and Jews
Inbunden, 2012
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This work studies and compares systematically the text of Tertullian, an African Church Father of the third century CE, on idolatry with the rabbinic Mishnah Avodah Zarah, on the same subject, dating roughly from the same period. Similarities and differences between the Jewish and Christian …
Torah Ark in Renaissance Poland
A Jewish Revival of Classical Antiquity
Av Ilia Rodov
Inbunden, 2013
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The volume explores the stone carved shrines for the scrolls of the Mosaic Law from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century synagogues in the former Polish Kingdom. Created on the margin of mainstream art and at a crossroad of diverse cultures, artistic traditions, aesthetic attitudes and …
Book of Genesis in Late Antiquity
Encounters between Jewish and Christian Exegesis
Av Emmanouela Grypeou, Helen Spurling
Inbunden, 2013
2831 kr
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The Book of Genesis in Late Antiquity: Encounters between Jewish and Christian Exegesis examines the relationship between rabbinic and Christian exegetical writings of Late Antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire and Mesopotamia.The volume identifies and analyses evidence of potential ‘encounters’ …
Language Environment of First Century Judaea
Jerusalem Studies in the Synoptic Gospels—Volume Two
Av Randall Buth, R.Steven Notley
Inbunden, 2014
2770 kr
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The articles in this collection demonstrate that a change is taking place in New Testament studies. Throughout the twentieth century, New Testament scholarship primarily worked under the assumption that only two languages, Aramaic and Greek, were in common use in the land of Israel in the first …
Jewish Targum in a Christian World
Av Alberdina Houtman, E. van Staalduine-Sulman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2479 kr
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What is the use of a Targum in a cultural setting where Aramaic is not a common language anymore? And why would Christians be interested in a typically Jewish text in an otherwise anti-Jewish milieu? These and related questions have served as guides for Alberdina Houtman, Eveline van …
Seeking out the Land: Land of Israel Traditions in Ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan Literature (200 BCE - 400 CE)
Av Ze'ev Safrai
Inbunden, 2018
2909 kr
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Seeking out the Land describes the study of the Holy Land in the Roman period and examines the complex connections between theology, social agenda and the intellectual pursuit. Holiness as a theological concept determines the intellectual agenda of the elite society of writers seeking to describe …
Religious Stories in Transformation: Conflict, Revision and Reception
Av Alberdina Houtman, Tamar Kadari m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2900 kr
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In Religious Stories in Transformation: Conflict, Revision and Reception, the editors present a collection of essays that reveal both the many similarities and the poignant differences between ancient myths in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and modern secular culture and how these stories were …
Justifying Christian Aramaism
Editions and Latin Translations of the Targums from the Complutensian to the London Polyglot Bible (1517-1657)
Inbunden, 2017
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In Justifying Christian Aramaism Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman explores how Christian scholars of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century justify their study of the Targums, the Jewish Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Bible. She focuses on the four polyglot Bibles – Complutum, Antwerp, Paris, …
Ritual Dynamics in Jewish and Christian Contexts
Between Bible and Liturgy
Inbunden, 2019
2296 kr
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Ritual Dynamics in Jewish and Christian Contexts investigates questions that arise in modern ritual studies concerning Jewish and Christian religious communities: How did their religious rituals develop? Where did different ritual communities and their ritual texts interact? How did religious …
Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci of Multireligious and Ideological Confrontation
Inbunden, 2020
2489 kr
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Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci of Multireligious and Ideological Confrontation brings together the papers that were read at an international conference at the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem in May 2018. The contributions to this volume develop a multi-disciplinary perspective on holy …
Power of Parables
Essays on the Comparative Study of Jewish and Christian Parables
Inbunden, 2023
2270 kr
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The Power of Parables documents the surprising ways in which Jewish and Christian parables bridge religion with daily life. This 2019 conference volume rediscovers the original power of parables to shock and affect their audience, which has since been reduced by centuries of preaching and …
Jesus in the Latin Talmud
Judaism and Christianity during the Disputation of Paris in 1240 and Other Transcultural Issues
Inbunden, 2024
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Between 1238 and 1239, the notorious Jewish convert Nicholas Donin persuaded Pope Gregory IX to condemn the Talmud, prompting European kings to intervene. Only King Louis IX of France agreed to a public disputation in 1240, subjecting the Talmud to scrutiny. Prominent Jewish and Christian figures …
You Are My Slaves
A Comparative Study of the Slavery Metaphor in Early Rabbinic and Early Christian Parables
Inbunden, 2024
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Some of the slavery parables in the New Testament have been called “texts of terror,” as the slaves who are portrayed in them are beaten or even cut in two. Despite – or because – their violence, slavery parables are often used in early Christian and early rabbinic literature to illustrate the …
Imitating Abraham
Ritual and Exemplarity in Jewish and Christian Contexts
Inbunden, 2025
2221 kr
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Imitating Abraham provides exciting glimpses into the reception history of the character Abraham in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, illuminating the manifold ways in which interpreters draw upon his legacy to authorize practices like sacrifice, circumcision, hospitality, feasting, prayer, and …
Memory – Papers Read at the Jewish and Christian Perspectives Conference, Utrecht 2022
Inbunden, 2025
2119 kr
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Memory – Papers Read at the Jewish and Christian Perspectives Conference, Utrecht 2022 connects past, present, and future. This conference volume demonstrates the diversity of ‘memory’ in the Jewish and Christian traditions. ‘Memory’ turns out to be a key to investigating and better understanding …
Twelve Tribes of Israel
Jewish-Christian Interpretations between Ruptures and Continuities (1st–5th centuries)
Inbunden, 2026
1931 kr
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The theme of the twelve tribes of Israel is one of the key points for observing the continuity and discontinuity between Judaism and Christianity, which derives from it. It is therefore a very sensitive topic of ‘the parting of the ways’, which surprisingly has not aroused much interest among …
