Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture

Edited by Guy Stroumsa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and David Shulman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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1570-078x
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€131.00$182.00
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JSRC
Volume:
17
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004222601
Duty, Language and Exegesis in Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā
by Elisa Freschi, University 'Sapienza' Rome.
The book is an introduction to key concepts of Indian Philosophy, seen from the perspective of the influential school of Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā (flourished from the 7th until the 20th c. AD). It includes the edition and translation of Rāmānujācārya's Śāstraprameyapariccheda.
€133.00$182.00
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JSRC
Volume:
16
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004221345
Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters
Edited by Maren R. Niehoff, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The present collection of articles brings together scholars from different fields and offers prioneering essays on the Alexandrian scholia, Philo, Platonic thinkers and the rabbis, which cross traditional boundaries and interpret Biblical and Homeric readers in light of each other.
€132.00$171.00
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JSRC
Volume:
15
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004203518
Continuity and Innovation in the Magical Tradition
Edited by Gideon Bohak, Yuval Harari and Shaul Shaked
This volume brings together thirteen studies by as many experts in the study of one or more ancient or medieval magical traditions, from ancient Mesopotamia and Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt to the Greek world, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
€239.00$340.00
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JSRC
Volume:
14
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004203556
Jews in Byzantium
Edited by Robert Bonfil, Oded Irshai, Guy G. Stroumsa, Rina Talgam
Byzantine Jews: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures is the collective product of a three year research group convened under the auspices of Scholion: Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The volume provides both a survey and an ...
€216.00$280.00
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JSRC
Volume:
13
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004203440
Le Soi et l’Autre
par Isabelle Ratié
This book offers a comprehensive presentation of the Pratyabhijñā philosophy (elaborated in the 10th and 11th centuries by Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta) by showing how its main concepts arose from the confrontation of Śaiva religious dogmas with Buddhist and Brahmanical systems. Cet ouvrage ...
€89.00$115.00
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JSRC
Volume:
12
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004189263
The Secret Sankara
Yohanan Grinshpon
This book offers a new perception and reading of one of the most well-known documents of Indian philosophy and theology, Sankara's Brahmasutrabhasya. the author's presentation of the self as a subject free of any trace of (disturbungly real) objectivity recieves a fresh explication.
€91.00$118.00
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JSRC
Volume:
11
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004184985
Syriac Idiosyncrasies
Serge Ruzer and Aryeh Kofsky
The special cultural circumstances of the emergence of a Syriac-speaking Church—before the onslaught of Greek hegemony—engendered the peculiar traits of thought and expression to be found in early Syriac sources. It is some of these idiosyncrasies mainly pertaining to trinitarian theology, ...
€109.00$141.00
Series:
JSRC
Volume:
10
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004179530
Interprétations de Moïse
Edited by Philippe Borgeaud, Thomas Römer and Youri Volokhine
This books brings together specialists of diverse ancient mediterranean culture working on the formation of a "Moses mythology", from a comparative perspective, between Judea, Greece, Egypt and Rome. The concrete outcome of this comparative inquiry is the common translation and commentary of ...
€100.00$130.00
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JSRC
Volume:
9
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004168398
Morton Smith and Gershom Scholem, Correspondence 1945-1982
Edited, with an introduction, by Guy G. Stroumsa
The long and rich correspondence between the two leading historians of religions Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) and Morton Smith (1915-1991) provides important insights on their world and approach. In particular, it sheds new light upon Smith's discovery of Clement of Alexandria's letter on the ...
€150.00$194.00
Series:
JSRC
Volume:
8
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004164734
Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible and the Ancient Near East
Jan N. Bremmer
This book greatly enhances our knowledge of the interrelationship of Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East by offering important analyses of Greek myths, divinities and terms like ‘magic’ and 'paradise', but also of the Greek contribution to the Christian notion of atonement.
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