Saints and Role Models in Judaism and Christianity
Biographical note
Marcel J.H.M. Poorthuis, Ph.D. (1992) in Theology, Catholic Theological University of Utrecht, is lecturer in Rabbinics and Jewish Christian relations. He has published on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, on Jewish history and on the interaction between Church Fathers and Rabbinics.
Joshua Schwartz, Ph.D. (1981), Jewish History, Hebrew University, is Dean, Faculty of Jewish Studies and Director, Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, Bar-Ilan. He has published extensively on the historical geography of ancient Israel and Jerusalem.
Joshua Schwartz, Ph.D. (1981), Jewish History, Hebrew University, is Dean, Faculty of Jewish Studies and Director, Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, Bar-Ilan. He has published extensively on the historical geography of ancient Israel and Jerusalem.
Readership
All those interested in theology, Judaism, history of art and legend and post-modern religiosity.
Table of contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF E-MAIL ADDRESSES CONTRIBUTORS
EDITORIAL STATEMENT
Introduction
JOSHUA SCHWARTZ AND MARCEL POORTHUIS
Introduction
JOACHIM DUYNDAM, Hermeneutics of imitation; a philosophical approach to sainthood and exemplariness
Biblical Period
ELIE ASSIS, Divine versus Human Leadership; An Examination of Joshua’s Succession
Rabbinic / Patristic Period
DAVID LEVINE, Holy Men and Rabbis in Talmudic Antiquity
CHANA SAFRAI AND ZEEV SAFRAI, Rabbinic Holy Men
MEIR BAR-ILAN, Prayers of Jews to Angels and Other Mediators in the First Centuries CE
MARCEL POORTHUIS, Enoch and Melchizedek in Judaism and Christianity: A Study in Intermediaries
JOSHUA SCHWARTZ, Material Culture in the Land of Israel: Monks and Rabbis on Clothing and Dress in
the Byzantine Period
BIRKE RAPP DE LANGE, Partnership Between Heaven and Earth: The Sage as Religious Role Model in Canticles Rabbah
JAN WILLEM VAN HENTEN, Jewish and Christian Martyrs
GERARD ROUWHORST, The Cult of the Seven Maccabean Brothers and Their Mother in Christian Tradition
NIENKE VOS, Individuality, Exemplarity and Community: Athanasius’ Use of Two Biblical Characters in the Life of Antony
MARTIEN PARMENTIER, Job the rebel: from the rabbi’s to the church fathers
HANNEKE REULING, Pious Intrepidness: Egeria and the Ascetic Ideal
ARYEH KOFSKY, The Byzantine Holy Person: The Case of Barsanuphius and John of Gaza
Middle Ages
WOUT VAN BEKKUM, ‘The Rock on which the Church is Founded’: Simon Peter in Jewish Folktale
PAUL VAN GEEST, Holiness as Gift and as Achievement in Late Medieval Funeral Sermons: The Role of the Deceased and the Religious Life of the Mourning Believer in Gabriel Biel’s sermones in exequiis
CHARLES CASPERS, Wandering between Transubstantiation and Transfiguration; Images of the Prophet Elijah in Western Christianity, 1200 - 1500 CE
Modern Period
ADMIEL KOSMAN AND RUTH GOLAN, “A Woman’s Voice is ‘Erva’”: The Female’s Voice and Silence - between the Talmudic Sages and Psychoanalysis
RON MARGOLIN, New Models of the Sacred Leader at the Beginning of Hasidism
PAUL POST, The Modern Saint: An Exploration of Sacral Interferences
ANNE-MARIE KORTE, Miraculous Women; Miracles, Religious Authority and Gender
ANTON HOUTEPEN, A holy father on the see of Moses?
INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES
INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS
LIST OF E-MAIL ADDRESSES CONTRIBUTORS
EDITORIAL STATEMENT
Introduction
JOSHUA SCHWARTZ AND MARCEL POORTHUIS
Introduction
JOACHIM DUYNDAM, Hermeneutics of imitation; a philosophical approach to sainthood and exemplariness
Biblical Period
ELIE ASSIS, Divine versus Human Leadership; An Examination of Joshua’s Succession
Rabbinic / Patristic Period
DAVID LEVINE, Holy Men and Rabbis in Talmudic Antiquity
CHANA SAFRAI AND ZEEV SAFRAI, Rabbinic Holy Men
MEIR BAR-ILAN, Prayers of Jews to Angels and Other Mediators in the First Centuries CE
MARCEL POORTHUIS, Enoch and Melchizedek in Judaism and Christianity: A Study in Intermediaries
JOSHUA SCHWARTZ, Material Culture in the Land of Israel: Monks and Rabbis on Clothing and Dress in
the Byzantine Period
BIRKE RAPP DE LANGE, Partnership Between Heaven and Earth: The Sage as Religious Role Model in Canticles Rabbah
JAN WILLEM VAN HENTEN, Jewish and Christian Martyrs
GERARD ROUWHORST, The Cult of the Seven Maccabean Brothers and Their Mother in Christian Tradition
NIENKE VOS, Individuality, Exemplarity and Community: Athanasius’ Use of Two Biblical Characters in the Life of Antony
MARTIEN PARMENTIER, Job the rebel: from the rabbi’s to the church fathers
HANNEKE REULING, Pious Intrepidness: Egeria and the Ascetic Ideal
ARYEH KOFSKY, The Byzantine Holy Person: The Case of Barsanuphius and John of Gaza
Middle Ages
WOUT VAN BEKKUM, ‘The Rock on which the Church is Founded’: Simon Peter in Jewish Folktale
PAUL VAN GEEST, Holiness as Gift and as Achievement in Late Medieval Funeral Sermons: The Role of the Deceased and the Religious Life of the Mourning Believer in Gabriel Biel’s sermones in exequiis
CHARLES CASPERS, Wandering between Transubstantiation and Transfiguration; Images of the Prophet Elijah in Western Christianity, 1200 - 1500 CE
Modern Period
ADMIEL KOSMAN AND RUTH GOLAN, “A Woman’s Voice is ‘Erva’”: The Female’s Voice and Silence - between the Talmudic Sages and Psychoanalysis
RON MARGOLIN, New Models of the Sacred Leader at the Beginning of Hasidism
PAUL POST, The Modern Saint: An Exploration of Sacral Interferences
ANNE-MARIE KORTE, Miraculous Women; Miracles, Religious Authority and Gender
ANTON HOUTEPEN, A holy father on the see of Moses?
INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES
INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS
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