Torah Centers and Rabbinic Activity in Palestine 70 - 400 C.E.
History and Geographic Distribution
Biographical note
Ben Zion Rosenfeld, Ph.D. (1982) Jewish History, Bar Ilan University, is Professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. He has published many books and articles on Roman-Byzantine Palestine.
Readership
All those interested in socio-cultural history, historical geography, the history of Roman and early Byzantine world, and Jewish history, as well as researchers, academic libraries, public libraries, specialists, students and educated leyman.
Reviews
"This book is essential for the study of Jewish sages in the first centuries C.E. and should have a place in every serious Jewish Studies collection."
Yoram Bitton, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Association of Jewish Libraries, September/October 2011, Volume 1, No. 3.
Yoram Bitton, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Association of Jewish Libraries, September/October 2011, Volume 1, No. 3.
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These essays honor James C. VanderKam on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and twentieth year on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame. Essays from an international group of scholars address various topics in Second Temple Judaism and biblical studies.
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The first full-length analysis of the heavenly book motif in English, this study highlights a vital element of early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature. Through multiple intertextual readings, it demonstrates that for the ancients heavenly writing had life or death consequences.
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This book explores the reaction to the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 found in Jewish apocalypses and related literature preserved among the Pseudepigrapha (4 Ezra, 2 Baruch, 3 Baruch, 4 Baruch, Sibylline Oracles 4 and 5, and the Apocalypse of Abraham).
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The present volume brings together studies by some of the best specialists on the texts and versions of the Book of Ben Sira. Each textual form is placed in its own historical context and analysed in regard to what explains the typical changes it contains.
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The book offers a comprehensive analytic comparison between the images of primeval history in Babylonia, in the Hebrew Bible and the parallel Enochic traditions. It presents new interpretations of each of these traditions and how they relate to each other.
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The volume contains the 22 papers presented to Hanan Eshel before his death, covering topics in archaeology, history, and textual studies, with a particular emphasis on aspects relating to the Dead Sea Scrolls, spanning the late Iron Age through late Antiquity.
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Drawing on the ancient writings of the Dead Sea Scrolls and early rabbinic Judaism, this book comprises studies that explore the intersections of scriptural interpretation, narrative fiction, and legal rhetoric. It proposes and models methods of a non-reductive historiography for each of these ...
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Josephus, the Jewish historian who wrote about history, bible, and serves as a source for a wide-range of related disciplines is the subject of twenty four articles which grew out of an international colloquium.
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Jewish-Hellenistic authors rejected Greek myth, but they were also aware of its importance as a symbol of power and identity. This book offers a comprehensive reading of how Jews dealt with Greek mythology in the Hellenistic period.
Jüdisch-hellenistische Autoren verwarfen die griechische ...
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