Was 70 CE a Watershed in Jewish History?
On Jews and Judaism before and after the Destruction of the Second Temple
Edited by Daniel R. Schwartz and Zeev Weiss in collaboration with Ruth A. Clements
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Biographical note
Daniel R. Schwartz, Ph.D. (1980), professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, works primarily in the fields of ancient Judaism and historiography, especially Josephus and 1-2 Maccabees. His most recent volume is 2 Maccabees (De Gruyter, 2008).
Zeev Weiss, Ph.D. (1995), professor of archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has published extensively on Roman and Byzantine art and architecture in Palestine, including The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts (Israel Exploration Society, 2005).
Zeev Weiss, Ph.D. (1995), professor of archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has published extensively on Roman and Byzantine art and architecture in Palestine, including The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts (Israel Exploration Society, 2005).
Readership
Those interested in the development of Judaism and Jewish culture in antiquity in the wake of the destruction of the Second Temple and parallel to the rise of Christianity.
Table of contents
Daniel R. Schwartz, Introduction;
I. Sons of Aaron and Disciples of Aaron: Priests and Rabbis before and after 70;
Martha Himmelfarb, “Found Written in the Book of Moses”: Priests in the Era of Torah.
Gideon Aran, The Other Side of Israelite Priesthood: A Sociological-Anthropological Perspective.
Hannan Birenboim, “A Kingdom of Priests”: Did the Pharisees Try to Live Like Priests?
Jodi Magness, Sectarianism before and after 70 CE.
Zeev Weiss, Were Priests Communal Leaders in Late Antique Palestine? The Archaeological Evidence.
II. “The Place” and Other Places;
Ori Schwarz, Place beyond Place: On Artifacts, Religious Technologies, and the Mediation of Sacred Place.
Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Priests and Priesthood in Philo: Could He Have Done without Them?
Noah Hacham, Sanctity and the Attitude towards the Temple in Hellenistic Judaism.
Michael Tuval, Doing without the Temple: Paradigms in Judaic Literature of the Diaspora;
III. Art and Magic;
Naama Vilozny, The Rising Power of the Image: On Jewish Magic Art from the Second Temple Period to Late Antiquity.
Gideon Bohak, Jewish Exorcism Before and After the Destruction of the Second Temple.
Lee I. Levine, The Emergence of Jewish Art;
IV. Sacred Texts: Exegesis and Liturgy;
Paul Mandel, Legal Midrash between Hillel and Rabbi Akiva: Did 70 CE Make a Difference?
Esther G. Chazon, Liturgy Before and After the Temple’s Destruction: Change or Continuity?
Michael D. Swartz, Liturgy, Poetry, and the Persistence of Sacrifice;
V. Communal Definition – Pompey, Jesus, or Titus: Who Made the Difference?
Nadav Sharon, Setting the Stage: The Effects of the Roman Conquest and the Loss of Sovereignty.
Jörg Frey, Temple and Identity in Early Christianity and in the Johannine Community: Reflections on the “Parting of the Ways”.
Martin Goodman, Religious Reactions to 70: The Limitations of the Evidence.
Ruth A. Clements, Epilogue: 70 CE After 135 CE—The Making of a Watershed?
I. Sons of Aaron and Disciples of Aaron: Priests and Rabbis before and after 70;
Martha Himmelfarb, “Found Written in the Book of Moses”: Priests in the Era of Torah.
Gideon Aran, The Other Side of Israelite Priesthood: A Sociological-Anthropological Perspective.
Hannan Birenboim, “A Kingdom of Priests”: Did the Pharisees Try to Live Like Priests?
Jodi Magness, Sectarianism before and after 70 CE.
Zeev Weiss, Were Priests Communal Leaders in Late Antique Palestine? The Archaeological Evidence.
II. “The Place” and Other Places;
Ori Schwarz, Place beyond Place: On Artifacts, Religious Technologies, and the Mediation of Sacred Place.
Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Priests and Priesthood in Philo: Could He Have Done without Them?
Noah Hacham, Sanctity and the Attitude towards the Temple in Hellenistic Judaism.
Michael Tuval, Doing without the Temple: Paradigms in Judaic Literature of the Diaspora;
III. Art and Magic;
Naama Vilozny, The Rising Power of the Image: On Jewish Magic Art from the Second Temple Period to Late Antiquity.
Gideon Bohak, Jewish Exorcism Before and After the Destruction of the Second Temple.
Lee I. Levine, The Emergence of Jewish Art;
IV. Sacred Texts: Exegesis and Liturgy;
Paul Mandel, Legal Midrash between Hillel and Rabbi Akiva: Did 70 CE Make a Difference?
Esther G. Chazon, Liturgy Before and After the Temple’s Destruction: Change or Continuity?
Michael D. Swartz, Liturgy, Poetry, and the Persistence of Sacrifice;
V. Communal Definition – Pompey, Jesus, or Titus: Who Made the Difference?
Nadav Sharon, Setting the Stage: The Effects of the Roman Conquest and the Loss of Sovereignty.
Jörg Frey, Temple and Identity in Early Christianity and in the Johannine Community: Reflections on the “Parting of the Ways”.
Martin Goodman, Religious Reactions to 70: The Limitations of the Evidence.
Ruth A. Clements, Epilogue: 70 CE After 135 CE—The Making of a Watershed?
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