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"This festschrift honours Günter Stemberger on the occasion of his 75th birthday on 7 December 2015 and contains 41 articles from colleagues and students. The studies focus on a variety of subjects pertaining to the history, religion and culture of Judaism - and, to a lesser extent, of Christianity - from late antiquity and the Middle Ages to the modern era"--

Judaism. --- Jews --- Religions --- Semites --- Religion --- Ancient and Medieval Judaism. --- Christianity in its Beginnings. --- Rabbinic Judaism.

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Hauptbeschreibung Holger M. Zellentin seeks to probe how far the classical rabbis took their literary playfulness in order to advance their religious and societal causes. Building on the literary approaches to rabbinic Judaism of the past decades, this work considers the rabbis' attitudes towards their Byzantine and Sassanian surroundings. The author examines how the Talmud and Midrash in Palestine and Persia repeat previous texts with comical difference, oscillating between reverence and satire. The result shows rabbinic society and its literature engaging in the great debates of t

Christian literature, Early --- Rabbinical literature --- History and criticism. --- Talmud --- Sermon on the mount --- Midrash --- Rabbinic Judaism --- Rabbinic Parodies --- Antike --- Religionswissenschaft --- Neues Testament

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"The miracle stories of the founders and saints of the major world religions have much in common. Written by international experts, this Companion provides an authoritative and comparative study of miracles in not only Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and Judaism, but also, indigenous religions. The authors promote a discussion of the problems of miracles in our largely secular culture, and of the value of miracles in religious belief. The miracles of Jesus are also contextualized through chapters on the Hebrew Bible, classical culture to the Romans, Second Temple and early rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity. This book provides students with a scholarly introduction to miracles, which also covers philosophical, medical and historical issues"--

Miracles --- History --- Histoire --- 231.731 --- Miracles. --- God --- Marvelous, The --- Miracle workers --- Spiritual healing --- Supernatural --- Wonderen. Bovennatuurlijke feiten --- Religion --- General --- 231.731 Wonderen. Bovennatuurlijke feiten --- General. --- Christian spirituality --- Comparative religion --- founders of the world's major religions --- saints --- Hinduism --- Buddhism --- Christianity --- Judaism --- miracles --- secularism --- culture --- religious belief --- Jesus --- the Hebrew Bible --- Second Temple --- early rabbinic Judaism --- early Christianity --- philosophy --- medicine --- history

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Miriam Peskowitz offers a dramatic revision to our understanding of early rabbinic Judaism. Using a wide range of sources--archaeology, legal texts, grave goods, technology, art, and writings in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin--she challenges traditional assumptions regarding Judaism's historical development. Following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple by Roman armies in 70 C.E., new incarnations of Judaism emerged. Of these, rabbinic Judaism was the most successful, becoming the classical form of the religion. Through ancient stories involving Jewish spinners and weavers, Peskowitz re-examines this critical moment in Jewish history and presents a feminist interpretation in which gender takes center stage. She shows how notions of female and male were developed by the rabbis of Roman Palestine and why the distinctions were so important in the formation of their religious and legal tradition. Rabbinic attention to women, men, sexuality, and gender took place within the "ordinary tedium of everyday life, in acts that were both familiar and mundane." While spinners and weavers performed what seemed like ordinary tasks, their craft was in fact symbolic of larger gender and sexual issues, which Peskowitz deftly explicates. Her study of ancient spinning and her abundant source material will set new standards in the fields of gender studies, Jewish studies, and cultural studies.

Sex in rabbinical literature --- Women in rabbinical literature --- Textile crafts in rabbinical literature --- Rabbinical literature --- Sex role --- Judaism --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Hebrew literature --- Jewish literature --- Women in the Talmud --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- Sex in rabbinical literature. --- Textile crafts in rabbinical literature. --- Women in rabbinical literature. --- History and criticism. --- Judaism. --- challenges traditional assumptions. --- classic form of religion. --- critical moment in jewish history. --- destruction of jerusalem temple. --- feminist interpretation. --- judaisms historical development. --- new incarnations of judaism. --- rabbinic judaism. --- rabbis of roman palestine. --- study of ancient spinning. --- understanding of early rabbinic judaism.

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Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a new historicist impulse to situate every event, person, or text in its particular context. At odds with the transcendent claims of philosophy and--more significantly--theology, historicism came to be attacked by its critics for reducing human experience to a series of disconnected moments, each of which was the product of decidedly mundane, rather than sacred, origins. By the late nineteenth century and into the Weimar period, historicism was seen by many as a grinding force that corroded social values and was emblematic of modern society's gravest ills. Resisting History examines the backlash against historicism, focusing on four major Jewish thinkers. David Myers situates these thinkers in proximity to leading Protestant thinkers of the time, but argues that German Jews and Christians shared a complex cultural and discursive world best understood in terms of exchange and adaptation rather than influence.After examining the growing dominance of the new historicist thinking in the nineteenth century, the book analyzes the critical responses of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Strauss, and Isaac Breuer. For this fascinating and diverse quartet of thinkers, historicism posed a stark challenge to the ongoing vitality of Judaism in the modern world. And yet, as they set out to dilute or eliminate its destructive tendencies, these thinkers often made recourse to the very tools and methods of historicism. In doing so, they demonstrated the utter inescapability of historicism in modern culture, whether approached from a Christian or Jewish perspective.

Historicism --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Judaism --- History --- Historiography --- Breuer, Isaac, --- Cohen, Hermann, --- Rosenzweig, Franz, --- Strauss, Leo. --- History. --- Historiography. --- Agudat Yisrael. --- Balfour Declaration. --- Benjamin, Walter. --- Breuer, Salomon. --- Cassirer, Ernst. --- Conservative Revolution. --- Davos conference. --- Denominationalism. --- Dilthey, Wilhelm. --- Ehrenfreund, Jacques. --- Enlightenment. --- Erets Yisrael. --- Fischer, Kuno. --- Frankfurt am Main. --- Funkenstein, Amos. --- Geiger, Abraham. --- Geisteswissenschaft. --- Guttmann, Julius. --- Hegelianism. --- Heidegger, Martin. --- Jewish nation. --- Jewishness. --- Kassel. --- Kellerman, Benzion. --- Kierkegaard, Søren. --- Kulturprotestantismus. --- Lazarus, Moritz. --- Luther, Martin. --- Marr, Wilhelm. --- Meinecke, Friedrich. --- Naturwissenschaft. --- Neue Kusari. --- Nordau, Max. --- Otto, Rudolf. --- Rabbinic Judaism. --- Revelation. --- Rosenheim, Jacob. --- Scholem, Gershom. --- Uganda proposal. --- anti-historicism. --- assimilation. --- biblical prophets. --- communitarianism. --- conversion to Christianity. --- cultural bifocality. --- ecclesiastical history. --- historical Jesus movement. --- historicism. --- philosophy. --- positivism. --- post-structuralism. --- systematic theology.