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.
| Other author | Schwartz, Daniel R. |
| Other author | Weiss, Zeev, 1959- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012. |
| Description | xiii, 548 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Ancient Judaism and early Christianity ; v. 78 Ancient Judaism and early Christianity v. 78. ^A1062738 |
| Contents | Was 70 CE a watershed in Jewish history? : three stages of modern scholarship, and a renewed effort / Daniel R. Schwartz -- "Found written in the book of Moses" : priests in the era of Torah / Martha Himmelfarb -- The other side of Israelite priesthood : a sociological-anthropological perspective / Gideon Aran -- "A kingdom of priests" : did the Pharisees try to live like priests? / Hanan Birenboim -- Sectarianism before and after 70 CE / Jodi Magness -- Were priests communal leaders in late antique Palestine? : the archaeological evidence / Zeev Weiss -- Place beyond place : on artifacts, religious technologies and the mediation of sacred place / Ori Schwarz -- Priests and priesthood in Philo : could he have done without them? / Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer -- Sanctity and the attitude towards the Temple in Hellenistic Judaism / Noah Hacham -- Doing without the Temple : paradigms in Judaic literature of the diaspora / Michael Tuval. |
| Contents | The rising power of the image : on Jewish magic art from the Second Temple period to late antiquity / Naama Vilozny -- Jewish exorcism before and after the destruction of the Second Temple / Gideon Bohak -- The emergence of a new Jewish art in late antiquity / Lee I. Levine -- Legal midrash between Hillel and Rabbi Akiva : did 70 CE make a difference? / Paul Mandel -- Liturgy before and after the Temple's destruction : change or continuity / Esther G. Chazon -- Liturgy, poetry, and the persistence of sacrifice / Michael D. Swartz -- Setting the stage : the effects of the Roman conquest and the loss of sovereignty / Nadav Sharon -- Temple and identity in early Christianity and in the Johannine community : reflections on the "parting of the ways" / Jörg Frey -- Religious reactions to 70 : the limitations of the evidence / Martin Goodman -- Epilogue: 70 CE after 135 CE : the making of a watershed? / Ruth A. Clements. |
| General note | "This volume presents revised versions of lectures given in January 2009 at a Jerusalem symposium sponsored by Hebrew University's Scholion Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Jewish Studies"--Preface. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011038377 |
| ISBN | 9789004215344 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9004215344 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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