A Companion to late ancient Jews and Judaism : third century BCE to 7th century CE

A Companion to late ancient Jews and Judaism : third century BCE to 7th century CE / edited by Naomi Koltun-Fromm and Gwynn Kessler.

"This companion volume brings together 30 scholarly essays covering many different topics within the larger subject of late ancient Jews and Judaism. Organized thematically these essays explore identity, gender, material culture, sacred and domestic spaces, as well as literary motifs and theolo...

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Other Authors: Kessler, Gwynn (Editor), Koltun-Fromm, Naomi, 1964- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2020.
Series:Blackwell companions to the ancient world.
Subjects:
586 B.C.-1789 A.D.
Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Judaism > History > Talmudic period, 10-425.
Judaism > History > Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789.
Jews > History > 586 B.C.-70 A.D.
Jews > History > 70-638.
Rabbinical literature > History and criticism.
Jews
Judaism > Medieval and early modern period
Judaism > Post-exilic period (Judaism)
Judaism > Talmudic period
Rabbinical literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Gwynn Kessler and Naomi Koltun-Fromm
  • Where Jews Lived in the West? / Ross Kraemer
  • Jewish Towns and Neighborhoods in Roman Palestine and Persian Babylonia / Mika Ahuvia
  • Late Ancient Jewish Languages / Azzan Yadin-Israel
  • Literature of the Jews, Fourth Century B.C.E. to Second Century C.E. / Eva Mroczek
  • Rabbinic Literature / Michal Bar Asher-Siegal
  • Material Culture of the Second Temple Period (pre-70 C.E.) / Karen B. Stern
  • How Do Jews Matter? Exploring Late-Ancient Mediterranean Jews and Jewishness through Material Culture / Cynthia M. Baker
  • Material Culture of the Jews in the Sasanian Empire / Jason S. Mokhtarian
  • Non-Jewish Sources for Late Ancient Jewish History / Naomi Koltun-Fromm
  • Contesting Identities: The Splitting Channels from Israelite to Jew / Yair Furstenberg
  • Imagining Judaism after 70 C.E. / Jonathan Klawans
  • Rabbis and the Poor in Palestinian Amoraic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud / Alyssa M. Gray
  • Diaspora and Center / Joshua Burns
  • Jews and their Others (New Testament) / Sandy L. Haney
  • Rabbis and their Others / Mira Beth Wasserman
  • What is Jewish Law?
  • Jewish Legal Culture and Thought in Antiquity (Fifth C.B.C.E.
  • Seventh C.C.E.) / Natalie B. Dohrmann
  • Arabian Judaism at the Advent of Islam: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of Judaism / Aaron Hughes
  • Sexualities and Il/licit Relationships in Late Ancient Jewish Literatures / Federico Dal Bo
  • Embodied Scriptural Practice Among Late Ancient Jews / Elizabeth Shanks-Alexander
  • Bodies that Matter: Piety and Sin / Jane L. Kanerak
  • Rabbinic Gender: Beyond Male and Female / Gwynn Kessler
  • Disability Studies in Jewish Culture in Late Antiquity: Gender, Body and Violence amidst Empire / Julia Watts Belser
  • Gender, Sex and Witchcraft in Late Ancient Judaism / Sara Ronis
  • Domestic Spaces / Meredith J.C. Warren
  • "Do Not Say 'I am Poor and Cannot Seek out Knowledge": The House of Study and Education in the Second Temple Period / Cana Werman
  • Locating Diaspora Jewish Philanthropy in the Ancient Mediterranean Public Arena / Shira L. Lander
  • Sacred Spaces / Sarit Kattan Gribetz
  • Jewish Prayer, Liturgy and Ritual / Laura S. Lieber
  • Agriculture and Industry / John Mandsanger.

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