A Vision of the Days: Studies in Early Jewish History and Historiography
A Vision of the Days: Studies in Early Jewish History and Historiography

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-08-29

Total Pages: 796

ISBN-13: 9004685561

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This collection of essays treats many aspects of ancient Jewish history and modern historiography in this area, with an emphasis on the history and literature of the Second Temple period and especially on the writings of Josephus. It is dedicated to Daniel R. Schwarz, and reflects his central academic interests. Additional essays deal with historical and ideological aspects of classical rabbinic literature, with archeological finds and with perceptions of the Jews and Judaism on the part of non-Jews in the Second Temple period and later.

Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation
Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation

Author: Mark Greengrass

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-05-16

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780521520119

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Samuel Hartlib was a key figure in the intellectual revolution of the seventeenth century. Originally from Elbing, in Prussig, Hartlib settled permanently in England from the late 1620s until his death in 1662. His aspirations formed a distinctive and influential strand in English intellectual life during those revolutionary decades. This volume reflects the variety of the theoretical and practical interests of Hartlib's circle and presents them in their continental context. The editors of the volume are all attached to the Hartlib Papers Project at the University of Sheffield, a major collaborative research effort to exploit the largely untapped resources of the surviving Hartlib manuscripts. In an introduction to the volume they explore the background to the Hartlib circle and provide the context in which the essays should be read.