Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism
Author: Ari Mermelstein
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Published: 2021
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ISBN-13: 9781108926850
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Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism
Author: Ari Mermelstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-17
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1108917062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Ari Mermelstein examines the mutually-reinforcing relationship between power and emotion in ancient Judaism. Ancient Jewish writers in both Palestine and the diaspora contended that Jewish identity entails not simply allegiance to God and performance of the commandments but also the acquisition of specific emotional norms. These rules regarding feeling were both shaped by and responses to networks of power - God, the foreign empire, and other groups of Jews - which threatened Jews' sense of agency. According to these writers, emotional communities that felt Jewish would succeed in neutralizing the power wielded over them by others and, depending on the circumstances, restore their power to acculturate, maintain their Jewish identity, and achieve redemption. An important contribution to the history of emotions, this book argues that power relations are the basis for historical changes in emotion discourse.
An Early History of Compassion
Author: Françoise Mirguet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-10-12
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1107146267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Early History of Compassion explores the role of the emotional imagination within the context of Roman imperialism.
Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions
Author: Stefan C. Reif
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2015-11-13
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 3110386089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGiven the recent interest in the emotions presupposed in early religious literature, it has been thought useful to examine in this volume how the Jews and early Christians expressed their feelings within the prayers recorded in some of their literature. Specialists in their fields from academic institutions around the world have analysed important texts relating to this overall theme and to what is revealed with regard to such diverse topics as relations with God, exegesis, education, prophecy, linguistic expression, feminism, happiness, grief, cult, suicide, non-Jews, Hellenism, Qumran and Jerusalem. The texts discussed are in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic and are important for a scientific understanding of how Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity developed their approaches to worship, to the construction of their theology and to the feelings that lay behind their religious ideas and practices. The articles contribute significantly to an historical understanding of how Jews maintained their earlier traditions but also came to terms with the ideology of the dominant Hellenistic culture that surrounded them.
Translation and Survival
Author: Tessa Rajak
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2009-04-09
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0191609684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek was the first major translation in Western culture. Its significance was far-reaching. Without a Greek Bible, European history would have been entirely different - no Western Jewish diaspora and no Christianity. Translation and Survival is a literary and social study of the ancient creators and receivers of the translations, and about their impact. The Greek Bible served Jews who spoke Greek, and made the survival of the first Jewish diaspora possible; indeed, the translators invented the term 'diaspora'. It was a tool for the preservation of group identity and for the expression of resistance. It invented a new kind of language and many new terms. The Greek Bible translations ended up as the Christian Septuagint, taken over along with the entire heritage of Hellenistic Judaism, during the process of the Church's long-drawn-out parting from the Synagogue. Here, a brilliant creation is restored to its original context and to its first owners.
Aging Angry
Author: Amanda Smith Barusch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-12-05
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0197584640
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Never before in the history of humanity have so many people lived to be so very old. Throughout our past, a few individuals might have made it to old age but "mass aging" is a new concept for the human species"--
Between Cooperation and Hostility
Author: Rainer Albertz
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Published: 2013-02-20
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 3647550515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe question of why the cooperation of Jews with the Persian and Ptolemaic empires achieved some success and why it failed with regard to the Seleucids and the Romans, even turning into military hostility against them, has not been sufficiently answered. The present volume intends to show, from the perspectives of Hebrew Bible, Judaic, and Ancient History Studies, that the contrasting Jewish attitudes towards foreign powers were not only dependent on specific political circumstances. They were also interrelated with the emergence of multiple early Jewish identities, which all found a basis in the Torah, the prophets, or the psalms.
Making History
Author: Carol Bakhos
Publisher: SBL Press
Published: 2024-03-29
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 1951498968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays in this volume honor Richard L. Kalmin, one of the leading scholars of rabbinic literature. Volume contributors explore a variety of topics related to Kalmin’s wide-ranging work from the development of the Talmud to rabbinic storytelling, from the transmission of tales across geographic and cultural boundaries to ancient Jewish and Iranian interactions. Many of the essays reflect current trends in how scholars use ancient Jewish literary sources to address questions of historical import. Contributors include Carol Bakhos, Beth A. Berkowitz, Noah Bickart, Robert Brody, Joshua Cahan, Shaye J. D. Cohen, Steven D. Fraade, Shamma Friedman, Alyssa M. Gray, Judith Hauptman, Christine Hayes, Catherine Hezser, Marc Hirshman, David Kraemer, Marjorie Lehman, Kristen Lindbeck, Jonathan S. Milgram, Chaim Milikowsky, Michael L. Satlow, Marcus Mordecai Schwartz, Seth Schwartz, Burton L. Visotzky, and Sarah Wolf.
Fire in the Ashes
Author: David Patterson
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780295985473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSixty years after it ended, the Holocaust continues to leave survivors and their descendants, as well as historians, philosophers, and theologians, pondering the enormity of that event. In this book, a group of Jewish and Christian scholars, members of he Pastora Goldner Symposium, attempt to understand divine justice in the face of evil.
International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War
Author: Jaclyn Granick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-17
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 1108495028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe untold story of how American Jews reinvented modern humanitarianism during the Great War and rebuilt Jewish life in Jewish homelands.
