Jewish Cultural Encounters in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern World Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 23 January 2017

Taking the flexible concept of “cultural encounter” as a starting point, this volume presents a variety of studies which focus on the impact of encounters between cultures, groups, and individuals

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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• Release Date : 21 August 2018

Few studies focus on the modes of knowledge transmission (or concealment), or the trends of continuity or change from the Ancient to the Late Antique worlds. In Antiquity, knowledge was

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 11 July 2022

This volume abandons the document-based approach of standard introductions and investigates aggregates of classical rabbinic texts through three broad perspectives – intertextuality, east and west, halakhah and aggadah – generating fresh insights

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• Release Date : 16 May 2023

"This monograph argues that Roman bathhouses were laboratories in which Jews interacted with Graeco-Roman culture. It tells the story of the Jews who frequented them, documenting their pleasures, anxieties, and

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 13 February 2023

This book is a collection of cutting-edge essays on the Dead Sea Scrolls as part of ancient Mediterranean media culture, featuring interdisciplinary feedback from scholars in New Testament studies and

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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• Release Date : 20 March 2023

Volume V of the CIIP contains inscriptions from Galilee during the time of Alexander the Great until the end of the Byzantian rule in the 7th century in all the

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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• Release Date : 05 May 2020

This publication seeks to endeavour the relationship between material artefacts and reading practices in ancient and medieval cultures. While the acts of reception of written artefacts in former times are

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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• Release Date : 18 March 2024

Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. Their complexity derives not only from the impressive number of onomastic elements available to describe

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 21 May 2024

What can early Jewish courtroom narratives tell us about the capacity and limits of human justice? By exploring how judges and the act of judging are depicted in these narratives,

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 30 May 2024

This study reframes and reorients the study of 2 Enoch, moving beyond debates about Christian or Jewish authorship and considering the work in the context of eclectic and erudite cultures in