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• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 54,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2004

This volume deals with the role of saints and exemplary persons in Judaism and Christianity throughout history to the present time in an interdisciplinary perspective.

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 44,6 Mb
• Release Date : 22 January 2020

A common objective of saint veneration in all three Abrahamic religions is the recovery and perpetuation of the collective memory of the saint. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all yield intriguing

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 11 October 2016

This volume is a memorial volume in honor of Alan F. Segal, featuring essays by renowned scholars of late ancient and Hellenistic Judaism, early Christianity, Gnosticism and Rabbinic Judaism.

• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• File Size : 24,7 Mb
• Release Date : 08 March 2017

How does God manifest himself in the world? Through the righteous lives of his holy people (the saints). As a religion of witnesses, Christianity is dependent upon its saints (defined

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 01 May 2006

A Holy People investigates the various ways in which Jews and Christians define their religious identity, people or community, as being holy. Keeping in mind that historical studies can offer

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 23 December 2013

This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of connections between Christian monastic texts and Babylonian Talmudic traditions.

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 08 June 2024

This volume contains essays dealing with complex relationships between Judaism and Christianity, taking a bold step, assuming that no historical period can be excluded from the interactive process between Judaism

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• File Size : 22,5 Mb
• Release Date : 04 October 2021

Abrahamic scriptures serve as cultural pharmakon, prescribing what can act as both poison and remedy. This collection shows that their sometimes veiled but eternally powerful polemics can both destroy and

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• File Size : 46,8 Mb
• Release Date : 04 October 2023

Travel and pilgrimage have become central research topics in recent years. Some archaeologists and historians have applied globalization theories to ancient intercultural connections. Classicists have rediscovered travel as a literary

• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• File Size : 27,7 Mb
• Release Date : 29 October 2019

This insightful volume represents the “hands-on” experience in the world of academia of two Jewish scholars, one of Orthodox background and the other a convert to the Jewish faith. As