A Vision of the Days: Studies in Early Jewish History and Historiography: In Honor of Daniel R. Schwartz

Author:   Robert Brody ,  Noah Hacham ,  Meron Piotrkowski ,  Jan Willem van Henten
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   213
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9789004685543


Pages:   796
Publication Date:   01 August 2024
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A Vision of the Days: Studies in Early Jewish History and Historiography: In Honor of Daniel R. Schwartz


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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.

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Author:   Robert Brody ,  Noah Hacham ,  Meron Piotrkowski ,  Jan Willem van Henten
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   213
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 5.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.441kg
ISBN:  

9789004685543


ISBN 10:   9004685545
Pages:   796
Publication Date:   01 August 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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List of Figures Contributors English Section Introduction. Daniel Schwartz and Second Temple Studies: A Polarized History  Robert Brody, Noah Hacham, Meron M. Piotrkowski and Jan Willem van Henten Chapter Summaries List of Daniel R. Schwartz’s Publications Part 1: Second Temple Literature 1 Traces of the Story of Judith in Early Jewish Literature  Deborah Levine Gera 2 Razis’s Suicide (2 Maccabees 14:37–46): Ritual and Jewish Perspectives  Jan Willem van Henten 3 The Jewish Legacy of 2 Maccabees  Tessa Rajak 4 “Hebrew Words Actually Experience a Loss When They Are Translated into Another Language”  Hermann Lichtenberger 5 The Hypothetica: A Jewish Rationalist in the Land of Israel  Albert I. Baumgarten 6 Same-Sex Activities in Judeo-Greek Literature and in Paul  Michael Tuval Part 2: Flavius Josephus 7 Who’s a Zealot? Composition Criticism and the History of Roman Judea  Steve Mason 8 Josephus's Rewriting of the Book of Daniel in Antiquities 10.186–281  Michael Segal 9 The Depiction of Judaism in Josephus’s Contra Apionem: Continuity, Development, or Innovation?  Nadav Sharon 10 The Account of the Jewish Constitution in Josephus’s Contra Apionem: Afterthought or Addition?  Gregory E. Sterling 11 Doris and Mariamme: The Remarkable Lives of Two of Herod’s Many Wives  Etka Liebowitz 12 Josephus’s Account of the Martyrdom of James: A Source for the Position of The Jerusalem Community of Jesus Followers within Their Environment?  Jörg Frey 13 Josephus’s Judean Tyrants: Traitors to a Transnational Aristocratic Order  Steven Ben-Yishai 14 Josephus in the Ninth-Century World Chronicles of George Synkellos and George the Monk  Rivkah Fishman-Duker Part 3: Jews and Others 15 Hecataeus as a Witness to Judaism  John J. Collins 16 The Blood Libel and the Leper Libel: Ancient Antisemitism?  Erich S. Gruen 17 A New Perspective on the Kinship between Jews and Spartans: The Issue of Ancestral Territory  Katell Berthelot 18 The Ancestral Laws, the Laws of God, and the Samaritans in the Second Book of Maccabees  Dov Gera 19 “Parting of the Ways” in Antioch in 386/7 CE as Seen by John Chrysostom  Shaye J. D. Cohen Part 4: The Modern Reception of Ancient Jewish History 20 Testa Incognita: The History of the Pseudo-Josephus Bust in Copenhagen  René Bloch 21 “Herodes unterm Hakenkreuz und Josephus der Fälscher”: Hugo Willrich and the Study of the Jews in Antiquity  Meron M. Piotrkowski 22 Isaac D’Israeli’s History of the Jews  Martin Goodman Part 5: Archeology 23 What Happened to All the Writing on the Temple Mount?  Jonathan Price 24 The Invisible Synagogues of the Second Temple Period  Benjamin Arubas and Uzi Leibner Hebrew Section חלק עברי מבוא. דניאל שוורץ וחקר תולדות ישראל בימי הבית השני: היסטוריה של קטבים  ירחמיאל (רוברט) ברודי, יאן וילם ון־הנטן, נח חכם ומרון פיוטרקובסקי Robert Brody, Noah Hacham, Meron M. Piotrkowski and Jan Willem van Henten סקירת המאמרים Part 6: Rabbinic Literature and the Rabbinic World עולמם של חז״ל וספרותם 25 ׳ישראל ערבים זה לזה׳: על שיתוף הפעולה הבין־ארצי בקרב יהודים בעת העתיקה  ישעיהו גפני Isaiah Gafni 26 בשולי ׳יוספוס וחז״ל׳: עוד משהו על יונים הורדוסיות  טל אילן Tal Ilan 27 על מעמד הכוהנים וייחוסם לאחר החורבן בעיני חז״ל  ירחמיאל (רוברט) ברודי Robert (Yerachmiel) Brody 28 הבעלות על הקרקע בארץ ישראל בתקופה הרומית  אהרן אופנהיימר ז״ל Aharon Oppenheimer z”l 29 הסתרה, הגחכה ופולמוס: הצגתן של מחלוקות בין חכמים למתנגדיהם בספרות חז״ל, מחלוקת הקטורת של יום הכיפורים כמקרה מבחן  עדיאל שרמר Adiel Schremer 30 מאנטיוכיה לירושלים: מה האיץ את תוכנית הקיסר יוליינוס ׳הכופר׳ לקומם את מקדש היהודים בירושלים?  עודד עיר־שי Oded Irshai 31 צדק חברתי ברומי ותורת הגמול האלוהי: עיון משווה במדרשי אגדה  פינחס מנדל Paul Mandel 32 יבנה ורומא: על דת ומדינה לאחר החורבן  נח חכם Noah Hacham 33 ׳תפיסת העולם׳ של היהודים בעת העתיקה  אייל בן־אליהו Eyal Ben-Eliyahu Part 7: Archeology ארכאולוגיה 34 שולחן האבן ממגדלה ומקומו בגיבוש הריהוט הליטורגי של בית הכנסת העתיק  זאב וייס Zeev Weiss 35 אַשְׁרֵי הַמְחַכֶּה, וְיַגִּיעַ. או: מה לדניאל בגוב האריות במערת קבורה בגליל המערבי ובבית הכנסת בנערן?  גלית נגה־בנאי Galit Noga-Banai Index


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Robert Brody, Ph.D., Harvard University (1975) and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1982), is Professor Emeritus of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of many books and articles on Talmudic and rabbinic literature. Noah Hacham, Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2003), is Herbst Family Professor of Jewish History at that university. He is co-author of The New Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum (De Gruyter, 2020, 2022) and many articles on second Temple Judaism. Meron Piotrkowski, Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2015), is Associate Professor of Jewish History at the University of Oxford. He is a historian of the Second Temple period, focusing on the Egyptian-Jewish Diaspora, the author of Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2019) and part of the team of commentators and contributors to the New Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum (vols. 4–6). Jan Willem van Henten, Ph.D., Leiden University (1986), is Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of Amsterdam, and Extra-Ordinary Professor of Biblical Studies at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His publications mainly concern the Maccabean Books, the works of Flavius Josephus and aspects of the reception of the Bible.

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