Studies in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity write by Pieter W. van der Horst. This book was released on 2014-03-13. Studies in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the past 45 years Professor Pieter W. van der Horst contributed extensively to the study of ancient Judaism and early Christianity. The 24 papers in this volume, written since his early retirement in 2006, cover a wide range of topics, all of them concerning the religious world of Judaism and Christianity in the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Byzantine era. They reflect his research interests in Jewish epigraphy, Jewish interpretation of the Bible, Jewish prayer culture, the diaspora in Asia Minor, exegetical problems in the writings of Philo and Josephus, Samaritan history, texts from ancient Christianity which have received little attention (the poems of Cyrus of Panopolis, the Doctrina Jacobi nuper baptizati, the Letter of Mara bar Sarapion), and miscellanea such as the pagan myth of Jewish cannibalism, the meaning of the Greek expression ‘without God,’ the religious significance of sneezing in pagan antiquity, and the variety of stories about pious long-sleepers in the ancient world (pagan, Jewish, Christian).
Ancient Judaism
Ancient Judaism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Judaism write by Max Weber. This book was released on 2010-05-11. Ancient Judaism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Weber’s classic study which deals specifically with: Types of Asceticism and the Significance of Ancient Judaism, History and Social Organization of Ancient Palestine, Political Organization and Religious Ideas in the Time of the Confederacy and the Early Kings, Political Decline, Religious Conflict and Biblical Prophecy.
Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity write by Mr John Arthur Smith. This book was released on 2013-01-28. Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, John Arthur Smith presents the first full-length study of music among the ancient Israelites, the ancient Jews and the early Christians in the Mediterranean lands during the period from 1000 BCE to 400 CE. He considers the physical, religious and social setting of the music, and how the music was performed. The extent to which early Christian music may have retained elements of the musical tradition of Judaism is also considered. After reviewing the subject's historical setting, and describing the main sources, the author discusses music at the Jerusalem Temple and in a variety of spheres of Jewish life away from it. His subsequent discussion of early Christian music covers music in private devotion, monasticism, the Eucharist, and gnostic literature. He concludes with an examination of the question of the relationship between Jewish and early Christian music, and a consideration of the musical environments that are likely to have influenced the formation of the earliest Christian chant. The scant remains of notated music from the period are discussed and placed in their respective contexts. The numerous sources that are the foundation of the book are evaluated objectively and critically in the light of modern scholarship. Due attention is given to where their limitations lie, and to what they cannot tell us as well as to what they can. The book serves as a reliable introduction as well as being an invaluable guide through one of the most complex periods of music history.
Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity write by John J. Collins. This book was released on 2018-09-24. Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The nature and origin of Jewish mysticism is a controversial subject. This volume explores the subject by examining both the Hebrew and Aramaic tradition (Dead Sea Scrolls, 1 Enoch) and the Greek philosophical tradition (Philo) and also examines the Christian transformation of Jewish mysticism in Paul and Revelation. It provides for a nuanced treatment that differentiates different strands of thought that may be considered mystical. The Hebrew tradition is mythical in nature and concerned with various ways of being in the presence of God. The Greek tradition allows for a greater degree of unification and participation in the divine. The New Testament texts are generally closer to the Greek tradition, although Greek philosophy would have a huge effect on later Christian mysticism. The book is intended for scholars and advanced students of ancient Judaism and early Christianity.
Perceiving the Other in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
Perceiving the Other in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perceiving the Other in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity write by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal. This book was released on 2017-11. Perceiving the Other in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present volume reexamines both ancient Christian and Jewish portrayals of outsiders. In what ways, both positive and negative, do ancient writers interact with and relate to those outside of their ethnicity or religious tradition? This volume devotes itself to the methodological questions surrounding the use of diverse ancient sources for the construction of the other. The goal is to shed new light on ancient interactions between different religious groups in order to describe more accurately these relationships. Contributors: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Albert I. Baumgarten, Katell Berthelot, Patricia A. Duncan, Nathan Eubank, Isaiah M. Gafni, Wolfgang Grunstaudl, Christine Hayes, Tobias Nicklas, Matthew Thiessen, Haim Weiss
