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Was 70 CE a watershed in Jewish history? : on Jews and Judaism before and after the destruction of the Second Temple / edited by Daniel R. Schwartz and Zeev Weiss in collaboration with Ruth A. Clements.

Contributor(s): Series: Ancient Judaism and early Christianity ; v. 78.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 548 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9004217444
  • 9789004217447
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 296.09/014 23
LOC classification:
  • BM655 .W37 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Was 70 CE a watershed in Jewish history? : three stages of modern scholarship, and a renewed effort / Daniel R. Schwartz -- "Found written in the book of Moses" : priests in the era of Torah / Martha Himmelfarb -- The other side of Israelite priesthood : a sociological-anthropological perspective / Gideon Aran -- "A kingdom of priests" : did the Pharisees try to live like priests? / Hanan Birenboim -- Sectarianism before and after 70 CE / Jodi Magness -- Were priests communal leaders in late antique Palestine? : the archaeological evidence / Zeev Weiss -- Place beyond place : on artifacts, religious technologies and the mediation of sacred place / Ori Schwarz -- Priests and priesthood in Philo : could he have done without them? / Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer -- Sanctity and the attitude towards the Temple in Hellenistic Judaism / Noah Hacham -- Doing without the Temple : paradigms in Judaic literature of the diaspora / Michael Tuval.
The rising power of the image : on Jewish magic art from the Second Temple period to late antiquity / Naama Vilozny -- Jewish exorcism before and after the destruction of the Second Temple / Gideon Bohak -- The emergence of a new Jewish art in late antiquity / Lee I. Levine -- Legal midrash between Hillel and Rabbi Akiva : did 70 CE make a difference? / Paul Mandel -- Liturgy before and after the Temple's destruction : change or continuity / Esther G. Chazon -- Liturgy, poetry, and the persistence of sacrifice / Michael D. Swartz -- Setting the stage : the effects of the Roman conquest and the loss of sovereignty / Nadav Sharon -- Temple and identity in early Christianity and in the Johannine community : reflections on the "parting of the ways" / Jörg Frey -- Religious reactions to 70 : the limitations of the evidence / Martin Goodman -- Epilogue: 70 CE after 135 CE : the making of a watershed? / Ruth A. Clements.
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Includes indexes.

"This volume presents revised versions of lectures given in January 2009 at a Jerusalem symposium sponsored by Hebrew University's Scholion Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Jewish Studies"--Preface.

Was 70 CE a watershed in Jewish history? : three stages of modern scholarship, and a renewed effort / Daniel R. Schwartz -- "Found written in the book of Moses" : priests in the era of Torah / Martha Himmelfarb -- The other side of Israelite priesthood : a sociological-anthropological perspective / Gideon Aran -- "A kingdom of priests" : did the Pharisees try to live like priests? / Hanan Birenboim -- Sectarianism before and after 70 CE / Jodi Magness -- Were priests communal leaders in late antique Palestine? : the archaeological evidence / Zeev Weiss -- Place beyond place : on artifacts, religious technologies and the mediation of sacred place / Ori Schwarz -- Priests and priesthood in Philo : could he have done without them? / Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer -- Sanctity and the attitude towards the Temple in Hellenistic Judaism / Noah Hacham -- Doing without the Temple : paradigms in Judaic literature of the diaspora / Michael Tuval.

The rising power of the image : on Jewish magic art from the Second Temple period to late antiquity / Naama Vilozny -- Jewish exorcism before and after the destruction of the Second Temple / Gideon Bohak -- The emergence of a new Jewish art in late antiquity / Lee I. Levine -- Legal midrash between Hillel and Rabbi Akiva : did 70 CE make a difference? / Paul Mandel -- Liturgy before and after the Temple's destruction : change or continuity / Esther G. Chazon -- Liturgy, poetry, and the persistence of sacrifice / Michael D. Swartz -- Setting the stage : the effects of the Roman conquest and the loss of sovereignty / Nadav Sharon -- Temple and identity in early Christianity and in the Johannine community : reflections on the "parting of the ways" / Jörg Frey -- Religious reactions to 70 : the limitations of the evidence / Martin Goodman -- Epilogue: 70 CE after 135 CE : the making of a watershed? / Ruth A. Clements.

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