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"This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period. Drawing on available textual and material evidence, the fourteen essays presented here, written by leading experts in their fields, span a significant chronological and geographical range and cover material that has not yet received sufficient attention in scholarship. The volume is divided into four parts. The first focuses on the vantage point of the synagogue; the second and third on non-rabbinic Judaism in, respectively, the Near East and Europe; the final part turns from diversity within Judaism to the process of "rabbinization" as represented in some unusual rabbinic texts. Diversity and Rabbinization is a welcome contribution to the historical study of Judaism in all its complexity. It presents fresh perspectives on critical questions and allows us to rethink the tension between multiplicity and unity in Judaism during the first millennium CE. L'École Pratique des Hautes Études has kindly contributed to the publication of this volume.".

Hebrew literature, Medieval. --- Rabbinical literature.

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book examines the significant role that memory failures play in early rabbinic literature. The rabbis who shaped Judaism in late antiquity envisioned the commitment to the Torah and to its commandments as governing every single aspect of a person’s life. Their vision of a Jewish subject who must keep constant mental track of multiple obligations and teachings led them to be very preoccupied with forgetting: forgetting of tasks, forgetting of facts, forgetting of texts, and—most broadly—forgetting the Torah altogether. In Fractured Tablets, Mira Balberg examines the ways in which the early rabbis approached and delineated the possibility of forgetfulness in practice and study and the solutions and responses they conjured for forgetfulness, along with the ways in which they used human fallibility to bolster their vision of Jewish observance and their own roles as religious experts. In the process, Balberg shows that the rabbis’ intense preoccupation with the prospect of forgetfulness was a meaningful ideological choice, with profound implications for our understanding of Judaism in late antiquity.

Memory --- Rabbinical literature --- RELIGION / Judaism / History. --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Hebrew literature --- Jewish literature

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Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles portrays the tension between the unity of husband and wife and their different legal and social status from a wide range of perspectives, as deduced from the texts of the three corpora. The volume discusses the related topics of divorce, polygamy, woman’s obligations to fulfill precepts, membership in the community, genealogy and attitudes toward sex, such as rejection of asceticism. Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature begins with an objective interpretation of the biblical narratives of the Creation and the Fall, the intellectual basis of Jewish attitudes toward women, and then analyzes the divergent interpretations of Qumran and the Rabbis, the grounds of their distinct doctrines and halakhot .

Women in rabbinical literature. --- Women in the Bible. --- Women in the Bible --- Women in rabbinical literature --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Women in the Talmud --- 22-055.2 --- 229*317 --- Vrouwen in de bijbel --- Qumran en het Oude Testament --- 229*317 Qumran en het Oude Testament --- 22-055.2 Vrouwen in de bijbel --- Rabbinical literature --- religion --- Asceticism --- Ezra --- God --- Halakha --- Israelites --- Judaism --- Midrash --- Qumran

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"Jewish and early Christian authors discussed Abraham in diverse ways, adapting his Old Testament narratives and using Abrahamic imagery in their works. Beginning with a perspective on how Abraham was used within Jewish literature, this collection of essays follow the impact of Abraham across biblical texts, including Pseudigraphic and Apocryphal texts, into early Greek, Latin and Gnostic literature. While some areas of study in Abrahamic texts have received much scholarly attention, other areas remain nearly untouched. The essays build upon the existing scholarship in the area and add to it by discussing Abraham in less-discussed areas such as Abraham in re-written Scripture and contemporary Greek and Latin authors. Through the presentation of a more thorough outline of the impact of the figure and stories of Abraham, the contributors create a more concise and complete idea of how his narrative was employed throughout the centuries, and how ancient authors adopted and adapted received traditions"--

Abraham (Biblical patriarch) --- Abraham --- In rabbinical literature. --- In the New Testament. --- In literature. --- Abraham, --- Abram --- Abramo --- Abū al-Anbiyāʼ Ibrāhīm al-Khalīl --- Abŭraham --- Avraam --- Avraham --- Avram --- Halil-ül-Rahman İbrahim --- Ibrāhīm al-Khalīl --- Ibrahim --- İbrahim, --- Khalīl Allāh --- Nabi Ibrahim --- אברהם --- אברהם אבינו --- إبراهيم الخليل --- Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament --- Religion --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation --- Old Testament

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The volume presents a selection of research projects in Digital Humanities applied to the “Biblical Studies” in the widest sense and context, including Early Jewish and Christian studies, hence the title “Ancient Worlds”. Taken as a whole, the volume explores the emergent Digital Culture at the beginning of the 21st century. It also offers many examples which attest to a change of paradigm in the textual scholarship of “Ancient Worlds”: categories are reshaped; textuality is (re-) investigated according to its relationships with orality and visualization; methods, approaches and practices are no longer a fixed conglomeration but are mobilized according to their contexts and newly available digital tools.

Christian literature --- Rabbinical literature --- Hebrew literature --- Jewish literature --- Christian writings --- Christianity and literature --- Literature --- Religious literature --- History and criticism --- Electronic data processing. --- Bible --- Holy Scriptures (Bible) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 22.06 --- 22.06 Bible: exegese; hermeneutique --- 22.06 Bijbel: exegese; hermeneutiek --- Bible: exegese; hermeneutique --- Bijbel: exegese; hermeneutiek --- Biblia --- History and criticism&delete& --- Electronic data processing --- digital humaniora --- Classics --- Digital Humanities --- Culture --- Humanities --- Judaism --- Christianity --- Collaborative editing --- Institute for New Testament Textual Research --- Manuscript --- Münster --- New Testament --- Novum Testamentum Graece --- Primary source --- Software --- Textual criticism --- XML