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Jews in the Early Modern World

By: Dean Phillip Bell

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Jews in the Early Modern World

By: Dean Phillip Bell

Jews in the Early Modern World presents a comparative and global history of the Jews for the early modern period, 1400-1700. It traces the remarkable demographic changes experienced by Jews around the globe and assesses the impact of those changes on Jewish communal and social structures, religious and cultural practices, and relations with non-Jews.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742545180

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Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany

Memory, Power and Community

By: Dean Phillip Bell

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Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany

Memory, Power and Community

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Although Jews in early modern Germany produced little in the way of formal historiography, Jews nevertheless engaged the past for many reasons and in various and surprising ways. They narrated the past in order to enforce order, empower authority, and record the traditions of their communities. In this way, Jews created community structure and projected that structure into the future. But Jews also used the past as a means to contest the marginalization threatened by broader developments in the Christian society in which they lived. As the Reformation threw into relief serious questions about authority and tradition and as Jews continued to suffer from anti-Jewish mentality and politics, narration of the past allowed Jews to re-inscribe themselves in history and contemporary society. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including chronicles, liturgical works, books of customs, memorybooks, biblical commentaries, rabbinic responsa and community ledgers, this study offers a timely reassessment of Jewish community and identity during a frequently turbulent era. It engages, but then redirects, important discussions by historians regarding the nature of time and the construction and role of history and memory in pre-modern Europe and pre-modern Jewish civilization. This book will be of significant value, not only to scholars of Jewish history, but anyone with an interest in the social and cultural aspects of religious history.

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Routledge

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1317111036

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9781317111030

Sacred Communities

Jewish and Christian Identities in Fifteenth-Century Germany

By: Dean Phillip Bell

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Sacred Communities

Jewish and Christian Identities in Fifteenth-Century Germany

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We all live in a community, and it was no different for the Jews and Christians of medieval Germany—or was it? This book draws together disparate threads of Christian and Jewish communal development in an effort to give a deeper understanding to the complex tapestry of Jewish and Christian interaction. In the broad examination presented herein, it is possible to compare the general transformations that affected Jews and Christians both as residents of a shared German society and as residents of their own separate communities. Jews and Christians interacted in a variety of ways, in numerous settings, and at a multitude of levels that defy simple categorization. To label late medieval Germany a period of crisis is too simplisitc, the “Reformation” should not categorically be viewed as the central development in the shift between medieval and early modern times. This book seeks to recontextualize the world of Jewish and Christian relations by bringing together divergent sources not often taken together, but equally important, to inform one another and offer a fuller picture of Jewish and Christian notions of each other and themselves than has been possible up to this point.

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BRILL

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9004475656

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Interreligious Resilience

Interreligious Leadership for a Pluralistic World

By: Michael S. Hogue,Dean Phillip Bell

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Interreligious Resilience

Interreligious Leadership for a Pluralistic World

By: Michael S. Hogue,Dean Phillip Bell

This book introduces the theory of interreligious resilience as a means to developing deeper and more effective interreligious engagement and resilience. Michael S. Hogue and Dean Phillip Bell advocate for interreligious resilience as the ability to grow through encounters with religious difference. They argue that rather than the capacity to endure change and return to a normal status quo, a deeper, more complex resilience is characterized by an ability to learn through disturbances, disruptions, and uncertainty. This book integrates theory and practice by situating the practical tasks of interreligious engagement in theological and social contexts. It is systemic and multidimensional, rather than staying focused on isolated interreligious issues or interpersonal interreligious encounters. This book is essential reading for all religious leaders and other community leaders working with religious people in an interreligious world.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350213683

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9781350213685

Sacred Communities

Jewish and Christian Identities in Fifteenth-Century Germany

By: Dean Phillip Bell

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Jewish and Christian Identities in Fifteenth-Century Germany

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This book examines the nature and extent of changes in communal structures and self-definition among Jews and Christians in Germany during the century before the Reformation. It argues that Christian community was restructured along civic and religious lines resulting in the development of a local sacred society that integrated material and spiritual well being into a moral and legal society, stressing the common good and internal peace, while Jewish community, given a variety of factors, came to be defined through regional communal structures and moral and legal discourse that allowed for broader geographical communal identity. Bell draws from a variety of German, Latin, and Hebrew sources and takes into consideration several methods and viewpoints of studying history.

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BRILL

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0391041029

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Interreligious Resilience

Interreligious Leadership for a Pluralistic World

By: Michael S. Hogue,Dean Phillip Bell

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Interreligious Leadership for a Pluralistic World

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Jews in the Early Modern World

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Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany

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