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The Jewish People in the First Century, Volume 2

Historical Geography, Political History, Social, Cultural and Religious Life and Institutions

By: Shmuel Safrai,Stern,David Flusser,W.C. van Unnik

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The Jewish People in the First Century, Volume 2

Historical Geography, Political History, Social, Cultural and Religious Life and Institutions

By: Shmuel Safrai,Stern,David Flusser,W.C. van Unnik

Series: Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum Section 1 - The Jewish people in the first century Historial geography, political history, social, cultural and religious life and institutions Edited by S. Safrai and M. Stern in cooperation with D. Flusser and W.C. van Unnik Section 2 - The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud Section 3 - Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature

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BRILL

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9004275096

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9789004275096

Jewish Civilization

The Jewish Historical Experience in a Comparative Perspective

By: Shmuel N. Eisenstadt

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Jewish Civilization

The Jewish Historical Experience in a Comparative Perspective

By: Shmuel N. Eisenstadt

This book explains why the best way to understand the Jewish historical experience is to look at Jewish people, not just as a religious or ethnic group or a nation or "people," but, as bearers of civilization. This approach helps to explain the greatest riddle of Jewish civilization, namely, its continuity despite destruction, exile, and loss of political independence. In the first part of the book, Eisenstadt compares Jewish life and religious orientations and practices with Hellenistic and Roman civilizations, as well as with Christian and Islamic civilizations. In the second part of the book, he analyzes the modern period with its different patterns of incorporation of Jewish communities into European and American societies; national movements that developed among Jews toward the end of the nineteenth century, especially the Zionist movement; and specific characteristics of Israeli society. The major question Eisenstadt poses is to what extent the characteristics of the Jewish experience are distinctive, in comparison to other ethnic and religious minorities incorporated into modern nation-states, or other revolutionary ideological settler societies. He demonstrates through his case studies the continuous creativity of Jewish civilization.

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325

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State University of New York Press

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1438401930

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9781438401935

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Convincing Evidence of the Truths of Judaism

By: Shmuel Waldman

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Convincing Evidence of the Truths of Judaism

By: Shmuel Waldman

This book was written for the Jew who seeks evidence and proofs that the principal beliefs of Judaism are indeed true. Readable and friendly, inspiring and refreshing, this book presents the main issues of Judaism in depth. It includes compelling evidence to there being a Creator, evidence to the Divine origin of our Torah, to there being a spiritual soul and the World To Come, and Divine guidance throughout Jewish history. It discusses the problems with Evolution, and it deals with the Holocaust and human suffering. It also provides many other sources for further reading, and a glossary of terms. This edition is recommended for readers with a strong Torah background, seeking an informed, yet less secular, approach.

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338

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Feldheim Publishers

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1583308067

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9781583308066

Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds

By: Shmuel Shepkaru

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Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds

By: Shmuel Shepkaru

This book presents a linear history of Jewish martyrdom, from the Hellenistic period to the high Middle Ages. Following the chronology of sources, the study challenges the general consensus that martyrdom was an original Hellenistic Jewish idea. Instead, Jews like Philo and Josephus internalized the idealized Roman concept of voluntary death and presented it as an old Jewish practice. The centrality of self-sacrifice in Christianity further stimulated the development of rabbinic martyrology and the talmudic guidelines for passive martyrdom. However, when forced to choosed between death and conversion in medieval Christendom, Ashkenazic Jews went beyond these guidelines, sacrificing themselves and loved ones. Through death not only did they attempt to prove their religiosity, but also to disprove the religious legitimacy of their Christian persecutors. While martyrs and martyrologies intended to show how Judaisim differed from Christianity, they, in fact, reveal a common mindset.

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434

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Cambridge University Press

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0521842816

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Explorations in Jewish Historical Experience

The Civilizational Dimension

By: Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt

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Explorations in Jewish Historical Experience

The Civilizational Dimension

By: Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt

Professor S.N. Eisenstadt has written numerous essays on Jewish Identity over the years. This volume brings together some of these. The major argument of the essays follows the Weberian view of Jewish historical experience as that of a distinct civilization, as a distinct Great Religion, the first monotheistic civilization - without, however, accepting many of Weber's concrete analyses.

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The Jewish People in the First Century, Volume 2

The Jewish People in the First Century, Volume 2

Jewish Civilization

Jewish Civilization

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds

Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds

Explorations in Jewish Historical Experience

Explorations in Jewish Historical Experience

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