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  • - Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash
    av Azzan Yadin
    863,-

    Presents a study of midrash - the biblical exegesis, parables, and anecdotes of the Rabbis. This work examines early, tannaitic legal midrash, focusing on the interpretive tradition associated with the figure of Rabbi Ishmael. It also locates the Rabbi Ishmael hermeneutic within the religious landscape of Second Temple and post-Temple literature.

  • - Sacred Writing in the Age of Valentinus
    av Anne Starr Kreps
    706,-

    In The Crucified Book, Anne Kreps shows how the Gospel of Truth, a second-century text associated with the Christian Platonist Valentinus, and its ideas about the nature of authoritative writing engaged with Greco-Roman culture and cohered with Jewish and Christian ideas about books in antiquity.

  • - Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity
    av Andrew Crislip
    955,-

    In Thorns in the Flesh, Andrew Crislip explores late ancient Christian reflections on the meaning and value of illness in ascetic practice. Overturning earlier assumptions about early Christian theology of illness, he reveals illness to be a persistent and controversial concern in early Christian debates about sanctity and asceticism.

  • av David S. Powers
    776,-

    In Zayd, David S. Powers restores Muhammad's adopted son to his place at the center of the Islamic foundation narrative, arguing that Zayd is modeled on earlier biblical figures to address ideas about legitimate succession and the theological doctrine of the finality of prophecy.

  • - The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East
    av Derek Krueger
    371,-

    Drawing on comparative literature, ritual and performance studies, and the history of asceticism, Derek Krueger explores how early Christian writers came to view writing as salvific, as worship through the production of art.

  • - Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism
    av Dylan M. Burns
    952,-

    Apocalypse of the Alien God shows that the fundamental break between the Platonic tradition and Judeo-Christianity began when the mystic Plotinus rejected the teachings of the Sethians, an influential group of Gnostics who operated at the intersection of Hellenic, Jewish, and Christian thought.

  • av Naftali S. Cohn
    863,-

    Naftali S. Cohn provides an innovative understanding of the rabbinic authors of the Mishnah and their intense focus on the Temple. He contends that the memory of the Temple served a political function for the rabbis, arguing for their own importance within the complex social landscape of Jewish society in Roman Palestine.

  • - The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews Under Early Islam
    av Uriel I. Simonsohn
    910,-

    Focusing on the late seventh to early eleventh centuries in the region between Iraq in the east and present-day Tunisia in the west, this study explores the multiplicity of judicial systems that coexisted under early Islam to reveal a complex array of social obligations that connected individuals across confessional boundaries.

  • - The School of Nisibis and the Development of Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia
    av Adam H. Becker
    915,-

    Since the period dealt with is a time of transition from the ancient to Medieval world, it is particularly helpful to have a book that shows how these two worlds were intimately linked from a cultural point of view prior to the political separation brought about by the Arab conquests in the seventh century."-Sebastian Brock, Oxford University

  • - The Talmud After the Humanities
    av Mira Beth Wasserman
    805,-

    In Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals, Mira Beth Wasserman undertakes a close reading of Avoda Zara, arguably the Babylonian Talmud's most scandalous tractate. According to Wasserman, Avoda Zara is where this Talmud joins the humanities in questioning what it means to be a human.

  • - Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self
    av Dina Stein
    1 014,-

    In Textual Mirrors, Dina Stein draws on literary theory, folklore studies, and semiotics to closely examine midrashic tales in which self-reflexivity operates as a central element. Within these texts, rabbinic discourse itself becomes the object of reflection, both complicating and confirming its religious and ideological principles.

  • - A Study in Early Christian History and Difference
    av Andrew S. Jacobs
    1 134,-

    This first full-length study of Jesus' circumcision reimagines the language of difference and identity in early Christianity. From his earliest appearance in the Gospel of Luke to the medieval Feast of the Circumcision, Christ circumcised embodies a new way of imagining Christians and their creation of a new religious culture.

  • - Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church
    av Michael Philip Penn
    758,-

    Kissing was one of the most widely practiced early Christian rituals. Kissing Christians presents the first comprehensive study of how ancient controversies concerning this rite became part of larger debates regarding the internal structure of ancient Christian communities and their relations with outsiders.

  • - A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories
    av Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
    835,-

    Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories creates a new theoretical framework for considering the relationship between law and narrative, models a new method of studying Talmudic law, and fills out the picture of the cultural life of the rabbis who contributed to the Talmud.

  • - Making a "Catholic" Self, 388-401 C.E.
    av Jason David BeDuhn
    1 033,-

    Demonstrating that as Augustine defined and became a "Catholic" self, he also intently engaged with his former Manichaean faith, Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 2 explores the close interplay of these two processes in Augustine's works up to and including the Confessions.

  • av Catherine M. Chin
    955,-

    In exploring themes of utopian writing, pedagogical violence, and the narration of the self, this book describes the multiple ways literary education contributed to the idea that the Roman Empire and its inhabitants were capable of converting from one culture to another, from classical to Christian.

  • av Jeremy M. Schott
    895,-

    In Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity, Jeremy M. Schott examines the ways in which conflicts between Christian and pagan intellectuals over religious, ethnic, and cultural identity contributed to the transformation of Roman imperial rhetoric and ideology in the early fourth century C.E.

  • - Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity
    av George E. Demacopoulos
    371,-

    By emphasizing the ways the Bishops of Rome first leveraged the cult of St. Peter to their advantage, George E. Demacopoulos constructs an alternate account of papal history that challenges the dominant narrative of an inevitable and unbroken rise in papal power from late antiquity through the Middle Ages.

  • - Conversion and Apostasy, 373-388 C.E.
    av Jason David BeDuhn
    915,-

    Jason David BeDuhn reconstructs Augustine's decade-long adherence to Manichaeism, apostasy from it, and subsequent conversion to Nicene Christianity.

  • - The Fetus in Rabbinic Narratives
    av Gwynn Kessler
    811,-

    Kessler shows how the rabbis of the third through sixth centuries turned to non-Jewish writings on embryology and procreation to explicate the biblical insistence on the primacy of God's role in procreation at the expense of the biological parents.

  • - Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam
    av Thomas Sizgorich
    411 - 910,-

    Focusing on the shared vocabulary of images and ideas with which late ancient Christians and Muslims imagined the past, present, and future, this book seeks to understand why violent expressions of religious devotion became central to the self-understandings of Christian and Muslim communities between the fourth and ninth centuries.

  • - Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation
    av Christopher A. Frilingos
    776,-

    The author reads the Book of Revelation as a text firmly situated in the world of imperial Roman Asia Minor, where it was written. He argues that Revelation is a Christian version of that world, complete with its own gladiatorial combats and other public spectacles.

  • - The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity
    av Daniel Boyarin
    369 - 1 186,-

    "Encourages us to see historic Christianity as but one expression of a universalistic potential in Jewish monotheism. . . . In a fruitful career not yet nearly over, Border Lines, the culmination of many years of work, may well remain Daniel Boyarin's masterpiece."-Jack Miles, Commonweal

  • - The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law
    av Devora Steinmetz
    758,-

    Punishment and Freedom offers a fresh look at classical rabbinic texts about criminal law from the perspective of legal and moral philosophy, arguing that the Rabbis constructed an extreme positivist view of law that is based in divine command and that is related to the rabinnic notion notion of human freedom and responsibility.

  • - Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash
    av Azzan Yadin-Israel
    1 090,-

    Analyzing the layers of interpretation in the Sifra and the transformation of Rabbi Akiva's portrayal in rabbinic literature more broadly, Azzan Yadin-Israel traces an ideological shift toward scriptural authority and away from received traditions.

  • - The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity
    av Andrew S. Jacobs
    811,-

    "Remains of the Jews" studies the rise of Christian Empire in late antiquity through the dense and complex manner in which Christian authors wrote about Jews in the charged space of the "holy land".

  • - Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity
    av Patricia Cox Miller
    371,-

    Focusing on saintly human bodies as relics, animated icons, and performers of the holy in hagiography, this book analyzes how Christians in late antiquity saw the material world with new eyes as a medium for the disclosure of the divine in the earthly realm.

  • - An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography
    av Virginia Burrus
    319,-

    Virginia Burrus argues that the early accounts of the lives of saints are not anti-erotic but rather convey a sublimely transgressive "counter-eroticism" that resists the marital, procreative ethic of sexuality found in other strands of Christian tradition.

  • - Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects
    av Virginia Burrus
    319,-

  • - The End of Muhammad's Life and the Beginnings of Islam
    av Stephen J. Shoemaker
    411 - 968,-

    Stephen J. Shoemaker investigates contradictory traditions about the end of Muhammad's life in the Islamic and non-Islamic sources of the seventh and eighth centuries.

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