دانلود کتاب A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism: 3rd Century BCE - 7th Century CE

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Maps
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Maps
Chapter one Introduction
Opening Section
Where Jews Live
Literatures, Languages, and Materialities
Identities and Ethnicities
Bodies and Genders
Spaces
Appendix I: An Historical Outline
Appendix 2: Further Reading
PART I WHERE JEWS LIVE
Chapter Two Where Jews Lived in the West
Introduction
The Sources for Jewish Habitation—An Overview
The Quality of These Sources
What These Sources Suggest About Where Jews Lived: Some Granularity
Antioch on the Orontes and Coastal Syria
Why Jews Lived Where They Did During This Particular Thousand Years
Abbreviations
Notes
References
Chapter Three Jewish Towns and Neighborhoods in Roman Palestine and Persian Babylonia
Introduction
Summary of Scholarly Debate and Methodological Issues
Roman and Byzantine Palestine
Persian Babylonia
Suggestions for Future Developments
References
PART II LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Chapter Four Late Ancient Jewish Languages
The Literary Landscape in Judaea
The Non-Literary Landscape in Judaea
The Diaspora
Language Ideology
Note
References
Chapter Five Literature of the Jews, Fourth Century bce to Second Century ce
Introduction
Chronologies and Categories
The Challenges
Key Features
Spotlight on Key Genres and Texts
Conclusion
References
Chapter Six Rabbinic Literature
Introduction
Mishnah
Tosefta
Midrash
Talmuds
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Seven Material Culture of the Second Temple Period (pre-70 ce)
Introduction
Terminology and Methodology
Devotional Activities
Household/Daily Life
Death, Commemoration, and the Afterlife
Places in Society
Assessment
References
Chapter Eight How Do Jews Matter? Exploring Late-Ancient Mediterranean Jews and Jewishness Through Material Culture
Introduction
Everyday Life
Synagogues and Burials
How Does the Matter of Late-Ancient Jews Matter?
References
Chapter Nine Material Culture of the Jews of Sasanian Mesopotamia
Introduction
Materiality of the Sasanian Environment
Incantation Bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia
Jewish-Sasanian Seals
Conclusion
Note
References
Chapter Ten Non-Jewish Sources for Late Ancient Jewish History
Introduction
Types of Sources
Methodologies
References
PART III IDENTITIES AND ETHNICITIES
Chapter Eleven Contesting Identities: The Splitting Channels from Israelite to Jew
Introduction
The Heritage of Ezra
Hellenism and the Birth of “Judaism”
Sectarianism and the True Israel
Jewish Identity under Roman Imperialism
The “ekklesia” of the Torah
References
Chapter Twelve Imagining Judaism after 70 ce
Interpreting an Event
Facing a Chasm
Projecting a Catastrophe
Countering a Projection
Unanswered Questions?
Clarifying Survival
The Sects and 70 ce
Looking Ahead: Imagining Catastrophe Without Crisis
References
Chapter Thirteen Rabbis and the Poor in Palestinian Amoraic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud
Introduction
The Quotidian Lives of the Poor
Portrayals of Rabbinic Interpersonal Interactions with the Poor
Theological Constructions of the Poor
Rabbis, Tzedakah (Charity), and the Poor
Conclusion
References
Chapter Fourteen Diaspora and Center
Introduction
Home and Away
The Temple Trade
Life During Wartime
A New Center Emerges
Exile at Home and Home in Exile
Conclusions
References
Chapter Fifteen Jews and Their Others (New Testament)
Scholarship, Paul, and Jewish Identity
Paul’s Identit(ies) in Philippians 3
Paul’s Identit(ies) in Acts
Political Implications Concerning Identity
Concluding Remarks
Notes
References
Chapter Sixteen Rabbis and Their Others
Introduction
Non-Jews
Women
Non-rabbinic Jews (amey ha-aretz)
Notes
References
Chapter Seventeen What is Jewish Law? Jewish Legal Culture and Thought in Antiquity (Fifth Century bce to Seventh Century ce)
Introduction: What Is (and Is Not) Jewish Law?
Laws and Jewish Law
Law as Extra-Juridical Discourse
Conclusion
Note
References
Chapter Eighteen Arabian Judaism at the Advent of Islam: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of Judaism
Introduction
Arabian Jews in the Historiographical Tradition
Ḥijāzı Jews
Ḥimyarite Jews
Arabian Jews and the Question of Jewish Identity
Conclusions
Notes
References
PART IV BODIES AND GENDERS
Chapter Nineteen Sexualities and Il/licit Relationships in Late Ancient Jewish Literatures
Introduction
The Hebrew Bible
Pseudepigrapha and Other Early Jewish Texts
Qumran
Early Tannaitic Texts
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Twenty Embodied Scriptural Practice
Introduction
The Shema and Ritual
Enacting the Instruction Verses as Embodied Ritual
Ritualizing “These Words”
Philo: “These Words” as “The Rules of Justice”
Josephus: Words Publicize God’s Beneficence
Material Evidence for “These Words”
Limiting the Scope of “These Words”
The Emergence of the Rabbinic Shema
Shema and Tefillin as an Embodied Internalization of Scripture
Halakhic Repercussions
Notes
References
Chapter Twenty-One Bodies That Matter: Piety and Sin
Introduction
Rabbinic Concepts of Valuation
Bodies That Sin
One or Two Bodies?
Between Arakhin and Sanhedrin
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Twenty-Two Rabbinic Gender: Beyond Male and Female
Introduction
Expanding the Field of Gender: Tannaitic Midrashim
Expanding the Field: Mishnah and Tosefta
Figuring (Away) the Tumtum and Androginos Person
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Twenty-Three Disability Studies in Jewish Culture in Late Antiquity: Gender, Body, and Violence Amidst Empire
Introduction
Conceptualizing Disability in Rabbinic Literature
Idolatry, Disability, and the Divine Body
Is God a Clever Crip? Divine Disability and the Limits of Justice
Beyond the Diagnosable Body: Disability and Roman Imperium
State Violence and the Brutalized Body: Race, Disability Studies, and Rabbinic Flesh
“Women are Lightminded”: Gender and the Production of Impairment
“Alas That I See You So”: Contesting the Narrative of the Tragic Disabled Body
Notes
References
Chapter Twenty-Four Gender, Sex, and Witchcraft in Late Ancient Judaism
Introduction
Changing Definitions of Magic and Witchcraft
Rabbis, Women, and Witches
You Can Do Magic: Women, Witchcraft, and the Reality of Everyday Life in Babylonia
Strange Magic
Notes
References
PART V SPACES
Chapter Twenty-Five Domestic Spaces
Introduction
Evidence for Domestic Space
Geography
Interior Decorating
Literary Representations of the Home
Religion and Domestic Space
Summary
Note
References
Chapter Twenty-Six “Do Not Say ‘I am Poor and Cannot Seek Out Knowledge’”: The House of Study and Education in the Second Temple Period
Introduction
Background to the Chapter
The Persian Period (538–332 bce)
The Hellenistic Period (332 bce–63 bce)
The Roman Period
References
Chapter Twenty-Seven Locating Diaspora Jewish Philanthropy in the Ancient Mediterranean Public Arena
Introduction
Civic Allegiance
Philanthropy as Apologia
Conclusion
References
Chapter Twenty-Eight Sacred Spaces
Introduction
Jerusalem and its Temple
Synagogues and Shrines
Ritual Spaces as Sacred Spaces
Off-Limits: Forbidden Sacred Spaces
Creating Sacred Spaces in Transit
Conclusions
Note
References
Chapter Twenty-Nine Jewish Prayer, Liturgy, and Ritual
Introduction
Terms and Nomenclature
Boundaries of Time and Space
Texts and Contexts
Large Scale Space
Public and Communal Space
Domestic Space
Conceptual Space
Embodied Space
Conclusions
References
Chapter Thirty Agriculture and Industry
Introduction
Agriculture
An Example of Rabbinic Difference: Pe’ah
Grain
Olives
Grapes
Vegetables
Interlude: Teach Your Son a Trade
Industry
Olive Oil
Wine
Trades and Crafts
Final Thoughts
References
Index
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