Judaica

Jewish Reactions to the Destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70: Apocalypses and Related Pseudepigrapha (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 151)

Jones, Kenneth R. · 2011 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€116.50 ($128.40 | £97.19 | ¥20,504)

Leiden, Brill, 2011. xi, 305 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. The Roman destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 was a watershed event in the religious, political, and social life of first-century Jews. This book explores the reaction to this event found in Jewish apocal...

Go Out and Study the Land' (Judges 18:2): Archaeological, Historical and Textual Studies in Honor of Hanan Eshel (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 148)

Maeir, Aren M. (Editor), Magness, Jodi, (Editor), Schiffman, Lawrence H. (Editor) · 2011 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€144.46 ($159.22 | £120.52 | ¥25,426)

Leiden, Brill, 2011. xxxv, 455 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. Hanan Eshel (z"l) was a prolific scholar in the field of Dead Sea Scrolls, Classical Archaeology of the Near East and many other topics. During his terminal illness, friends and colleagues got together ...

Legal Fictions: Studies of Law and Narrative in the Discursive Worlds of Ancient Jewish Sectarians and Sages (Supplement to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 147)

Fraade, Steven · 2011 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€152.60 ($168.19 | £127.31 | ¥26,858)

Leiden, Brill, 2011. xvii, 627 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. Drawing on the ancient writings of the Dead Sea Scrolls and early rabbinic Judaism, this book comprises studies that explore the intersections of scriptural interpretation, narrative fiction, and legal ...

Flavius Josephus: Interpretation and History (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 146)

Pastor, Jack (Editor)/ Stern, Pnina (Editor)/ Mor, Menahem (Editor) · 2011 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€144.46 ($159.22 | £120.52 | ¥25,426)

Leiden, Brill, 2011. xiii, 437 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. An International Josephus Colloquium met in Haifa on 2 - 6 July, 2006. It gathered scholars from Japan, Germany, France, Norway, Italy, Britain, Israel, and the USA who represented different disciplines...

Wisdom's Root Revealed: Ben Sira and the Election of Israel (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 139)

Schmidt Goering, Greg · 2009 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€58.86 ($64.87 | £49.10 | ¥10,360)

Leiden, Brill, 2009. xv, 313 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. This monograph interprets the theme of election in the book of Sirach. Previous scholarship has often understood Ben Sira's worldview to be dualistic, and has approached the sage's correlation of Wisdom a...

Torah Centers and Rabbinic Activity in Palestine, 70-400 CE: History and Geographic Distribution (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 138)

Rosenfeld, Ben-zion · 2010 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€93.19 ($102.71 | £77.75 | ¥16,402)

Leiden, Brill, 2010. vii, 320 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. This book analyses the data about Torah centers and rabbinic activity in Palestine during Mishnaic and Talmudic times, 70-400 CE-the Roman and early Byzantine periods. The research is an interdisciplinar...

Exploring the Scripturesque: Jewish Texts and their Christian Contexts (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 137)

Kraft, Robert Alan · 2009 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€93.19 ($102.71 | £77.75 | ¥16,402)

Leiden, Brill, 2009. ix, 313 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. These essays span about a third of a century and include both previously published and some unpublished studies by Robert A. Kraft which focus on interfaces between Jewish materials and the worlds in whic...

The Alexandrian Riots of 38 C.E. and the Persecution of the Jews. A Historical Reconstruction (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 135)

Gambetti, Sandra · 2009 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€144.46 ($159.22 | £120.52 | ¥25,426)

Leiden, Brill, 2009. ix, 336 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. Scholars have read the Alexandrian riots of 38 CE according to intertwined dichotomies. The Alexandrian Jews fought to keep their citizenship - or to acquire it; they evaded the payment of the poll-tax - ...

Manieres de penser dans l'Antiquite mediterraneenne et orientale: Melanges offerts a Francis Schmidt par ses eleves, ses collegues et ses amis (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 134)

Batsch, Christophe (Editor)/ Vartejanu-Joubert, Madalina (Editor) · 2009 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€102.51 ($112.98 | £85.52 | ¥18,042)

Leiden, Brill, 2009. viii, 294 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. Francis Schmidt's works in various fields of religious studies (mainly ancient Judaism), can be characterized by three words: historiography, anthropological history, and comparatism. In that respect he...

Sustain Me With Raisin-Cakes: Pesikta deRav Kahana and the Popularization of Rabbinic Judaism (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 133)

Anisfeld, Rachel A. · 2009 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€83.88 ($92.45 | £69.98 | ¥14,763)

Leiden, Brill, 2009. xii, 219 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. History and literature come together in a new way in this study of the midrashic collection Pesikta deRav Kahana. The book combines the findings of rabbinic historians and early Christianity scholars wit...

A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Sean Freyne (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 132)

Rodgers, Zuleika & Margarete Daly-Denton & Anne Fitzpatrick Mckinley (eds.) · 2008 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€130.47 ($143.80 | £108.85 | ¥22,963)

Leiden, Brill, 2008. xvii, 619 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. Starting his career as a scholar of the New Testament, Sean Freyne's work became synonymous with the study of Galilee in the Greek and Roman periods. His search for a deeper and more nuanced understandi...

The Other Lands of Israel: Imaginations of the Land in 2 Baruch (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 129)

Lied, Liv Ingeborg · 2008 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€87.20 ($96.11 | £72.75 | ¥15,348)

Leiden, Brill, 2008. xviii, 375 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. Jewish pseudepigraphal text. According to the current scholarly consensus, the apocalypse of 2 Baruch, written after the Fall of Jerusalem, either rejected the concept of the Land of Israel as a place ...

Flores Florentino: Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Early Jewish Studies in Honour of Florentino Garcia Martinez (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 122)

Hilhorst, Anthony & Émile Puech, Eibert Tigchelaar (eds.) · 2008 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€97.01 ($106.92 | £80.93 | ¥17,074)

Leiden, Brill, 2008. xxvii, 836 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. Forty-eight essays, mainly in English. Qumran. Second Temple Judaism, from late biblical texts and Septuagint up to early rabbinic writings. Florentino’s own polyglottism, evident from his bibliography...

Heavenly Tablets: Interpretation, Identity and Tradition in Ancient Judaism (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 119)

Lidonnici, Lynn & Lieber, Andrea (editors) · 2007 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€97.86 ($107.86 | £81.64 | ¥17,224)

Leiden, Brill, 2007. xii, 333 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. This volume brings together a wide range of international scholars of Ancient Judaism, in celebration of the career of Betsy Halpern-Amaru. The essays in the first section, Interpreting Ritual Texts, exa...

Le Temps Et Les Temps: Dans Les Litteratures Juives Et Chretiennes Au Tournant De Notre Ere (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 112)

Grappe, Christian (Editor)/ Ingelaere, Jean-claude (Editor) · 2006 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€125.81 ($138.67 | £104.96 | ¥22,143)

Leiden, Brill, 2006. viii, 294 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. French. This volume deals with calendar and liturgical times on the one hand. It discusses questions related to the establishment of the calendar and the observance of traditional and new feasts in Pale...

Making History: Josephus and Historical Method (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 110)

Rodgers, Zuleika (ed.) · 2006 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€144.46 ($159.22 | £120.52 | ¥25,426)

Leiden, Brill, 2006. xiv, 471 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. The encounter between interpretation and history in the writings of Josephus provides the conceptual framework for this collection of essays. The contributions in this volume, which were presented at an ...

Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 107)

Feldman, Louis H. · 2006 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€166.77 ($183.81 | £139.13 | ¥29,352)

Leiden, Brill, 2006. xiii, 950 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. This book is a collection of 26 previously published articles, with a number of additions and corrections, and with a long new introduction on "The Influence of Hellenism on Jews in Palestine in the Hel...

Josephus and Jewish History in Flavian Rome and Beyond (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 104)

Sievers, Joseph & Gaia Lembi (eds.) · 2005 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€125.81 ($138.67 | £104.96 | ¥22,143)

Leiden, Brill, 2005. xiii, 454 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. The essays in this volume focus on the relationship between Josephus' Judean and Jewish identity on the one hand, and his life and writings in the context of Flavian Rome on the other. From very differe...

Die Gottesvorstellungen in der Antik-Judischen Apokalyptik (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 103)

Beyerle, Stefan · 2005 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€66.49 ($73.28 | £55.47 | ¥11,703)

Leiden, Brill, 2005. xii, 547pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. German language. This monograph studies the theological motivations behind certain Jewish apocalypses by focusing on the mighty acts of God recounted in these writings. In particular, the work examines th...

Rabbinic Categories: Construction And Comparison (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 101)

Neusner, Jacob · 2005 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€93.19 ($102.71 | £77.75 | ¥16,402)

Leiden, Brill, 2005. xxiii, 426 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. A systematic study of the canonical construction of Rabbinic categories, Halakhic, then Aggadic, followed by a comparison of the theological category-formations in Rabbinic Judaism, generative vs. iner...