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The only source in which Sarah is mentioned is the Book of Genesis,
which contains very few highly selective and rather enigmatic
stories dealing with her. On the surface, these stories tell us
very little about Sarah, and what they do tell is complicated and
confused by the probability that it represents residue surviving
from two different written sources based on two independent oral
traditions. Nevertheless, the role which Sarah plays, in the
Genesis narratives, apears to be a highly energetic one, a role so
active, in fact, that it repeatedly overshadows that of her
husband.
In a patriarchal environment such as the Canaan of Genesis, the
situation is discordant and problematic. Dr. Teubal suggests that
the difficulty is eliminated, however, if we understand that Sarah
and the other matriarchs mentioned in the narratives acted within
the established, traditional Mesopotamian role of priestess, of a
class of women who retained a highly privileged position vis-a-vis
their husbands.
Dr. Teubal shows that the "Sarah tradition" represents a
nonpatriarchal system struggling for survival in isolation, in the
patriarchal environment of what was for Sarah a foreign society.
She further indicates that the insistence of Sarah and Rebekah that
their sons and heirs marry wives from the old homeland had to do
not so much with preference for endogamy and cousin marriage as
with their intention of ensuring the continuation of their old
"kahina"-tradition against the overwhelming odds represented by
patriarchal Canaan.
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To
mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania
Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's
distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print.
Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers
peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
In this monumental work, Raphael Patai opens up an entirely new
field of cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity
to the nineteenth century. Until now there has been little
attention given to the significant role that Jews played in the
field of alchemy. Here, drawing on an enormous range of previously
unexplored sources, Patai reveals that Jews were major players in
what was for centuries one of humanity's most compelling
intellectual obsessions. Originally published in 1994. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Kingdom of Jordan stands strategically amidst the countries of
the Near East, bordered by Israel, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. A
small country, poor in resources, it is torn by conflicting
tensions and policies and by strife between pro-Western and
pro-Soviet elements. This study of Jordan in the English language
surveys all aspects of Jordan's life: the land, the people, their
history, politics, economy, society, and culture. Mr. Patai fully
considers the issue of Westernization versus traditionalism and its
probable bearing on Jordan's future. Originally published in 1958.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
The Kingdom of Jordan stands strategically amidst the countries of
the Near East, bordered by Israel, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. A
small country, poor in resources, it is torn by conflicting
tensions and policies and by strife between pro-Western and
pro-Soviet elements. This study of Jordan in the English language
surveys all aspects of Jordan's life: the land, the people, their
history, politics, economy, society, and culture. Mr. Patai fully
considers the issue of Westernization versus traditionalism and its
probable bearing on Jordan's future. Originally published in 1958.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
Here the late Raphael Patai (1910-1996) recreates the
fascinating world of Jewish seafaring from Noah's voyage through
the Diaspora of late antiquity. In a work of pioneering
scholarship, Patai weaves together Biblical stories, Talmudic lore,
and Midrash literature to bring alive the world of these ancient
mariners. As he did in his highly acclaimed book "The Jewish
Alchemists," Patai explores a subject that has never before been
investigated by scholars. Based on nearly sixty years of research,
beginning with study he undertook for his doctoral dissertation,
"The Children of Noah" is literally Patai's first book and his
last. It is a work of unsurpassed scholarship, but it is accessible
to general readers as well as scholars.
An abundance of evidence demonstrates the importance of the sea
in the lives of Jews throughout early recorded history. Jews built
ships, sailed them, fought wars in them, battled storms in them,
and lost their lives to the sea. Patai begins with the story of the
deluge that is found in Genesis and profiles Noah, the father of
all shipbuilders and seafarers. The sea, according to Patai's
interpretation, can be seen as an image of the manifestation of
God's power, and he reflects on its role in legends and tales of
early times. The practical importance of the sea also led to the
development of practical institutions, and Patai shows how Jewish
seafaring had its own culture and how it influenced the cultures of
Mediterranean life as well. Of course, Jewish sailors were subject
to the same rabbinical laws as Jews who never set sail, and Patai
describes how they went to extreme lengths to remain in adherence,
even getting special emendations of laws to allow them to tie knots
and adjust rigging on the Sabbath.
"The Children of Noah" is a capstone to an extraordinary career.
Patai was both a careful scholar and a gifted storyteller, and this
work is at once a vivid history of a neglected aspect of Jewish
culture and a treasure trove of sources for further study. It is a
stimulating and delightful book.
Memoir Series Of The American Anthropological Association, No. 67.
Additional Editors Are Frederica De Laguna And J. Lawrence Angel.
In this monumental work, Raphael Patai opens up an entirely new
field of cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity
to the nineteenth century. Until now there has been little
attention given to the significant role that Jews played in the
field of alchemy. Here, drawing on an enormous range of previously
unexplored sources, Patai reveals that Jews were major players in
what was for centuries one of humanity's most compelling
intellectual obsessions.
Originally published in 1995.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
In 1839, Muslims attacked the Jews of Meshhed, murdering 36 of
them, and forcing the conversion of the rest. While some managed to
escape across the Afghan border, and some turned into true
believing Muslims, the majority adopted Islam only outwardly, while
secretly adhering to their Jewish faith. Jadid al-Islam is the
fascinating story of how this community managed to survive, at the
risk of their lives, as crypto-Jews in an inimical Shi'i Muslim
environment. Based on unpublished original Persian sources and
interviews with members of the existing Meshhed community in
Jerusalem and New York, this study documents the history,
traditions, tales, customs, and institutions of the Jadid
al-Islam-""New Muslims."
Raphael Patai's (1910-1996) lifelong fascination with Arab
folktales began on a Ramadan night in 1933, at a cafe in Jerusalem
where, for the first time, he heard a famous ""qassas"", a
storyteller, tirelessly relate story after story from his vast
repertoire of Arab folktales. In ""Arab Folktales from Palestine
and Israel"", a collection of 28 tales gathered in Palestine and
Israel and one of Patai's last books, Patai explores this rich
cultural tradition. He studies tales from three separate times:
those recounted by a German scholar in 1910-11, those read over
Jerusalem Radio in the winter of 1946-47, and those recorded by the
Israeli scholar Yoel Perez in 1982-84. These fables, part of the
cultural heritage of a small corner of the Arab world, are
translated into an English that remains faithful to the original
Arabic text, presenting to foreign readers a sense of the original
style and a picture of traditional Arab life and customs,
attitudes, social and cultural norms, psychology and values. In
their mingling of the everyday and the fabulous, the stories reveal
both the embellishments on and the deviations from ordinary life
that characterize folklore around the world. The stories tell of
the trials and tribulations of ordinary human beings, the struggle
between good and evil, rich and poor, and men and women, at
different historical moments in response to different stages of
modernization. They also describe fantastic creatures, such as
animals that speak, encounters between humans and supernatural
beings such as jinns and ghouls. Providing insight into Arab
culture, Patai offers extensive notes and commentary on particular
Arabic phrases and images, as well as the ways of speaking and
thinking found among the Arab population, especially the Bedouins,
in Palestine and Israel. Patai also places the stories in the
context of global folktales, and traces the transformations in the
art of storytelling. This collection as a whole presents a
colourful slice of traditional Arab life, value, customs, attitudes
and sociocultural patterns.
Following World War II, members of the sizable Jewish community in
what had been Kurdistan, now part of Iraq, left their homeland and
resettled in Palestine where they were quickly assimilated with the
dominant Israeli-Jewish culture. Anthropologist Erich Brauer
interviewed a large number of these Kurdish Jews and wrote The Jews
of Kurdistan prior to his death in 1942. Raphael Patai completed
the manuscript left by Brauer, translated it into Hebrew, and had
it published in 1947. This new English-language volume, completed
and edited by Patai, makes a unique ethnological monograph
available to the wider scholarly community, and, at the same time,
serves as a monument to a scholar whose work has to this day
remained largely unknown outside the narrow circle of
Hebrew-reading anthropologists. The Jews of Kurdistan is a unique
historical document in that it presents a picture of Kurdish Jewish
life and culture prior to World War II. It is the only ethnological
study of the Kurdish Jews ever written and provides a comprehensive
look at their material culture, life cycles, religious practices,
occupations, and relations with the Muslims. In 1950-51, with the
mass immigration of Kurdish Jews to Israel, their world as it had
been before the war suddenly ceased to exist. This book reflects
the life and culture of a Jewish community that has disappeared
from the country it had inhabited from antiquity. In his preface,
Raphael Patai offers data he considers important for supplementing
Brauer's book, and comments on the book's values and limitations
fifty years after Brauer wrote it. Patai has included additional
information elicited from Kurdish Jews in Jerusalem, verified
quotations, correctedsome passages that were inaccurately
translated from Hebrew authors, completed the bibliography, and
added occasional references to parallel traits found in other
Oriental Jewish communities.
The Hebrew Goddess demonstrates that the Jewish religion, far from
being pure monotheism, contained from earliest times strong
polytheistic elements, chief of which was the cult of the mother
goddess. Lucidly written and richly illustrated, this third edition
contains new chapters on the Shekhina.
Following a detailed introduction to the world of messianic
ideology and its significance in Jewish history, The Messiah Texts
traces the progress of the messianic legend from its biblical
beginnings to contemporary expressions. Renowned scholar Raphael
Patai has skillfully selected passages from a voluminous literature
spanning three millennia. Using his own translations from Hebrew,
Aramaic, Arabic, Latin, and other original texts, Patai excerpts
delightful folk tales, apocalyptic fantasies, and parables of
prophetic power. All are central to the understanding of a
magnificent heritage. patai also investigates the false messiahs
who have appeared throughout Jewish history, the modern
Messiah-influenced movements such as reform Judaism and Zionism,
and the numerous reasons put forth by the various branches of
Judaism as to why the Messiah has not yet appeared.
On Jewish Folklore spans a half-century of scholarly inquiry by the
noted anthropologist and biblical scholar Raphael Patai. He essays
collected in this volume, some of which are presented for the first
time in English translation, provide a rich harvest of Jewish
customs and traditional beliefs, gathered from all over the world
and from ancient to modern times. Among the subjects Dr. Patai
investigated and recorded are the history and oral traditions of
the now-vanished Marrano community of Meshhed, Iran; cultural
change among the so-called Jewish Indians of Mexico; beliefs and
customs in connection with birth, the rainbow, and the color blue;
Jewish variants of the widespread custom of earth-eating; and the
remarkable parallels between the rituals connected with enthroning
a new king as described in the Bible and as practiced among certain
African tribes.
In 1839, Muslims attacked the Jews of Meshhed, murdering 36 of
them, and forcing the conversion of the rest. While some managed to
escape across the Afghan border, and some turned into true
believing Muslims, the majority adopted Islam only outwardly, while
secretly adhering to their Jewish faith. Jadid al-Islam is the
fascinating story of how this community managed to survive, at the
risk of their lives, as crypto-Jews in an inimical Shi'i Muslim
environment. Based on unpublished original Persian sources and
interviews with members of the existing Meshhed community in
Jerusalem and New York, this study documents the history,
traditions, tales, customs, and institutions of the Jadid
al-Islam-"New Muslims."
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