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Talmuda de-Eretz Israel: Archaeology and the Rabbis in Late Antique
Palestine brings together an international community of historians,
literature scholars and archaeologists to explore how the
integrated study of rabbinic texts and archaeology increases our
understanding of both types of evidence, and of the complex culture
which they together reflect. This volume reflects a growing
consensus that rabbinic culture was an "embodied" culture,
presenting a series of case studies that demonstrate the value of
archaeology for the contextualization of rabbinic literature. It
steers away from later twentieth-century trends, particularly in
North America, that stressed disjunction between archaeology and
rabbinic literature, and seeks a more holistic approach.
Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue explores
the ways in which divergent ethnic, national and religious
communities interacted with one another within the synagogue in the
Greco-Roman period. It presents new perspectives regarding the
development of the synagogue and its significance of this
institution for understanding religion and society under the Roman
Empire.
Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue explores the ways in which divergent ethnic, national and religious communities interacted with one another within the synagogue in the Greco-Roman period. It presents new perspectives regarding the development of the synagogue and its significance of this institution for understanding religion and society under the Roman Empire.
The menorah, the seven-branched candelabrum, has traversed
millennia as a living symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people.
Naturally, it did not pass through the ages unaltered. The Menorah
explores the cultural and intellectual history of the Western
world's oldest continuously used religious symbol. This
meticulously researched yet deeply personal history explains how
the menorah illuminates the great changes and continuities in
Jewish culture, from biblical times to modern Israel. Though the
golden seven-branched menorahs of Moses and of the Jerusalem Temple
are artifacts lost to history, the best-known menorah image
survives on the Arch of Titus in Rome. Commemorating the Roman
destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, the arch reliefs depict the
spoils of the Temple, the menorah chief among them, as they
appeared in Titus's great triumphal parade in 71 CE. Steven Fine
recounts how, in 2012, his team discovered the original yellow
ochre paint that colored the menorah-an event that inspired his
search for the history of this rich symbol from ancient Israel
through classical history, the Middle Ages, and on to our own
tumultuous times. Surveying artifacts and literary sources spanning
three thousand years-from the Torah and the ruins of Rome to
yesterday's news-Fine presents the menorah as a source of
fascination and illumination for Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and
even Freemasons. A symbol for the divine, for continuity,
emancipation, national liberation, and redemption, the menorah
features prominently on Israel's state seal and continues to
inspire and challenge in surprising ways.
Art and Judaism During the Greco-Roman Period explores the Jewish
experience with art during the Greco-Roman period from the
Hellenistic period through the rise of Islam. It starts from with
the premise that Jewish art in antiquity was a "minority" or
"ethnic" art and surveys ways that Jews fully participated in,
transformed, and at times rejected the art of their general
environment. Art and Judaism focuses upon the politics of identity
during the Greco-Roman period, even as it discusses ways that
modern identity issues have sometimes distorted and at other times
refined scholarly discussion of ancient Jewish material culture.
Art and Judaism, the first historical monograph on ancient Jewish
art in forty years, evaluates earlier scholarship even as it sets
out in new directions. Placing literary sources in careful dialogue
with archaeological discoveries, this "New Jewish Archaeology" is
an important contribution to Judaic Studies, Religious Studies, Art
History, and Classics. The Revised Edition includes a new
introduction, additional images, and color plates.
From the ancient rabbis to medieval Ashkenaz, from North Africa to
Syria, from the United States to modern Israel, the articles
collected in Liturgy in the Life of the Synagogue reflect the
diversity of approaches and the questions that modern scholars
residing in North America, Europe, and Israel bring to bear on the
study of Jewish liturgy. The book spans the entire history of
rabbinic prayer and presents a diverse array of approaches, ranging
from classical methods applied to new topics to today's
interdisciplinary approaches. Contributors include: R. Kimelman, S.
Fine, D. Reed Blank, V. B. Mann, S. C. Reif, R. Langer, N.
Feuchtwanger-Sarig, M. L. Kligman, J. D. Sarna, J. Tabory, and S.
P. Wachs.
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