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Book Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe

Download or read book Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe written by Katherine Allen Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection builds on the foundational work of Penelope D. Johnson, John Boswell's most influential student outside queer studies, on integration and segregation in medieval Christianity. It documents the multiple strategies by which medieval people constructed identities and, in the process, wove the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion among various individuals and groups. The collection adopts an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing historical, art historical, and literary perpsectives to explore the definition of personal and communal spaces within medieval texts, the complex negotiation of the relationship between devotee and saint in both the early and the later Middle Ages, the forming of partnerships (symbolic, economic, devotional, etc.) between men and women across medieval Europe's considerable gender divide, and the ostracism of individuals and groups through various means including imprisonment, violence, and their identification with pollution. Contributors include: Diane Peters Auslander, Constance Hoffman Berman, Elizabeth A.R. Brown, Alexandra Cuffel, Anne M. Schuchman, Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, Katherine Allen Smith, Kathryn A. Smith, Christina Roukis-Stern, Susan Valentine, Susan Wade, and Scott Wells.

Book Jerusalem in Slavic Culture

Download or read book Jerusalem in Slavic Culture written by Oto Luthar and published by Založba ZRC. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V knjigi so zbrani prispevki z dveh mednarodnih konferenc, od katerih je eno organiziral ZRC SAZU septembra 1998 v Ljubljani. Zbornik je razdeljen na pet delov. V prvem z naslovom »Jeruzalem znotraj krščanske in občeslovanske tradicije« sodelujejo O. Belova, I. Kazovskaya, J. Krašovec, S. Tolstaya in E. Vereshchagin. V drugem »Jeruzalem in svet južnih Slovanov in Judov« so avtorji M. Frejdenberg, E. Holz, V. Nartnik, M. Nosić, D. Poniž, F. Premk, J. Rotar in Z. Šmitek. Avtorji prispevkov v tretjem delu »Jeruzalem in svet vzhodnih Slovanov« so A. Arkhipov, L. Calvi, G. Giraudo, P. Gonneau, L. Fialkova, Ja. Iluk, V. Khazan, V. Levin, Yu. Leving, V. Moskovich, J. Raba in A. Rogachevsky. V četrtem delu »Jeruzalem in svet zahodnih Slovanov« je en sam prispevek avtorja V. Bria in enako je v petem delu »Jeruzalem in sosedje Slovanov«, kjer je objavljen prispevek B. Levaia. Zbornik je večjezičen; dvanajst člankov je pisanih v angleščini, enajst v ruščini, dva v slovenščini in po eden v francoščini in ukrajinščini.

Book Aristotle Transformed

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  • Author : Richard Sorabji
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780801424328
  • Pages : 570 pages

Download or read book Aristotle Transformed written by Richard Sorabji and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hebrew Book

Download or read book The Hebrew Book written by Raphael Posner and published by Jerusalem : Keter Publishing House Jerusalem. This book was released on 1975 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is primarily based on the monumental Encyclopedia Judaica which was published in 1972 in Jerusalem. Throughout the 16 volumes of that immense work, the story of the Hebrew book is scattered, and its constituent parts are presented, as is fitting, in an encyclopedia manner. For the purpose of this book, all that information was gathered, re-edited and re-organized to present this fascinating subject to the reader in a form which, to quote the biblical phrase about an early piece of Hebrew writing, is "plain upon the tables, that a man may read it swiftly." Clearly, the present editors are entirely responsible for the material as it appears in this volume.

Book Printing the Talmud

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  • Author : Sharon Liberman Mintz
  • Publisher : [New York, NY] : Yeshiva University Museum, 5765
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book Printing the Talmud written by Sharon Liberman Mintz and published by [New York, NY] : Yeshiva University Museum, 5765. This book was released on 2005 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Printing the Talmud

Download or read book Printing the Talmud written by Marvin J. Heller and published by Brooklyn, N.Y. : Im Hasefer. This book was released on 1992 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Concordance to the Holy Scriptures

Download or read book Concordance to the Holy Scriptures written by John Brown and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Self interpreting Bible

Download or read book The Self interpreting Bible written by John Brown and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 1468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hebrew Incunabula in Public Collections

Download or read book Hebrew Incunabula in Public Collections written by A. K. Offenberg and published by Nieuwkoop : De Graaf Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a census of which public collections at the time of publication contain Hebrew incunabula, which are generally considered to be rare, and how to find these artifacts.

Book The Mixed Multitude

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  • Author : Paweł Maciejko
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2011-03-08
  • ISBN : 0812204581
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book The Mixed Multitude written by Paweł Maciejko and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1756, Jacob Frank, an Ottoman Jew who had returned to the Poland of his birth, was discovered leading a group of fellow travelers in a suspect religious service. At the request of the local rabbis, Polish authorities arrested the participants. Jewish authorities contacted the bishop in whose diocese the service had taken place and argued that since the rites of Frank's followers involved the practice of magic and immoral conduct, both Jews and Christians should condemn them and burn them at the stake. The scheme backfired, as the Frankists took the opportunity to ally themselves with the Church, presenting themselves as Contra-Talmudists who believed in a triune God. As a Turkish subject, Frank was released and temporarily expelled to the Ottoman territories, but the others were found guilty of breaking numerous halakhic prohibitions and were subject to a Jewish ban of excommunication. While they professed their adherence to everything that was commanded by God in the Old Testament, they asserted as well that the Rabbis of old had introduced innumerable lies and misconstructions in their interpretations of that holy book. Who were Jacob Frank and his followers? To most Christians, they seemed to be members of a Jewish sect; to Jewish reformers, they formed a group making a valiant if misguided attempt to bring an end to the power of the rabbis; and to more traditional Jews, they were heretics to be suppressed by the rabbinate. What is undeniable is that by the late eighteenth century, the Frankists numbered in the tens of thousands and had a significant political and ideological influence on non-Jewish communities throughout eastern and central Europe. Based on extensive archival research in Poland, the Czech Republic, Israel, Germany, the United States, and the Vatican, The Mixed Multitude is the first comprehensive study of Frank and Frankism in more than a century and offers an important new perspective on Jewish-Christian relations in the Age of Enlightenment.

Book Jewish Icons

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  • Author : Richard I. Cohen
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780520917910
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Jewish Icons written by Richard I. Cohen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. In these images and objects that reflect, refract, and also shape daily experience, he finds new and illuminating insights into Jewish life in the modern period. Pointing to recent scholarship that overturns the stereotype of Jews as people of the text, unconcerned with the visual, Cohen shows how the coming of the modern period expanded the relationship of Jews to the visual realm far beyond the religious context. In one such manifestation, orthodox Jewry made icons of popular tabbis, creating images that helped to bridge the sacred and the secular. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the study and collecting of Jewish art became a legitimate and even passionate pursuit, and signaled the entry of Jews into the art world as painters, collectors, and dealers. Cohen's exploration of early Jewish exhibitions, museums, and museology opens a new window on the relationship of art to Jewish culture and society.

Book Sabbatai Zevi

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  • Author : David J. Halperin
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2011-12-01
  • ISBN : 1789624843
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Sabbatai Zevi written by David J. Halperin and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabbatai Zevi stirred up the Jewish world in the mid-seventeenth century by claiming to be the messiah, then stunned it by suddenly converting to Islam. The story is presented here for the first time through contemporary documents, written by Sabbatai’s followers and by one of his detractors, in translations that brilliantly capture the vividness of this landmark episode in early modern Jewish history.

Book French Enlightenment and the Jews

Download or read book French Enlightenment and the Jews written by Arthur Hertzberg and published by . This book was released on 1968-04-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Abraham Miguel Cardozo

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  • Author : Abraham Miguel Cardozo
  • Publisher : Paulist Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 0809140233
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Abraham Miguel Cardozo written by Abraham Miguel Cardozo and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Miguel Cardozo (1627-1706) is known primarily as a follower and defender of the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi. He was that, indeed; but he was a great deal more than that as well. Cardozo was one of the most vivid, complex and original personalities to emerge within Judaism during the seventeenth century. An early modern Jew, he was above all an individual. Like his contemporary Spinoza, Cardozo suffered horribly for his individuality. Yet he remained faithful until his death -- his strange, violent, eerily messianic death -- to what he believed to be the true and authentic Jewish faith. Cardozo deserves to be known for himself. Book jacket.

Book Toward the Millennium

Download or read book Toward the Millennium written by Peter Schäfer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection on messianic expectations from biblical times to the present represents a fresh re-evaluation of a variety of religious, political and cultural phenomena. The focus is on Judaism, but aspects of messianism in Graeco-Roman, Christian, and Islamic worlds alongside modern political issues are considered.

Book Western Esotericism

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  • Author : Antoine Faivre
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2010-10-06
  • ISBN : 1438433794
  • Pages : 139 pages

Download or read book Western Esotericism written by Antoine Faivre and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely received in France, this brief, comprehensive introduction to Western esotericism by the founder of the field is at last available in English. A historical and pedagogical guide, the book is written primarily for students and novices. In clear, precise language, author Antoine Faivre provides an overview of Western esoteric currents since late antiquity. The bulk of the book is laid out chronologically, from ancient and medieval sources (Alexandrian hermetism, gnosticism, neoplatonism), through the Renaissance up to the present time. Its coverage includes spiritual alchemy, Jewish and Christian Kabbalah, Christian theosophy, Rosicrucianism, Illuminism, 'mystical' Free-Masonry, the Occultist current, Theosophical and Anthroposophical Societies, the Traditionalist School, and 'esotericism' in contemporary initiatic societies and in New Religious Movements. Faivre explores how these currents are connected, and refers to where they appear in art and literature. The book concludes with an annotated bibliography, which makes it an essential resource for beginners and scholars alike.

Book Catalogue Number for

Download or read book Catalogue Number for written by M. J. Satriana and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: