Given the recent interest in the emotions presupposed in early religious
literature, it has been thought useful to examine in this volume how
the Jews and early Christians expressed their feelings within the
prayers recorded in some of their literature. Specialists in their
fields from academic institutions around the world have analysed
important texts relating to this overall theme and to what is revealed
with regard to such diverse topics as relations with God, exegesis,
education, prophecy, linguistic expression, feminism, happiness, grief,
cult, suicide, non-Jews, Hellenism, Qumran and Jerusalem. The texts
discussed are in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic and are important for a
scientific understanding of how Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity
developed their approaches to worship, to the construction of their
theology and to the feelings that lay behind their religious ideas and
practices. The articles contribute significantly to an historical
understanding of how Jews maintained their earlier traditions but also
came to terms with the ideology of the dominant Hellenistic culture that
surrounded them.
Language:
English
Publisher:De Gruyter
Copyright year:2015
Audience:Jewish Studies, Theology, Ancient Near East
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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