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
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