Pub Date : 2023-01-12DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12511361
C. Cordoni
{"title":"Studies in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature, edited by Ronit Nikolsky and Arnon Atzmon","authors":"C. Cordoni","doi":"10.1163/15700631-12511361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12511361","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45167,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Judaism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48494649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-12DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12511364
Lydia Gore-Jones
{"title":"Lived Wisdom in Jewish Antiquity: Studies in Exercise and Exemplarity, written by Elisa Uusimäki","authors":"Lydia Gore-Jones","doi":"10.1163/15700631-12511364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12511364","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45167,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Judaism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46766417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-12DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12511365
L. Kaye
{"title":"Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism, written by Sarit Kattan Gribetz","authors":"L. Kaye","doi":"10.1163/15700631-12511365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12511365","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45167,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Judaism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42903266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-12DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12511362
Kristin De Troyer
{"title":"XVI Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies. Stellenbosch 2016, edited by Gideon R. Kotzé, Wolfgang Kraus, and Michael N. van der Meer","authors":"Kristin De Troyer","doi":"10.1163/15700631-12511362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12511362","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45167,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Judaism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49543724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-21DOI: 10.1163/15700631-bja10065
Isaac T. Soon
This short note argues that the Ezekiel cycle on the frescoes of the Dura-Europos synagogue displays the only known ancient image of circumcision on a Jewish body. The cycle, modelled after the vision of dry bones episode in Ezek 37, depicts a body that is circumcised. Although there is only one body that displays circumcision, it is intelligible in the wider visual context of bodily reconfiguration, as separate limbs and heads form full bodies, and as human genitalia develop from small ambiguous appendages to larger distinct features. The presence of circumcision on a resurrected body is coherent with ancient Jewish literature that conceives of circumcision as present on angelic and perfected bodies, even in resurrection (Gen. Rab. 48:8). This visual depiction of a resurrected circumcised man at Dura affirms circumcision as a part of ancient Jewish notions of bodily perfection.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-03DOI: 10.1163/15700631-bja10064
R. Bloch, S. Pearce
The special issue of JSJ brings together four contributions that were originally presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2020 in a panel dedicated to the question “What is Hellenistic Judaism?” The panel was organized by the steering committee of the SBL Hellenistic Judaism section. In the introduction, the editors compare early approaches to Hellenism (Droysen) with contemporary ones (Chaniotis, the contributions in this issue), and discuss the question when Jewish Hellenism ends.
{"title":"What Is Hellenistic Judaism? An Introduction","authors":"R. Bloch, S. Pearce","doi":"10.1163/15700631-bja10064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-bja10064","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The special issue of JSJ brings together four contributions that were originally presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2020 in a panel dedicated to the question “What is Hellenistic Judaism?” The panel was organized by the steering committee of the SBL Hellenistic Judaism section. In the introduction, the editors compare early approaches to Hellenism (Droysen) with contemporary ones (Chaniotis, the contributions in this issue), and discuss the question when Jewish Hellenism ends.","PeriodicalId":45167,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Judaism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45290986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-27DOI: 10.1163/15700631-bja10063
J. J. Collins
Martin Hengel argued effectively that all Judaism in the Hellenistic period was Hellenistic Judaism, but Judaism in the land of Israel remained very different from its counterpart in the Diaspora. Recent study of globalization and “glocalization” has shown that local cultures are not obliterated by globalization but react to it in various ways. There is also a new and growing appreciation of the differences between the Seleucid and Ptolemaic empires. The category of Hellenism, understood as the ways of thinking of all the peoples subjected to Greek influence, remains useful, but it must be understood to embrace considerable local diversity, and not limited to the use of the Greek language.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-18DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12511360
L. Teugels
{"title":"Through the Prism of Wisdom: Elijah the Prophet as a Bearer of Wisdom in Rabbinic Literature, written by Hilla N. Alouf-Aboody","authors":"L. Teugels","doi":"10.1163/15700631-12511360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12511360","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45167,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Judaism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46598655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-05DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12511355
Amit Gvaryahu
{"title":"Social Stratification of the Jewish Population of Roman Palestine in the Period of the Mishnah, 70–250 CE, written by Ben Zion Rosenfeld and Haim Perlmutter","authors":"Amit Gvaryahu","doi":"10.1163/15700631-12511355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12511355","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45167,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Judaism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42173154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-05DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12511356
Nicholas A. Meyer
{"title":"On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition, written by García, Jeffrey P.","authors":"Nicholas A. Meyer","doi":"10.1163/15700631-12511356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12511356","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45167,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Judaism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44297022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}