Wisdom Poured Out Like Water: Studies on Jewish and Christian Antiquity in Honor of Gabriele Boccaccini [1 ed.] 3110595885, 9783110595888

This collection presents innovative research by scholars from across the globe in celebration of Gabriele Boccaccinis si

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Wisdom Poured Out Like Water: Studies on Jewish and Christian Antiquity in Honor of Gabriele Boccaccini [1 ed.]
3110595885, 9783110595888

Moving away from focusing on wisdom as a literary genre, this book delves into the lived, embodied and formative dimensi

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Moving away from focusing on wisdom as a literary genre, this book delves into the lived, embodied and formative dimensi

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The essays collected in Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism intend to honor Alexander Golitzin, a scholar known

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The authors of this collection of essays explore different ways that ancient Jews and Christians understood the world�

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Stories portraying heretics ('minim') in rabbinic literature are a central site of rabbinic engagement with th

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The subject of this book is the discourse of persecution used by Christians in Late Antiquity (c. 300-700 CE). Throug

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The nine chapters of the book each present a thesis on a particular author, but all function together like links in a ch

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The essays of the present volume, honoring Rabbi Professor Nehemia Polen, seek to give readers a richer sense of the fab

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In antiquity, "son of god"--meaning a ruler designated by the gods to carry out their will--was a title used b

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In 1961, when Lee Israel Levine graduated from both Columbia College in New York, majoring in philosophy, and Jewish The

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