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In The Love of Neighbour in Ancient Judaism, Kengo Akiyama traces the development of the mainstay of early Jewish and Christian ethics: "Love your neighbour." Akiyama examines several Second Temple Jewish texts in great detail and demonstrates a diverse range of uses and applications that opposes a simplistic and evolutionary trajectory often associated with the development of the "greatest commandment" tradition. The monograph presents surprisingly complex interpretative developments in Second Temple Judaism uncovering just how early interpreters grappled with the questions of what it means to love and who should be considered as their neighbour.
This book examines an undertheorized topic in the study of religion and sacred texts: the figure of the neighbor. By analyzing and comparing this figure in Jewish, Christian and Islamic texts and receptions, the chapters explore a conceptual shift from "Children of Abraham" to "Ambiguous Neighbors." Through a variety of case studies using diverse methods and material, chapters explore the neighbor in these neighboring texts and traditions. The figure of the neighbor seems like an innocent topic at the surface. It is an everyday phenomenon, that everyone have knowledge about and experiences with. Still, analytically, it has a rich and innovative potential. Recent interdisciplinary research employs this figure to address issues of cultural diversity, gender, migration, ethnic relationships, war and peace, environmental challenges and urbanization. The neighbor represents the borderline between insider and outsider, friend and enemy, us and them. This ambiguous status makes the neighbor particularly interesting as an entry point into issues of cultural complexity, self-definition and identity. This volume brings all the intersections of religion, ethnicity, gender, and socio-cultural diversity into the same neighborhood, paying attention to sacred texts, receptions and contemporary communities. The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions offers a fascinating study of the intersections between Jewish, Christian and Islamic text, and will be of interest to anyone working on these traditions.
Weber’s classic study which deals specifically with: Types of Asceticism and the Significance of Ancient Judaism, History and Social Organization of Ancient Palestine, Political Organization and Religious Ideas in the Time of the Confederacy and the Early Kings, Political Decline, Religious Conflict and Biblical Prophecy.
We are all familiar with the commandment to 'love your neighbour as yourself'. But it's difficult to know exactly what it means, There are three main problems - firstly, what is meant by 'love', secondly who is (and is not) your neighbour, and finally what does 'as yourself' mean? It's not as simple as it looks at first glance.Of course, it's not just us, today, who are asking these questions. The commandment has been interrogated and analysed for thousands of years, within the Jewish tradition and within the Christian tradition. Each generation, each new blast of scholarship, added a new layer of meaning to the plain sense of the biblical text.This book serves as a partial biography of the commandment, examining the commandment through three lenses. The first lens is the lens of Biblical scholarship and literary criticism. What does each word mean, on its own and in context. Did the words mean something very different to the Israelites at Sinai or the Judeans who first heard the Torah read out at the time of Ezra? What can we learn from comparing the Biblical text to texts from other cultures from the Ancient Near East. The second lens is the lens of Rabbinic Judaism. In particular, the midrash (legend) recorded three times in ancient Rabbinic texts (from 100 BCE to 700 CE) that the famous Rabbi Akiva debated with his colleague Simeon Ben Azzai as to which commandment was the principal or greatest commandment in Torah. Why might Rabbi Akiva have selected the commandment 'love your neighbour'? Why did Ben Azzai disagree? What can we learn from these ancient Rabbinic texts as to what the commandment meant to the Jews of late antiquity? The final lens is that of twentieth century Jewish philosophy. The commandment 'love your neighbour' was central to the work of two Jewish philosophers - one, Franz Rosenzweig who lived, worked and died in Germany prior to the Second World War; the other, Emmanuel Levinas, the Ethicist and Holocaust survivor. Both Rosenzweig and Levinas lived and worked in a cultural milieu where Jewish, Christian and Secular philosophies intermingled. Rosenzweig's world was one of Christian ascendency, and his life's work was to create a method for Jews and Christians to co-exist. Levinas saw that Philosophy had been used and abused by the Nazis to justify their own warped sense of superiority. He also found himself leading the shocked post-war Jewish community of France into reclaiming and revivifying their Jewish identity. In both cases, the commandment to 'love your neighbour' became a central premise to life in modernity - a premise as important to Jews and Christians as to those of no religion at all.This book provides a deep, scholarly and spiritually sensitive analysis of the commandment to 'love your neighbour'. Funds raised from its sale will enable further research - notably into the intervening centuries between the Rabbinic period and the emergence of modernity. It will be of interest to anyone with a broad inquiring mind into Judaism, Christianity, inter-faith and humanistic ethics.
This collection of articles analyzes the formation of antique and early medieval religious identities and ideas in rabbinic Judaism, early Christianity, Islam, and Greco-Roman culture. The authors question the artificial disciplinary and conceptual boundaries between these traditions.
This volume addresses the theological issues which arose when different ancient religious groups within three Abrahamic religions attempted to understand or define their opinion on the Mosaic Torah. The twelve chapters explore various instances of accepting, modifying, ignoring, criticizing, and vilifying the Mosaic Torah.
Although recent discussions on Matthew have emphasized the document's setting within Judaism, these studies have not analyzed how the Jewish figure of John the Baptist functions within this setting. Brian Dennert steps into this gap, arguing that Matthew presents Jesus to be the continuation and culmination of John's ministry in order to strengthen the claims of Matthew's group and to vilify the opponents of his group. By doing this he encourages Jews yet to align with Matthew's group (particularly those who esteem the Baptist) and to gravitate away from its opponents. The author examines texts roughly contemporaneous with Matthew which reveal respect given to John the Baptist at the time of Matthew's composition. The examination of Matthew shows that the first Evangelist more closely connects the Baptist to Jesus while highlighting his rejection by Jewish authorities.
In John within Judaism Wally V. Cirafesi offers a reading of the Gospel of John as an expression of the fluid and flexible nature of Jewish ethnic identity in Greco-Roman antiquity.
Jovinianus, about whom little more is known than what is to be found in Jerome's treatise, published a Latin treatise outlining several opinions: That a virgin is no better, as such, than a wife in the sight of God. Abstinence from food is no better than a thankful partaking of food. A person baptized with the Spirit as well as with water cannot sin. All sins are equal. There is but one grade of punishment and one of reward in the future state. In addition to this, he held the birth of Jesus Christ to have been by a "true parturition," and was thus refuting the orthodoxy of the time, according to which, the infant Jesus passed through the walls of the womb as his Resurrection body afterwards did, out of the tomb or through closed doors.
[Preparations for the Gospels] The prominent position occupied by Eusebius of Caesarea in the Arian controversy and the Council of Nicaea has given rise to so many important treatises on his life and character, that it would be quite superfluous to prefix a formal biography to the present edition of one among his many literary works. It will be sufficient to mention a few of the best sources of information accessible to the English reader.