Jewish Travel In Antiquity
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Jewish Travel In Antiquity
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Author : Catherine Hezser
language : en
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Release Date : 2011
Jewish Travel In Antiquity written by Catherine Hezser and has been published by Mohr Siebeck this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Eretz Israel categories.
This book provides the first comprehensive study of Jewish travel and mobility in Hellenistic and Roman times, based on a critical analysis of Jewish, Graeco-Roman, and early Christian literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources and a social-historical evaluation of the material. Catherine Hezser shows that certain segments of ancient Jewish society were quite mobile. Mobility seems to have increased in the later Roman period, when an extensive road system facilitated travel within the province of Syria-Palestine and the neighbouring Middle Eastern regions. Second Temple Judaism was centralized, with Jerusalem as its central space and seat of priestly authority. In post-70 rabbinic Judaism, on the other hand, connections between rabbis could be established through mutual visits and second- and third-degree contacts only. Mobility formed the basis of the establishment of a decentralized rabbinic network in Palestine and Babylonia in late antiquity. Numerous narrative and halakhic traditions indicate the importance of mobility for communication and the exchange of knowledge amongst rabbis. It is argued that the rabbis who were most mobile sat at the nodal points of the rabbinic network and elicited the largest amount of influence. They would have combined business travel with scholarly exchange. Scholars' journeys between Palestine and Babylonia are viewed within the wider context of Rome and Persia's economic and cultural exchange in which Jews, just like Christians, may have played the role of intermediaries.
Travel And Religion In Antiquity
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Author : Philip A. Harland
language : en
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Release Date : 2011-03-15
Travel And Religion In Antiquity written by Philip A. Harland and has been published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Social Science categories.
Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is organized around five overlapping areas where religion and travel intersect: travel related to honouring deities, including travel to festivals, oracles, and healing sanctuaries; travel to communicate the efficacy of a god or the superiority of a way of life, including the diffusion of cults or movements; travel to explore and encounter foreign peoples or cultures, including descriptions of these cultures in ancient ethnographic materials; migration; and travel to engage in an occupation or vocation. With interdisciplinary contributions that cover a range of literary, epigraphic, and archeological materials, the volume sheds light on the importance of movement in connection with religious life among Greeks, Romans, Nabateans, and others, including Judeans and followers of Jesus.
Jews And Journeys
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Author : Joshua Levinson
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2021-08-06
Jews And Journeys written by Joshua Levinson and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-06 with Religion categories.
Journeys of dislocation and return, of discovery and conquest hold a prominent place in the imagination of many cultures. Wherever an individual or community may be located, it would seem, there is always the dream of being elsewhere. This has been especially true throughout the ages for Jews, for whom the promises and perils of travel have influenced both their own sense of self and their identity in the eyes of others. How does travel writing, as a genre, produce representations of the world of others, against which one's own self can be invented or explored? And what happens when Jewish authors in particular—whether by force or of their own free will, whether in reality or in the imagination—travel from one place to another? How has travel figured in the formation of Jewish identity, and what cultural and ideological work is performed by texts that document or figure specifically Jewish travel? Featuring essays on topics that range from Abraham as a traveler in biblical narrative to the guest book entries at contemporary Israeli museum and memorial sites; from the marvels medieval travelers claim to have encountered to eighteenth-century Jewish critiques of Orientalism; from the Wandering Jew of legend to one mid-twentieth-century Yiddish writer's accounts of his travels through Peru, Jews and Journeys explores what it is about travel writing that enables it to become one of the central mechanisms for exploring the realities and fictions of individual and collective identity.
Jewish Christian And Muslim Travel Experiences
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Author : Susanne Luther
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-10-04
Jewish Christian And Muslim Travel Experiences written by Susanne Luther and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-04 with Religion categories.
Travel and pilgrimage have become central research topics in recent years. Some archaeologists and historians have applied globalization theories to ancient intercultural connections. Classicists have rediscovered travel as a literary topic in Greek and Roman writing. Scholars of early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have been rethinking long-familiar pilgrimage practices in new interdisciplinary contexts. This volume contributes to this flourishing field of study in two ways. First, the focus of its contributions is on experiences of travel. Our main question is: How did travelers in the ancient world experience and make sense of their journeys, real or imaginary, and of the places they visited? Second, by treating Jewish, Christian, and Islamic experiences together, this volume develops a longue durée perspective on the ways in which travel experiences across these three traditions resembled each other. By focusing on "experiences of travel," we hope to foster interaction between the study of ancient travel in the humanities and that of broader human experience in the social sciences.
Jewish Christian And Muslim Travel Experiences
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Author : Susanne Luther
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-10-04
Jewish Christian And Muslim Travel Experiences written by Susanne Luther and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-04 with Religion categories.
Travel and pilgrimage have become central research topics in recent years. Some archaeologists and historians have applied globalization theories to ancient intercultural connections. Classicists have rediscovered travel as a literary topic in Greek and Roman writing. Scholars of early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have been rethinking long-familiar pilgrimage practices in new interdisciplinary contexts. This volume contributes to this flourishing field of study in two ways. First, the focus of its contributions is on experiences of travel. Our main question is: How did travelers in the ancient world experience and make sense of their journeys, real or imaginary, and of the places they visited? Second, by treating Jewish, Christian, and Islamic experiences together, this volume develops a longue durée perspective on the ways in which travel experiences across these three traditions resembled each other. By focusing on "experiences of travel," we hope to foster interaction between the study of ancient travel in the humanities and that of broader human experience in the social sciences.
The Jewish People In Classical Antiquity
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Author : John Haralson Hayes
language : en
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
The Jewish People In Classical Antiquity written by John Haralson Hayes and has been published by Westminster John Knox Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with History categories.
John Hayes and Sara Mandell provide a clear exposition of Jewish history from 333 BCE to 135 CE. This volume focuses on the Judean-Jerusalem community from a historical rather than ideological or theological perspective. With the inclusion of charts, maps, and ancient texts, the authors have constructed a fascinating account that is indispensable for the study of this crucial period.
The History Of The Jews In Antiquity
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Author : Peter Schafer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-26
The History Of The Jews In Antiquity written by Peter Schafer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-26 with History categories.
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Jewish Travellers In The Middle Ages
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Author : Elkan Nathan Adler
language : en
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Release Date : 1987
Jewish Travellers In The Middle Ages written by Elkan Nathan Adler and has been published by Courier Dover Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.
This fascinating book vividly portrays the wandering Jew as a very real character in the great drama of history. In nineteen engaging narratives, some twelve centuries old, travelling Jewish scholars, merchants, pilgrims, ambassadors, and others are revealed to be men of many moods and missions. In these pages you will meet: Isaac, an interpreter in the service of the Emperor Charlemagne, who in the year 802 escorted an elephant named Abulabaz, a gift to the Emperor from the caliph Harun ar-Rashid, over the Alps to the Emperor's court. Eldad the Danite, who lived on the Gulf of Aden and in the late ninth century was shipwrecked and seized by cannibals, though he lived to tell the tale. Benjamin of Tudela, the great Hebrew satirical poet of the thirteenth century, whose masterpiece, the Tachkemoni, is filled with clever, sometimes bitter jibes at the notables encountered in his many travels. Elijah of Ferrara, who describes fifteenth-century life in Jerusalem and tells of the plague in Egypt and Palestine that carried away his sons and grandson. Rich in human experience and historic detail, their accounts and 14 more revealing narratives offer rare perspectives on the unfolding drama of life in Europe, the Near East, and North Africa in the Middle Ages. This is a volume that will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers, from those interested in travel and adventure to those interested in cultural history and Judaica.
Ancient And Medieval Jewish History
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Author : Salo Wittmayer Baron
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Ancient And Medieval Jewish History written by Salo Wittmayer Baron and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with History categories.
Ancient Jewish Diaspora
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Author : René Bloch
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-09-19
Ancient Jewish Diaspora written by René Bloch and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-19 with Religion categories.
The fifteen papers collected in this volume all tackle the complex cultures of Jewish Hellenism. The book covers a wide range of topics, divided into four clusters: Moses and Exodus, Places and Ruins, Theatre and Myth, Antisemitism and Reception.