Jewish Women Philosophers Of First Century Alexandria
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Jewish Women Philosophers Of First Century Alexandria
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Author : Joan E. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2003-11-20
Jewish Women Philosophers Of First Century Alexandria written by Joan E. Taylor and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-20 with Religion categories.
The first-century ascetic Jewish philosophers known as the 'Therapeutae', described in Philo's treatise De Vita Contemplativa, have often been considered in comparison with early Christians, the Essenes, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. This study, which includes a new translation of De Vita Contemplativa, focuses particularly on issues of historical method, rhetoric, women, and gender, and comes to new conclusions about the nature of the group and its relationship with the allegorical school of exegesis in Alexandria. Joan E. Taylor argues that the group represents the tip of an iceberg in terms of ascetic practices and allegorical exegesis, and that the women described point to the presence of other Jewish women philosophers in Alexandria in the first century CE. Members of the group were 'extreme allegorizers' in following a distinctive calendar, not maintaining usual Jewish praxis, and concentrating their focus on attaining a trance-like state in which a vision of God's light was experienced. Their special 'feast' was configured in terms of service at a Temple, in which both men and women were priestly attendants of God.
Prayers Of Jewish Women
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Author : Markus H. McDowell
language : en
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Release Date : 2006
Prayers Of Jewish Women written by Markus H. McDowell and has been published by Mohr Siebeck this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
Markus McDowell examines how the literature of the Second Temple period portrays women at prayer through an examination of the literary context and character of those prayers. The goal of this work is a greater understanding of how women were portrayed in literary sources and an offering of some fresh insights for the study of women's religious and social roles in the ancient world. The texts are analyzed and categorized within five areas: social location, content, form, occasion, and gender perspective. The prayers are also compared and contrasted with men's prayers in the same sources. The analysis includes locating (as much as possible) the historical, literary, and cultic context of each document in which these prayers appear. By examining all prayers in these texts uttered by women (not just prayers of named or prominent women), and then comparing them with all the prayers of men in those same texts, certain patterns appear. This study adds to our knowledge of women and religion in Second Temple Judaism by primarily exploring patterns that appear among the prayers in the literature of the Second Temple period. While there are fewer prayers by women than men in this literature, the prayers of women are not portrayed as significantly different from those of men in terms of social location, content, form, or occasion. At the same time, the prayers of women exhibit other patterns of language - and in a minor way, form and occasion - that differ from the prayers of men.
Hypatia Of Alexandria
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Author : Maria Dzielska
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1996-10-01
Hypatia Of Alexandria written by Maria Dzielska and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-01 with History categories.
Hypatia—brilliant mathematician, eloquent Neoplatonist, and a woman renowned for her beauty—was brutally murdered by a mob of Christians in Alexandria in 415. She has been a legend ever since. In this engrossing book, Maria Dzielska searches behind the legend to bring us the real story of Hypatia's life and death, and new insight into her colorful world. Historians and poets, Victorian novelists and contemporary feminists have seen Hypatia as a symbol—of the waning of classical culture and freedom of inquiry, of the rise of fanatical Christianity, or of sexual freedom. Dzielska shows us why versions of Hypatia's legend have served her champions' purposes, and how they have distorted the true story. She takes us back to the Alexandria of Hypatia's day, with its Library and Museion, pagan cults and the pontificate of Saint Cyril, thriving Jewish community and vibrant Greek culture, and circles of philosophers, mathematicians, astronomers, and militant Christians. Drawing on the letters of Hypatia's most prominent pupil, Synesius of Cyrene, Dzielska constructs a compelling picture of the young philosopher's disciples and her teaching. Finally she plumbs her sources for the facts surrounding Hypatia's cruel death, clarifying what the murder tells us about the tensions of this tumultuous era.
Philo Of Alexandria
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Author : Mireille Hadas-Lebel
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-07-26
Philo Of Alexandria written by Mireille Hadas-Lebel and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-26 with Philosophy categories.
Mireille Hadas-Lebel shines a spotlight on the complex life and works of Philo, the illustrious Alexandrian Jewish philosopher, offering a fascinating insight into a seminal religious thinker at the crossroads of Judaism and Hellenism.
Tracing Sapiential Traditions In Ancient Judaism
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Author : Hindy Najman
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-08-29
Tracing Sapiential Traditions In Ancient Judaism written by Hindy Najman and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-29 with Religion categories.
This volume is intended to problematize current conceptions of the category of Wisdom and to reconsider the scope of ancient Jewish sapiential traditions.
Pythagorean Women Philosophers
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Author : Dorota M. Dutsch
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-30
Pythagorean Women Philosophers written by Dorota M. Dutsch and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-30 with Philosophy categories.
Women played an important part in Pythagorean communities, so Greek sources from the Classical era to Byzantium consistently maintain. Pseudonymous philosophical texts by Theano, Pythagoras' disciple or wife, his daughter Myia, and other female Pythagoreans, circulated in Greek and Syriac. Far from being individual creations, these texts rework and revise a standard Pythagorean script. What can we learn from this network of sayings, philosophical treatises, and letters about gender and knowledge in the Greek intellectual tradition? Can these writings represent the work of historical Pythagorean women? If so, can we find in them a critique of the dominant order or strategies of resistance? In search of answers to these questions, Pythagorean Women Philosophers examines Plato's dialogues, fragmentary historians, and little-known testimonies to women's contributions to Pythagorean thought. Adopting Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics, Dutsch approaches such testimonies with a mixture of suspicion and belief. This approach allows the reader to alternate critique of the epistemic regimes that produced ancient texts with a hopeful reading, one which recognizes female knowledge and agency. Dutsch contends that the value of the Pythagorean text-network lies not in what it may represent but in what it is ? a fictionalized version of Greek intellectual history that makes place for women philosophers. The book traces this alternative history, challenging us to rethink our own account of the past.
Women S Religions In The Greco Roman World
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Author : Ross Shepard Kraemer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-03-04
Women S Religions In The Greco Roman World written by Ross Shepard Kraemer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-04 with History categories.
This is a substantially expanded and completely revised edition of a book originally published in 1988 as Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics. The book is a collection of translations of primary texts relevant to women's religion in Western antiquity, from the fourth century BCE to the fifth century CE. The selections are taken from the plethora of ancient religions, including Judaism and Christianity, and are translated from the six major languages of the Greco-Roman world: Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Coptic. The texts are grouped thematically in six sections: Observances, Rituals, and Festivals; Researching Real Women: Documents to, from and by Women; Religious Office; New Religious Affiliation and Conversion; Holy, Pious, and Exemplary Women; and The Feminine Divine. Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman World provides a unique and invaluable resource for scholars of classical antiquity, early Christianity and Judaism, and women's religion more generally.
Jews And Health
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Author : Catherine Hezser
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-02-06
Jews And Health written by Catherine Hezser and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-06 with Religion categories.
Jews and Health: Tradition, History, Practice investigates the value of health in the Jewish tradition and explores Jewish recommendations and practices to maintain and restore health as a state of physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing.
The Essenes The Scrolls And The Dead Sea
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Author : Joan E. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-15
The Essenes The Scrolls And The Dead Sea written by Joan E. Taylor and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-15 with Bibles categories.
The mystery surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls remains, over 60 years after their rediscovery. Who hid them and why? This groundbreaking book reinvigorates the contested hypothesis that the Essenes were responsible. Rather than being a marginal esoteric sect, Taylor shows that this group acted as one of the leading legal schools of Judaism.
Pushing Sacred Boundaries In Early Judaism And The Ancient Mediterranean
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Author : Dennis Mizzi
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023
Pushing Sacred Boundaries In Early Judaism And The Ancient Mediterranean written by Dennis Mizzi and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with History categories.
This volume brings together a series of innovative studies on Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic Palestine, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient synagogues in honor of renowned archaeologist Jodi Magness.