Were The Jews A Mediterranean Society
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Were The Jews A Mediterranean Society
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Author : Seth Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-24
Were The Jews A Mediterranean Society written by Seth Schwartz and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-24 with History categories.
How well integrated were Jews in the Mediterranean society controlled by ancient Rome? The Torah's laws seem to constitute a rejection of the reciprocity-based social dependency and emphasis on honor that were customary in the ancient Mediterranean world. But were Jews really a people apart, and outside of this broadly shared culture? Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? argues that Jewish social relations in antiquity were animated by a core tension between biblical solidarity and exchange-based social values such as patronage, vassalage, formal friendship, and debt slavery. Seth Schwartz's examinations of the Wisdom of Ben Sira, the writings of Josephus, and the Palestinian Talmud reveal that Jews were more deeply implicated in Roman and Mediterranean bonds of reciprocity and honor than is commonly assumed. Schwartz demonstrates how Ben Sira juxtaposes exhortations to biblical piety with hard-headed and seemingly contradictory advice about coping with the dangers of social relations with non-Jews; how Josephus describes Jews as essentially countercultural; yet how the Talmudic rabbis assume Jews have completely internalized Roman norms at the same time as the rabbis seek to arouse resistance to those norms, even if it is only symbolic. Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? is the first comprehensive exploration of Jewish social integration in the Roman world, one that poses challenging new questions about the very nature of Mediterranean culture.
A Mediterranean Society
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Author : S. D. Goitein
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999
A Mediterranean Society written by S. D. Goitein and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Business & Economics categories.
"One of the best comprehensive histories of a culture in this century."—Amos Funkenstein, Stanford University
A Mediterranean Society
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Author : Shelomo Dov Goitein
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1967
A Mediterranean Society written by Shelomo Dov Goitein and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with History categories.
"One of the best comprehensive histories of a culture in this century."--Amos Funkenstein, Stanford University
A Mediterranean Society
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Author : S. D. Goitein
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1967
A Mediterranean Society written by S. D. Goitein and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with History categories.
"One of the best comprehensive histories of a culture in this century."—Amos Funkenstein, Stanford University
A Mediterranean Society Volume Vi
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Author : S. D. Goitein
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1994-03-09
A Mediterranean Society Volume Vi written by S. D. Goitein and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-03-09 with History categories.
This six-volume "portrait of a Mediterranean personality" is a composite portrait of the individuals who wrote the personal letters, contracts, and all other manuscript fragments that found their way into the Cairo Geniza. Most of the fragments from the Geniza, a storeroom for discarded writings that could not be thrown away because they might contain the name of God, had been removed to Cambridge University Library and other libraries around the world. Professor Goitein devoted the last thirty years of his long and productive life to their study, deciphering the language of the documents and organizing what he called a "marvelous treasure trove of manuscripts" into a coherent, fascinating picture of the society that created them. It is a rich, panoramic view of how people lived, traveled, worshiped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. The first and second volumes describe the economic foundations of the society and the institutions and social and political structures that characterized the community. The remaining material, intended for a single volume describing the particulars of the way people lived, blossomed into three volumes, devoted respectively to the family, daily life, and the individual. The divisions are arbitrary but helpful because of the wealth of information. The author refers throughout to other passages in his monumental work that amplify what is discussed in any particular section. The result is an incomparably clear and immediate impression of how it was in the Mediterranean world of the tenth through the thirteenth century. Volume VI, prepared by Paula Sanders, is a volume of cumulative, analytical indices.
A Mediterranean Society
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Author : Shelomo Dov Goitein
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999
A Mediterranean Society written by Shelomo Dov Goitein and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
S.D. Goitein's five-volume work on Jewish communities in the medieval Mediterranean world has been abridged and reworked into this volume that captures the essential narratives and contexts.
A Mediterranean Society
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Author : S. D. Goitein
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1967
A Mediterranean Society written by S. D. Goitein and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with History categories.
"One of the best comprehensive histories of a culture in this century."—Amos Funkenstein, Stanford University
The Jews Of Egypt
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Author : Maurice Mizrahi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-09-10
The Jews Of Egypt written by Maurice Mizrahi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with Social Science categories.
The Jewish community of Egypt in modem times-now practically non-existent-consisted in part of autochthonous Jews who traced their origins to the periods of Maimonides, Philo, and even the prophet Jeremiah, thus making it the oldest community in the Jewish Diaspora. It also contained Jews who were part of the waves of immigration into Egypt that began in the second half of the nineteenth century. Coming mostly from Mediterranean countries, this predominantly Sephardic community maintained a network of commercial, social, and religious ties throughout the entire region, as well as a distinctively Mediterranean culture and life-style. In this volume, international scholars examine the Ottoman background of this community, the political status and participation of the Jews in Egyptian society, their role in economic life, their contributions to Egyptian-Arabic culture, and the images of the community in their own eyes, as well as in the eyes of Egyptians and Palestinian Jews. The book includes an extensive set of appendixes that illustrate the wide range of primary sources used by the contributors.
A Mediterranean Society
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Author : S. D. Goitein
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1967
A Mediterranean Society written by S. D. Goitein and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with History categories.
"One of the best comprehensive histories of a culture in this century."—Amos Funkenstein, Stanford University
A Mediterranean Society
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Author : Shelomo Dov Goitein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
A Mediterranean Society written by Shelomo Dov Goitein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Cairo Genizah categories.