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"Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course of more than three millennia. A History of Judaism provides the first truly comprehensive look in one volume at how this great religion came to be, how it has evolved from one age to the next, and how its various strains, sects, and traditions have related to each other. In this magisterial and elegantly written book, Martin Goodman takes readers from Judaism's origins in the polytheistic world of the second and first millennia BCE to the temple cult at the time of Jesus. He tells the stories of the rabbis, mystics, and messiahs of the medieval and early modern periods and guides us through the many varieties of Judaism today. Goodman's compelling narrative spans the globe, from the Middle East, Europe, and America to North Africa, China, and India. He explains the institutions and ideas on which all forms of Judaism are based, and masterfully weaves together the different threads of doctrinal and philosophical debate that run throughout its history."--
For Gustav Landauer, literary critic and anarchist, scholar of mysticism and participant of the Bavarian revolution, culture and politics occupied the same spiritual space. While identifying with ethical socialism, his Jewish sensibility increasingly gained over the years, not only, but in great measure due to Buber’s influence. This volume brings together leading scholars to assess Landauer’s ramified literary and political activities, his life as a Jew and anarchist, paying particular attention to his impact on Martin Buber.
Fritz Mauthner, Gustav Landauer and Erich Mühsam lived according to their own self-designed blueprints of resistance. These countermodels for life were aimed at the bourgeois world their fathers had helped to build (in the so-called Gründerzeit). They viewed rebellion and revolution as a suitable way of life. Carolin Kosuch shows, on the one hand, how these three thinkers from German-Jewish bourgeois families fled from a reality dominated by their fathers to a remote past; on the other hand, she points out how deeply rooted their synchronized efforts were in their common aspiration to overcome modernity. The study provides in-depth insights into the relationship between generational experience and critique of the real world.
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The Bible itself calls the Jewish people 'a company of nations', suggesting that difference within Judaism is not a new phenomenon. It has continued throughout Jewish history, and this volume investigates how and why such difference has been tolerated. Drawing on examples from different geographical areas and from ancient times to the present, the contributors consider why Jews sometimes attempt to impose constraints on other Jews or relate to them as if they were not Jews at all, but at other times recognize differences of practice and belief and develop ways of handling them. In doing so, they provide an insight into a history of Judaism as a complex web of interactions between groups of J...
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Jewish radical thoughts and actions can be described in a variety of terms and dimensions. This volume wants to survey Jewish radicalism and present different approaches on this global historical phenomenon. It is focused on the 19th and 20th century and tries to grasped the manyfold Ideas of Jewish radicalism and, thereby, it approaches the term Jewish radicalism from different perspectives and wants to extend the understanding of this phenomenon.
Flavius Josephus, the priest from Jerusalem who was affiliated with the Pharisees, is our most important source for Jewish life in the first century. His notice about the death of James the brother of Jesus suggests that Josephus knew about the followers of Jesus in Jerusalem and in Judaea. In Rome, where he lived for the remainder of his life after the Jewish War, a group of Christians appear to have flourished, if 1 Clement is any indication. Josephus, however, says extremely little about the Christians in Judaea and nothing about those in Rome. He also does not reference Paul the apostle, a former Pharisee, who was a contemporary of Josephus’s father in Jerusalem, even though, according...
西元前2000年~迄今 第一本最完整全面的猶太教歷史,穿越四千年的漫長時空,史詩級的重量巨作! 在西元前第二和第一千紀時,猶太教在多神教的美索不達米亞社會中誕生,是三大亞伯拉罕宗教(世界三個有共同源頭的一神教,即是猶太教、基督教和伊斯蘭教)中最古老的一個。 在橫跨四千年的歷史中,猶太民族曾經創造大衛王的輝煌時代,擁有所羅門王的驚人財富,但在周遭諸國如羅馬帝國的侵略與控制下,猶太人遭受迫害與驅逐,分散到世界各地,足跡遍佈古代近東、中亞、非洲、歐洲、美洲,還有東方亞洲一些城市...
Für Theodor Fontanes Werk und Leben liegt derzeit keine umfassend angelegte Publikation vor, die den aktuellen Stand der Forschung für das Gesamtwerk (einschließlich der Texte aus dem Nachlass) auf Basis des aktuellen Stands der Editionen aufarbeiten würde. Diese Lücke füllt das vorliegende Handbuch, indem es einen differenzierten Einblick in Fontanes facettenreiches Œuvre bietet, dieses in seiner ganzen Breite vorstellt, in seinen Traditionslinien verortet und mit Blick auf die zeitgenössischen Kontexte erschließt. Werke und Schriften sowie die wichtigsten Korrespondenzen werden in Artikelgruppen behandelt, wobei Entstehungsgeschichte und -kontexte berücksichtigt werden. Weiter stellt das Handbuch die Lebenswelten und sozialen Beziehungen, in denen sich Fontane bewegte, dar und situiert sein Werk sowie sein Wirken im Spektrum der mentalitäts-, ideen-, wissens- und nicht zuletzt mediengeschichtlichen Rahmenbedingungen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die einzelnen Artikel stellen dabei zum größten Teil genuine Forschungsarbeiten dar, die ein Gebiet, ein Thema oder einen Gegenstand mit Blick auf Fontane neu erschließen.