A Question of Identity : : Social, Political, and Historical Aspects of Identity Dynamics in Jewish and Other Contexts /

A Question of Identity : : Social, Political, and Historical Aspects of Identity Dynamics in Jewish and Other Contexts / / ed. by Noah Hacham, Geoffrey Herman, Dikla Rivlin Katz, Lilach Sagiv.

‘‘‘Who am I?’ and ‘Who are we?’ are the existential, foundational questions in our lives. In our modern world, there is no construct more influential than ‘identity’ – whether as individuals or as groups. The concept of group identity is the focal point of a research group named “A Question of Ident...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Bloch, Yigal,
Boyarin, Daniel,
Hacham, Noah,
Herman, Geoffrey,
Honigman, Sylvie,
Kaplan, Benjamin J.,
Katz, Dikla Rivlin,
Kiperwasser, Reuven,
Leibner, Uzi,
Luszczynska, Magdalena,
Pearce, Sarah,
Piotrkowski, Meron M.,
Sagiv, Lilach,
Shafir, Gershon,
Silberklang, Hillel,
Sterling, Gregory E.,
Zadok, Ran,
Zilberg, Peter,
TeilnehmendeR:
Dept. of Jewish History and Cont. Jewry,.
HerausgeberIn:
Hacham, Noah,
Herman, Geoffrey,
Rivlin Katz, Dikla,
Sagiv, Lilach,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 394 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • A question of identity: Introduction
  • Part I: Ancient Mesopotamia and Further East
  • 1. In His Majesty’s Service
  • 2. Judean Identity during the Exile
  • 3. Issues in the Historical Geography and the Ethno-Linguistic Character of the Zagros and Adjacent Regions
  • 4. Going West
  • 5. Jewish Identity in Babylonia in the Period of the Incantation Bowls
  • 6. The Quest of the Historical Metatron: Enoch or Jesus
  • Part II: The Hellenistic and Roman World
  • 7. Priests in Exile
  • 8. Iron Wall or Common Feast?
  • 9. Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the Letter of Aristeas §§1–27
  • 10. Literary Genres and Identity in the Letter of Aristeas
  • 11. Monotheism as an Identity Norm
  • 12. Material Culture and Ethnic Identity in Hellenistic-Period Galilee
  • 13. “How Fine are the Works of this People”?
  • Part III: Religious and National Identities in a Complex World
  • 14. The Context of Conversions in Early Modern Europe
  • 15. So What’s Really in a Name? Theology of Etymology in Sixteenth-Century Arian Thought
  • 16. “It’s All Hebrew to Me”
  • 17. Social and Spatial Borders between “Us” and “Them”
  • Contributors
  • Index

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