Seeking out the land : : land of Israel traditions in ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan literature (200 BCE-400 CE) / / by Ze'ev Safrai.
Seeking out the Land describes the study of the Holy Land in the Roman period and examines the complex connections between theology, social agenda and the intellectual pursuit. Holiness as a theological concept determines the intellectual agenda of the elite society of writers seeking to describe th...
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| Superior document: | Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; Volume 32 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jewish and Christian perspectives series ;
Volume 32. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (572 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- The approach of the Ancients to the Bible
- The geography of the Land in Second Temple literature
- The description of the Land of Israel in Josephus' works
- The Land in rabbinic literature
- The evolution of the concept of the sanctity of the Land
- The Land in Early Christian literature
- The Land in Samaritan literature
- Jewish and Christian sacred sites in the Holy Land
- Concern with the Land in the Roman-Byzantine period: an overview.