A holy people : Jewish and Christian perspectives on religious communal identity / / edited by Marcel Poorthuis & Joshua Schwartz.

• Superior document: Jewish and Christian perspectives series, v. 12
• TeilnehmendeR: Poorthuis, Marcel, 1955-; Schwartz, Joshua.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; v. 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

A Holy People investigates the various ways in which Jews and Christians define their religious identity, people or community, as being holy. Keeping in mind that historical studies can offer food for thought regarding contemporary issues, the study offers a large collection of essays, relating to the biblical, patristic and medieval period and especially to the modern period. The obvious question of many in the modern world as to whether the attribute of the ‘holiness’ allows for acknowledgement of authentic religion outside the own religious community, deserves an honest answer and well-documented study: too easily the claim of holiness intertwines with claims of power, whether by rivalling groups within the religious community, by groups divided along gender lines, or on the level of territorial claims. It will be of special importance to scholars and general readers interested in an interdisciplinary approach to theology, rabbinics, history, political science, and much more.

Table of Contents

Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editorial Statement -- Introduction -- Biblical Period -- "Holy People" : The Biblical Evidence / Pancratius C. Beentjes -- Trade, Ideology, and Boundary Maintenance In Iron Age Israelite Society / Avraham Faust -- Post-Biblical Period -- A Holy People In The Winepress: Treading The Grapes and Holiness / Joshua Schwartz -- Holiness and Sanctity In The Dead Sea Scrolls / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Table Community In Early Christianity / Gerard Rouwhorst -- Was The Didache Community A Group Within Judaism? An Assessment on the Basis of Its Eucharistic Prayers / Huub Van De Sandt "A City That Makes All Israel Friends": Normative Communitas and the Struggle For Religious Legitimacy In Pilgrimages To The Second Temple / Jackie Feldman -- Your Neighbor Is Like Yourself: A Broad Generalization With Regard To The Torah / Moshe Benovitz -- Medieval Period -- Recording The Sainthood of the Missionaries In The Carolingian Era: Typology and It's Limits / Bat-Sheva Albert -- The Ambivalent Role of the "People of God" In Twentieth Century Catholic Theology: The Examples of Yves Congar and Edward Schillebeeckx / Erik Borgman -- "Holy People": Some Protestant Views / Simon Schoon -- Who We Say We Are: Jewish Self-Definition In Two Modern Dutch Liberal Prayer Books / Judith Frishman -- The Holiness of the Church / Herwi Rikhof -- Pilgrims "Communitas" In The Holy Land: The Case of Mormon Pilgrimage / Yael Guter -- The Holy People Among The Philosophers : A Grim Tale / Victor Kal -- On the Holiness of the People of Israel In The Thought of Abraham Joshua Heschel / Alexander Even-Chen Index of Names and Subjects -- Index of Sources.