Envisioning Judaism
Studies in Honor of Peter Schäfer on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday
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Beschreibung
This volume collects cutting-edge articles reflecting the broad scope of Peter Schäfer's scholarship. It explores dynamics of continuity and change in Judaism from the Second Temple period to the rise of Islam, while also tracing shared traditions among Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the medieval and early modern periods.
This volume offers an extensive collection of cutting-edge articles in Jewish studies and related areas that celebrate Peter Schäfer and take their lead from his groundbreaking scholarship. Among the topics addressed are Jewish material culture in the Graeco-Roman world; the evolution of rabbinic literature and thought; the appropriate methods for producing editions of pre-modern texts; gender, embodiment, and the nature of the divine; Jewish representations of Jesus; and the reception of Hebrew sources by Christian scholars in the early modern period. The collection lays particular emphasis on the dynamics of continuity and change in Jewish society, culture, and religion in the ancient Mediterranean world, from the Second Temple period to the rise of Islam. It also traces how in the course of the medieval and early modern periods Jews, Christians, and Muslims came to participate in—and contest—shared literary, intellectual, and religious traditions. The contributions to this Festschrift transcend the entrenched divisions that too often fracture scholarly dialogue among specialists. Its broad scope reflects the startling breadth of Schäfer's own research interests as well as the lasting impact of his contributions to the academic study of Jewish literature and history, which have made visible the inner diversity of Judaism and stressed the essential place of Jewish studies within the humanities.
Autor*in
Ra'anan Boustan
Born 1971; Research Scholar in the Program for Judaic Studies at Princeton University.
Themen in »Envisioning Judaism«
Schäfer, Peter Mediterranean antiquity Rabbinic Literature Jewish History Jewish/Christian Relations