Ritual Dynamics in Jewish and Christian Contexts
Between Bible and Liturgy
Published on 18. July 2019
Book
Hardback
268 pages
978-90-04-40092-4 (ISBN)
Description
Ritual Dynamics in Jewish and Christian Contexts investigates questions that arise in modern ritual studies concerning Jewish and Christian religious communities: How did their religious rituals develop? Where did different ritual communities and their ritual texts interact? How did religious communities and their authoritative texts respond to change, and how did change influence religious rituals? The volume is a product of the interdisciplinary and international research efforts taken by the Research Centre "Dynamics of Jewish Ritual Practices in Pluralistic Contexts from Antiquity to the Present" at the Universitaet Erfurt (Germany) and unites the voices of important senior and emerging scholars in the field. It focuses on antiquity and the medieval period but also considers examples from the early modern and modern period in Europe
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-40092-4 (9789004400924)
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Claudia D. Bergmann received her Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible from the University of Chicago and her Habilitation from Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum. She works as the coordinator of the Research Centre "Dynamics of Jewish Ritual Practices" at the Universitaet Erfurt (Germany).
Benedikt Kranemann received his Dr. theol. and his Habilitation in Liturgical Studies from the Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster. He works as professor for Liturgical Studies of the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Universitaet Erfurt (Germany).
Benedikt Kranemann received his Dr. theol. and his Habilitation in Liturgical Studies from the Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster. He works as professor for Liturgical Studies of the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Universitaet Erfurt (Germany).
Content
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction
?Guenter Stemberger
Part 1: Ritual Dynamics in (Holy) Jewish and Christian Texts
1 Is Rabbinic Prayer a Liturgy, or Essentially a Reading of Texts?
?Stefan C. Reif
2 Ritualizing the Cleaning of the House before Passover in Medieval Ashkenaz: Image and Text in Illuminated Haggadot
?Katrin Kogman-Appel
3 The Ritualization of Manufacturing and Handling Holy Books by the Hasidei Ashkenaz between Halakah and Magic
?Annett Martini
4 Concepts of History and Tradition in Modern Liturgical Books
?Martin Kloeckener
Part 2: A Dynamic Relationship: Christian and Jewish Traces in Jewish and Christian Texts
5 Memories of the Temple and Memories of Temples
?Clemens Leonhard
6 Conceptual and Ideological Aspects in the Mishnaic Description of Bringing the First Fruits to Jerusalem
?Hillel Mali
7 Christian Presence in Jewish Ritual
?Yaacov Deutsch
Part 3: Comparing and Contrasting Rituals
8 Initiation by Circumcision and Water Baptism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity
?Gerard Rouwhorst
9 Space, Ritual, and Politics in (the Reconstruction of) the Ancient Synagogue: an Exploration of the Historical Archive
?Anders Runesson
Part 4: Dynamic Rituals and Innovation of Rituals in Modern Contexts
10 Olive Oil, Anointing, Ecstasy, and Ecology
?Jonathan Schorsch
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction
?Guenter Stemberger
Part 1: Ritual Dynamics in (Holy) Jewish and Christian Texts
1 Is Rabbinic Prayer a Liturgy, or Essentially a Reading of Texts?
?Stefan C. Reif
2 Ritualizing the Cleaning of the House before Passover in Medieval Ashkenaz: Image and Text in Illuminated Haggadot
?Katrin Kogman-Appel
3 The Ritualization of Manufacturing and Handling Holy Books by the Hasidei Ashkenaz between Halakah and Magic
?Annett Martini
4 Concepts of History and Tradition in Modern Liturgical Books
?Martin Kloeckener
Part 2: A Dynamic Relationship: Christian and Jewish Traces in Jewish and Christian Texts
5 Memories of the Temple and Memories of Temples
?Clemens Leonhard
6 Conceptual and Ideological Aspects in the Mishnaic Description of Bringing the First Fruits to Jerusalem
?Hillel Mali
7 Christian Presence in Jewish Ritual
?Yaacov Deutsch
Part 3: Comparing and Contrasting Rituals
8 Initiation by Circumcision and Water Baptism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity
?Gerard Rouwhorst
9 Space, Ritual, and Politics in (the Reconstruction of) the Ancient Synagogue: an Exploration of the Historical Archive
?Anders Runesson
Part 4: Dynamic Rituals and Innovation of Rituals in Modern Contexts
10 Olive Oil, Anointing, Ecstasy, and Ecology
?Jonathan Schorsch
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors