Jewish Marriage In Antiquity

Author : Michael L. Satlow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691187495
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Marriage in Antiquity written by Michael L. Satlow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage today might be a highly contested topic, but certainly no more than it was in antiquity. Ancient Jews, like their non-Jewish neighbors, grappled with what have become perennial issues of marriage, from its idealistic definitions to its many practical forms to questions of who should or should not wed. In this book, Michael Satlow offers the first in-depth synthetic study of Jewish marriage in antiquity, from ca. 500 B.C.E. to 614 C.E. Placing Jewish marriage in its cultural milieu, Satlow investigates whether there was anything essentially "Jewish" about the institution as it was discussed and practiced. Moreover, he considers the social and economic aspects of marriage as both a personal relationship and a religious bond, and explores how the Jews of antiquity negotiated the gap between marital realities and their ideals. Focusing on the various experiences of Jews throughout the Mediterranean basin and in Babylonia, Satlow argues that different communities, even rabbinic ones, constructed their own "Jewish" marriage: they read their received traditions and rituals through the lens of a basic understanding of marriage that they shared with their non-Jewish neighbors. He also maintains that Jews idealized marriage in a way that responded to the ideals of their respective societies, mediating between such values as honor and the far messier realities of marital life. Employing Jewish and non-Jewish literary texts, papyri, inscriptions, and material artifacts, Satlow paints a vibrant portrait of ancient Judaism while sharpening and clarifying present discussions on modern marriage for Jews and non-Jews alike.

Author : Shalom Sabar
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ketubbah written by Shalom Sabar and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The custom of illuminating the traditional Jewish marriage contract, the ketubbah, developed over the last four centuries into a rich and varied form of Jewish folk art. This book offers a broad selection from one of the outstanding collections of ketubbot, representing Jewish communities from the Near East to Northern Europe. It focuses particularly on the ketubbot of Italy, where the art of the illuminated ketubbah found its most beautiful expression during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, under the influence of Renaissance and Baroque art." "Co-produced with the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, home to one of the largest collections of ketubbot, this book also offers a fascinating account of Jewish marriage customs and a vivid picture of diverse Jewish communities." --Book Jacket.

Author : Étan Levine
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447058681
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marital Relations in Ancient Judaism written by Étan Levine and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume surveys the legal and literary references to gender, sexuality and marital relations found in biblical sources and Rabbinic texts until the end of the Tamudic era (c. 600 C.E.). Subject areas include Israel's familial historiography, kinship and law in biblical Israel, gender and status, judicial review of law, divine covenant and marriage covenant, conditions mandating divorce, monogamous and polygamous marriage, levirate surrogate marriage, endogamy and exogamy, marital choice, marriage and reproduction as religious imperatives, the home as a 'small temple', the marital writ for ontological security, emotional fidelity, the validation of eroticism, love's body: idealization and aesthetics, denial of sexual responsibility as Judaism's original sin, sexuality and dignity, conjugal rights and responsibilities, fertility and infertility, contraception and abortion, erotic and reproductive techniques, menstruation: The time to refrain from embracing, the suspected adulteress, children and eternity.

Author : Sacha Stern
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1909821799
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time and Process in Ancient Judaism written by Sacha Stern and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating study is about the absence of time as an entity in itself in ancient Judaism, and the predominance instead of process in the ancient Jewish world-view. Evidence is drawn from a complete range of Jewish sources from this period.

Author : Michael Satlow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118517903
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gift in Antiquity written by Michael Satlow and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gift in Antiquity presents a collection of 14 original essays that apply French sociologist Marcel Mauss’s notion of gift-giving to the study of antiquity. Features a collection of original essays that cover such wide-ranging topics as vows in the Hebrew Bible; ancient Greek wedding gifts; Hellenistic civic practices; Latin literature; Roman and Jewish burial practices; and Jewish and Christian religious gifts Organizes essays around theoretical concerns rather than chronologically Generates unique insights into gift-giving and reciprocity in antiquity Takes an explicitly cross-cultural approach to the study of ancient history

Author : Melanie Malka Landau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441184597
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tradition and Equality in Jewish Marriage written by Melanie Malka Landau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often when people have become alienated from their religious backgrounds, they access their traditions through lifecycle events such as marriage. At times, modern values such as gender equality may be at odds with some of the traditions; many of which have always been in a state of flux in relationship to changing social, economic and political realities. Traditional Jewish marriage is based on the man acquiring the woman, which has symbolic and actual ramifications. Grounded in the traditional texts yet accessible, this book shows how the marriage is an acquisition and contextualises the gender hierarchy of marriage within the rabbinic exclusion of women from Torah study, the highest cultural practice and women's exemption from positive commandments. Melanie Landau offers two alternative models of partnership that partially or fully bypass the non-reciprocity of traditional Jewish marriage and that have their basis in the ancient rabbinic texts.

Author : Shaye J. D. Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930675308
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Family in Antiquity written by Shaye J. D. Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Mielziner
Publisher : Obscure Press
ISBN 13 : 1443739286
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Law of Marriage and Divorce in Ancient and Modern Times, and Its Relation to the Law of the State written by M. Mielziner and published by Obscure Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1884. A comprehensive exploration into all aspects of Marriage and Divorce in accordance to Biblical law. Contents include: The Marriage Relation, According to the Ethical Doctrines of the Bible and the Talmud - The Sources of the Jewish Marriage Law - Legal View of Marriage - Monogamy and Polygamy - Prohibited Marriages - Prohibition in Consideration of Chastity - Prohibition On Account of Religious and Other Considerations - Temporary Impediments - Qualifications to Contract Marriage - The Form of Concluding Marriage - The Effects of Marriage - Dissolution of Marriage. Author: Rev. Dr. M. Mielziner Language: English Keywords: Social Sciences / Judaism/ Law Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Laura Suzanne Lieber
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004365893
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity written by Laura Suzanne Lieber and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jewish Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity, Laura Suzanne Lieber offers annotated translations of sixty-nine poems written between the 4th and 7th century C.E., along with commentary and introductions.

Author : Natalie B. Dohrmann
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812245334
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire written by Natalie B. Dohrmann and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume revisits issues of empire from the perspective of Jews, Christians, and other Romans in the third to sixth centuries. Through case studies, the contributors bring Jewish perspectives to bear on longstanding debates concerning Romanization, Christianization, and late antiquity.