The Jew In A Gentile World

Author : Louis H. Feldman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400820804
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World written by Louis H. Feldman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true, asks Louis Feldman, how did Jews succeed in winning so many adherents, whether full-fledged proselytes or "sympathizers" who adopted one or more Jewish practices? Systematically evaluating attitudes toward Jews from the time of Alexander the Great to the fifth century A.D., Feldman finds that Judaism elicited strongly positive and not merely unfavorable responses from the non-Jewish population. Jews were a vigorous presence in the ancient world, and Judaism was strengthened substantially by the development of the Talmud. Although Jews in the Diaspora were deeply Hellenized, those who remained in Israel were able to resist the cultural inroads of Hellenism and even to initiate intellectual counterattacks. Feldman draws on a wide variety of material, from Philo, Josephus, and other Graeco-Jewish writers through the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha, the Church Councils, Church Fathers, and imperial decrees to Talmudic and Midrashic writings and inscriptions and papyri. What emerges is a rich description of a long era to which conceptions of Jewish history as uninterrupted weakness and suffering do not apply.

Author : Louis H. Feldman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691029276
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World written by Louis H. Feldman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true, asks Louis Feldman, how did Jews succeed in winning so many adherents, whether full-fledged proselytes or "sympathizers" who adopted one or more Jewish practices? Systematically evaluating attitudes toward Jews from the time of Alexander the Great to the fifth century A.D., Feldman finds that Judaism elicited strongly positive and not merely unfavorable responses from the non-Jewish population. Jews were a vigorous presence in the ancient world, and Judaism was strengthened substantially by the development of the Talmud. Although Jews in the Diaspora were deeply Hellenized, those who remained in Israel were able to resist the cultural inroads of Hellenism and even to initiate intellectual counterattacks. Feldman draws on a wide variety of material, from Philo, Josephus, and other Graeco-Jewish writers through the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha, the Church Councils, Church Fathers, and imperial decrees to Talmudic and Midrashic writings and inscriptions and papyri. What emerges is a rich description of a long era to which conceptions of Jewish history as uninterrupted weakness and suffering do not apply.

Author : Louis H. Feldman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World written by Louis H. Feldman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arnold A. Rogow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jew in a Gentile World written by Arnold A. Rogow and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christine Benvenuto
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 031231146X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shiksa written by Christine Benvenuto and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping and provacative exploration of the real women behind the stereotype and legend "shiksa"

Author : Isacque Graeber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews in a Gentile World written by Isacque Graeber and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated by Sydney Harris.

Author : Len Cavise
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977235534
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gentile's Guide to the Jewish World written by Len Cavise and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Been invited to a Bar Mitzvah? A Jewish wedding? A Passover Seder? Don't really know if a shiva at a Jewish house is like a wake? Should somebody who's not Jewish wear that skull cap in a synagogue? What should you wear? Are you tired of not knowing what all those Jewish words mean? Or are you just interested in what it means to be Jewish but you don't really want to make a whole study of it? It's high time to get comfortable with what it means to be Jewish and to finally understand all those great Jewish sayings that just say it the way no other language can. This is the book for you. The charm of the book is that it's written by a gentile (a nice Italian Catholic boy) who understands you and the problems you face in being introduced to Jewish life. It's written by a non-Jew who knows Jews so well, he can teach you everything you need to know, from the customs and habits to all the holidays and ceremonies to a short course in Jewish history. Whether you're about to marry somebody Jewish or you just want to not look silly when invited to a Jewish house, this is the book for you. Even if you're Jewish, it makes a nice present for someone dear to you who just needs to understand Jewish shtik. Speaking of which, the book includes a very useful and complete dictionary of Jewish words in everyday use that is positively hilarious.

Author : Andrew Perriman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606087878
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of the People of God written by Andrew Perriman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the Western church is having to come to terms--painfully and often reluctantly--with its diminished social and intellectual status in the world following the collapse of Christendom, we find ourselves, as interpreters of Paul, increasingly impressed by the need to relocate his writings in their historical context. That is not a coincidence. The Future of the People of God is an attempt to make sense of Paul's letter to the Romans at the intersection of these two developments. It puts forward the argument that we must first have the courage of our historical convictions and read the text before Christendom, from the limited, shortsighted perspective of an emerging community that dared to defy the gods of the ancient world. This act of imaginative, critical engagement with the text will challenge many of our assumptions about Paul's "gospel of God," but it will also put us in a position to reconstruct an identity and purpose for the people of God after Christendom that is both biblically and historically coherent.

Author : Andrew Porwancher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069123728X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton written by Andrew Porwancher and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the founding father’s likely Jewish birth and upbringing—and its revolutionary consequences for understanding him and the nation he fought to create In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father to arrive at a startling conclusion: Hamilton, in all likelihood, was born and raised Jewish. For more than two centuries, his youth in the Caribbean has remained shrouded in mystery. Hamilton himself wanted it that way, and most biographers have simply assumed he had a Christian boyhood. With a detective’s persistence and a historian’s rigor, Porwancher upends that assumption and revolutionizes our understanding of an American icon. This radical reassessment of Hamilton’s religious upbringing gives us a fresh perspective on both his adult years and the country he helped forge. Although he didn’t identify as a Jew in America, Hamilton cultivated a relationship with the Jewish community that made him unique among the founders. As a lawyer, he advocated for Jewish citizens in court. As a financial visionary, he invigorated sectors of the economy that gave Jews their greatest opportunities. As an alumnus of Columbia, he made his alma mater more welcoming to Jewish people. And his efforts are all the more striking given the pernicious antisemitism of the era. In a new nation torn between democratic promises and discriminatory practices, Hamilton fought for a republic in which Jew and Gentile would stand as equals. By setting Hamilton in the context of his Jewish world for the first time, this fascinating book challenges us to rethink the life and legend of America's most enigmatic founder.

Author : J. Garroway
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137281146
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul’s Gentile-Jews written by J. Garroway and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the concepts of cultural and linguistic hybridity developed by Homi Bhabha, Salman Rushdie, Mikhail Bakhtin, and others, Garroway suggests that the first generation of Gentile converts were uncertain whether they had become Jews or remained Gentiles in the wake of their baptism into Christ.