Envisioning Judaism

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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 inand contestshared 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.

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Ra'anan S. Boustan (Herausgegeben von) Born 1971; 2004 PhD from Princeton University; 2004-06 Assistant Professor of Early Judaism at the University of Minnesota; 2006-10 Assistant Professor of Ancient and Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles; 2010-17 Associate Professor of Ancient and Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles; 2009-12 Director at the Center for the Study of Religion; since 2017 Research Scholar in the Program for Judaic Studies at Princeton University. Annette Yoshiko Reed (Herausgegeben von) Born 1973; Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard University. Alex Ramos (Mit / Unter Mitarbeit von) B.A. from University of Nebraska-Lincoln; M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School; currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

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