Handbook of Synagogue Architecture (Brown Judaic Studies)

Arts & Photography

Chiat, Marilyn Joyce Segal

Architecture

Brown Judaic Studies

Book by Winston, David, Dillon, John

Two Treatises of Philo of Alexandria: A Commentary on De Gigantibus and Quod Deus sit Immutabilis

Politics & Social Sciences

Winston, David

Dillon Sir, Regius Professor of Greek John

Philosophy

Ben Sira's View of A Literary Analysis

Ben Sira's View of Women: A Literary Analysis (Brown Judaic Studies)

Trenchard, Mr Warren C

Religion & Spirituality

Paperback. Very good, with laminated wrappers.

Support for the Poor in the Mishnaic Law of Agriculture: Tractate Peah

Brooks, Roger

Judaism

Paperback. Good; upper page edges bent. Blind-stamp on title pages.

Pharaoh's Counsellors: Job, Jethro, and Balaam in Rabbinic and Patristic Tradition (Brown Judaic Studies)

History

Judith R. Baskin

World

Sparda by the Bitter Sea: Imperial Interaction in Western Anatolia

Balcer, Jack Martin

Ancient Civilizations

Jack Lightstone's "Commerce of the Sacred" remains an original and influential contribution to Judaic studies. Lightstone offers critical perspectives on the practices and beliefs of Greco-Roman Jews who lived outside of Palestine and beyond rabbinic control or influence. He investigates their influence on early Christians and examines how the two communities defined themselves in relation to each another. He challenges the view of Judaism as a single set of practices and beliefs and argues that Jews of the Greco-Roman Diaspora did not retain a shared, biblical "perception of the world" centered on the Jerusalem temple. Rather, they believed multiple points of contact between God and man could be made through particular rites: prayer in the presence of the sacred scrolls, pleas for help at the tombs of dead saints and martyrs, and the interventions of holy men with alleged supernatural powers, to name a few. Many early Christians also participated in this Judaic "commerce of the sacred," blurring the social and religious boundaries that distinguished Jews and Christians.
Lightstone innovatively combines approaches from the history of religions and social anthropology to provide a different picture of Judaism during this period. Featuring a new foreword and an updated bibliography, "Commerce of the Sacred" resituates the Jews in the Greco-Roman world.

The Commerce of the Sacred: Mediation of the Divine Among Jews in the Graeco-Roman Diaspora

Lightstone, Jack N.

WOMEN LEADERS IN THE ANCIENT SYNAGOGUE 1-9780891306702-New

Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue (Brown Judaic Studies)

Brooten, Bernadette J.

Format Paperback Subject Religion Fundamentalism Publisher Brown Judaic Studies

The Legal Methodology of Hai Gaon

Groner, Tsvi

Format Hardcover Subject Philosophy General Publisher Scholars Press

From Philo to Origen: Middle Platonism in Transition

Berchman, Robert M.

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