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A holy people : Jewish and Christian perspectives on religious communal identity /

Investigating the various ways in which Jews and Christians define their religious identity, people or community, as being holy, this study offers a large collection of essays, relating to the biblical, patristic and medieval period and especially to the modern period.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Poorthuis, Marcel, 1955-, Schwartz, Joshua
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Colección:Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; v. 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Holy people" : the Biblical evidence / Pancratius Beentjes
  • Trade, ideology, and boundary maintenance in Iron Age Israelite society / Avraham Faust
  • A holy people in the winepress : treading the grapes and holiness / Joshua Schwartz
  • Holiness and sanctity in the Dead Sea scrolls / Lawrence Schiffman
  • Table community in early Christianity / Gerard Rouwhorst
  • Was the Didache community a group within Judaism? : an assessment on the basis of its eucharistic prayers / Huub van de Sandt
  • "A city that makes all Israel friends" : normative communitas and the struggle for religious legitimacy in pilgrimages to the Second Temple / Jackie Feldman
  • Your neighbor is like yourself : a broad generalization with regard to the Torah / Moshe Benovitz
  • Recording the sainthood of the missionaries in the Carolingian era : typology and its limits / Bat-Sheva Albert
  • The Cathar community in the south of France and its religious self-definition as God's holy people / Daniela Müller
  • Community responsibility towards its members : the case of ransom of captives / Yvonne Friedman
  • "Qehillah qedosha" : sacred community in medieval Ashkenazic law and culture / Jeffrey Woolf
  • Holy inhabitants of a holy city : how Safed became one of the four holy cities of Eretz Israel in the 16th century / Yair Paz
  • The ambivalent role of the "people of God" in twentieth century Catholic theology : the examples of Yves Congar and Edward Schillebeeckx / Erik Borgman
  • "Holy people" : some Protestant views / Simon Schoon
  • Who we say we are : Jewish self-definition in two modern Dutch liberal prayer books / Judith Frishman
  • The holiness of the church / Herwi Rikhof
  • Pilgrims "communitas" in the Holy Land : the case of Mormon pilgrimage / Yael Guter
  • The holy people among the philosophers : a grim tale / Victor Kal
  • On the holiness of the poeple of Israel in the thoughts of Abraham Joshua Heschel / Alexander Even-Chen.