Pagan Rites in Judaism
Author | : Theodor Reik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Cults |
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Author | : Theodor Reik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Cults |
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Author | : Theodor Reik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1951 |
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Author | : Theodor Reik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : Jennifer Hunter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Jewish magic |
ISBN | : 9780806525761 |
A first-of-its-kind - a synthesis of pre-monotheistic Hebrew history, mainstream and alternative Judaism, ceremonial magic and eclectic NeoPaganism to create spells, meditations, rituals and holiday traditions. Infuses NeoPagan rituals with the living, breathing rites of the Jewish people, revealing a liberating new spirituality. Appealing to those Jewish by birth, Pagan by practice or drawn to both Jewish and Pagan paths, Magickal Judaism provides all the tools necessary for creating a new, holistic and integrated religious way.
Author | : Jutta Leonhardt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783161587085 |
As a knowledgeable contemporary of the later Second Temple, Philo of Alexandria's approach to worship and his view of the essence of Jewish worship are of particular interest to the study of that period. Jutta Leonhardt discusses his views on the Jewish festivals, especially the Sabbath, on prayer, psalms, hymns, praise and thanksgiving, and on Temple offerings, sacrifices and purification rites. These aspects are presented with their parallels in Jewish and pagan traditions and in Greek and Hellenistic philosophy. Jewish worship in Philo has never been studied as a coherent whole before. Only individual aspects of worship, such as prayer of petition, or thanksgiving, or Philo has been used in studies on Second Temple Judaism as a quarry for general examples of acts of worship.Philo accepted and participated in Jewish worship, and even knew about details of various Jewish traditions of his time. His writings, however, do not refer to them directly and cannot easily be used to reconstruct Jewish rituals of his time. His main aim is to discuss the rites as collected in the Mosaic Torah, since these are binding for all Jews. These laws are frequently presented using the terminology of pagan cults and interpreted with recourse to Greek philosophy. In this philosophical description of actual rites there are parallels to Plato's references to religion in the ideal state in the Nomoi. Philo presents Judaism as the ultimate Hellenistic cult, which combines the various aspects of the different pagan cults in a sublime and perfect form to represent mankind and the universe in the worship of the one God who created the world.
Author | : Jutta Leonhardt |
Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Jewish worship |
ISBN | : 9783161475979 |
As a knowledgeable contemporary of the later Second Temple, Philo of Alexandria's approach to worship and his view of the essence of Jewish worship are of particular interest to the study of that period. Jutta Leonhardt discusses his views on the Jewish festivals, especially the Sabbath, on prayer, psalms, hymns, praise and thanksgiving, and on Temple offerings, sacrifices and purification rites. These aspects are presented with their parallels in Jewish and pagan traditions and in Greek and Hellenistic philosophy. Jewish worship in Philo has never been studied as a coherent whole before. Only individual aspects of worship, such as prayer of petition, or thanksgiving, or Philo has been used in studies on Second Temple Judaism as a quarry for general examples of acts of worship.Philo accepted and participated in Jewish worship, and even knew about details of various Jewish traditions of his time. His writings, however, do not refer to them directly and cannot easily be used to reconstruct Jewish rituals of his time. His main aim is to discuss the rites as collected in the Mosaic Torah, since these are binding for all Jews. These laws are frequently presented using the terminology of pagan cults and interpreted with recourse to Greek philosophy. In this philosophical description of actual rites there are parallels to Plato's references to religion in the ideal state in the Nomoi. Philo presents Judaism as the ultimate Hellenistic cult, which combines the various aspects of the different pagan cults in a sublime and perfect form to represent mankind and the universe in the worship of the one God who created the world.
Author | : Shelly Matthews |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780804780407 |
It has often been said that rich pagan women, much more so than men, were attracted both to early Judaism and Christianity. This book provides a new reading of sources from which this truism springs, focusing on two texts from the turn of the first century, Josephus's Antiquities and Luke's Acts. The book studies representation, analyzing the repeated portrayal of rich women as aiding and/or converting to early Judaism in its various forms. It also shows how these sources can be used in reconstructing women's history, thus engaging current feminist debates about the relationship of rhetorical presentation of women in texts to historical reality. Because many of these texts speak of high-standing women's conversion to Judaism and early Christianity, this book also engages in the current debate about whether early Judaism was a missionary religion. The author argues that focusing on these stories of women converts and adherents, which have been largely ignored in previous discussions of the missionary question, sets the missionary question in a new, more adequate framework. The first chapter elucidates a story in Josephus's Antiquities of the mishaps of two Roman matrons devoted to Isis and Jewish cults by considering the common Hellenistic topos linking high-standing women, promiscuity, and religious impropriety. The remaining chapters demonstrate that in spite of this topos, Josephus, Luke, and other religious apologists did tell stories of rich women's associations with their communities for positive rhetorical effect. In so doing, the book challenges the widespread assumption that women's association with "foreign" religious cults was always derided, questions scholarly arguments about public and private roles in antiquity, and invites reflection on issues of mission and conversion within the larger framework of Greco-Roman benefaction.
Author | : George Robinson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1501117750 |
An award-winning journalist tells you everything you need to know about being Jewish in this user-friendly guide that explains not only what Jews do and believe, but why.
Author | : Milton Steinberg |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780156106986 |
The classic, essential guide to the beliefs, ideals and practices that form the historic Jewish faith.
Author | : Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1958 |
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