A Question of Identity : Social, Political, and Historical Aspects of Identity Dynamics in Jewish and Other Contexts / Noah Hacham, Geoffrey Herman, Dikla Rivlin Katz, Lilach Sagiv.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dept. of Jewish History and Cont. Jewry

Hacham, Noah, Editor.

Herman, Geoffrey, Editor.

Katz, Dikla, Editor.

Sagiv, Lilach, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Identity (Philosophical concept)--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 pages)

Place of Publication:

München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

'''Who am I?' and 'Who are we?' are the existential, foundational questions in our lives. In our modern world, there is no construct more influential than 'identity' - whether as individuals or as groups. The concept of group identity is the focal point of a research group named "A Question of Identity" at the Mandel Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The papers collected in this volume represent the proceedings of a January 2017 conference organized by the research group which dealt with identity formation in six contextual settings: Ethno-religious identities in light of the archaeological record; Second Temple period textual records on Diaspora Judaism; Jews and Christians in Sasanian Persia; minorities in the Persian achaemenid period; Inter-ethnic dialogue in pre-1948 Palestine; and redefinitions of Christian Identity in the Early Modern period.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

A question of identity: Introduction / Sagiv, Lilach / Katz, Dikla Rivlin / Hacham, Noah / Herman, Geoffrey

Part I: Ancient Mesopotamia and Further East

1. In His Majesty's Service / Zilberg, Peter

2. Judean Identity during the Exile / Bloch, Yigal

3. Issues in the Historical Geography and the Ethno-Linguistic Character of the Zagros and Adjacent Regions / Zadok, Ran

4. Going West / Kiperwasser, Reuven

5. Jewish Identity in Babylonia in the Period of the Incantation Bowls / Herman, Geoffrey

6. The Quest of the Historical Metatron: Enoch or Jesus / Boyarin, Daniel

Part II: The Hellenistic and Roman World

7. Priests in Exile / Piotrkowski, Meron M.

8. Iron Wall or Common Feast? / Hacham, Noah / Sagiv, Lilach

9. Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the Letter of Aristeas §§1-27 / Pearce, Sarah

10. Literary Genres and Identity in the Letter of Aristeas / Honigman, Sylvie

11. Monotheism as an Identity Norm / Sterling, Gregory E.

12. Material Culture and Ethnic Identity in Hellenistic-Period Galilee / Leibner, Uzi

13. "How Fine are the Works of this People"? / Silberklang, Hillel

Part III: Religious and National Identities in a Complex World

14. The Context of Conversions in Early Modern Europe / Kaplan, Benjamin J.

15. So What's Really in a Name? Theology of Etymology in Sixteenth-Century Arian Thought / Luszczynska, Magdalena

16. "It's All Hebrew to Me" / Shafir, Gershon

17. Social and Spatial Borders between "Us" and "Them" / Katz, Dikla Rivlin

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9783110612813

311061281X

9783110615449

3110615444

OCLC:

1105903758