Ritual dynamics in Jewish and Christian contexts : between Bible and liturgy / edited by Claudia D. Bergmann and Benedikt Kranemann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bergmann, Claudia D., editor.

Kranemann, Benedikt, editor.

Series:

Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series; volume34.

Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series; volume34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Liturgy--History.

Judaism.

Liturgics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Summary:

Ritual Dynamics in Jewish and Christian Contexts investigates questions that arise in modern ritual studies concerning Jewish and Christian religious communities: How did their religious rituals develop? Where did different ritual communities and their ritual texts interact? How did religious communities and their authoritative texts respond to change, and how did change influence religious rituals? The volume is a product of the interdisciplinary and international research efforts taken by the Research Centre “Dynamics of Jewish Ritual Practices in Pluralistic Contexts from Antiquity to the Present” at the Universität Erfurt (Germany) and unites the voices of important senior and emerging scholars in the field. It focuses on antiquity and the medieval period but also considers examples from the early modern and modern period in Europe

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Preface and Acknowledgments / Claudia D. Bergmann and Benedikt Kranemann

Figures

Abbreviations

Contributors

Introduction / Günter Stemberger

Ritual Dynamics in (Holy) Jewish and Christian Texts

Is Rabbinic Prayer a Liturgy, or Essentially a Reading of Texts? / Stefan C. Reif

Ritualizing the Cleaning of the House before Passover in Medieval Ashkenaz: Image and Text in Illuminated Haggadot / Katrin Kogman-Appel

The Ritualization of Manufacturing and Handling Holy Books by the Hasidei Ashkenaz between Halakah and Magic / Annett Martini

Concepts of History and Tradition in Modern Liturgical Books / Martin Klöckener

A Dynamic Relationship: Christian and Jewish Traces in Jewish and Christian Texts

Memories of the Temple and Memories of Temples / Clemens Leonhard

Conceptual and Ideological Aspects in the Mishnaic Description of Bringing the First Fruits to Jerusalem / Hillel Mali

Christian Presence in Jewish Ritual / Yaacov Deutsch

Comparing and Contrasting Rituals

Initiation by Circumcision and Water Baptism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity / Gerard Rouwhorst

Space, Ritual, and Politics in (the Reconstruction of) the Ancient Synagogue: An Exploration of the Historical Archive / Anders Runesson

Dynamic Rituals and Innovation of Rituals in Modern Contexts

Olive Oil, Anointing, Ecstasy, and Ecology / Jonathan Schorsch

Back Matter

Index of Names

Index of Ancient Sources and Manuscripts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-40595-X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004405950 DOI