ISBN:
9783110386080
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (416 p)
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Penner, Jeremy [Rezension von: Ancient Jewish prayers and emotions] 2018
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Mermelstein, Ari, 1971 - [Rezension von: Ancient Jewish prayers and emotions] 2017
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ancient Jewish prayers and emotions
DDC:
296.4/509
Keywords:
Religion
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Religion
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Frühjudentum
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Literatur
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Gebet
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Gefühl
Abstract:
Given the recent interest in the emotions presupposed in early religious literature, it has been thought useful to examine in this volume how the Jews and early Christians expressed their feelings within the prayers recorded in some of their literature. Specialists in their fields from academic institutions around the world have analysed important texts relating to this overall theme and to what is revealed with regard to such diverse topics as relations with God, exegesis, education, prophecy, linguistic expression, feminism, happiness, grief, cult, suicide, non-Jews, Hellenism, Qumran and Jerusalem. The texts discussed are in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic and are important for a scientific understanding of how Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity developed their approaches to worship, to the construction of their theology and to the feelings that lay behind their religious ideas and practices. The articles contribute significantly to an historical understanding of how Jews maintained
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