Seeking out the land: Land of Israel traditions in ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan literature : (200 BCE-400 CE)
Front Matter -- Copyright page /Zeʾev Safrai -- Editorial Statement /Zeʾev Safrai -- Acknowledgements /Zeʾev Safrai -- List of Illustrations /Zeʾev Safrai -- Abbreviations /Zeʾev Safrai -- Introduction /Zeʾev Safrai -- The Geography of the Land in Second Temple Literature /Zeʾev Safrai -- The Descri...
| Summary: | Front Matter -- Copyright page /Zeʾev Safrai -- Editorial Statement /Zeʾev Safrai -- Acknowledgements /Zeʾev Safrai -- List of Illustrations /Zeʾev Safrai -- Abbreviations /Zeʾev Safrai -- Introduction /Zeʾev Safrai -- The Geography of the Land in Second Temple Literature /Zeʾev Safrai -- The Description of the Land of Israel in Josephus’ Works /Zeʾev Safrai -- The Land in Rabbinic Literature /Zeʾev Safrai -- The Evolution of the Concept of the Sanctity of the Land /Zeʾev Safrai -- The Land in Early Christian Literature /Zeʾev Safrai -- The Land in Samaritan Literature /Zeʾev Safrai -- Jewish and Christian Sacred Sites in the Holy Land /Zeʾev Safrai -- Concern with the Land in the Roman-Byzantine Period: An Overview /Zeʾev Safrai -- Back Matter -- Literature /Zeʾev Safrai. Seeking out the Land describes the study of the Holy Land in the Roman period and examines the complex connections between theology, social agenda and the intellectual pursuit. Holiness as a theological concept determines the intellectual agenda of the elite society of writers seeking to describe the land, as well as their preoccupation with its physical aspects and their actual knowledge about it. Ze'ev Safrai succeeds in examining all the ancient monotheistic literature, both Jewish and Christian, up to the fourth century CE, and in demonstrating how all the above-mentioned factors coalesce into a single entity. We learn that in both religions, with all their various subgroups, the same social and religious factors were at work, but with differing intensity |
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| ISBN: | 9004334823 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004334823 |