Bøger om Det bibelske Israel

The first book to discuss the arcaheology of first-century Nazareth - Jesus' hometown in Galilee - written for the general reader. This is the latest consideration of whether the 'House of Jesus' really was Jesus' family home.

The story of the Holy Land, encompassing the three millennia that saw the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Each chapter is written by a leading scholar.

This is the first in-depth comparative analysis of envy, jealousy, and vengefulness experienced by divine personalities in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Greek texts, and the functions served by attributing negative emotions and traits to one's gods. Suitable for biblical, classical, and literary scholars.

Households and Holiness provides a clear overview of the religious lives of Israelite women. Carol Meyers stresses the diversity of religious practices in ancient Israel and argues we must examine practices as well as beliefs. The book explores anthropology, archaeological evidence, ethnographic data, and textual sources.

"The thrilling true story of an ancient plant, wonderfully reborn in the modern era through the hard work of two female scientists.Thousands of years ago, in a time of rebellion, the Jewish people fought against their Roman rulers. The brutal Emperor Titus ordered the destruction of everything precious to the Jews: towns, villages, even their beloved Judean date palm trees. Centuries passed. The Jewish people were scattered, and the Judean date palm faded into extinction. Then, in 1963, a team of archaeologists uncovered two-thousand-year-old date palm seeds at the ruined fortress of Masada. For another forty years the seeds waited-until 2004, when Israeli scientist Dr. Sarah Sallon had a big, courageous idea. What if those ancient seeds could bring the Judean date palm back to life? Dr. Sallon recruited her friend Dr. Elaine Solowey, and their amazing experiment began...Intertwining world history, the scientific process, and colorfully detailed artwork, The Miracle Seed follows the Judean date palm's journey from tragic extinction to incredible rebirth. Captivating and hopeful, this graphic novel is an unforgettable look at perseverance and survival in the face of impossible odds. "--

"Det afgørende vendepunkt i Jesu liv indtrådte, da han besluttede at rejse fra Galilæa til Jerusalem. I Galilæa, hvor befolkningen var venligsindet imod ham, kunne han måske endnu nogen tid have undgået sine fjenders efterstræbelser, men i Jerusalem, den jødiske gudsdyrkelses hovedsæde, var døden ham vis. Hans kamp mod den jødiske kirke måtte dér blive en kamp på livet, og i denne kamp måtte han bukke under."Henning Jensen fortæller om de mange lidelser, Jesus måtte gå igennem inden sin tragiske død. Indtoget i Jerusalem, Judas’ forræderi og den lange vej til Golgata efter at være blevet pint under Pontius Pilatus beskrives rørende og dog sagligt af den dygtige præst og forfatter. Bogen er fra 1893.Henning Jensen (1838-1929) var en dansk forfatter, politiker og journalist. Han var sognepræst i flere år forskellige steder i Danmark, men blev i 1885 afskediget af kirkeminister Jacob Frederik Scavenius for nogle upassende udtalelser. Herefter begyndte Henning Jensen at skrive for flere dagblade og gav Folkekirkes og dens præsteskab nogle hårde ord med på vejen både i sin journalistik og sine bøger. Han debuterede som forfatter i 1891 med romanen "Kapellanen" og udgav efterfølgende en lang række fortællinger.

Paulus schöpft in seinen Briefen tief aus der biblischen Tradition - mitunter auch dort, wo sein Gegenüber diese womöglich nur oberflächlich kennt. Konrad Otto fragt in der vorliegenden Studie, inwiefern Schriftbezüge Paulus dazu dienen, zwischen der eigenen gedanklichen Welt und der seiner Adressaten zu vermitteln. Dabei ermöglicht die vergleichende Analyse der beiden ausführlichen Bezugnahmen auf die Mose-Exodus-Tradition in 1 Kor 10 und 2 Kor 3 nicht nur Einblicke in die Schriftkompetenz des Paulus und die durch den Text vorausgesetzte Schriftkompetenz auf Seiten seiner Adressaten, sondern auch Einblicke in Bildungsprozesse, die durch den Text mutmaßlich angestoßen werden. So zeigt sich, wie die Mitglieder der korinthischen Gemeinde in ihrer unterschiedlich hohen Schriftkompetenz durch den gedanklichen Nachvollzug des Textes zu einer tiefergehenden Auseinandersetzung mit der Schrift angeleitet werden.

Nach einer detaillierten Forschungsgeschichte zum Thema im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert erörtert Peter von der Osten-Sacken die Anfänge des Gottesdienstes im Neuen Testament in ihrem Zusammenhang mit dem antiken Synagogengottesdienst sowie zentrale liturgische Überlieferungen in Synagoge und Alter Kirche und mündet in die Erörterung gegenwartsbezogener liturgischer Fragen: Zu wem betet die christliche Gemeinde? Was tun wir, wenn wir segnen? Entsteht Judenfeindschaft durch Kirchenmusik? Wie erscheinen Israel im christlichen und die Völker im jüdischen Gottesdienst? Gibt es eine gemeinsame Hoffnung, die Christen und Juden verbindet? Leitend ist der Aufweis von Gemeinsamkeiten, Entsprechungen und Spezifika der jeweiligen Gottesdienstformen und inhalte.

I oldtidens Israel sidder en gammel rabbiner og reflekterer over sit liv og sine tabte drømme om at opnå en mening med det. Han kommer til at tænke på en mand, som kort forinden er kommet til byen. En mand, som af sine disciple bliver kaldt en profet, og som af nogle endda påstås at være den messias, der står skrevet om i de gamle skrifter. Kan denne mand give den gamle, desillusionerede rabbiner den følelse af meningsfuldhed, som han har mistet, tilbage?Edvard Søderberg (1869-1906) skrev en lang række socialrealistiske romaner, skuespil og digte og skildrede med uhyggelig selvoplevet detaljerigdom forholdene for de fattige, fordrukne og arbejdsløse i Københavns slumkvarterer.

«El evangelio según Judas, por Benjamín Iscariote» arroja nueva luz sobre el misterio de Judas, incluyendo sus motivos para traicionar a Jesús y lo que le sucedió después de la crucifixión. Partiendo de los textos canónicos como referencia, presenta una nueva versión de la historia de Jesús desde los ojos de Judas. Aparentemente escrita por el hijo de Judas, Benjamín, en el estilo narrativo de los Evangelios, este libro supone una recreación provocativa, estimulante y polémica, resultado de una intensa colaboración entre uno de los mayores expertos mundiales en el arte de contar historias, Jeffrey Archer, y uno de los estudiosos de la Biblia más conocidos del mundo, Francis J. Moloney. El proyecto es tan sencillo como osado: Jeffrey ha escrito una historia para los lectores del siglo XXI, mientras que Moloney se ha asegurado de que el resultado sea creíble para un cristiano o judío del siglo I.Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.Jeffrey Archer es un autor y ex-político británico. La carrera política de Archer ha sido turbulenta y le llevó a un veredicto judicial que lo sentenció a prisión en 2001. Archer debutó como escritor en 1974 y desde entonces ha escrito numerosos libros, principalmente thrillers políticos. Actualmente es uno de los autores más exitosos del Reino Unido con más de 320 millones de libros vendidos en todo el mundo.

Alexandria was one of the main hubs of the Hellenistic world and a cultural and religious "kaleidoscope." Merchants and migrants, scientists and scholars, philosophers, and religious innovators from all over the world and from all social backgrounds came to this ancient metropolis and exchanged their goods, views, and dreams. Accordingly, Alexandria became a place where Hellenistic, Egyptian, Jewish, and early Christian identities all emerged, coexisted, influenced, and rivaled each other. In order to meet the diversity of Alexandria's urban life and to do justice to the variety of literary and non-literary documents that bear witness to this, the volume examines the processes of identity formation from a range of different academic perspectives. Thus, the present volume gathers together twenty-six contributions from the realm of archaeology, ancient history, classical philology, religious studies, philosophy, the Old Testament, narratology, Jewish studies, papyrology, and the New Testament.

Within the framework of Paul's use of Scripture, the contexts of biblical narratives are of great significance, although this has long been underestimated. This conference volume deals with the reception of traditions about Moses in the letters of the apostle to the Gentiles, especially the exodus and Sinai traditions. It focuses on the important and much-discussed passages about the danger of idolatry in 1 Corinthians 10 as well as on the glory of Paul's apostolic ministry in 2 Corinthians 3. The collected essays are methodologically oriented towards the issue of the relationship between education/formation and religion, and they thus perceive Paul's use and interpretation of those biblical traditions as a process of religious education. Tradition-historical backgrounds and the contexts of the situations are also taken into consideration, as well as literary structures and communicative intentions.

Der vorliegende Sammelband untersucht die Konzepte, Methoden und Inhalte der Auslegung autoritativer religiöser Texte in Antike und Mittelalter. Diese Texte sind Ausgangs- und Ansatzpunkte in Unterweisungen, die zur Orientierung und Identitätsbildung dienen, dem Einzelnen ebenso wie Gemeinschaften und Gesellschaften. Fachvertreterinnen und Fachvertreter unterschiedlicher Disziplinen - aus Geschichte, Philologie, Orientalistik, Religionswissenschaft und Theologie - spüren der vielfältigen Bedeutung der oft "heilig" genannten Schriften für Bildung und Erziehung nach. Sie beleuchten die Rolle, die diese Texte für Lehre und Lernen in ihren Ursprungskulturen hatten und haben. Darüber hinaus zeigen sie interkulturelle Bezüge auf, die heute für Diskussionen um Bildung und Religion in den multikulturellen Demokratien Europas höchst relevant sind.

Taking account of a wide range of literary evidence and the most recent scholarship on the nature of education in Rabbinic Judaism of late antiquity, these studies examine new and varied aspects of the scriptural and intellectual infrastructure of the educational ethos, the tension between oral tradition and literary practice, and the central role of the rabbinic sage as pedagogical innovator and model. They also study the underlying influence of social and economic factors, the evolution of teaching techniques and frameworks, and the formative role of both midrashic mentality and mythopoetic currents. With an eye on the broader contexts of Greco-Roman culture and emergent Christianity, these essays follow the development of rabbinic ideas and institutions from the first centuries of the Common Era in Palestine through the flowering of centers of learning centuries later in Babylonia.

The present volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in October 2018 at Humboldt University Berlin. The articles reflect the different categories of describing Judaism of the Second Temple Period in view of their sustainability in characterising an ancient religious community in different historical situations and discuss relevant (re)constructions of ancient Judaism in the history of scholarship. Since the Persian period, ancient Judaism existed in a world which was in constant flux regarding its political, social, and religious contexts. Consequently, Judaism was subject to permanent processes of change in its self-perception as well as its external perception. In all complexity, however, the Torah, the Temple(s) as a place where heaven meets the earth, and the 'holy' or 'promised' land as the dwelling place of God's people can be regarded as institutions to which all kinds of Judaism in the Babylonian and Egyptian dispora as well in Israel/Palestine were related in some way or another.

Dem Heiligen Geist kommt in den traditionellen Kirchen und Theologien eher eine Statistenrolle zu. Dagegen nimmt er in den pentekostalen und neopentekostalen Bewegungen und den von dort bis tief in die traditionellen Konfessionen hineinwirkenden charismatischen Neuaufbrüchen des Globalen Südens, wo das Christentum im Gegensatz zu unseren Breiten in stetigem Wachstum begriffen ist, die Rolle eines Hauptdarstellers ein. Dieser Spannung stellt sich die vorliegende Studie Reinhard Feldmeiers in der Form einer Exegese, welche die biblischen Zeugnisse im Kontext der Religions- und Geistesgeschichte der griechisch-römischen Antike auslegt und dabei sowohl die elementare Bedeutung des Geistes für das Frühchristentum wie auch die damit verbundene Notwendigkeit einer Unterscheidung der Geister aufzeigt. So will der Autor der Geistvergessenheit der Kirchen der Nordhalbkugel wie der Geistversessenheit mancher Kirchen des Globalen Südens den kritischen Spiegel des biblischen Zeugnisses vorhalten und Impulse zu weiterem theologischen Nachdenken geben.

Research on the Book of Jeremiah has gained momentum in the past forty years and led to new results. The differences between the MT and the LXX have received more attention than ever. The extent of Deuteronomistic thinking and of redactions marks the debate on the composition of the book. It has become evident that the Book of Jeremiah intensively picks up earlier sources and offers a synthesis of them, comparable to a mosaic. It concentrates on the downfall of Jerusalem, conceives anew the prophet's role in the figure of Jeremiah and portrays the biblical God in a unique way. This collection of studies by Georg Fischer from the past ten years imparts insights into the recent discussions about the Book of Jeremiah.

The most important objects in the Hebrew Bible are a wooden box, styled in English "the ark" or "the ark of the covenant", and two statues of winged creatures, "the cherubim", that surmount it. Raanan Eichler attempts to understand these objects using the full gamut of data and tools available to the modern scholar. The study features an abundance of visual comparative material, much of it in colour, with a particularly close examination of the finds from the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The author proposes solutions to a number of unsolved puzzles, such as the question of what cherubim looked like, and offers a new explanation of the nature of the ark and the cherubim, rejecting the prevailing scholarly view of them as having constituted an "empty throne" and footstool for the God of Israel. Rather, he argues, they constituted an empty frame, a unique cultic focus that surpassed all known systems in the ancient Near East in the extent of the efforts it represented to prevent an anthropomorphic conception of the deity in a cultic context.

Philons Biographie Abrahams ist eine Werbeschrift für das Judentum. Sie entstand vermutlich als literarisches Begleitprojekt zu Philons politischer Mission in Rom: In Alexandria hatte es Ausschreitungen gegen die jüdische Bevölkerung gegeben, die Philon bei Kaiser Caligula zur Sprache bringen sollte. Der vorliegende Band führt in diesen zeitgeschichtlichen Kontext ein und bietet den mit Anmerkungen versehenen Text der Schrift samt einer Neuübersetzung. Erläuternde Essays aus unterschiedlichen Fachperspektiven würdigen Philon als Biographen und als Philosophen, ergründen sein Tugendverständnis und sein Frauenbild und beleuchten sein Schriftverständnis aus der Perspektive des antiken Orakelwesens. Abgerundet wird der Band durch einen Ausblick auf die Rezeption Abrahams im Islam, inder sich bemerkenswerte Parallelen zu Philons allegorischen Auslegungen wiederfinden lassen.

Scholarly interest in intersections between Jews and Syriac Christians has experienced a boom in recent years. This is the result of a series of converging trends in the study of both groups and their cultural productions. The present volume contributes to this developing conversation by collecting sixteen studies that investigate a wide range of topics, from questions of origins to the development of communal boundaries, from social interactions to shared historical conditions, involving Jews and Syriac Christians over the first millennium CE. These studies not only reflect the current state of the question, but they also signal new ways forward for future work that crosses disciplinary boundaries between the fields of Jewish Studies and Syriac Studies, in some cases even dismantling those boundaries altogether.

How is Acts of the Apostles - its form and features - to be understood in light of the work's ancient Mediterranean cultural context? In the present study, Eric C. Moore offers a fresh response to this much-debated question, arguing for the utility of ancient colonization as an analytic lens for reading Acts, a story about the origins and replication of early Christianity. He explores how in narrating his account, Luke draws on a common stock of "foundation" motifs employed by ancient sources, textual and material alike, to glorify community beginnings.

Tractate Menahkot in the Babylonian Talmud considers the proper composition, formation, and presentation of offerings of grain and flour brought to the Jerusalem Temple. Redacted centuries after the destruction of the Temple and the cessation of the sacrificial cult, the tractate focuses on the work of the priests and the centrality of intent in validating or invalidating offerings. There is minimal consideration of the role or experience of the men and women who brought offerings. The tractate also contains a detailed discussion of major ritual objects: Torah scrolls, mezuzah, tsitsit, and tefillin. Dvora Weisberg's commentary focuses attention on the tractate's treatment of women and gender issues, considering the ways that the Talmud presents women's engagement with the sacrificial system and with key religious symbols.

A constant re-evaluation of the new archaeological and textual material unearthed and edited in recent decades is a recurrent duty of ancient and modern scholars. Since the overwhelming amount of available data and the complexity of new methodologies can be competently handled only by specialized scholars, such a re-evaluation is no longer possible for a single scholar. For this reason, archaeologists, cuneiform and biblical scholars as well as classicists joined forces at an international conference in Rome in May 2017 to share their accumulated knowledge. The results of the proceedings are presented here in the oral stage along with the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, and Greco-Roman periods.