Was 70 CE a Watershed in Jewish History? (2011 Schwartz, Weiss), edited volume

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Was 70 CE a Watershed in Jewish History? (2011) is a volume edited by Daniel R. Schwartz and Zeev Weiss, in collaboration with Ruth A. Clements.

Abstract

"The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 CE, which put an end to sacrificial worship in Israel, is usually assumed to constitute a major caesura in Jewish history. But how important was it? What really changed due to 70? What, in contrast, was already changing before 70 or remained basically – or “virtually” -- unchanged despite it? How do the Diaspora, which was long used to Temple-less Judaism, and early Christianity, which was born around the same time, fit in? This Scholion Library volume presents twenty papers given at an international conference in Jerusalem in which scholars assessed the significance of 70 for their respective fields of specialization, including Jewish liturgy, law, literature, magic, art, institutional history, and early Christianity."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2008 (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 78).

Contents

  • Daniel R. Schwartz, Introduction;

I. Sons of Aaron and Disciples of Aaron: Priests and Rabbis before and after 70;

  • Martha Himmelfarb, “Found Written in the Book of Moses”: Priests in the Era of Torah.
  • Gideon Aran, The Other Side of Israelite Priesthood: A Sociological-Anthropological Perspective.
  • Hannan Birenboim, “A Kingdom of Priests”: Did the Pharisees Try to Live Like Priests?
  • Jodi Magness, Sectarianism before and after 70 CE.
  • Zeev Weiss, Were Priests Communal Leaders in Late Antique Palestine? The Archaeological Evidence.

II. “The Place” and Other Places;

  • Ori Schwarz, Place beyond Place: On Artifacts, Religious Technologies, and the Mediation of Sacred Place.
  • Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Priests and Priesthood in Philo: Could He Have Done without Them?
  • Noah Hacham, Sanctity and the Attitude towards the Temple in Hellenistic Judaism.
  • Michael Tuval, Doing without the Temple: Paradigms in Judaic Literature of the Diaspora;

III. Art and Magic;

  • Naama Vilozny, The Rising Power of the Image: On Jewish Magic Art from the Second Temple Period to Late Antiquity.
  • Gideon Bohak, Jewish Exorcism Before and After the Destruction of the Second Temple.
  • Lee I. Levine, The Emergence of Jewish Art;

IV. Sacred Texts: Exegesis and Liturgy;

  • Paul Mandel, Legal Midrash between Hillel and Rabbi Akiva: Did 70 CE Make a Difference?
  • Esther G. Chazon, Liturgy Before and After the Temple’s Destruction: Change or Continuity?
  • Michael D. Swartz, Liturgy, Poetry, and the Persistence of Sacrifice;

V. Communal Definition – Pompey, Jesus, or Titus: Who Made the Difference?

  • Nadav Sharon, Setting the Stage: The Effects of the Roman Conquest and the Loss of Sovereignty.
  • Jörg Frey, Temple and Identity in Early Christianity and in the Johannine Community: Reflections on the “Parting of the Ways”.
  • Martin Goodman, Religious Reactions to 70: The Limitations of the Evidence.
  • Ruth A. Clements, Epilogue: 70 CE After 135 CE—The Making of a Watershed?

External links

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