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Visotzky, Burton L.

 
9781250085764: Aphrodite and the Rabbis: How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism As We Know It
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ISBN 10 : 1250085764 ISBN 13 : 9781250085764
Editeur : St Martin's Press, 2016

Synopsis

Hard to believe but true: The Passover Seder is a Greco-Roman symposium banquet The Talmud rabbis presented themselves as Stoic philosophers Synagogue buildings were Roman basilicas Hellenistic rhetoric professors educated sons of well-to-do Jews Zeus-Helios is depicted in synagogue mosaics across ancient Israel In Israel there were synagogues where the prayers were recited in Greek. Historians have long debated the (re)birth of Judaism in the wake of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple cult by the Romans in 70 CE. What replaced that sacrificial cult was at once something new, even as it also sought to preserve what little it could of the old Israelite religion. Arguing that its transformation from a Jerusalem centred cult to a world religion was made possible by the Roman Empire, Rabbi Burton Visotzky presents Judaism as a distinctly Roman religion. Full of fascinating detail from the daily life and culture of Jewish communities across the Hellenistic world, Aphrodite and the Rabbis will appeal to anyone interested in the development of Judaism, religion, history, art and architecture.

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À propos de l'auteur

Burton L. Visotzky is Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He worked with Bill Moyers and more recently with Christiane Amanpour on "Back to the Beginning." The author of 10 books, including Sage Tales: Wisdom and Wonder from the Rabbis of the Talmud, he has been named to "The Forward 50" and repeatedly to the Newsweek/Daily Beast list of the "The 50 Most Influential Jews in America." He lives in Manhattan.

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Éditeur
St Martin's Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1250085764
ISBN 13 
9781250085764
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
256
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