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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.
Price: $292.00
Pages: 548
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
Publication Date:
25 November 2011
ISBN: 9789004215344
Format: Hardcover
"Den Herausgebern [...] ist für die Herausgabe einer gehaltvollen und hochinteressanten Publikation zu danken, mit deren Hilfe bedeutsame Einblicke in die Dynamiken der antik-jüdischen Religionsgeschichte gewonnen werden können und die wichtige Anstöße zu weiteren Forschungsarbeiten gibt." – Beate Ego, Bochum, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 140 (2015)
"valuable contributions to the debate about the significance of the destruction [...] will interest scholars of Jewish and Roman history as well as scholars of early Christianity." – Catherine Heszer, SOAS, University of London, in: Journal for the Study of Judaism 45 (2014)
"valuable contributions to the debate about the significance of the destruction [...] will interest scholars of Jewish and Roman history as well as scholars of early Christianity." – Catherine Heszer, SOAS, University of London, in: Journal for the Study of Judaism 45 (2014)
Daniel R. Schwartz, Ph.D. (1980), professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, works primarily in the fields of ancient Judaism and historiography, especially Josephus and 1-2 Maccabees. His most recent volume is 2 Maccabees (De Gruyter, 2008).
Zeev Weiss, Ph.D. (1995), professor of archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has published extensively on Roman and Byzantine art and architecture in Palestine, including The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts (Israel Exploration Society, 2005).
Zeev Weiss, Ph.D. (1995), professor of archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has published extensively on Roman and Byzantine art and architecture in Palestine, including The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts (Israel Exploration Society, 2005).