Kiperwasser / Kofsky / Ruzer Late Antique Jewish and Christian Travelogues

Religious Aspects and Cultural Backgrounds
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-156649-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 27, 180 Seiten

Reihe: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation

Focusing on travel narratives as a setting for spelling out both cultural exchanges and identity building, the present volume maps a variety of strategies employed in travelogues by Christians and Jews in the late antique Roman East.The first part sheds light on the shared cultural background – folkloric or mythic – reflected in late antique Jewish and Christian sea-travel stories, and the various attempts to adapt it to a specific religious agenda. While the comparative analysis of the sources from two textual communities emphasizes their different religious agendas, it also allows for restoring patterns of the broader background with which they converse. The second part highlights Christian perceptions of the Land of Israel in missionary enterprises and in the eschatological visions.The travelogues offer a window on the interplay between shared inheritance and new agendas within the dialectical development of religious traditions in Late Antiquity.

Zielgruppe

Scholars in the field of Jewish Studies, theology, comparative re

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kiperwasser, Reuven

Kofsky, Aryeh

Ruzer, Serge

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Spätantike
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Reuven Kiperwasser, Ariel University, Aryeh Kofsky, Haifa University, Serge Ruzer, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel.

Reuven Kiperwasser, Ariel University, Aryeh Kofsky, Haifa University, Serge Ruzer, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel.