Ritual Dynamics in Jewish and Christian Contexts

Between Bible and Liturgy
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40092-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series

Ritual Dynamics in Jewish and Christian Contexts investigates questions that arise in modern ritual studies concerning Jewish and Christian religious communities: How did their religious rituals develop? Where did different ritual communities and their ritual texts interact? How did religious communities and their authoritative texts respond to change, and how did change influence religious rituals? The volume is a product of the interdisciplinary and international research efforts taken by the Research Centre “Dynamics of Jewish Ritual Practices in Pluralistic Contexts from Antiquity to the Present” at the Universität Erfurt (Germany) and unites the voices of important senior and emerging scholars in the field. It focuses on antiquity and the medieval period but also considers examples from the early modern and modern period in Europe

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bergmann, Claudia D.

Kranemann, Benedikt

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Contributors

Introduction

Günter Stemberger

Part 1: Ritual Dynamics in (Holy) Jewish and Christian Texts

1 Is Rabbinic Prayer a Liturgy, or Essentially a Reading of Texts?

Stefan C. Reif

2 Ritualizing the Cleaning of the House before Passover in Medieval Ashkenaz: Image and Text in Illuminated Haggadot

Katrin Kogman-Appel

3 The Ritualization of Manufacturing and Handling Holy Books by the Hasidei Ashkenaz between Halakah and Magic

Annett Martini

4 Concepts of History and Tradition in Modern Liturgical Books

Martin Klöckener

Part 2: A Dynamic Relationship: Christian and Jewish Traces in Jewish and Christian Texts

5 Memories of the Temple and Memories of Temples

Clemens Leonhard

6 Conceptual and Ideological Aspects in the Mishnaic Description of Bringing the First Fruits to Jerusalem

Hillel Mali

7 Christian Presence in Jewish Ritual

Yaacov Deutsch

Part 3: Comparing and Contrasting Rituals

8 Initiation by Circumcision and Water Baptism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity

Gerard Rouwhorst

9 Space, Ritual, and Politics in (the Reconstruction of) the Ancient Synagogue: an Exploration of the Historical Archive

Anders Runesson

Part 4: Dynamic Rituals and Innovation of Rituals in Modern Contexts

10 Olive Oil, Anointing, Ecstasy, and Ecology

Jonathan Schorsch

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Modern Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Claudia D. Bergmann received her Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible from the University of Chicago and her Habilitation from Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She works as the coordinator of the Research Centre “Dynamics of Jewish Ritual Practices” at the Universität Erfurt (Germany).

Benedikt Kranemann received his Dr. theol. and his Habilitation in Liturgical Studies from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. He works as professor for Liturgical Studies of the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Universität Erfurt (Germany).