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Saints and role models in Judaism and Christianity / edited by Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz.

Contributor(s): Schwartz, Joshua | Poorthuis, Marcel, 1955-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Jewish and Christian perspectives series: v. 7.Publisher: Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2004Description: xii, 485 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004126147 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Zaddikim -- Congresses | Christian saints -- Congresses | Holiness -- Judaism -- Congresses | Holiness -- Christianity -- Congresses | Christianity and other religions -- Judaism | Judaism -- Relations -- ChristianityDDC classification: 296.6/1 LOC classification: BM750 | .S24 2004Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction / Joshua Schwartz and Marcel Poorthuis -- Hermeneutics of imitation: a philosophical approach to sainthood and exemplariness / Joachim Duyndam -- Divine versus human leadership: an examination of Joshua's succession / Elie Assis -- Holy men and rabbis in Talmudic antiquity / David Levine -- Rabbinic holy men / Chana Safrai and Zeev Safrai -- Prayers of Jews to angels and other mediators in the first centuries CE / Meir Bar-Ilan -- Enoch and Melchizedek in Judaism and Christianity: a study in intermediaries / Marcel Poorthuis -- Material culture in the land of Israel: monks and rabbis on clothing and dress in the Byzantine period / Joshua Schwartz -- Partnership between heaven and earth: the sage as religious role model in Canticles Rabbah / Birke Rapp de Lange -- Jewish and Christian martyrs / Jan Willem van Henten -- The cult of the seven Maccabean brothers and their mother in Christian tradition / Gerard Rouwhorst -- Individuality, exemplarity and community: Athanasius' use of two biblical characters in the life of Antony / Nienke Vos --
Job the rebel: from the rabbis to the church fathers / Martien Parmentier -- Pious intrepidness: Egeria and the ascetic ideal / Hanneke Reuling -- The Byzantine holy person: the case of Barsanuphius and John of Gaza / Aryeh Kofsky -- 'The rock on which the church is founded': Simon Peter in Jewish folktale / Wout van Bekkum -- Holiness as gift and as achievement in late medieval funeral sermons: the role of the deceased and the religious life of the mourning believer in Gabriel Biel's sermones in exequiis / Paul van Geest -- Wandering between transubstantiation and transfiguration: images of the prophet Elijah in western Christianity, 1200-1500 CE / Charles Caspers -- "A woman's voice is 'Erva'": the female's voice and silence--between the Talmudic sages and psychoanalysis / Admiel Kosman and Ruth Golan -- New models of the sacred leader at the beginning of Hasidism / Ron Margolin -- The modern saint: an exploration of sacral interferences / Paul Post -- Miraculous women: miracles, religious authority and gender / Anne-Marie Korte -- A holy father on the See of Moses? / Anton Houtepen.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BM750 .S24 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902229349

Drawn from conferences with Bar-Ilan University and Catholic Theological University of Utrecht.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Joshua Schwartz and Marcel Poorthuis -- Hermeneutics of imitation: a philosophical approach to sainthood and exemplariness / Joachim Duyndam -- Divine versus human leadership: an examination of Joshua's succession / Elie Assis -- Holy men and rabbis in Talmudic antiquity / David Levine -- Rabbinic holy men / Chana Safrai and Zeev Safrai -- Prayers of Jews to angels and other mediators in the first centuries CE / Meir Bar-Ilan -- Enoch and Melchizedek in Judaism and Christianity: a study in intermediaries / Marcel Poorthuis -- Material culture in the land of Israel: monks and rabbis on clothing and dress in the Byzantine period / Joshua Schwartz -- Partnership between heaven and earth: the sage as religious role model in Canticles Rabbah / Birke Rapp de Lange -- Jewish and Christian martyrs / Jan Willem van Henten -- The cult of the seven Maccabean brothers and their mother in Christian tradition / Gerard Rouwhorst -- Individuality, exemplarity and community: Athanasius' use of two biblical characters in the life of Antony / Nienke Vos --

Job the rebel: from the rabbis to the church fathers / Martien Parmentier -- Pious intrepidness: Egeria and the ascetic ideal / Hanneke Reuling -- The Byzantine holy person: the case of Barsanuphius and John of Gaza / Aryeh Kofsky -- 'The rock on which the church is founded': Simon Peter in Jewish folktale / Wout van Bekkum -- Holiness as gift and as achievement in late medieval funeral sermons: the role of the deceased and the religious life of the mourning believer in Gabriel Biel's sermones in exequiis / Paul van Geest -- Wandering between transubstantiation and transfiguration: images of the prophet Elijah in western Christianity, 1200-1500 CE / Charles Caspers -- "A woman's voice is 'Erva'": the female's voice and silence--between the Talmudic sages and psychoanalysis / Admiel Kosman and Ruth Golan -- New models of the sacred leader at the beginning of Hasidism / Ron Margolin -- The modern saint: an exploration of sacral interferences / Paul Post -- Miraculous women: miracles, religious authority and gender / Anne-Marie Korte -- A holy father on the See of Moses? / Anton Houtepen.

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