Judaism and Crisis

Crisis as a Catalyst in Jewish Cultural History

Armin Lange, K.F. Diethard Römheld, Matthias Weigold, Matthias Weigold

• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9783525542088
• eBook ISBN:
  9783647542089
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

In their long history, Jews encountered political, social, cultural, and religious crises which threatened not only their very existence but Jewish identity as well. Examples for such crises include the Babylonian Exile, the so-called Hellenistic Religious reforms, the first and second Jewish war, the inquisition, and the Shoah, but also the encounter of modernity or socio-economic developments. Political, cultural, and religious crises did not coin Jewish culture, thought, and religion but forced Jews from the very beginnings of Judaism until today to rethink and shape their Jewish identity anew. This volume asks how Jews coped with events that threatened Jewish existence, culture, and religion and how they responded to them. Each crisis was different in nature and evoked hence different developments in Jewish culture, thought, and religion.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Introduction
• Part I Crisis in the History of Preexilic, Exilic, and Second Temple Judaism
• Heinz-Josef Fabry „Wehe Ninive, du Stadt der Blutschuld“ (Nah 3,1): Die assyrische Krise in Israel-Juda
• Rainer Kessler Differenz und Integration: Reaktionen auf die soziale Krise des 8. Jahrhunderts
• Eric M. Meyers The Babylonian Exile Revisited: Demographics and the Emergence of the Canon of Scripture
• Beate Ego The Hellenistic Crisis as Reflected by the Animal Apocalypse: Aetiological and Eschatological Aspects
• George J. Brooke Crisis Without, Crisis Within: Changes and Developments within the Dead Sea Scrolls Movement
• Leo G. Perdue Greek and Barbarian: Anti-Judaism in Greek and Roman Alexandria
• Géza G. Xeravits Conflicting Ideas about the Temple in 2 Baruch 4 and 6
• Katell Berthelot Is God Unfair? The Fourth Book of Ezra as a Response to the Crisis of 70 C. E.
• William Horbury The Uprisings under Trajan and Roman-Jewish Relations
• Roland Deines How Long? God’s Revealed Schedule for Salvation and the Outbreak of the Bar Kokhba Revolt
• Part II An Outlook: Other Crisis in Jewish History
• Carol Meyers Flour for Bread: Did New Technology of the Roman Period Cause a Crisis for Jewish Women?
• Felicia Waldman Impact of the 1492 Spanish Expulsion on Jewish Thought: The Opposite Cases of Isaac Luria and Shabbatai Zvi
• Darryl J. Gless Conversions in Shakespeare: Shylock and Others
• Klaus Davidowicz Moses Mendelssohn und die jüdische Tradition
• Frank Stern Visualisierung des Jüdischen in Krisenzeiten: Imagination und Ambivalenz von Erinnern und Vergessen im deutschsprachigen Film
• Yaakov Ariel Crisis and Renewal: From Crushed Hasidism to Neo-Hasidic Revival and Outreach
• Index
• Back Cover