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A Question of Identity

Social, Political, and Historical Aspects of Identity Dynamics in Jewish and Other Contexts
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2019
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‘‘‘Who am I?’ and ‘Who are we?’ are the existential, foundational questions in our lives. In our modern world, there is no construct more influential than ‘identity’ – whether as individuals or as groups. The concept of group identity is the focal point of a research group named “A Question of Identity” at the Mandel Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The papers collected in this volume represent the proceedings of a January 2017 conference organized by the research group which dealt with identity formation in six contextual settings: Ethno-religious identities in light of the archaeological record; Second Temple period textual records on Diaspora Judaism; Jews and Christians in Sasanian Persia; minorities in the Persian achaemenid period; Inter-ethnic dialogue in pre-1948 Palestine; and redefinitions of Christian Identity in the Early Modern period.

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Noah Hacham, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

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    Frontmatter

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    Preface

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    Contents

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    A question of identity: Introduction

    1
    Lilach Sagiv, Dikla Rivlin Katz, Noah Hacham and Geoffrey Herman
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  • Part I: Ancient Mesopotamia and Further East
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    1. In His Majesty’s Service

    23
    Peter Zilberg
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    2. Judean Identity during the Exile

    43
    Yigal Bloch
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    3. Issues in the Historical Geography and the Ethno-Linguistic Character of the Zagros and Adjacent Regions

    71
    Ran Zadok
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    4. Going West

    111
    Reuven Kiperwasser
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    5. Jewish Identity in Babylonia in the Period of the Incantation Bowls

    131
    Geoffrey Herman
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    6. The Quest of the Historical Metatron: Enoch or Jesus

    153
    Daniel Boyarin
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  • Part II: The Hellenistic and Roman World
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    7. Priests in Exile

    165
    Meron M. Piotrkowski
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    8. Iron Wall or Common Feast?

    183
    Noah Hacham and Lilach Sagiv
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    9. Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the Letter of Aristeas §§1–27

    201
    Sarah Pearce
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    10. Literary Genres and Identity in the Letter of Aristeas

    223
    Sylvie Honigman
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    11. Monotheism as an Identity Norm

    245
    Gregory E. Sterling
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    12. Material Culture and Ethnic Identity in Hellenistic-Period Galilee

    265
    Uzi Leibner
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    13. “How Fine are the Works of this People”?

    291
    Hillel Silberklang
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  • Part III: Religious and National Identities in a Complex World
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    14. The Context of Conversions in Early Modern Europe

    315
    Benjamin J. Kaplan
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    15. So What’s Really in a Name? Theology of Etymology in Sixteenth-Century Arian Thought

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    Magdalena Luszczynska
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    16. “It’s All Hebrew to Me”

    349
    Gershon Shafir
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    17. Social and Spatial Borders between “Us” and “Them”

    365
    Dikla Rivlin Katz
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    Contributors

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    Index

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Publishing information
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eBook published on:
June 4, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9783110615449
Hardcover published on:
June 4, 2019
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110612486
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Front matter:
9
Main content:
394
Illustrations:
8
Tables:
2
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615449
eBook ISBN: 9783110615449
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110612486
Keywords for this book
Religiöse Identität; Historische Geographie
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars from all fields interested in Identity Studies, especially from the field of Jewish Studies.
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