Was 70 CE a watershed in Jewish history? : on Jews and Judaism before and after the destruction of the Second Temple /

These twenty studies ask whether changes in different fields of ancient Jewish culture were caused by the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, what changed for other reasons, and what did not change despite that event.

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Other Authors: Schwartz, Daniel R., Weiss, Zeev, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Series:Ancient Judaism and early Christianity ; v. 78.
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Table of Contents:
  • Was 70 CE a watershed in Jewish history? : three stages of modern scholarship, and a renewed effort / Daniel R. Schwartz
  • "Found written in the book of Moses" : priests in the era of Torah / Martha Himmelfarb
  • The other side of Israelite priesthood : a sociological-anthropological perspective / Gideon Aran
  • "A kingdom of priests" : did the Pharisees try to live like priests? / Hanan Birenboim
  • Sectarianism before and after 70 CE / Jodi Magness
  • Were priests communal leaders in late antique Palestine? : the archaeological evidence / Zeev Weiss
  • Place beyond place : on artifacts, religious technologies and the mediation of sacred place / Ori Schwarz
  • Priests and priesthood in Philo : could he have done without them? / Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer
  • Sanctity and the attitude towards the Temple in Hellenistic Judaism / Noah Hacham
  • Doing without the Temple : paradigms in Judaic literature of the diaspora / Michael Tuval.
  • The rising power of the image : on Jewish magic art from the Second Temple period to late antiquity / Naama Vilozny
  • Jewish exorcism before and after the destruction of the Second Temple / Gideon Bohak
  • The emergence of a new Jewish art in late antiquity / Lee I. Levine
  • Legal midrash between Hillel and Rabbi Akiva : did 70 CE make a difference? / Paul Mandel
  • Liturgy before and after the Temple's destruction : change or continuity / Esther G. Chazon
  • Liturgy, poetry, and the persistence of sacrifice / Michael D. Swartz
  • Setting the stage : the effects of the Roman conquest and the loss of sovereignty / Nadav Sharon
  • Temple and identity in early Christianity and in the Johannine community : reflections on the "parting of the ways" / Jörg Frey
  • Religious reactions to 70 : the limitations of the evidence / Martin Goodman
  • Epilogue: 70 CE after 135 CE : the making of a watershed? / Ruth A. Clements.