Format:
1 online resource (379 pages)
ISBN:
9783110339185
Series Statement:
Studia Judaica Ser v.78
Content:
The series focuses on the evolution of Jewish language, literature, communal life and religious ideology outside of the Land of Israel and in relation to it. The approach is inter-disciplinary with an emphasis on mutual influences between Jews and their non-Jewish environment. The series welcomes studies that span different periods and a variety of geographical areas.
Content:
Intro -- Editors' Foreword -- List of Acknowledgements -- The Contributors and Summaries of their Essays -- Section 1: Death in Life -- Jewish Attitudes towards Death: A Society between Time, Space and Texts -- The Early Growth of the Medieval Economy of Salvation in Latin Christianity -- A Response to Professor Paxton's Paper -- From Here to the Hereafter: The Ashkenazi Concept of the Afterlife in a Crusading Milieu -- Section 2: Texts in Society -- Christian Influences on the Yahrzeit Qaddish -- Investigation into the Early European Forms of the Ṣidduq ha-Din -- Ha-Ṣur Tamim be-khol Po'al: On some Italian roots of the Poetic Ṣidduq Ha-Din in the Early Ashkenazi rite -- Av ha-raḥamim: On the 'Father of Mercy' Prayer -- Liturgy as Personal Memorial for the Victims in 1096 -- 'When the Grave was Searched, the Bones of the Deceased were not found': Corporeal Revenants in Medieval Ashkenaz -- The Early Ashkenazi Practice of Burial wih Religious Paraphernalia -- Section 3: Re-Placing the Dead -- The Dead as Living History: On the Publication of Die Grabsteine vom jüdischen Friedhof in Würzburg 1147-1346 -- Newly Found Medieval Gravestones from Magenza -- The Structures of Hebrew Epitaph Poetry in Padua -- The Corpus Epitaphiorum Hebraicorum Italiae (CEHI): A Project to Publish a Complete Corpus of the Epitaphs Preserved in Italian Jewish Cemeteries -- Romans in Istanbul. Part 1: Historical and Literary Introduction -- Romans in Istanbul. Part 2: Texts and Photographs -- Indexes -- Primary Sources -- Names -- Subjects.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110338614
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783110338614
Language:
English
Author information:
Lehnardt, Andreas 1965-
