A Holy People: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Religious Communal Identity

A Holy People: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Religious Communal Identity......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 10
Editorial Statement......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
BIBLICAL PERIOD......Page 20
The Notion ‘Holy People’ in the Book of Deuteronomy......Page 22
The Notion ‘Holy People’ in Exodus 19:6......Page 27
‘Holy People’ in the Book of Wisdom......Page 29
‘Holy People’ in 1 Peter......Page 30
Conclusions......Page 32
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 33
Background......Page 36
Trade and Ceramics during Iron Age II (10th –6th Centuries BCE)......Page 37
Trade and the Distribution of Imported Pottery in the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah......Page 42
The Inadequacies of the Economic Explanation......Page 43
Value and Attitudes toward Imported Pottery......Page 44
Imported Pottery in Salem—An example from the ‘New World’......Page 45
Other Lines of Supportive Evidence......Page 46
Possible Explanations for Negative Attitudes Toward Imported Pottery......Page 47
Ideology, Economy and Commerce......Page 50
LITERATURE......Page 51
POST-BIBLICAL PERIOD......Page 56
Introduction......Page 58
The Biblical Winepress......Page 59
Revelation......Page 60
Fathers of the Church......Page 61
Rabbis and the Winepress......Page 64
The Winepress of the Targum......Page 68
LITERATURE......Page 69
Lawrence Schiffman: Holiness and Sanctity in the Dead Sea Scrolls......Page 72
Sect as Temple......Page 73
Holiness and Purity......Page 74
Holiness of Heaven on Earth......Page 76
Holiness and the Eschaton......Page 78
The Temple City......Page 80
Installations outside the Temple City......Page 82
The Cities of Israel......Page 83
Conclusions......Page 85
Introduction......Page 88
1. Shifting Boundaries in Early Christianity......Page 90
2. A Diversity of Ritual Meals......Page 91
3. The Earliest Phase: Ritual Meals for the Baptized......Page 92
3.1 Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians......Page 93
3.2 The Eucharist of the Didache, Chs. 9 and 10......Page 94
4. Ritual Meals and the Expansion of Christianity......Page 97
LITERATURE......Page 102
Introduction......Page 104
1. The Jewish Character of the Prayer......Page 107
2. The Problem: The Concept of Dispersion behind the Prayers......Page 109
3.1 Philo......Page 112
3.2 Early Christian Literature......Page 114
4. Jerusalem as a Test Case......Page 117
4.1 The Significance of Jerusalem in Diaspora Jewry......Page 118
4.2 The Significance of Jerusalem in Some early Christian Writings......Page 120
Conclusion......Page 121
LITERATURE......Page 124
1. Introduction......Page 128
2. Structure and Antistructure in the Pilgrimage Experience......Page 129
3. Sources and Historical Background of Second Temple Pilgrimage......Page 132
4. The Influence of the Second Temple on Its Surroundings......Page 134
5. Structure and Flow in Second Temple Pilgrimage......Page 135
a. Communitas and the Regulation of the Economic Obligations of Pilgrims......Page 136
b. Priestly Cosmology and Popular Participation in the Cult on Pilgrimage......Page 138
c. Temple Purity Restrictions and Communitas......Page 142
6. Pilgrimage and Religious Legitimation......Page 143
7. Conclusions......Page 144
Moshe Benovitz: Your Neighbor is Like Yourself: A Broad Generalization with Regard to the Torah......Page 146
The Meaning of Kamokha......Page 147
Rabbi Akiva and Ben Azzai......Page 154
The Meaning of Kelal and Kelal Gadol Batorah......Page 156
A New Interpretation of Zeh Kelal Gadol Batorah......Page 160
LITERATURE......Page 164
MEDIEVAL PERIOD......Page 166
Bat-Sheva Albert: Recording the Sainthood of the Missionaries in the Carolingian Era: Typology and its Limits......Page 168
The Irish Heritage......Page 172
The Stages of Saintly Life: the Topos and the Individual......Page 174
LITERATURE......Page 200
Daniela Müller: The Cathar Community in the South of France and Its Religious Self-Definition as God’s Holy People......Page 204
The Cathars......Page 208
Ecclesiology......Page 210
The Catholic Church......Page 212
The Jews......Page 213
Yvonne Friedman: Community Responsibility toward Its Members: The Case of Ransom of Captives......Page 218
LITERATURE......Page 233
Jeffrey Woolf: ‘Qehillah Qedosha’: Sacred Community in Medieval Ashkenazic Law and Culture......Page 236
LITERATURE......Page 253
Introduction......Page 256
Discussion of Historical-Geographical Conditions......Page 257
The Changes in the Mystical Status of the Galilee......Page 260
The ‘Revival’ of Ancient Homilies......Page 264
Redemption in the Upper Galilee: Concretization of an Idea......Page 266
The Hymn Lecha Dodi as an Expression of the Connection between Mysticism and Landscape......Page 268
The Encounter with the Landscape while Receiving the Sabbath......Page 273
Conclusion......Page 275
LITERATURE......Page 278
MODERN PERIOD......Page 280
Introduction......Page 282
The Church: People of God......Page 284
People of God and Volkstum—The Case of Karl Adam......Page 286
Forgetting History......Page 288
Theological Rehabilitation of History......Page 290
Restoring the People of God......Page 294
LITERATURE......Page 296
1.1 The ‘True Holy People’......Page 298
2. Old and New Testament......Page 300
2.2 The Apostle Paul......Page 301
2.3 The Letter to The Ephesians......Page 302
2.4 The Gospel of Matthew......Page 303
2.5 1 Peter 2:9......Page 305
3.1 John Calvin......Page 306
3.2 Abraham Kuyper......Page 308
3.3 Karl Barth......Page 310
4.1 Miskotte......Page 311
4.2 Hendrikus Berkhof......Page 313
5.1 Paul van Buren......Page 314
5.2 Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt......Page 315
5.3 Bertold Klappert......Page 316
6. New Official Declarations......Page 317
7.1 Only Israel the ‘People of God’?......Page 319
7.2 Only the Church the ‘People of God’?......Page 320
7.3 Both Israel and the Church ‘People of God’......Page 321
7.4 Nota Ecclesiae......Page 322
LITERATURE......Page 323
Judith Frishman: Who We Say We Are: Jewish Self-Definition in Two Modern Dutch Liberal Prayer Books......Page 326
Seder Tov Lehodot I......Page 327
Seder Tov Lehodot II......Page 332
LITERATURE......Page 337
Introduction......Page 340
1. Holiness as One of the Notae Ecclesiae......Page 342
2. Lumen Gentium......Page 345
3. Memory and Reconciliation (Dec. 1999)......Page 348
4. Evaluation......Page 353
LITERATURE......Page 354
1. Preface and Methodology......Page 356
2. The Mormon Pilgrims......Page 357
3. The Guided Tour......Page 358
4. Constructing Communality......Page 359
5. Fissures in Group Solidarity......Page 361
6. Analysis: Pilgrimage as a Rite of Passage and As the Precipitant of Communitas......Page 363
7. Conclusions......Page 364
LITERATURE......Page 367
1. Enlightened Europe: The Philosophical Scheme and the Jewish Reality......Page 368
2. Being Holy: Judaism Defeated on Jewish Ground......Page 370
3. A Sense of Election: From the Individual Back to the People......Page 372
4. The Holy People in a Tight Corner: Four Possibilities......Page 374
5. Rosenzweig: The ‘Comeback’ of the Holy People......Page 376
6. Conclusion......Page 378
LITERATURE......Page 379
Alexander Even-Chen: On the Holiness of the People of Israel in the Thought of Abraham Joshua Heschel......Page 380
The Voice of God and the Voice of Man......Page 381
Prophecy and Mysticism......Page 384
The Messianic Role of Israel......Page 387
Judaism and Freedom......Page 391
Days of the Messiah?......Page 394
LITERATURE......Page 395
Index of Names and Subjects......Page 398
Index of Sources......Page 405