Seeking Out the Land: Land of Israel Traditions in Ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan Literature (200 Bce - 400 Ce) by Safrai, Ze'ev

Seeking Out the Land: Land of Israel Traditions in Ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan Literature (200 Bce - 400 Ce) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004334793)

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Seeking Out the Land: Land of Israel Traditions in Ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan Literature (200 Bce - 400 Ce) by Safrai, Ze'ev

Seeking Out the Land: Land of Israel Traditions in Ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan Literature (200 Bce - 400 Ce)

$211.00
Seeking Out the Land: Land of Israel Traditions in Ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan Literature (200 Bce - 400 Ce) by Safrai, Ze'ev

Seeking Out the Land: Land of Israel Traditions in Ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan Literature (200 Bce - 400 Ce)

$211.00
Format: Hardcover
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Seeking out the Land describes the study of the Holy Land in the Roman period and examines the complex connections between theology, social agenda and the intellectual pursuit. Holiness as a theological concept determines the intellectual agenda of the elite society of writers seeking to describe the land, as well as their preoccupation with its physical aspects and their actual knowledge about it.
Ze'ev Safrai succeeds in examining all the ancient monotheistic literature, both Jewish and Christian, up to the fourth century CE, and in demonstrating how all the above-mentioned factors coalesce into a single entity. We learn that in both religions, with all their various subgroups, the same social and religious factors were at work, but with differing intensity.



Author: Ze'ev Safrai
ISBN-10: 9004334793
ISBN-13: 9789004334793
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 07/19/2018
Pages: 556
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.50w x 1.70d
By Ze'ev Safrai
By Ze'ev Safrai
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Ze'ev Safrai (1948) is a professor in the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar Ilan University, Israel. He specializes in the Roman and Byzantine periods. Prof. Safrai has published many books and articles, including The Economy of Roman Palestine and a commentary on the Mishna (23 volumes to date).

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