Moshe Blidstein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 248313 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Moshe Blidstein |
| NOMBRES | Moshe |
| APELLIDO | Blidstein |
| FIRMA | BLIDSTEIN M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7488-6324 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Sacrificial firewood in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond
Sacrifices in the Ancient Mediterranean usually involved fire, which required burning materials, typically wood. Assuming that sacrificial wood choice and management may have had significance for ancient societies, this article investigates the amounts and types of wood required, as well as the ritual requirements of its collection, arrangement on the altar and burning, in Greek, Roman and Jewish cultures of antiquity. The investigation is based …
Perpetual Fires in the Jerusalem Temple through a Mediterranean Perspective
The fires of the Jerusalem temple altar were said to be perpetual. Various writers from the fourth century BCE to the third century CE added explanations and perspectives to this practice: the argument that the fire came from heaven, that it continued even during the destruction of the temple, or that it remained lit only when the high priest was righteous. Though these texts are well known, they were never examined in a comparative context: how …
Constructing, Revealing and Concealing Identity through Oaths in the Late Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
In this article, I will examine the functions of oaths in narratives of encounter, confrontation and polemic between religious communities in late antiquity, especially Jews and Christians. Through an analysis of these narratives, I hope to show that oaths had several functions: specific oath formulae were strongly associated with specific religious identities, and as such could be used to highlight distance between religious groups. However, oat…
Tiresias
Tiresias (https://tiresias.haifa.ac.il/) is a free database designed and constructed as an efficient tool to access and understand ancient texts for research purposes. It uniquely associates end-of-book subject indices with the index locorum. Based on indices of about 460 scholarly books in fields such as history, religion, biblical studies and more, Tiresias is multilingual, contains about 140,000 subject tags and about 16.4 million references t…
Towards a new generic framework for citation network generation and analysis in the humanities
Perjury, honour, and disgrace in Roman Antiquity
Perjury – swearing to a false statement or not fulfilling a promissory oath – attracted universal condemnation in Antiquity, as well as promises of harsh divine retribution. Human responses to perjury, however, varied among the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean. This article surveys these responses, locates their cultural contexts, and explains them by examining perjury as an affront to honour. Legal penalties, expiation rituals, and other so…
Impure Mouths and Defiled Hearts
Many early Christian and late Second Temple texts describe deceit as impurity. In this article, I delineate the development of this discourse and argue that it derived its power from several characteristics: mixing deceit impurity with other types of moral impurity; an implicit link between the structures of defilement/purity and falsehood/truth; localization of impurity in specific body loci; demonization; and a connection with Greek discourses …
Invoking Humans in Roman-Era Oaths
This article examines Roman-era oaths invoking nondeities, especially persons. It argues that rather than invoking quasi-deities or persons to be punished by the gods in case of perjury, as usually understood in the past, these invocations could have two concurrent functions: honoring the invoked persons and affirming a statement. Though such invocations had limited legal power, they were commonly practiced throughout the period, as demonstrated …
Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion
The articles in this volume discuss polemically charged re-evaluations of the religious traditions and scriptures of the Western world, employed throughout the centuries in various religious contexts. These studies consider new religious outlooks not as glosses on inherited traditions, but as acts of power exercised in the struggle for identity: contestation, appropriation, interpretation and polemics against the religious »other«, involving, som…
Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion
Deutscher Schriften, heilige Traditionen und Strategien religiösen Umsturzes. Studien im Gespräch mit Guy G. Stroumsas Werk
Loosing Vows and Oaths in the Roman Empire and Beyond
Vows, dedications and promissory oaths were an important category of language for people in the ancient Mediterranean. Using various formulae, people promised the gods (in the case of vows and dedications), or each other (in the case of oaths), that they would perform certain acts in the future, giving more than usual force to their words. The purpose of this article is to investigate the mechanics and hermeneutics of promises backed by divine po…
The ambivalence of purification and the challenge of transformation in The Rites of Passage and in early Christian texts
In this article I analyze Van Gennep's understanding of purity, impurity, and purification and its relationship with ancient Christian texts discussing these subjects. Through this comparison, I show how modern and ancient theories of ritual can illuminate each other, and more specifically, how purification was a problematic and ambivalent concept for both ancient Christian writers and for Van Gennep, making it a fruitful one for investigating th…
Swearing by the Book
The rise of scriptures as the main source of authority was a major shift in the religious culture of the ancient Mediterranean. I examine this shift from the second century BCE to the sixth century CE through a study of the relationship between scriptures and oaths, a competing mode of religious authorization. The traditional perspective, expressed bath in Jewish Second Temple literature and in contemporary Greek culture, saw the covenant (define…
The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions
PART I: THE CONCEPT OF THE ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS PART II: COMMUNITIES PART III: SCRIPTURE AND HERMENEUTICS PART IV: RELIGIOUS THOUGHT PART V: RITUALS AND ETHICS PART VI: EPILOGUES
How Many Pigs Were on Noah's Ark? An Exegetical Encounter on the Nature of Impurity
Commentators have long noted that God's commandment to Noah to bring all animals onto the ark exists in two intertwined versions in the biblical text. In the first version, Noah is told to bring two of every species: “And of every living thing, of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female” (Gen 6:19 nrsv ). In the second version, however, the animal kingdom is divided int…
The ambivalence of purification and the challenge of transformation in The Rites of Passage and in early Christian texts
In this article I analyze Van Gennep's understanding of purity, impurity, and purification and its relationship with ancient Christian texts discussing these subjects. Through this comparison, I show how modern and ancient theories of ritual can illuminate each other, and more specifically, how purification was a problematic and ambivalent concept for both ancient Christian writers and for Van Gennep, making it a fruitful one for investigating th…
The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions
PART I: THE CONCEPT OF THE ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS PART II: COMMUNITIES PART III: SCRIPTURE AND HERMENEUTICS PART IV: RELIGIOUS THOUGHT PART V: RITUALS AND ETHICS PART VI: EPILOGUES
How Many Pigs Were on Noah's Ark? An Exegetical Encounter on the Nature of Impurity
Commentators have long noted that God's commandment to Noah to bring all animals onto the ark exists in two intertwined versions in the biblical text. In the first version, Noah is told to bring two of every species: “And of every living thing, of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female” (Gen 6:19 nrsv ). In the second version, however, the animal kingdom is divided int…
Swearing by the Book
The rise of scriptures as the main source of authority was a major shift in the religious culture of the ancient Mediterranean. I examine this shift from the second century BCE to the sixth century CE through a study of the relationship between scriptures and oaths, a competing mode of religious authorization. The traditional perspective, expressed bath in Jewish Second Temple literature and in contemporary Greek culture, saw the covenant (define…
Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion
The articles in this volume discuss polemically charged re-evaluations of the religious traditions and scriptures of the Western world, employed throughout the centuries in various religious contexts. These studies consider new religious outlooks not as glosses on inherited traditions, but as acts of power exercised in the struggle for identity: contestation, appropriation, interpretation and polemics against the religious »other«, involving, som…
Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion
Deutscher Schriften, heilige Traditionen und Strategien religiösen Umsturzes. Studien im Gespräch mit Guy G. Stroumsas Werk
Loosing Vows and Oaths in the Roman Empire and Beyond
Vows, dedications and promissory oaths were an important category of language for people in the ancient Mediterranean. Using various formulae, people promised the gods (in the case of vows and dedications), or each other (in the case of oaths), that they would perform certain acts in the future, giving more than usual force to their words. The purpose of this article is to investigate the mechanics and hermeneutics of promises backed by divine po…
The ambivalence of purification and the challenge of transformation in The Rites of Passage and in early Christian texts
In this article I analyze Van Gennep's understanding of purity, impurity, and purification and its relationship with ancient Christian texts discussing these subjects. Through this comparison, I show how modern and ancient theories of ritual can illuminate each other, and more specifically, how purification was a problematic and ambivalent concept for both ancient Christian writers and for Van Gennep, making it a fruitful one for investigating th…
Invoking Humans in Roman-Era Oaths
This article examines Roman-era oaths invoking nondeities, especially persons. It argues that rather than invoking quasi-deities or persons to be punished by the gods in case of perjury, as usually understood in the past, these invocations could have two concurrent functions: honoring the invoked persons and affirming a statement. Though such invocations had limited legal power, they were commonly practiced throughout the period, as demonstrated …
Tiresias
Tiresias (https://tiresias.haifa.ac.il/) is a free database designed and constructed as an efficient tool to access and understand ancient texts for research purposes. It uniquely associates end-of-book subject indices with the index locorum. Based on indices of about 460 scholarly books in fields such as history, religion, biblical studies and more, Tiresias is multilingual, contains about 140,000 subject tags and about 16.4 million references t…
Towards a new generic framework for citation network generation and analysis in the humanities
Perjury, honour, and disgrace in Roman Antiquity
Perjury – swearing to a false statement or not fulfilling a promissory oath – attracted universal condemnation in Antiquity, as well as promises of harsh divine retribution. Human responses to perjury, however, varied among the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean. This article surveys these responses, locates their cultural contexts, and explains them by examining perjury as an affront to honour. Legal penalties, expiation rituals, and other so…
Impure Mouths and Defiled Hearts
Many early Christian and late Second Temple texts describe deceit as impurity. In this article, I delineate the development of this discourse and argue that it derived its power from several characteristics: mixing deceit impurity with other types of moral impurity; an implicit link between the structures of defilement/purity and falsehood/truth; localization of impurity in specific body loci; demonization; and a connection with Greek discourses …
Sacrificial firewood in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond
Sacrifices in the Ancient Mediterranean usually involved fire, which required burning materials, typically wood. Assuming that sacrificial wood choice and management may have had significance for ancient societies, this article investigates the amounts and types of wood required, as well as the ritual requirements of its collection, arrangement on the altar and burning, in Greek, Roman and Jewish cultures of antiquity. The investigation is based …
Perpetual Fires in the Jerusalem Temple through a Mediterranean Perspective
The fires of the Jerusalem temple altar were said to be perpetual. Various writers from the fourth century BCE to the third century CE added explanations and perspectives to this practice: the argument that the fire came from heaven, that it continued even during the destruction of the temple, or that it remained lit only when the high priest was righteous. Though these texts are well known, they were never examined in a comparative context: how …
Constructing, Revealing and Concealing Identity through Oaths in the Late Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
In this article, I will examine the functions of oaths in narratives of encounter, confrontation and polemic between religious communities in late antiquity, especially Jews and Christians. Through an analysis of these narratives, I hope to show that oaths had several functions: specific oath formulae were strongly associated with specific religious identities, and as such could be used to highlight distance between religious groups. However, oat…
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