Adam H Becker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam H Becker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam H |
| FAMILY NAME | Becker |
| SIGNATURE | BECKER A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Ways that Never Parted
Were Judaism and Christianity indeed shaped by a definitive Parting of the Ways? Drawing on the expertise of scholars of both Jewish Studies and Patristics, this volume offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the interaction between Jews and Christians between the Bar Kokhba Revolt and the rise of Islam.
Literary Territories
Reviewed by: Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson Adam H. Becker Scott Fitzgerald Johnson. Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv, 195. $74.00. ISBN 978-0-19-022123-2. Scholars of late antiquity have a double responsibility, an apparently paradoxical task, when they have to explain the relationship of their sources to …
American Apostles
The ongoing ignorant and paranoid engagement with Islam that we have seen in American politics and culture over the past fifteen years has a prehistory, and not just in the oil crisis of the 1970s or the Iranian revolution. The story begins with the American missionaries of the early nineteenth century who crossed the world in a millennial spirit hoping to draw to salvation the followers of the “false prophet” Muhammad. In her recent book, Christ…
The "Evil Inclination" of the Jews
The yetser ha-ra' ("the evil inclination") has become a standard part of traditional Jewish psychology. This rabbinic expression has its roots in the Second Temple period but ultimately derives from certain passages in the Hebrew Bible. Until now the comparable Christian Aramaic evidence for this term has general been ignored. The fifth-century Syriac author, Narsai, develops a theory of the "evil inclination" (yatsra bisha) in his homilies on mo…
Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians
The Sasanian Empire was home to many religious communities. It was also a place of meeting and transformation. The studies in this volume encompass a diverse array of topics concerning these religious communities inhabiting the Sasanian Empire. Some include the Roman East in their deliberations. Most, however, deal with the interaction of one or other religious community based in the Sasanian Empire with the dominant religion of the empire, Zoroa…
Matter of contention
The book that killeth and the book that giveth life the spirit of 2 corinthians 3
Positing a "Cultural Relationship" between Plato and the Babylonian Talmud
Positing a "Cultural Relationship" between Plato and the Babylonian Talmud Adam H. Becker Daniel Boyarin. Socrates and the Fat Rabbis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 388. Daniel Boyarin. Socrates and the Fat Rabbis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 388. Daniel Boyarin's most recent book, Socrates and the Fat Rabbis, focuses on the "Hellenism" of the Babylonian Talmud.1 Part of a growing body of work tha…
Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity (review)
The Comparative Study of “Scholasticism” in Late Antique Mesopotamia
Now is an appropriate time to reconsider the historiographical benefit that a comparative study of the East Syrian (“Nestorian”) schools and the Babylonian rabbinic academies may offer. This is attributable both to the recent, rapid increase in scholarship on Jewish–Christian relations in the Roman Empire and late antiquity more broadly, and to the return by some scholars of rabbinic Judaism to the issues of a scholarly exchange of the late 1970s…
Procopius of Caesarea
Reviewed by: Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity Adam Becker Anthony Kaldellis . Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. x, 305. $49.95. ISBN 0-8122-3787-0. In this provocative, at times confrontational, book, Anthony Kaldellis, a scholar who has produced work on a number of Byzantine authors, demonstrates…
Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom
Since the period dealt with is a time of transition from the ancient to Medieval world, it is particularly helpful to have a book that shows how these two worlds were intimately linked from a cultural point of view prior to the political separation brought about by the Arab conquests in the seventh century."—Sebastian Brock, Oxford University
Wandering Monks, Virgins, and Pilgrims
Doctoring the Past in the Present
The Comparative Study of “Scholasticism” in Late Antique Mesopotamia
Now is an appropriate time to reconsider the historiographical benefit that a comparative study of the East Syrian (“Nestorian”) schools and the Babylonian rabbinic academies may offer. This is attributable both to the recent, rapid increase in scholarship on Jewish–Christian relations in the Roman Empire and late antiquity more broadly, and to the return by some scholars of rabbinic Judaism to the issues of a scholarly exchange of the late 1970s…
The "Evil Inclination" of the Jews
The yetser ha-ra' ("the evil inclination") has become a standard part of traditional Jewish psychology. This rabbinic expression has its roots in the Second Temple period but ultimately derives from certain passages in the Hebrew Bible. Until now the comparable Christian Aramaic evidence for this term has general been ignored. The fifth-century Syriac author, Narsai, develops a theory of the "evil inclination" (yatsra bisha) in his homilies on mo…
Doctoring the Past in the Present
Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom
Since the period dealt with is a time of transition from the ancient to Medieval world, it is particularly helpful to have a book that shows how these two worlds were intimately linked from a cultural point of view prior to the political separation brought about by the Arab conquests in the seventh century."—Sebastian Brock, Oxford University
Wandering Monks, Virgins, and Pilgrims
Procopius of Caesarea
Reviewed by: Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity Adam Becker Anthony Kaldellis . Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. x, 305. $49.95. ISBN 0-8122-3787-0. In this provocative, at times confrontational, book, Anthony Kaldellis, a scholar who has produced work on a number of Byzantine authors, demonstrates…
Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity (review)
The Comparative Study of “Scholasticism” in Late Antique Mesopotamia
Now is an appropriate time to reconsider the historiographical benefit that a comparative study of the East Syrian (“Nestorian”) schools and the Babylonian rabbinic academies may offer. This is attributable both to the recent, rapid increase in scholarship on Jewish–Christian relations in the Roman Empire and late antiquity more broadly, and to the return by some scholars of rabbinic Judaism to the issues of a scholarly exchange of the late 1970s…
Positing a "Cultural Relationship" between Plato and the Babylonian Talmud
Positing a "Cultural Relationship" between Plato and the Babylonian Talmud Adam H. Becker Daniel Boyarin. Socrates and the Fat Rabbis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 388. Daniel Boyarin. Socrates and the Fat Rabbis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 388. Daniel Boyarin's most recent book, Socrates and the Fat Rabbis, focuses on the "Hellenism" of the Babylonian Talmud.1 Part of a growing body of work tha…
Matter of contention
The book that killeth and the book that giveth life the spirit of 2 corinthians 3
Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians
The Sasanian Empire was home to many religious communities. It was also a place of meeting and transformation. The studies in this volume encompass a diverse array of topics concerning these religious communities inhabiting the Sasanian Empire. Some include the Roman East in their deliberations. Most, however, deal with the interaction of one or other religious community based in the Sasanian Empire with the dominant religion of the empire, Zoroa…
The "Evil Inclination" of the Jews
The yetser ha-ra' ("the evil inclination") has become a standard part of traditional Jewish psychology. This rabbinic expression has its roots in the Second Temple period but ultimately derives from certain passages in the Hebrew Bible. Until now the comparable Christian Aramaic evidence for this term has general been ignored. The fifth-century Syriac author, Narsai, develops a theory of the "evil inclination" (yatsra bisha) in his homilies on mo…
Literary Territories
Reviewed by: Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson Adam H. Becker Scott Fitzgerald Johnson. Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv, 195. $74.00. ISBN 978-0-19-022123-2. Scholars of late antiquity have a double responsibility, an apparently paradoxical task, when they have to explain the relationship of their sources to …
American Apostles
The ongoing ignorant and paranoid engagement with Islam that we have seen in American politics and culture over the past fifteen years has a prehistory, and not just in the oil crisis of the 1970s or the Iranian revolution. The story begins with the American missionaries of the early nineteenth century who crossed the world in a millennial spirit hoping to draw to salvation the followers of the “false prophet” Muhammad. In her recent book, Christ…
The Ways that Never Parted
Were Judaism and Christianity indeed shaped by a definitive Parting of the Ways? Drawing on the expertise of scholars of both Jewish Studies and Patristics, this volume offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the interaction between Jews and Christians between the Bar Kokhba Revolt and the rise of Islam.
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