Martha Himmelfarb
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha Himmelfarb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha |
| FAMILY NAME | Himmelfarb |
| SIGNATURE | HIMMELFARB M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-8433-241X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Messianism and Rabbinization
This essay traces the development of messianic ideas and attitudes toward messianism among the rabbis from the amoraic to the geonic era. Classical rabbinic literature, here exemplified by Genesis Rabbah and the eschatological collection of b. Sanhedrin 96b-99a, is notably unenthusiastic about messianism, but by the 10th and 11th centuries leading proponents of rabbinic culture such as Saadya and Hai have come to embrace it. This development is i…
The Greek Translation of Enoch’s Journeys to the Ends of the Earth and the Redaction of the Book of the Watchers
This study argues for a new understanding of the process of redaction that produced the Book of the Watchers (1 En. 1–36). The argument is based on an analysis of the Greek version of the two journeys to the ends of the earth (1 En. 17–19; 1 En. 20–36). The analysis demonstrates significant differences between the Greek vocabulary for seeing and going in the two journeys, vocabulary of particular importance because the verbs in question structure…
Genesis Rabbah in Text and Context
Genesis Rabbah , the earliest rabbinic commentary on Genesis, was composed in Roman Palestine around the 5th century CE. In this volume, an international team of scholars explores the literary formation and textual transmission of this work in late antiquity, and the historical, cultural, religious, and political contexts from which it emerged. Some essays study the multi-layered nature of this text, the relationship of the traditions within the …
The Mother of the Seven Sons in Lamentations Rabbah and the Virgin Mary
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Between Temple and Torah
This volume contains articles by Martha Himmelfarb on topics in Second Temple Judaism and the development and reception of Second Temple traditions in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The section on »Priests, Temples, and Torah« addresses the themes of its title in texts from the Bible to the Mishnah. »Purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls« contains articles analyzing the intensification of the biblical purity laws, particularly the laws for genital …
Hekhalot Literature in Context
Over the past 30 years, scholars of early Jewish mysticism have, with increasing confidence, located the initial formation of Hekhalot literature in Byzantine Palestine and Sasanian or early Islamic Babylonia (ca. 500-900 C.E.), rather than at the time of the Mishnah, Tosefta, early Midrashim, or Palestinian Talmud (ca. 100-400 C.E.). This advance has primarily been achieved through major gains in our understanding of the dynamic and highly flexi…
Hekhalot Literature in Context
Hekhalot Literatur im Kontext. Zwischen Byzanz und Babylon
Eschatology, Jewish
The term “eschatology” derives from the Greek word eschaton (“end”). It refers to beliefs about the end of the world, the subject of this entry, or about life after death.
Book of Zerubbabel
The Book of Zerubbabel purports to be a revelation of the events of the last days by the angel Michael/Metatron to Zerubbabel, a descendant of King David who served as the Persian‐appointed governor of Judaea toward the end of the sixth century BCE .
Judaism in Antiquity
Judaism in Antiquity:Ethno-Religion or National Identity Martha Himmelfarb (bio) Keywords Martha Himmelfarb, Shaye J. D. Cohen, From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, David Goodblatt, Elements of Ancient Jewish Nationalism, Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Nationalism, Hellenistic Judaism, proto-Christian Judaism, proto-rabbinic Judaism, Palestinian Judaism, Jewish Diversity Shaye J. D. Cohen . From the Maccabees to the Mishnah. 2nd edition. Louisville, Ky.:…
Preface
Merkavah Mysticism since Scholem
Judaism and Hellenism in 2 Maccabees
“A Kingdom of Priests”
Tours of Hell
R. Moses the Preacher and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
R. Moses the Preacher in eleventh-century Narbonne was the compiler of an early example of the genre of biblical commentary to which the later Yalqut Shim'oni belongs, the anthology drawn from a wide range of rabbinic sources. Bereshit Rabbati (henceforth, BR ), Midrash Aggadah , and Bemidbar Rabbah to Bemidbar and Naso are the surviving remnants of this work
Book Notices
Book Notices Get access Apocalypsis Esdrae. Apocalypsis Sedrach. Visio Bead Esdrae (Pseudepigrapha Veteris Testamenti Graece, 4). Edited by Otto WahlLeiden: E. J.Brill, 1977. x+61 pages. 36 guilders. ISBN 90-04-05416-2. Martha Himmelfarb Martha Himmelfarb Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVII, Issue 1, March 1979, Pages 141-a–141, htt…
Book Notices
Journal Article Book Notices Get access Correction regarding a review of Apocalypsis Esdrae, edited by Otto Wahl, JAAR, XLVII, 1 ( 1979), p. 141. Martha Himmelfarb Martha Himmelfarb Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVII, Issue 4, December 1979, Pages 672-a–672, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLVII.4.672-a Published: 01 December 1979
Patristics
Journal Article PATRISTICS Get access Die Griechische Daniel-Diegese: Eine altkirchliche Apokalypse (Studia Post-Biblica, 27). By Klaus BergerLeiden: E. J. Brill, 1976. xxiii+163 pages, indices. 80 guilders. ISBN 90-04-04756-5. Martha Himmelfarb Martha Himmelfarb Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVII, Issue 1, March 1979, Pages 143-a–…
R. Moses the Preacher and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
R. Moses the Preacher in eleventh-century Narbonne was the compiler of an early example of the genre of biblical commentary to which the later Yalqut Shim'oni belongs, the anthology drawn from a wide range of rabbinic sources. Bereshit Rabbati (henceforth, BR ), Midrash Aggadah , and Bemidbar Rabbah to Bemidbar and Naso are the surviving remnants of this work
Book Notices
Book Notices Get access Apocalypsis Esdrae. Apocalypsis Sedrach. Visio Bead Esdrae (Pseudepigrapha Veteris Testamenti Graece, 4). Edited by Otto WahlLeiden: E. J.Brill, 1977. x+61 pages. 36 guilders. ISBN 90-04-05416-2. Martha Himmelfarb Martha Himmelfarb Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVII, Issue 1, March 1979, Pages 141-a–141, htt…
Book Notices
Journal Article Book Notices Get access Correction regarding a review of Apocalypsis Esdrae, edited by Otto Wahl, JAAR, XLVII, 1 ( 1979), p. 141. Martha Himmelfarb Martha Himmelfarb Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVII, Issue 4, December 1979, Pages 672-a–672, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLVII.4.672-a Published: 01 December 1979
Patristics
Journal Article PATRISTICS Get access Die Griechische Daniel-Diegese: Eine altkirchliche Apokalypse (Studia Post-Biblica, 27). By Klaus BergerLeiden: E. J. Brill, 1976. xxiii+163 pages, indices. 80 guilders. ISBN 90-04-04756-5. Martha Himmelfarb Martha Himmelfarb Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVII, Issue 1, March 1979, Pages 143-a–…
R. Moses the Preacher and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
R. Moses the Preacher in eleventh-century Narbonne was the compiler of an early example of the genre of biblical commentary to which the later Yalqut Shim'oni belongs, the anthology drawn from a wide range of rabbinic sources. Bereshit Rabbati (henceforth, BR ), Midrash Aggadah , and Bemidbar Rabbah to Bemidbar and Naso are the surviving remnants of this work
Tours of Hell
“A Kingdom of Priests”
Judaism and Hellenism in 2 Maccabees
Preface
Merkavah Mysticism since Scholem
Judaism in Antiquity
Judaism in Antiquity:Ethno-Religion or National Identity Martha Himmelfarb (bio) Keywords Martha Himmelfarb, Shaye J. D. Cohen, From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, David Goodblatt, Elements of Ancient Jewish Nationalism, Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Nationalism, Hellenistic Judaism, proto-Christian Judaism, proto-rabbinic Judaism, Palestinian Judaism, Jewish Diversity Shaye J. D. Cohen . From the Maccabees to the Mishnah. 2nd edition. Louisville, Ky.:…
Eschatology, Jewish
The term “eschatology” derives from the Greek word eschaton (“end”). It refers to beliefs about the end of the world, the subject of this entry, or about life after death.
Book of Zerubbabel
The Book of Zerubbabel purports to be a revelation of the events of the last days by the angel Michael/Metatron to Zerubbabel, a descendant of King David who served as the Persian‐appointed governor of Judaea toward the end of the sixth century BCE .
Between Temple and Torah
This volume contains articles by Martha Himmelfarb on topics in Second Temple Judaism and the development and reception of Second Temple traditions in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The section on »Priests, Temples, and Torah« addresses the themes of its title in texts from the Bible to the Mishnah. »Purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls« contains articles analyzing the intensification of the biblical purity laws, particularly the laws for genital …
Hekhalot Literature in Context
Over the past 30 years, scholars of early Jewish mysticism have, with increasing confidence, located the initial formation of Hekhalot literature in Byzantine Palestine and Sasanian or early Islamic Babylonia (ca. 500-900 C.E.), rather than at the time of the Mishnah, Tosefta, early Midrashim, or Palestinian Talmud (ca. 100-400 C.E.). This advance has primarily been achieved through major gains in our understanding of the dynamic and highly flexi…
Hekhalot Literature in Context
Hekhalot Literatur im Kontext. Zwischen Byzanz und Babylon
The Mother of the Seven Sons in Lamentations Rabbah and the Virgin Mary
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Genesis Rabbah in Text and Context
Genesis Rabbah , the earliest rabbinic commentary on Genesis, was composed in Roman Palestine around the 5th century CE. In this volume, an international team of scholars explores the literary formation and textual transmission of this work in late antiquity, and the historical, cultural, religious, and political contexts from which it emerged. Some essays study the multi-layered nature of this text, the relationship of the traditions within the …
Messianism and Rabbinization
This essay traces the development of messianic ideas and attitudes toward messianism among the rabbis from the amoraic to the geonic era. Classical rabbinic literature, here exemplified by Genesis Rabbah and the eschatological collection of b. Sanhedrin 96b-99a, is notably unenthusiastic about messianism, but by the 10th and 11th centuries leading proponents of rabbinic culture such as Saadya and Hai have come to embrace it. This development is i…
The Greek Translation of Enoch’s Journeys to the Ends of the Earth and the Redaction of the Book of the Watchers
This study argues for a new understanding of the process of redaction that produced the Book of the Watchers (1 En. 1–36). The argument is based on an analysis of the Greek version of the two journeys to the ends of the earth (1 En. 17–19; 1 En. 20–36). The analysis demonstrates significant differences between the Greek vocabulary for seeing and going in the two journeys, vocabulary of particular importance because the verbs in question structure…
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