Naomi Koltun‐fromm
Biographic Data
| ID | 4873433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Koltun‐fromm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Koltun‐fromm |
| SIGNATURE | FROMM N K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Haverford College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Jerusalem
The first thing to note about this new volume about the history of Jerusalem is its claim to being the only comprehensive volume that documents the full 3,000-year history of Jerusalem in the English or French language (2).1 Although this claim, at first, seems preposterous—given the number of books written about Jerusalem—the authors suggest that no “real” single-volume scientific history with a single narrative voice (English or French) has see…
The Temple in Early Christianity
Imagining the Temple in Rabbinic Stone
The mythical ʾ even shetiyah , often translated as the “foundation stone,” marks the physical place where the Jerusalem temples once stood in the rabbinic imagination. In its earliest incarnation it identified the place where the ark of the covenant resided in Solomon's Temple. Over the centuries it absorbed cosmogonic and eventually eschatological meaning. In later post-talmudic rabbinic literature, it adopted another mythic trope—the seal on th…
Beth She‘arim
The ancient Israelite city of Beth She‘arim, located in the lower galilee , was probably first settled in the Iron age, but its earliest literary mention comes from josephus in the first century CE (Joseph. Vit . 118–19).
Encratism
Encratism, in ancient Christian scholarship, usually referred to the practice of radical sexual renunciation within early Christian tradition.
Honi the Circle‐Maker
According to Jewish tradition, Honi the Circle‐Maker was a pious man and miracleworker, who lived in first century BCE Jerusalem.
Gentiles, Jewish and Christian attitudes towards
The term “Gentile” has come to be a generic term for non‐Jews, but in its ancient origins it was a more elastic term that was used to define the “other” in whatever form or shape that took in many different biblical, Jewish, and Christian contexts.
Burial, Jewish
The Ancient Israelites buried their dead in similar fashion to the other peoples among whom they lived.
Herodium
Herodium, one of the seven desert fortresses built or remodeled by Herod the Great, situated seven miles southof Jerusalem, is identified with the cone‐shaped mountain on the edge of the Judaean desert also known as Jebel Fureidis.
Judeo‐Christians
The terms “Jewish Christianity,” “Judeo‐Christianity,” and the like are inventions of nineteenth‐century Christian studies scholars.
Hanina ben Dosa
Hanina ben Dosa, according to rabbinic tradition, was a first‐century CE miracle worker, healer, and rabbi, a student of Yohanan ben Zakkai.
Jewish-Christian Conversation in Fourth-Century Persian Mesopotamia
Was there an active Jewish-Christian polemic in fourth-century Persia? Aphrahat's Demonstrations, a fourth-century adversus Judaeos text, clearly indicates that fourth-century Persian Christians were interested in the debate. Is there evidence of this polemic in the rabbinic literature? Despite the lack of a comparable Jewish or rabbinic adversus Christianos literature, there is evidence, both from Aphrahat and the Rabbis that this polemic was no…
Defining Sacred Boundaries
This chapter contains sections titled: Jews, Christians, and Late Antiquity The History of the Study of Late Antique Jewish-Christian Relations Holy Communities and the Other Being Chosen, or Holiness Ascribed: The Christian Understanding Being Chosen, or Holiness Ascribed: The Jewish Understanding Holiness Achieved Bibliographical Note
Holiness
Reviewed by: Holiness: Rabbinic Judaism and the Graeco-Roman World Naomi Koltun-Fromm Hannah K. Harrington . Holiness: Rabbinic Judaism and the Graeco-Roman World. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xiv + 242. This book opens the door to a much-ignored discussion in the study of rabbinics. Holiness is a vast subject that has received little scholarly attention of late. While holiness goes hand in hand with purity in early Jewish texts, sch…
Yokes of the Holy-Ones
In his sixth demonstration, Aphrahat, the fourth-century Persian Christian sage, describes the behavior of the bnay qyama, the “members of the covenant,” through the image of the “yoke of the holy-ones.” These men, often called, ihidaye, “single-ones,” or “single-minded-ones,” are a celibate elite. The ihidaye's sexual status separates them psychologically and physically from the rest of the Christian community.While some scholars, including Jean…
Sexuality and Holiness
L'article est consacre au celibat et a l'abstinence sexuelle chez Aphraate et a l'influence exercee par les traditions rabbiniques sur le celibat de Moise sur Aphraate
A Jewish-Christian Conversation in Fourth-Century Persian Mesopotamia
Au IV e siecle, le roi perse Shabur II declenche une persecution a l'encontre des chretiens car ceux-ci sont suspectes d'allegeance a l'empereur romain chretien. Il semble egalement que les relations entre Juifs et chretiens dans le royaume perse ne soient pas bonnes. Aphrahat, un leader de l'Eglise perse, accusait meme les Juifs de proselytisme parmi les chretiens. Selon lui, les Juifs affirmaient que cette persecution etait un signe de Dieu qui…
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A Jewish-Christian Conversation in Fourth-Century Persian Mesopotamia
Au IV e siecle, le roi perse Shabur II declenche une persecution a l'encontre des chretiens car ceux-ci sont suspectes d'allegeance a l'empereur romain chretien. Il semble egalement que les relations entre Juifs et chretiens dans le royaume perse ne soient pas bonnes. Aphrahat, un leader de l'Eglise perse, accusait meme les Juifs de proselytisme parmi les chretiens. Selon lui, les Juifs affirmaient que cette persecution etait un signe de Dieu qui…
Sexuality and Holiness
L'article est consacre au celibat et a l'abstinence sexuelle chez Aphraate et a l'influence exercee par les traditions rabbiniques sur le celibat de Moise sur Aphraate
Yokes of the Holy-Ones
In his sixth demonstration, Aphrahat, the fourth-century Persian Christian sage, describes the behavior of the bnay qyama, the “members of the covenant,” through the image of the “yoke of the holy-ones.” These men, often called, ihidaye, “single-ones,” or “single-minded-ones,” are a celibate elite. The ihidaye's sexual status separates them psychologically and physically from the rest of the Christian community.While some scholars, including Jean…
Holiness
Reviewed by: Holiness: Rabbinic Judaism and the Graeco-Roman World Naomi Koltun-Fromm Hannah K. Harrington . Holiness: Rabbinic Judaism and the Graeco-Roman World. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xiv + 242. This book opens the door to a much-ignored discussion in the study of rabbinics. Holiness is a vast subject that has received little scholarly attention of late. While holiness goes hand in hand with purity in early Jewish texts, sch…
Defining Sacred Boundaries
This chapter contains sections titled: Jews, Christians, and Late Antiquity The History of the Study of Late Antique Jewish-Christian Relations Holy Communities and the Other Being Chosen, or Holiness Ascribed: The Christian Understanding Being Chosen, or Holiness Ascribed: The Jewish Understanding Holiness Achieved Bibliographical Note
Jewish-Christian Conversation in Fourth-Century Persian Mesopotamia
Was there an active Jewish-Christian polemic in fourth-century Persia? Aphrahat's Demonstrations, a fourth-century adversus Judaeos text, clearly indicates that fourth-century Persian Christians were interested in the debate. Is there evidence of this polemic in the rabbinic literature? Despite the lack of a comparable Jewish or rabbinic adversus Christianos literature, there is evidence, both from Aphrahat and the Rabbis that this polemic was no…
Beth She‘arim
The ancient Israelite city of Beth She‘arim, located in the lower galilee , was probably first settled in the Iron age, but its earliest literary mention comes from josephus in the first century CE (Joseph. Vit . 118–19).
Encratism
Encratism, in ancient Christian scholarship, usually referred to the practice of radical sexual renunciation within early Christian tradition.
Honi the Circle‐Maker
According to Jewish tradition, Honi the Circle‐Maker was a pious man and miracleworker, who lived in first century BCE Jerusalem.
Gentiles, Jewish and Christian attitudes towards
The term “Gentile” has come to be a generic term for non‐Jews, but in its ancient origins it was a more elastic term that was used to define the “other” in whatever form or shape that took in many different biblical, Jewish, and Christian contexts.
Burial, Jewish
The Ancient Israelites buried their dead in similar fashion to the other peoples among whom they lived.
Herodium
Herodium, one of the seven desert fortresses built or remodeled by Herod the Great, situated seven miles southof Jerusalem, is identified with the cone‐shaped mountain on the edge of the Judaean desert also known as Jebel Fureidis.
Judeo‐Christians
The terms “Jewish Christianity,” “Judeo‐Christianity,” and the like are inventions of nineteenth‐century Christian studies scholars.
Hanina ben Dosa
Hanina ben Dosa, according to rabbinic tradition, was a first‐century CE miracle worker, healer, and rabbi, a student of Yohanan ben Zakkai.
Imagining the Temple in Rabbinic Stone
The mythical ʾ even shetiyah , often translated as the “foundation stone,” marks the physical place where the Jerusalem temples once stood in the rabbinic imagination. In its earliest incarnation it identified the place where the ark of the covenant resided in Solomon's Temple. Over the centuries it absorbed cosmogonic and eventually eschatological meaning. In later post-talmudic rabbinic literature, it adopted another mythic trope—the seal on th…
The Temple in Early Christianity
Jerusalem
The first thing to note about this new volume about the history of Jerusalem is its claim to being the only comprehensive volume that documents the full 3,000-year history of Jerusalem in the English or French language (2).1 Although this claim, at first, seems preposterous—given the number of books written about Jerusalem—the authors suggest that no “real” single-volume scientific history with a single narrative voice (English or French) has see…
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