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Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | University of Bern (CH) |
| ISSN | 2673-4273 |
| Wikidata | Q15751170 |
| OpenAlex | S4210227187 |
| MAG | 4210227187 |
| Total publications | 113 |
| Coverage period | 2020 - 2026 |
| Country | CH |
| Language | EN |
| Access | Open Access |
| Indexing | DOAJ indexed |
| Cited by | 1 |
| Impact factor | 0.038 |
| h-index | 1 |
This journal is dedicated to Judaica, which falls under religious studies. The anthropology and sociology of religion are explicitly listed as closely cognate fields. Therefore, this venue frequently publishes work relevant to social anthropologists and receives a score of 4
Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Art, Aesthetics, and Perception · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · European history and politics · German History and Society · German legal, social, and political studies · German Literature and Culture Studies
Eine Italienische Reise im Jahr 1932 – Gershom Scholems Briefe an seine erste Frau, Escha Burchhardt
The year 1932 is pivotal for understanding Gershom Scholem’s academic trajectory at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the foundations he laid for modern, scholarly research on the history of Kabbalah. This article presents new findings from the Scholem Archive, focusing especially on his correspondence with his first wife, Elsa Escha Burchhardt. His handwritten letters and postcards from Europe, written during his research trip, document how…
Martin Steiner. Jesus Christus und sein Judesein
The “Miracle-Mongers”
This contribution proposes that the canonical gospels of the New Testament should be placed in direct conversation with paradoxographical writing. With their accounts of Jesus’ miraculous conception and birth, healings, and depictions of the peoples and traditions of Judea—a conceptually “foreign” territory in the imperial imagination—the gospel writers engage in the same ethnographic, aetiological, and paradoxographical project as their literary…
Paradoxography at Dura? Miracles and Natural Wonders in the Paintings of the Synagogue
A solution to the problem of mismatch between the wall paintings in the Dura Europos Synagogue and the written biblical account is to consider these panels as depictions of the catechetical activities of the community there. Threaded by miraculous episodes and natural wonders, these images are fitting to the wider discourse of ancient and late antique paradoxography. I review the iconography of wonders, consisting in miracles and natural phenomen…
Zwischen Gesetz und Geschichte
Dieser Artikel beleuchtet Leo Baecks Geschichtstheologie, wie sie sich insbesondere in seinem Werk Dieses Volk zeigt, das er während seiner Internierung in Theresienstadt schrieb. Für Baeck ist Offenbarung kein abgeschlossenes Ereignis, sondern ein fortwährender Prozess, der sich im Handeln, Erinnern und Denken des jüdischen Volkes durch die Geschichte hindurch vollzieht. Geschichte ist für ihn nicht bloß chronologische Abfolge, sondern geistiger…
The Life of Makarios the Roman (BHG 1004–1005i) and the Alexander Romance
Paradoxography and narratives of wondrous travels and adventure tread the borderline between truth and fiction. On the one hand, they lend importance to, for instance, eyewitness reports, while on the other, they portray distant, unknown and fantastic lands. This article discusses both aspects as they emerge in the Life of Makarios the Roman, a popular early Byzantine saint’s Life and ego-narration about the fantastical journey of three monks to …
Between Paradoxography and Aretalogy
This article argues that the Jewish Scroll of Fasts (Megillat Taanit), an Aramaic calendar of 35 auspicious days or periods, is a paradoxographic composition. While its present form probably dates from the early Roman period, the text is likely the product of a long and complex redactional history. Since it is almost entirely devoid of narrative, outside Knowledge is required to understand that a miracle occurred on these days and under what circ…
Jewish Wit and Jewish Conservatism
This article examines the intellectual double life of Swiss-Jewish publicist Salcia Landmann, who achieved widespread literary acclaim while simultaneously maintaining a decades-long involvement with the German-speaking far right. Although she actively self-styled herself as the leading authority dedicated to rescuing destroyed Eastern European Jewish culture from oblivion, contemporary Jewish critics frequently accused her of perpetuating anti-J…
Introduction
Can nature be interpreted like a book?The expression "book of nature" appears first in Augustine's writing and develops in the Middle Ages into a theology of the readability of nature.Augustine himself uses the metaphor in a rather nonchalant way, but not as a standing expression.He speaks of "the book of created nature (magnus liber ipsa species creaturae).Look carefully at it top and bottom, observe it, read it.God did not make letters of ink f…
Zum Gedenken an Prof. Esther Starobinski-Safran (1938–2023)
Maren R. Niehoff. Judentum und Hellenismus
Michael B. Cover und Lutz Doering, Hg. Philo of Alexandria and Philosophical Discourse . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024
Moshe Zimmermann. Niemals Frieden? Israel am Scheideweg. Propyläen Verlag, 2024
Otto Zwierlein. Das ‚Bellum Iudaicum‘ des Ambrosius. De Gruyter, 2024
Maren R. Niehoff, Hg. The Art of Contextualizing Philo of Alexandria . Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 190. Mohr Siebeck, 2024
Dialogische Philosophie und Philosophie des Dialogs
Julian Timm. Der erzählte Antisemitismus
Nachruf auf Simon Lauer s.A
Cook, Edward. Biblical Aramaic and Related Dialects
Ed Cook's superb work on Aramaic from "the second half of the first millennium BCE and the first century CE" (p.1), as an "introductory grammar," intends to "bring students to a reading knowledge of these important texts, as well as others written in the same dialects, and enable them to move forward, well equipped, to more advanced study."(p.ix) The modest
Elye Falkovitsh. Jiddisch
Vassiliki Pothou. Thukydides Second-Hand bei Josephus
Elke Morlok. Kabbala und Haskala
Did Josephus write 4 Maccabees? Reconstructing the authorship debate through editions of the text
In today’s scholarship, no one would question the fact that the author of 4 Maccabees is unknown. However, for many centuries the work was believed to have been written by Flavius Josephus. This article investigates when exactly in the long reception history of this text, and for what reasons, it was first suggested that the Jewish historian could not be its author. Furthermore, it explores how long it took for this view to become the consensus a…
Rabbi Nachman von Breslav. Lobpreis und Lehrgespräche nach den Aufzeichnungen seiner Schüler , herausgegeben von Hans-Jürgen Becker. Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 2021
Carl S. Ehrlich und Sara R. Horowitz, Hg. Jewish Studies on Premodern Periods
The 'Maria Story' in Greek, Latin, & Hebrew
This article provides the first close comparative analysis of the Greek, Latin, and Hebrew versions of the 'Maria Story' or teknophagia, the account of the mother who ate her child within a besieged Jerusalem first recorded in Flavius Josephus' Jewish War 6.201-203. Josephus' original account was written in Greek in the first century. Within the following half-millennium, three Latin versions of the story developed: those of 1) the Latin translat…
Esters Handlungsmacht in männerdominierten Strukturen
This paper on the book of Esther takes up feminist literary criticism with a special emphasis on the concept of agency. It highlights concrete moments of empowerment of Queen Ester. With the recognition that feminism always underscores the question of power, the figure of Ester is analyzed with regard to the notion of exile and in relation to Mordochai and the king Ahasveros. Where do we find moments of empowerment in this situation of heteronomy
Grundgeschichte und Chronik
The Chronicler used two types of sources in writing history: In general, the chronistic narration is based on the „Deuteronomistic history“ as it is called today. Nonetheless, the Pentateuch in its priestly components is another key to its concept. In his historical outline, the Chronicler is aware of differences of time: There is, first of all, the epoch of Moses and of the Mosaic institutions given to a wandering Israel. A new age, second, star…
Simone Luzzatto, Discourse on the State of the Jews. Bilingual Edition, herausgegeben von Giuseppe Veltri und Anna Lissa
David Albaharis Roman Der Bruder als Lektüre aus der sephardischen Diaspora
In his novel The Brother, David Albahari designs a transmedial network that relates to the breakup of Yugoslavia and the breakup of a family. The confrontation with an unknown brother, who was adopted by a Jewish family in Argentinian exile, lets the coordinates of morality and aesthetics get out of hand: The brother not only reveals himself as a connoisseur of the literature of Jorge Luis Borges, he also bursts into the everyday life of a countr…
Vorwort
Philipp Lenhard, Friedrich Pollock
Das Leben des Weisen. Philon von Alexandria, De Abrahamo, herausgegeben von Daniel Lanzinger
Gershom Scholem, Poetica
Johannes Christian Bernhardt, Die jüdische Revolution
Else Lasker-Schüler, Gedichtbuch für Hugo May. Faksimile Edition
The Lost Portrait of Gutle Rothschild
The lost portrait of the matriarch of the Rothschild family, Gutle Rothschild (1735-1849), offers a window not only into the lives of the Rothschilds, but into the lives of Jewish women of the late 18th and early 19th century. The artist Oppenheim was affiliated with the Rothschild family for close to fifty years, and during that period executed a large number of commissions for them. It is possible to compare his extant works with this painting,…
Law, Hierarchy, and Gender
Why do the tannaim exempt women from time-bound commandments (m. Qiddushin 1:7)? In this paper it is argued that the unequal levels of obligation for men and women in rabbinic Judaism creates a hierarchy of mitzvot between them that mimics and virtually replaces the earlier biblical hierarchy of mitzvot between priests and Israel. In both constellations the rabbis consider the obligation to fulfill more commandments to be a privilege. The similar…
Daniel Hoffmann, „Die Welt zerbirst!“ Ein Essay zu Uriel Birnbaums Sonettzyklus „In Gottes Krieg“
Fußspuren eines gaonäischen Midrasch zu Hiob (32
It is well established in research that the earlier sages (“Kadmonim” as well as “Rishonim”) had a broader access to Midrash sources than in modern times, due to changes in the forms of transmission of Jewish traditions. Since the 19th century, scholars have discovered and published fragments of Midrash literature, among other genres, from various recovered sources. Similar rediscoveries have also been made by scholars regarding the Geonim from B…
Abraham Abulafia in den Fußstapfen des Maimonides
Plato and Aristotle in Hebrew Garb
Maoz Azaryahu. An Everlasting Name
an das im jdischen Kontext wegweisende Werk von
Jehoschua Ahrens. Gemeinsam gegen Antisemitismus – Die Konferenz von Seelisberg (1947) revisited
Michael Rothberg. Multidirektionale Erinnerung
Martin Hengel und Anna Maria Schwemer. Geschichte des frühen Christentums, Bd. 2
Peter Comestor’s Historia Scholastica
Petrus Comestor’s Historia Scholastica is a broad biblical rewriting composed ca. 1160 in the milieu of the cathedral school of Paris and the abbey of St. Victor. Also known as the ‘popular Bible’, it was considered a pivotal biblical manual until the mid-16th century, as the over 800 extant manuscripts show. For his wide-raging work, Comestor uses a variegated pool of sources, among which one of the most important is Flavius Josephus, known to C…
Decolonizing Anti-Semitism Studies
International audience
Noah Hacham und Tal Ilan (Hrsg.), Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum, Bd. 4. Berlin
Autobiographische Mitteilungen (ca. 1961)
Bücherblühen – Anfänge aphoristischer Autorschaft bei Elazar Benyoëtz
This article focuses on the beginnings of the aphoristic writings of Austrian-Israeli Hebrew poet and rabbi Elazar Benyoëtz (*1937). It draws on two novel sources: his personal library, which is one of the last private book collections in Israel to contain the German-Jewish literary canon, and a first draft of his autobiography. This article follows the first-time analysis of reading traces from the library’s marginalia and paraphernalia; five ca…