Craft Guilds as Synagogues? Further Thoughts on “Private Judean-Deity Associations”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10907109 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benedikt Eckhardt (0000-0003-2710-9746, Universität Bremen, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Abteilung Alte GeschichtePostfach 330 440, 28334 BremenGermany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 246-260 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Study of Judaism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2212 • E-ISSN: 1570-0631 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15700631-12341165 |
| OpenAlex | W2584142900 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The article responds to the challenge against the conventional understanding of ancient “synagogue” communities recently offered by Richard Last. While it is important to criticize the use of the term and some of its implications in modern scholarship, the argument that craft guilds worshipping the Judean deity among others should not be categorically distinguished from groups assembling only Ioudaioi and honoring only yhwh is shown to be based on a problematic understanding of several Greek inscriptions. It is precisely in the context of Graeco-Roman forms of social aggregation that this distinction is most pertinent
Ancient history · Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Context (archaeology · Craft · Epigraphy · Jewish studies · Judaism · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |