Books written by Geoffrey Herman
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A Question of Identity: Social, Political, and Historical Aspects of Identity Dynamics in Jewish and Other Contexts
The papers collected in this volume represent the proceedings of a January 2017 conference organized by the research group which dealt with identity formation in six contextual settings: Ethno-religious identities in light of the ...
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Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism
56 See David Stophlet Flattery and Martin Schwartz, Haoma and Harmaline: The Botanical Identity of the Indo-Iranian Sacred Hallucinogen “Soma” and Its Legacy in Religion, Language, and Middle Eastern Folklore (Berkeley: University of ...
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A Question of Identity: Social, Political, and Historical Aspects of Identity Dynamics in Jewish and Other Contexts
Were foreigners an integral part of the administration, and could they rise through ranks and positions? This article focuses on the question of the ... The article deals mainly with the Elamite cuneiform tablets found in Persepolis.
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The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World
The government, in response, dispatches a frēstaqa, a Persian official of some sort, to the scene (אקתסירפ).44 The ... See Smith, “Constantine and Judah the Maccabee”; idem, Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia, 110–11; ...
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Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism
... rabbinic sources in Rachel Neis's book The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture is mainly concerned with Palestine and Palestinian rabbinic sources, noting, in contrast, “the Bavli's relative lack of engagement with the visuality of ...
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Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism
This volume of collected essays seeks to tackle the question of scepticism in an Early Jewish context, including Ecclesiastes and other Jewish Second Temple works, rabbinic literature, and reflections of Jewish thought in early Christian ...