{"product_id":"ritual-dynamics-in-jewish-and-christian-contexts-between-bible-and-liturgy-9789004400924","title":"Ritual Dynamics in Jewish and Christian Contexts: Between Bible and Liturgy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRitual Dynamics in Jewish and Christian Contexts investigates questions that arise in modern ritual studies concerning Jewish and Christian religious communities: How did their religious rituals develop? Where did different ritual communities and their ritual texts interact? How did religious communities and their authoritative texts respond to change, and how did change influence religious rituals? The volume is a product of the interdisciplinary and international research efforts taken by the Research Centre “Dynamics of Jewish Ritual Practices in Pluralistic Contexts from Antiquity to the Present” at the Universität Erfurt (Germany) and unites the voices of important senior and emerging scholars in the field. It focuses on antiquity and the medieval period but also considers examples from the early modern and modern period in Europe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments  List of Figures  Abbreviations  Contributors  Introduction   Günter Stemberger    Part 1: Ritual Dynamics in (Holy) Jewish and Christian Texts  1 Is Rabbinic Prayer a Liturgy, or Essentially a Reading of Texts?   Stefan C. Reif    2 Ritualizing the Cleaning of the House before Passover in Medieval Ashkenaz: Image and Text in Illuminated Haggadot   Katrin Kogman-Appel    3 The Ritualization of Manufacturing and Handling Holy Books by the Hasidei Ashkenaz between Halakah and Magic   Annett Martini    4 Concepts of History and Tradition in Modern Liturgical Books   Martin Klöckener    Part 2: A Dynamic Relationship: Christian and Jewish Traces in Jewish and Christian Texts  5 Memories of the Temple and Memories of Temples   Clemens Leonhard    6 Conceptual and Ideological Aspects in the Mishnaic Description of Bringing the First Fruits to Jerusalem   Hillel Mali    7 Christian Presence in Jewish Ritual   Yaacov Deutsch    Part 3: Comparing and Contrasting Rituals  8 Initiation by Circumcision and Water Baptism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity   Gerard Rouwhorst    9 Space, Ritual, and Politics in (the Reconstruction of) the Ancient Synagogue: an Exploration of the Historical Archive   Anders Runesson    Part 4: Dynamic Rituals and Innovation of Rituals in Modern Contexts  10 Olive Oil, Anointing, Ecstasy, and Ecology   Jonathan Schorsch    Index of Ancient Sources  Index of Modern Authors","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210776600919,"sku":"9789004400924","price":127.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ritual-dynamics-in-jewish-and-christian-contexts-between-bible-and-liturgy-9789004400924","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}