Maren R. Niehoff explore en profondeur la pensée juive et les textes anciens. Son travail se concentre sur la manière dont les écrits juifs anciens ont été interprétés et comment ils ont interagi avec les traditions savantes plus larges de leur époque. Niehoff enquête sur la façon dont les auteurs ont façonné l'identité et la culture par l'analyse littéraire, et comment les personnages et leurs récits ont évolué dans des écrits ultérieurs. Son érudition éclaire les relations complexes entre la tradition religieuse, les études littéraires et l'histoire intellectuelle.
The book offers a detailed examination of the interpretative methods used by Alexandrian Jews in their biblical studies, particularly in relation to the insights gained from Homeric scholarship of their time. It explores the interplay between these two significant literary traditions, shedding light on the cultural and intellectual environment that influenced Jewish biblical interpretation in Alexandria.
This collection of articles places the frequently discussed question of the introvert Self into a new interdisciplinary context: rather than tracing a linear development from social forms of life with an outward orientation to individual introspection, it argues for significant overlaps between interior and exterior dimensions, between the Self and society. A team of internationally renowned experts from different fields examines Pagan, Jewish and Christian voices on an equal basis and explores the complexity of their messages. Philosophical texts are analyzed next to letters, legal sources, Bible interpretation and material evidence. Not only is the experience of individuals examined, but also instructions from authoritative figures in a position to shape constructions of the Self. The book is divided into three parts; namely, „Constructing the Self“, a field usually treated by philosophers, „Self-Fashioning“, generally associated with literature, and „Self and Individual in Society“, commonly the domain of historians. This volume shows the complexity of each category and their overlaps by engaging unexpected sources in each section and interrogating internal as well as external dimensions.
In the Roman Empire, travelling was something of a central feature, facilitating commerce, pilgrimage, study abroad, tourism, and ethnographic explorations. The present volume investigates for the first time intellectual aspects of this phenomenon by giving equal attention to pagan, Jewish, and Christian perspectives. A team of experts from different fields argues that journeys helped construct cultural identities and negotiate between the local and the particular on the one hand, and wider imperial discourses on the other. A special point of interest is the question of how Rome engages the attention of intellectuals from the Greek East and offers new opportunities of self-fashioning. Pagans, Jews, and Christians shared similar experiences and constructed comparable identities in dialogue, sometimes polemics, with each other. The collection addresses the following themes: real and imagined geography, reconstructing encounters in distant places, between the bodily and the holy, Jesus' travels from different perspectives, and destination Rome. The articles in each section are arranged in chronological order, ranging from early imperial texts to rabbinic and patristic literature.
Eine intellektuelle Biographie
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