Author: William Horbury File Type: pdf This volume covers the history of Judaism in the Roman period. Political history is treated from Pompey to Vespasian, but many chapters on Jewish life and thought go beyond the period of the Flavian emperors to present themes and evidence of importance for Judaism up to the 3rd century CE. The approach has concentrated on the study of institutions and schools of thought through consideration of archaeological finds and inscriptions. Jewish-Gentile relations, temple and synagogue, groups and schools of thought - Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Baptist sects, the fourth philosophy and similar groups, Samaritans and the Christian movement - are examined. An unusual feature of the volume is its historical treatment of Christianity within the context of ancient Judaism. The Qumran texts, Philo and Josephus receive attention as does Jewish society in Judaea and Galilee. **Review ...this volume provides a rich...synthesis of many important issues relating to Jewish history in antiquity. It also has the potential of serving classicists and ancient historians in need of comparative material. Hagith Sivan, Department of History, University of Kansas This important reference work offers authoritative summaries on a variety of themes that will be found highly useful both by educators and college students. Its extensive bibliography arranged by chapters and topics also provides a substantial guide for further scholarly inquiry. For every college and universitys reference collection. Religious Studies Review There is a vast amount of information in this book....Horbury has performed a remarkable feat in updating and balancing the volume. The Journal of Religion ...a useful reference volume...teachers at the university level will find in individual chapters particularly good assigned reading. SHoFar This highly informative volume, together with its antecedents and presumably with one volume yet to come, is an essential reference work for colleges and seminary libraries and for specialists in early Judaism and Christianity. Southwestern Journal of Theology Book Description This third volume in the series of a widely valued history of Judaism in the ancient world focuses on the period of the early Roman Empire. Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish schools of thought, the rise of Christianity and the archaeological findings and inscriptions throughout the Roman world receive full coverage.

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Author: Beverley Foulks McGuire File Type: pdf Ouyi Zhixu (15991655) was an eminent Chinese Buddhist monk who, contrary to his contemporaries, believed karma could be changed. Through vows, divination, repentance rituals, and ascetic acts such as burning and blood writing, he sought to alter what others understood as inevitable and inescapable. Drawing attention to Ouyis unique reshaping of religious practice, Living Karma reasserts the significance of an overlooked individual in the modern development of Chinese Buddhism. While Buddhist studies scholarship tends to privilege textual analysis, Living Karma promotes a balanced study of ritual practice and writing, treating Ouyis texts as ritual objects and his reading and writing as religious acts. Each chapter addresses a specific religious practicewriting, divination, repentance, vows, and bodily ritualsoffering first a diachronic overview of each practice within the history of Chinese Buddhism and then a synchronic analysis of each phenomenon through close readings of Ouyis work. The book sheds much-needed light on this little-known figure and his representation of karma, which proved to be a seminal innovation in the religious thought of late imperial China.