In this volume of collected papers, acknowledged authorities in Jewish Studies mark the milestones in the development of the Jewish religion from ancient times up to the present. They also take full account of the interactions between Judaism and its ancient and Christian environment.

The renowned Viennese scholar Günter Stemberger is honoured with this festschrift on the occasion of his 65th birthday.

Autorentext

Mauro Perani, University of Bologna, Italy.

Inhalt

Mauro Perani: Foreword; Kurt Schubert and Fritz Werner: Preface; Peter Schäfer: A Brief Survey of Günter Stemberger's Scholarly Work; The Bibliography of Günter Stemberger (1972-2005); Christoph Dohmen: Grenzen der Interpretation für die von Gott zur Auslegung gegebene Torah? Chaim Milikowsky: Rabbinic Interpretation of the Bible in the Light of Ancient Hermeneutical Practice; Armin Lange: Authoritative Literature and Scripture in the Chronistic Corpus; Daniel Boyarin: The Parables of Enoch and the Foundation of the Rabbinic Sect: A Hypothesis; Marc Philonenko: Sur les expressions élus de vérité, élus de justice et Elu de justice et de fidélité. Contribution à l'étude du sociolecte essénoqoumrânien; Jacob Neusner: How important was the Destruction of the Second Temple in the Formation of Rabbinic Judaism? Aryeh Kasher: Josephus in Praise of Mosaic Laws on Marriage (Contra Apionem, II, 199201); Jonathan J. Price: Some Aspects of Josephus' Theological Interpretation of the Jewish War; Lucio Troiani: Strabone e la cosiddetta riforma ellenistica; Corrado Martone: Verso un'edizione italiana dell'archivio di Babatha. Il Papiro Yadin 1: testo e traduzione; Piero Capelli: The Outer and the Inner Devil. On Representing the Evil One in Second Temple Judaism; Werner Eck Ehret den Kaiser. Bögen und Tore als Ehrenmonumente in der Provinz Iudaea; Miriam Pucci Ben Zeev: Were the Jews Accused of Roasting their Enemies? Aharon Oppenheimer: The Severan Emperors, Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and the Cities of Palestine; Miguel Pérez Fernández: Sobre las funciones de la partícula e- en Hebreo Misnaico; Lee I. Levine: Bet e'arim in Its Patriarchal Context; Olga Ruiz-Morell: Elementos singulares en Tosefta Sabbat; Guiseppe Veltri: Magic, Sex and Politics: The Media Power of Theatre Amusements in the Mirror of Rabbinic Literature; David M. Goldenberg: What Did Ham Do to Noah? Catherine Hezser: Towards the Study of Jewish Popular Culture in Roman Palestine; Carlos Del Valle Rodríguez: Los primeros contactos de la Iglesia con el Talmud. El significado de la deuterosis; Luis F. Girón Blanc: Midra Qohelet: Un fragmento de la Genizah de El Cairo; Gottfried Reeg: Die Ursache für die Bindung Isaaks: Wie lasen die Rabbinen die Bibel? Johann Maier: Berechtigung und Grenzen der Notwehr und Selbstverteidigung im jüdischen Recht; Ursula Ragacs: Hoffnung für die Zukunft: Feststellungen und Spekulationen zum jüdischen Verständnis von Dtn 30,3; Mauro Perani: Yosef Ben imón Kara's Lost Commentary on the Psalms: The Imola Fragment from the Italian Genizah; Saverio Campanini: Talmud, Philosophy, and Kabbalah: A Passage from Pico della Mirandola's Apologia and its source; Michael Krupp: Der Anfang der isronot ha-Schass - Literatur: Christliche Talmudzensur und ihre jüdische Überwindung; Kurt Schubert: Zionismus und jüdische Identität; Peter Schäfer: Judaistik und ihr Ort in der universitas litterarum heute: Einige Überlegungen zum Fach Judaistik in Deutschland