La ricerca di Shaye J. D. Cohen esplora principalmente i confini tra ebrei e gentili, e tra l'ebraismo e le culture circostanti. È un'autorità pubblicata sulle reazioni ebraiche all'ellenismo e al cristianesimo. Il suo lavoro approfondisce le dinamiche di identità e assimilazione all'interno delle società antiche, esaminando come le comunità ebraiche hanno affrontato le influenze esterne preservando la propria unicità. La competenza di Cohen offre profonde intuizioni sulle intricate relazioni tra diversi gruppi religiosi e culturali nell'antichità.
Beginning with the intriguing case of Herod the Great's Jewishness, this title discusses what made or did not make Jewish identity during the period, the question of conversion, the prohibition of intermarriage, matrilineal descent, and the place of the convert in the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds. číst celé
Focusing on the evolution of Judaism during the Roman Empire and the emergence of rabbinic Judaism, this updated edition delves into the intricate interplay between Jews and Gentiles, the role of Jewish religion in society, and the rise of various Jewish sects. Shaye Cohen's comprehensive analysis combines religious, literary, and historical perspectives, offering clarity on the biblical canon's formation and the foundations of rabbinic thought. This work serves as an essential introduction to the historical context that influenced both Judaism and early Christianity.
This volume collects thirty essays by Shaye J. D. Cohen. First published between 1980 and 2006, these essays deal with a wide variety of themes and texts: Jewish Hellenism; Josephus; the Synagogue; Conversion to Judaism; Blood and Impurity; the boundary between Judaism and Christianity. What unites them is their philological orientation. Many of these essays are close studies of obscure passages in Jewish and Christian texts. The essays are united too by their common assumption that the ancient world was a single cultural continuum; that ancient Judaism, in all its expressions and varieties, was a Hellenism; and that texts written in Hebrew share a world of discourse with those written in Greek. Many of these essays are well-known and have been much discussed in contemporary scholarship. Among these are: „The Significance of Yavneh“ (the title essay), „Patriarchs and Scholarchs,“ „Masada: Literary Tradition, Archaeological Remains, and the Credibility of Josephus,“ „Epigraphical Rabbis,“ „The Conversion of Antoninus,“ „Menstruants and the Sacred in Judaism and Christianity,“ and „A Brief History of Jewish Circumcision Blood.“