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Title A holy people : Jewish and Christian perspectives on religious communal identity / edited by Marcel Poorthuis & Joshua Schwartz.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 395 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Jewish and Christian perspectives series, 1388-2074 ; v. 12
Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; v. 12. 1388-2074
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents "Holy people" : the Biblical evidence / Pancratius Beentjes -- Trade, ideology, and boundary maintenance in Iron Age Israelite society / Avraham Faust -- A holy people in the winepress : treading the grapes and holiness / Joshua Schwartz -- Holiness and sanctity in the Dead Sea scrolls / Lawrence Schiffman -- Table community in early Christianity / Gerard Rouwhorst -- Was the Didache community a group within Judaism? : an assessment on the basis of its eucharistic prayers / Huub van de Sandt -- "A city that makes all Israel friends" : normative communitas and the struggle for religious legitimacy in pilgrimages to the Second Temple / Jackie Feldman -- Your neighbor is like yourself : a broad generalization with regard to the Torah / Moshe Benovitz -- Recording the sainthood of the missionaries in the Carolingian era : typology and its limits / Bat-Sheva Albert -- The Cathar community in the south of France and its religious self-definition as God's holy people / Daniela Müller -- Community responsibility towards its members : the case of ransom of captives / Yvonne Friedman -- "Qehillah qedosha" : sacred community in medieval Ashkenazic law and culture / Jeffrey Woolf -- Holy inhabitants of a holy city : how Safed became one of the four holy cities of Eretz Israel in the 16th century / Yair Paz -- The ambivalent role of the "people of God" in twentieth century Catholic theology : the examples of Yves Congar and Edward Schillebeeckx / Erik Borgman -- "Holy people" : some Protestant views / Simon Schoon -- Who we say we are : Jewish self-definition in two modern Dutch liberal prayer books / Judith Frishman -- The holiness of the church / Herwi Rikhof -- Pilgrims "communitas" in the Holy Land : the case of Mormon pilgrimage / Yael Guter -- The holy people among the philosophers : a grim tale / Victor Kal -- On the holiness of the poeple of Israel in the thoughts of Abraham Joshua Heschel / Alexander Even-Chen.
Summary Investigating the various ways in which Jews and Christians define their religious identity, people or community, as being holy, this study offers a large collection of essays, relating to the biblical, patristic and medieval period and especially to the modern period.
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Subject Holiness -- Judaism -- History.
Holiness -- Judaism.
History.
Holiness -- Christianity -- History of doctrines.
Holiness -- Christianity.
People of God.
People of God.
Jews -- Identity.
Jews -- Identity.
Church -- Holiness.
Church -- Holiness.
Identity (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Identity (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Identity (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Identity (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Group identity.
Group identity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Poorthuis, Marcel, 1955-
Schwartz, Joshua.
Other Form: Print version: Holy people. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006 (DLC) 2006042537 (OCoLC)63703972
ISBN 9789047409236 (electronic book)
904740923X (electronic book)
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9789004150522
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9781281399113
9004150528 (alkaline paper)
9789004150522 (alkaline paper)
Standard No. 9789004150522