A History of Jewish Literature: From the Close of the Bible to Our Own Days, Vol. III: From the Middle of the Seventeenth Century to the Year Eighteen-Eighty. Meyer WaxmanThe Jew and the Universe. Solomon GoldmanFaith and Reason: The Conflict over the Rationalism of Maimonides. Joseph SarachekReligion of Reason: Hermann Cohen's System of Religious Philosophy. Trude Weiss RosmarinThe Alexandrian Halakah in Apologetic Literature of the First Century C. E.Samuel BelkinThe Jews: Race, Nation, or Religion?. Solomon ZeitlinReligious Parties in Israel: Their History, Methods, and Perils. Abraham Burstein

1937 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-235
Author(s):  
Conrad Henry Moehlman
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Universe

scholarly journals A History of Jewish Literature from the Close of the Bible to Our Own Days

Books Abroad ◽  
1934 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 475
Author(s):  
A. A. Roback ◽  
Meyer Waxman
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Literature ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of

The Maya: A Very Short Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Restall ◽  
Amara Solari
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Maya Civilization ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
City States ◽  
The Universe

The Maya: A Very Short Introduction examines the history and evolution of Maya civilization, explaining Maya polities or city-states, artistic expression, and ways of understanding the universe. Study of the Maya has tended to focus on the 2,000 years of history prior to contact with Europeans, and romantic ideas of discovery and disappearance have shaped popular myths about the Maya. However, they neither disappeared at the close of the Classic era nor were completely conquered by Europeans. Independent Maya kingdoms continued until the seventeenth century, and while none exists today, it is still possible to talk about a Maya world and Maya civilization in the twenty-first century.

Margaret Cavendish

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cunning
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Sensory Perception ◽  
First Century ◽  
Margaret Cavendish ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Universe

Margaret Cavendish, a seventeenth-century philosopher, scientist, poet, playwright, and novelist, went to battle with the great thinkers of her time, and in many cases arguably got the better of them, but she did not have the platform that she would have had in the twenty-first century. She took a creative and systematic stand on the major questions of philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and political philosophy. She defends a number of theses across her corpus: for example, that human beings and all other members of the created universe are wholly material; that matter is eternal; that the universe is a plenum of contiguous bodies; that matter is generally speaking knowledgeable and perceptive and that non-human creatures like spiders, plants, and cells exhibit wisdom and skill; that motion is never transferred from one body to another, but bodies always move by motions that are internal to them; that sensory perception is not via impressions or stamping; that we can have no ideas of immaterials; and that creatures depend for their properties and features on the behavior of the beings that surround them. Cavendish uses her fictional work to further illustrate these views, and in particular to illustrate the view that creatures depend on their surroundings for their social and political properties. For example, she crafts alternative worlds in which women are not seen as unfit for roles such as philosopher, scientist, and military general, and in which they flourish. This volume of Cavendish’s writings provides a cross-section of her interconnected writings, views, and arguments.

The Origins of the Noahide Laws

2011 ◽  
pp. 11-35
Author(s):  
David Novak
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Moral Standard ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Demographic

This chapter traces the origins of the Noahide laws in the history of Judaism. Earlier scholars located its origins variously: in the Bible, among Hittite legal scholars, and during the Maccabean era. The chapter maintains, contrary to prior scholarship, that the concept of the Noahide is absent until the first century CE; that is, it is a rabbinic creation. While theology can discover the beginnings of the Noahide laws in the Torah, their historical starting point can only be established following the social, demographic, and religious dislocations of the Second Temple's destruction in 70 CE. For the rabbis, these laws originated prior to the Sinaitic revelation; they were the moral standard for the entire gentile world, and that world of course included the ancestors of those who would later accept the covenant at Sinai. Israelites before Sinai, then, were Noahides. The Noahide laws were also considered obligatory for all time, and would be the measure by which gentiles would be judged.

Josephus and the Septuagint

2021 ◽  
pp. 419-433
Author(s):  
Tessa Rajak
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Greek Version ◽  
Textual Evidence ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of

The primary concern of the present chapter is to establish what the Greek Bible meant for Josephus. We ask how his own Greek version of the Bible was facilitated by the Septuagint, or rather by Greek translations current in his day, and more precisely how far we can establish whether such texts underlie his own presentation. At the same time, any such investigation will also tell us important things about the fate and fortunes of LXX, above all within first-century Judaism. There is much more in this exploration than just the occasional light that Josephus’s renderings have shed on the history of the versions, though it is for textual evidence that Josephus has mainly been invoked in LXX scholarship.

The Effects of Confessional Strife on Religious Authority in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 303-324
Author(s):  
Henk Nellen
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Hard Core ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Biblical Authority ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

This chapter discusses the confessional controversies on biblical authority and ecclesiastical tradition in the first half of the seventeenth century. While Protestant theologians upheld the status of the Bible as a divinely inspired, unique, coherent, and self-evident source of faith and stressed the subordinate significance of the patristic legacy, the Roman Catholic camp embraced the importance of the teachings of the Church Fathers, conciliar decrees, and papal decisions as a rock-solid criterion for a sound interpretation of the Bible. On the basis of treatises authored by eminent and hard-core exponents of Calvinism like Abraham Scultetus, Jean Daillé, Louis Cappel, and André Rivet, set against the views of the Jesuit Denis Pétau, expert in the history of the primitive church, it is argued that debates led to a reciprocal undermining of viewpoints, which eventually paved the way for more radical positions at the end of the century.

Who Wrote What When: The Bible, Science and Criticism

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-315
Author(s):  
Geert Lernout
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
John William Draper ◽  
Century Science

According to the traditional (or ‘whig’) interpretation of history, sometime in the seventeenth century science was born in the form that we know today, in a new spirit that can best be summed up by the motto of the Royal Society: nullius in verba, take nobody's word for it. In the next few centuries this new critical way of looking at reality was instrumental in the creation of a coherent view of the world, and of that world's history, which was found to be increasingly at odds with traditional claims, most famously in the case of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. By the end of the nineteenth century, the divide between science and religion was described by means of words such as ‘conflict’ and ‘warfare,’ the terms used by John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White in the titles of their respective books: History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874) and History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896).

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