Since Judaism has always been seen as the quintessential 'religion of the book', a high literacy rate amongst ancient Jews has usually been taken for granted.
A comprehensive historical-critical study of Jewish slavery in antiquity, this work compares the Jewish discourse on slavery with Graeco-Roman and Christian attitudes.
Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1992.
This book provides the first comprehensive study of Jewish travel and mobility in Hellenistic and Roman times, based on a critical analysis of Jewish, Graeco-Roman, and early Christian literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources and a ...
In Rabbinic Body Language Catherine Hezser examines the literary representation of non-verbal communication within rabbinic circles and in encounters with others in Palestinian rabbinic documents of late antiquity.
Based on an understanding of scholasticism as a cross-cultural phenomenon, undertaken by rabbinic, Graeco-Roman, and Christian scholars in late antiquity, this book examines the development of Palestinian rabbinic compilations from social ...
Catherine Hezser zeigt, dass sich die judische und christliche Kunst der Spatantike in kontinuierlichem Austausch mit und Bezugnahme auf die kunstlerischen Ausdrucksweisen und theologischen Ansichten der jeweils anderen religiosen ...
Originally presented as the author's thesis, Heidelberg, 1985.