A holy people : Jewish and Christian perspectives on religious communal identity /

A holy people : Jewish and Christian perspectives on religious communal identity / edited by Marcel Poorthuis & Joshua Schwartz. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006. - xviii, 395 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Jewish and Christian perspectives series, v.12 1388-2074 ; .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"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.

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Holiness--Judaism--History.
Holiness--Christianity--History of doctrines.
People of God.
Jews--Identity.
Church--Holiness.
Identity (Psychology)--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Identity (Psychology)--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Group identity.
Jodendom.
Christendom.
Heiligheid.
Identiteit.

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