Ruth Clements | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (original) (raw)

Papers by Ruth Clements

New Approaches to the Study of Biblical Interpretation in Judaism of the Second Temple Period and in Early Christianity, 2013

This chapter explores some of the methodological issues raised in the process of interpreting art... more This chapter explores some of the methodological issues raised in the process of interpreting art as biblical interpretation. It raises three methodological points concerning the relationship between textual and iconic representations of biblical narratives and scenes. The first point concerns the nature of the relationship between texts and artistic productions. The second point concerns the mechanics and economics of art production. The chapter focuses on one aspect of Akedah iconography - the positioning of Isaac - to see what attention to this graphic element may and may not tell us about the reception of the biblical story in Jewish and Christian community contexts from late antiquity and forward. It suggests that the kneeling Isaac iconography originally developed by way of Isaac's prior cultural role, along with Daniel, the three young men, and other figures, as a model for martyrs. Keywords:Akedah iconography; artistic productions; Christian texts; Isaac; Jewish art; martyrs

This volume illustrates the ways in which the discovery of the scrolls has altered our paradigms ... more This volume illustrates the ways in which the discovery of the scrolls has altered our paradigms of biblical interpretation, investigating connections within and between Jewish and Christian interpretive texts.

Was 70 CE a Watershed in Jewish History?, 2012

This chapter takes recent historical reconsiderations of 70 CE as a significant but not ultimatel... more This chapter takes recent historical reconsiderations of 70 CE as a significant but not ultimately or universally disruptive event as a basis from which to reconsider the rhetorical crafting of the destruction of the Temple/Jerusalem as the event that "made all the difference." It argues that such a recrafting began among early Christians primarily in the wake of the Bar Kochba revolt. Justin Martyr, in particular, seems to have taken the lead in using a range of biblical texts to cast the events of 70, in conjunction with the aftermath of the Bar Kochba revolt, as a direct consequence of Jesus' crucifixion. The chapter suggests that the Christian construction of 70 becomes a shadow partner of the producers of the Mishnah and later rabbinic literature in conceptualizing what it means for Jews to be God's people. Keywords:early Christians; Jerusalem Temple; Jews; Justin Martyr; rabbinic literature

NEW APPROACHES, Exile and Self-Identity in the Qumran Sect and in Hellenistic Judaism NOAH HACHAM... more NEW APPROACHES, Exile and Self-Identity in the Qumran Sect and in Hellenistic Judaism NOAH HACHAM The Legacy of the Teacher of Righteousness in the Dead Sea Scrolls LOREN T. STUCKENBRUCK Ritual Density in Qumran Practice: Ablutions in the Serekh Ha-Yahad MICHAEL A. DAISE From Enoch to John the Essene: An Analysis of Sectarian Development in 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and the Essenes EYAL REGEV INNOVATIVE READINGS Education and Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls in Light of their Background in Antiquity BILHAH NITZAN The Use of Scripture in 1Q/4QMysteries TORLEIF ELGVIN Memory and Manuscript: Books, Scrolls and the Tradition of the Dead Sea Scrolls LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN The Wood-Offering: The Evolution of a Halakhah in Qumran and Rabbinic Law CANA WERMAN REASSESSING OLD PERSPECTIVES Further Reflections on a Divine and Angelic Humanity in the Dead Sea Scrolls CRISPIN H. T. FLETCHER-LOUIS The Polemic against the Tevul Yom: A Reexamination MARTHA HIMMELFARB Qumran and the Genealogy of Western Mysti...

The papers published in this volume were presented at the Fifth Orion International Symposium (Je... more The papers published in this volume were presented at the Fifth Orion International Symposium (Jerusalem, 2000), which focused on prayer and poetry in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The volume examines the recently published poetical and liturgical texts from Qumran against the background of Second Temple Judaism, its biblical antecedents, and later rabbinic developments. The essays treat a variety of prayers and religious practices, as well as major issues in the history of Jewish liturgy. Topics range from magic, mysticism and thanksgiving to lamentation, fast day rituals, communal worship, and the relationship between the prayers from Qumran and the traditional Jewish prayers. The application of new Scrolls material to this breadth of topics constitutes an important contribution to the study of religious poetry, religious practice, and liturgy.

Page 1. Things Revealed Studies in Early Jewish and Christian Literature in Honor of Michael E. S... more Page 1. Things Revealed Studies in Early Jewish and Christian Literature in Honor of Michael E. Stone Edited by ESTHERG.CHAZON, RUTH A. CLEMENTS Page 2. Things Revealed Page 3. Supplements to the Journal for the ...

This volume presents new perspectives on the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls. New methodologies and topi... more This volume presents new perspectives on the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls. New methodologies and topics include identity, memory, ritual theory, sectarian sociology, philosophy of education, liturgical anthropology, Jewish law, history of religion, and mysticism.

Hebrew in the Second Temple Period, 2013

This volume offers a multi-disciplinary examination into the Hebrew of the Second Temple period a... more This volume offers a multi-disciplinary examination into the Hebrew of the Second Temple period as reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira, inscriptions, Greek and Latin transcriptions, the Samaritan oral and reading traditions of the Pentateuch, and Mishnaic Hebrew.

The studies in this volume examine the intersection of the Dead Sea Scrolls with early rabbinic l... more The studies in this volume examine the intersection of the Dead Sea Scrolls with early rabbinic literature. This is a particularly rich area for comparative study, which has not heretofore received sufficient scholarly attention. While some of the contributions in this ...

Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima, ed. Terence L. Donaldson, 2000

Noah and His Book(s) (ed. M. E. Stone, A. Amihay, and V. Hillel; SBLEJL 28; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature), 277-299, 2010

The story of Noah provided fertile ground not only for the literary imaginations of early Jews an... more The story of Noah provided fertile ground not only for the literary imaginations of early Jews and Christians but for their artistic imaginations as well. In the context of a collection of essays on the interpretation of the Noah story in mostly literary contexts, an investigation of artistic representations of Noah potentially may provide a nontextually bound window onto how this and other biblical narratives were received and were held to have meaning in early Jewish/Christian culture.

The Function of Scripture in Early Jewish and Christian Tradition (ed. Craig A. Evans, James A. Sanders; JSNTSup 154; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press], 285-311, 1998

Was 70 CE a Watershed in Jewish History? On Jews and Judaism before and after the Destruction of the Second Temple (ed. D. R. Schwartz & Z. Weiss; AJEC78; Leiden: Brill), 517-536, 2012

New Approaches to the Study of Biblical Interpretation in Judaism of the Second Temple Period and in Early Christianity ((ed. G. A. Anderson, R. A. Clements, & D. Satran; STDJ 106; Leiden: Brill, 2013), 207-240, 2013

Dead Sea Discoveries, Jan 1, 2005

Center for the Study o f the D SS and A ssociated Literature 1 M.E. Stone, "Aims and ?urposes of ... more Center for the Study o f the D SS and A ssociated Literature 1 M.E. Stone, "Aims and ?urposes of the Center," in "The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Serolls and Assoeiated Literature: General I^orm ation," 2 (pamphlet). Dead Sea Diseoveries 12, 1 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2005 Also ‫؛‬wailable online -www.brill.nl 2 From "About the Orion Center," htip://oriom ]^ee.hu]L^el 3 In addition to the "Serolls Forum," on whleh see below, the Center has begun in reeent years to work eooperatively with various ehapters of the Friends of the Hebrew University, to organize presentations for more general audienees in Israel and abroad. 4 Symposia proeeedlngs are published by E.J. Brill, Leiden, in the series. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah.

This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from t... more This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be from any type o f computer printer.

(STDJ 71; Leiden: Brill), 2007

... to the Bibliography Project. Many thanks to Mindy Anderson, Gunnar Magnus Eidsvåg, Ari Finkel... more ... to the Bibliography Project. Many thanks to Mindy Anderson, Gunnar Magnus Eidsvåg, Ari Finkelstein, Noa Kremer, Jeremy Penner, Shoshana Leah Rosen,Jacqueline Vayntrub, and Hannah Wortzman. We are indebted to ...

Recent Workshops and Conferences by Ruth Clements

Symposium: "The Judaeo-Arabic Biblical Manuscripts from the Vienna Papyrus Collection"