The commerce of the sacred : meditation of the divine among Jews in the Graeco-Roman world
By: by Jack N. Lightstone ; with a foreword to the new edition by Willi Braun and an updated bibliography by Herbert W. Basser.
Contributors: Basser, Herbert W.
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Mediation between God and man -- Judaism.; Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.; Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.; Christianity and other religions -- Judaism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Magicians and divine men; title: The dead and their tombs; title: The life of Torah in the diaspora; title: The synagogue; title: The synagogue and the church, remarks on the sociology of Jewish-Christian interaction; title: Christians, Jews in the Graeco-Roman diaspora, and rabbis; title: Conclusions : the commerce of the sacred and the social : anthropology of knowledge.