IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 335: Messianic Redemption in Medieval Ashkenaz: Hanukkah and Passover
Monday 6 July 2015, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Sara Offenberg, Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan |
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Moderator/Chair: | Sara Offenberg, Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan |
Paper 335-a | Between Heaven and Earth: The Journey of the Soul and the Redemption of Man in Hokhmat ha-Nefesh of R. Eleazar of Worms (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Religious Life |
Paper 335-b | The Castilian Reception of German Pietist Practices for Redemption from Sin: The Case of R. Joseph Hamadan (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Religious Life, Sexuality |
Abstract | 'Medieval Jews saw themselves and their neighbors in highly archetypical paradigms, in terms drawn from the vast reservoir of biblical and rabbinical imagery.' (R. Chazan, 1988). This typological thinking penetrated medieval Ashkenazi concepts about future, about final redemption and messianic times, and it emerges both from textual and in visual sources. This interdisciplinary session wishes to examine the redemption rituals in texts, illuminations, and physical objects of the festivals of Hanukkah and Passover. |