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Reconfiguring the Land of Israel
A Rabbinic Project
Series: - The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, Volume: 76
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This book is about ways in which the land of Israel, the homeland of the most paradigmatic of all diasporas, was envisioned in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the literature of the sages. It is about the Land according to the redefined Judaism that emerged in the centuries following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE. This Judaism replaced the temple cult with Torah study - a study that pertained in part to that very temple cult, that became a portable homeland, and that reconfigured the Land.
Constanza Cordoni received her PhD in Jewish studies (2016) and her venia legendi in Jewish Studies (2021) from the University of Vienna. She is the author of
Seder Eliyahu: A Narratological Reading (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018).
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations of Ancient Sources
1 Introduction
1.1 Diaspora Studies
1.2 The Land of Israel: A Place in Late Ancient Texts
1.3 The Literature of the Second Temple Period
1.4 Rabbinic Literature: Status Quaestionis
2 The Land of the Fathers Rabbinised
2.1 The Patriarchs and the Homeland They Were Given
2.2 The Cave of Machpelah: Purchased Property
2.3 The Rabbinic Land of the Fathers in the Land of Israel
3 When You Come into the Land: Stories of a Land That Became Holy
3.1 Historical Praise of the Land’s Ahistorical Holiness
3.2 Sanctifying the Land in History
4 The Land—A Commandment I: Dwelling in the Land
4.1 The Precept in Tannaitic Texts
4.2 Amoraic and Post-Amoraic Expansions
5 The Land—A Commandment II: Keeping the Land Jewish
5.1 Selling in Perpetuity
5.2 On Not Selling or Letting Real Estate
5.3 Rescuing the Land
6 The Significance of a Burial in the Land
6.1 The Tannaitic Basis
6.2 Amoraic Elaboration: Reception, Reinterment, or Rolling
6.3 Post-Amoraic Approaches
7 The End of History and the New Land
7.1 Messianic Footsteps and Battles
7.2 The Four Kingdoms
7.3 The Kingdom of Ishmael’s Rule over the Land
7.4 End-Time Perfection
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations of Ancient Sources
1 Introduction
1.1 Diaspora Studies
1.2 The Land of Israel: A Place in Late Ancient Texts
1.3 The Literature of the Second Temple Period
1.4 Rabbinic Literature: Status Quaestionis
Part 1 Past
2 The Land of the Fathers Rabbinised
2.1 The Patriarchs and the Homeland They Were Given
2.2 The Cave of Machpelah: Purchased Property
2.3 The Rabbinic Land of the Fathers in the Land of Israel
3 When You Come into the Land: Stories of a Land That Became Holy
3.1 Historical Praise of the Land’s Ahistorical Holiness
3.2 Sanctifying the Land in History
Part 2 Present
4 The Land—A Commandment I: Dwelling in the Land
4.1 The Precept in Tannaitic Texts
4.2 Amoraic and Post-Amoraic Expansions
5 The Land—A Commandment II: Keeping the Land Jewish
5.1 Selling in Perpetuity
5.2 On Not Selling or Letting Real Estate
5.3 Rescuing the Land
Part 3 Future
6 The Significance of a Burial in the Land
6.1 The Tannaitic Basis
6.2 Amoraic Elaboration: Reception, Reinterment, or Rolling
6.3 Post-Amoraic Approaches
7 The End of History and the New Land
7.1 Messianic Footsteps and Battles
7.2 The Four Kingdoms
7.3 The Kingdom of Ishmael’s Rule over the Land
7.4 End-Time Perfection
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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