Martha Himmelfarb: 2 books
A Kingdom of Priests
Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
According to the account in the Book of Exodus, God addresses the children of Israel as they stand before Mt. Sinai with the words, "You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" (19:6). The sentence, Martha Himmelfarb observes, is paradoxical, for priests are by definition...
by Martha Himmelfarb
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
The seventh-century CE Hebrew work Sefer Zerubbabel (Book of Zerubbabel)—a tale of two messiahs—is the first full-fledged messianic narrative in Jewish literature. Martha Himmelfarb offers a comprehensive analysis of this rich understudied text, illuminating its distinctive literary features and the complex milieu from which it arose.