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{"title":"A.J. Berkovitz: A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023; pp. x + 263.","authors":"Eileen Schuller","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13088","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13088","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In preparing this review, I chanced upon a short somewhat autobiographical essay by A. J. Berkovitz in <i>Ancient Jew Review</i>, October 24, 2023. There he reflected on the memories and the questions that animated the research behind this book. He recalled how his mother read the complete book of Psalms cover-to-cover in English or in Yiddish every single week and his puzzlement at why she found this practice meaningful and important. As an academic scholar he was trained in the rabbinic tradition and specifically in reading texts in terms of midrashic exegesis so as to dissect and interpret verse-by-verse. Yet he came to realize that the book of Psalms had a much broader and richer “life” both in the past and in the present.</p><p>In this book, instead of asking the more usual question “What meaning did the Jews produce from the Psalms?”, a question that focuses on interpretative methods and their results, Berkovitz reformulates the question to ask “How did the Jews encounter the Psalms?” (p. 11). He proposes that there are four major ways of engagement with the Psalter: as a material object, specifically a scroll; as songs to be sung in communal settings in the synagogue; as a book to be read for edification and consolation; and as an apotropaic defence against demonic powers. These modes of encounter are explored consecutively in the four chapters of the book.</p><p>The Introduction carefully sets out the parameters for the study, with special attention to what is included and what is omitted. The book does not attempt to treat the psalms as they were used and experienced in their earliest life within the Jerusalem temple cult. Nor does it tackle the formation of the book of the Psalter during the Second Temple period in what Berkovitz describes as “the pre-canonical chaos” (p. 7). For the period under study, there is a “single, distinguishable, concretely canonical entity” (p. 7), a text called <i>Sefer Tehillim</i>, the book of Psalms or the Psalter. The label “Late Antiquity” covers the late second century to mid-seventh century, that is, between the fall of Jerusalem and the rise of Islam, though the boundaries are porous on both ends. The geographical boundaries are Greco-Roman Palestine, Sassanian Persia and their environs; the linguistic focus is the Hebrew- and Aramaic-speaking Jews. The written sources are the classical literature of the rabbis. (Mishnah, Tosefta, tannaitic and amoraic midrash, Palestinian Talmud and Babylonian Talmud). Although occasional reference is made to Targum Psalms (the Aramaic translation) and to Midrash Psalms (a verse-by-verse commentary), these are not the focus since they probably are to be dated somewhat later than the period under consideration. A limited number of early Christian sources that touch on the use of the Psalter are introduced, especially in chapter four.</p><p>The first two chapters collect and examine almost every instance in which rabbinic literature refers to a “book of Psalms.” In","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 4","pages":"491-493"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.13088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141552209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Animals, Wonder, and “Order Trouble” during the Jesuit Mission to Japan","authors":"Drisana Misra","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13064","url":null,"abstract":"When Jesuit missionaries began arriving in Japan in the sixteenth century, they brought not only a new religion, Christianity, but also several domestic and exotic animals. Not only did these animals provoke feelings of curiosity and wonder, but they became a site of epistemic contestation between Christian and Buddhist views on human‐animal relations. In Buddhist thought, humans and animals were conceived of as interrelated, as both were thought to be trapped in an endless cycle of death and rebirth. On the other hand, in Christian thought, humans and animals were stratified according to Aristotelian hierarchies, according to which the former were viewed as superior to the latter. After the Jesuits arrived in Japan, it soon became clear that their proselytes' pre‐existing modes of relating to and classifying the natural world would need to be converted to Aristotelian ones in order to propagate a Christian way of life. Thus, animals became a central part of Jesuit evangelism. Many of these creatures were deployed as tribute gifts, which altered the emotional landscape between the European and Japanese humans who used them as a buffer. This paper explores how animals, wonder, and religious epistemologies intersected to transform Japanese Christian attitudes towards animals during the Jesuit Mission to Japan.","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"154 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141530822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lambeth Palace Library: Historic Archives in a New Building","authors":"Rachel Cosgrave","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13071","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13071","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Lambeth Palace Library's new purpose-built premises were opened in 2021, uniting the collections previously held in the historic buildings at Lambeth (including the manuscript collection, papers of the archbishops of Canterbury, and holdings of early and modern printed books), and the extensive archives of other central Church bodies (including records of the Ecclesiastical/Church Commissioners) formerly held at the Church of England Record Centre. Together the collections encompass a wealth of information from the medieval to the modern period, which continue to develop as more material is added to the Library's holdings. The collections document the history of the central Church of England, but also support research into a multitude of other topics alongside this. The building will enable better preservation of the collections and provides expansion space for their development. It also presents greater opportunities to enhance access than was possible in the historic premises, via its Reading Room, exhibition area, and other spaces for public events, building on the Library's purpose originated at its foundation in 1610.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 3","pages":"304-310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wei, Wu: Esoteric Buddhism in China: Engaging Japanese and Tibetan Traditions, 1912–1949. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024; pp. 312.","authors":"Joshua Esler","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13085","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 4","pages":"489-491"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Looking for the Secular in Religious Archives — a Cross-Channel Perspective","authors":"Geraldine Vaughan","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13075","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13075","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Written from the perspective of a social historian trained in the French tradition, this article investigates how the study of nineteenth-century Irish migrations to Britain contributes to the study of the nature of “religious archives.” In France, the writing of social history during the twentieth century was heavily influenced by sociologists and their view that religious facts were cultural and social phenomena. This outtake was also encouraged by the classification of ecclesiastical archives which were transferred to State repositories and organised according to lay and secular categories after the French Revolution. This article explores nineteenth-century Roman Catholic schooling in Scotland as a case study. Since 1918, Scottish Catholic school records have been transferred to public repositories and categorised in “secular” fashion. Investigating the case of religious schools means looking for secular matters in ecclesiastical school records and clerical notes (the diaries of Father Michael Condon, d. 1902, are an exceptional source on that matter). In the end, this article argues that there can be no strict separation in the historical exploration of the past between the use of “religious” and “secular” archives. Ecclesiastical preoccupations never excluded worldly concerns, and down-to-earth considerations were an integral part of parish and school lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 3","pages":"352-361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.13075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Katherine Aron-Beller: Christian Images and their Jewish Desecrators. The History of an Allegation, 400–1700. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024; pp. 426","authors":"Francois Soyer","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13084","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 3","pages":"388-389"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141500555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Archives to the Classroom: Using Religious Archives to Promote Religious Literacy and Toleration amongst European Young People","authors":"John Maiden","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13074","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13074","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the thinking behind the Religious Toleration and Peace (RETOPEA) project, and specifically the construction of a digital archive of sources concerning religious diversity in Europe and beyond, past and present. It argues that European young people tend to accept Enlightenment assumptions about the past and ‘religious conflict’ and that their views of religious history are shaped by ‘presentism’. The article explores RETOPEA's approach to selecting, preparing, and curating a digital archive which presents to young people a fuller picture of both religious intolerance <i>and</i> tolerance in the past, and which enables them to think ‘with’ history rather than assume simplistic lessons from the past.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 3","pages":"343-351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.13074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141371586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evan Haefeli: Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497–1662. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021; pp. 383.","authors":"Haimo Li","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13079","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13079","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 3","pages":"384-386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141373602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Azzan Yadin-Israel: Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.","authors":"Henrike Christiane Lange","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13081","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13081","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 3","pages":"386-388"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141374675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rotem Kowner (ed.): Jewish Communities in Modern Asia: Their Rise, Demise and Resurgence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023; pp. xxiii +422","authors":"Dylan H. O'Brien","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13076","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 3","pages":"382-384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141189657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}