Rituals And Ethics

by Destro, Adriana; Pesce, Mauro

• ISBN13: 9789042914711
• ISBN10: 9042914718
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-30
• Publisher: Peeters Pub & Booksellers

Summary

What patterns of repentance are presented by such different religious traditions as Judaism, Christianity and Islam? How are transgressions cancelled in the eyes of God, the individual and society? What individual and collective actions are necessary for the granting of forgiveness? Today, the study of the mechanisms of social reconciliation based on inner and collective repentance is an increasingly urgent issue. An international conference on this subject was organized by 'Mediterraneum', with the participation of scholars from European, American and Middle Eastern universities. We publish here the essays by J Assmann (Heidelberg), P C Bori, A Destro, M Pesce (Bologna), A Feldtkeller (Berlin), G Filoramo (Turin), G Mayer (Heidelberg), M and M Arfa Mensia (Tunis), J Neusner (Bard College), M Nobile (Rome), P Vassiliadis and D Passakos(Thessaloniki).

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Confession in Ancient Egypt	1	(12)
Jan Assmann
Ritual and Ethics in the Liturgical Structuring of the Book of Ezekiel	13	(6)
Marco Nobile
Repentance in Judaism	19	(10)
Jacob Neusner
Repentance as Forgiveness, and the Role of Sacrifices in Jesus	29	(26)
Adriana Destro
Mauro Pesce
The Step Beyond Judaism. What Became of ``Metanoia'' in Earliest Christianity Among the Gentiles of Syria?	55	(16)
Andreas Feldtkeller
The Sacrament of Repentance in the Orthodox Tradition: A Theological and Cultural-Anthropological Approach	71	(12)
Petros Vassiliadis
Dimitris Passakos
Censorship Virtues. Private Sickness and Public Healing in the Penitential Regime of Ancient Christianity	83	(12)
Giovanni Filoramo
Conditions of Conversion in Early Islam	95	(12)
Yohanan Friedmann
Theories du repentir chez les theologiens musulmans classiques	107	(18)
Mokdad Arfa Mensia
L'acte expiatoire en Islam. ``Al Kaffara''	125	(16)
Mongia Arfa Mensia
The Baptism of Repentance: John the Baptist in the Mandaic Tradition. Rituals in a Religion between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam	141	(8)
Gabriele Mayer
Patterns of Repentance in Pico's Life and Thought	149	(14)
Pier Cesare Bori
Index of Names	163