Flowers and traditions involving flowers tend to be conspicuously absent from early and late medieval Rabbinic literature, with one well-known but controversial exception. In contrast, literature and archaeological motifs beginning from the biblical period and reaching a climax in the late Second Temple period are replete with floral themes. The Madonna lily – lilium candidum – is especially celebrated as a symbol of ancient Israel, and particularly the Temple in Jerusalem, which may have been adorned with them in the late spring. In this essay, we analyze the Jewish culture of flowers in its Greco-Roman context and suggest possibilities to account for its ulti- mate disappearance – in particular, the translocation of Rabbinic scholarship to a Zoroastrian milieu, in which flowers played a central role in worship.

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所有的花都去哪了？犹太“花卉文化”在两个中世纪早期侨民中的命运

中世纪早期和晚期的拉比文学中往往明显缺乏花卉和涉及花卉的传统，只有一个众所周知但有争议的例外。相比之下，从圣经时期开始并在第二圣殿时期晚期达到顶峰的文学和考古主题充满了花卉主题。麦当娜百合——白花百合– 作为古代以色列的象征而特别受到庆祝，尤其是耶路撒冷的圣殿，可能在晚春时节就装饰有它们。在这篇文章中，我们分析了希腊罗马背景下的犹太花卉文化，并提出了解释其最终消失的可能性——特别是拉比学术转移到琐罗亚斯德教环境，其中花卉在其中发挥了核心作用。崇拜。