• Michael Tilly (Hrsg.)
  • Burton L. Visotzky (Hrsg.)

Judaism III

Culture and Modernity
Mehr aus der Reihe: Die Religionen der Menschheit
  • 1. Auflage
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seiten: 239
  • Sprache: Englisch
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Judaism, the oldest of the Abrahamic religions, is one of the pillars of modern civilization. A collective of internationally renowned experts cooperated in a singular academic enterprise to portray Judaism from its transformation as a Temple cult to its broad contemporary varieties. In three volumes the long-running book series "Die Religionen der Menschheit" (Religions of Humanity) presents for the first time a complete and compelling view on Jewish life now and then - a fascinating portrait of the Jewish people with its ability to adapt itself to most different cultural settings, always maintaining its strong and unique identity. Volume III completes this ambitious project with profound chapters on Modern Jewish Culture, Halakhah (Jewish Law), Jewish Languages, Jewish Philosophy, Modern Jewish Literature, Feminism and Gender, and on Judaism and inter-faith relations.

  • Cover
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  • Titlepage
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  • Imprint
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  • Content
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    Foreword
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    • 1 Die Wissenschaft des Judentums
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    • 2 World War II and Vatican II
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    • 3 Jacob Neusner resets the agenda
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    • 4 Martin Hengel, Judentum und Hellenismus (Judaism and Hellenism)
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    • 5 The New Academy
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    • 6 Kohlhammer’s Die Religionen der Menschheit
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    Jewish engagement(s) with Modern Culture
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    • 1 The challenges of modernization
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    • 2 Hopes of belonging and experiences of rejection
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    • 3 From Berlin to Tel Aviv and Los Angeles: The internationalisation of Jewish modernity
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      4 After the Holocaust: Has modernity betrayed Jewish culture?
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      • For further reading
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    Halakhah (Jewish Law) in Contemporary Judaism
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    • 1 Napoleon and the Functioning of Jewish Law in Enlightenment Countries
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    • 2 Jewish Legal Theories in Response to Living in Countries with Freedom of Religion
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    • 3 The Authority of Jewish Law
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    • 4 Jewish Identity: Who Is a Jew?
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      5 Moral Issues: Bioethics
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      • 5.1 The Beginning of Life: Generating Pregnancy
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      • 5.2 The Beginning of Life: Preventing Pregnancy
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    • 6 Moral Issues: Interpersonal Relations
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    • 7 Moral Issues: Social Justice and Environmental Ethics
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    • 8 Jewish Dietary Laws (Kashrut, or the Kosher Laws)
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    • 9 The Life Cycle
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    • 10 Marriage and Weddings
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    • 11 The Seasonal Cycle: The Sabbath, High Holy Days, and Festivals
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      12 A Gift of Love
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      • For further reading
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    Languages of the Jews
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    • Prolegomenon
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    • 1 Mono-, Bi-, and Multilingualism
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      2 Hebrew
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      • 2.1 Ancient Hebrew
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      • 2.2 Postbiblical Hebrew
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      • 2.3 Rabbinic or Mishnaic Hebrew
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      • 2.4 From Ancient Hebrew to Medieval, Sephardic Hebrew
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      • 2.5 Ashkenazic Hebrew
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      • 2.6 Israeli Hebrew
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      3 Aramaic
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      • 3.1 Imperial Aramaic
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      • 3.2 Jewish-Palestinian Aramaic
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      • 3.3 Christian-Palestinian Aramaic
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      • 3.4 Jewish-Babylonian Aramaic
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      • 3.5 Jewish neo-Aramaic dialects
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    • 4 Greek
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    • 5 Judeo-Arabic
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    • 6 Ladino
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      7 Yiddish
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      • 7.1 The Origins of Yiddish
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      • 7.2 A Language with many Dialects
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      • 7.3 From Jewish-German to Yiddish
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      • 7.4 The Yiddish of the Pious
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    • 8 Judeo-Persian
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      9 Conclusion
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      • For further reading
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    Jewish Philosophy and Thought
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    • 1 The Concept of »Jewish Philosophy«
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    • 2 Between Palestine and Babylon: Philosophical Potential in Traditional Literature (2nd to 11th cent.)
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    • 3 Hellenistic Judaism: Alexandria
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    • 4 Under Islam in the East: Baghdad and Kairouan
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    • 5 Under Islam in the West: al-Andalus
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    • 6 Under Christianity in the West: Southern France, Spain, Italy
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    • 7 Ottoman Empire: Thessaloniki, Istanbul
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    • 8 The Reconfiguration of »Jewish Philosophy« in the Context of Modernity: Amsterdam, Berlin Haskalah, and Wissenschaft des Judentums
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      9 Jewish Diaspora and Israeli Thought after the Holocaust
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      • For further reading
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    Modern Jewish Literature
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    • 1 Concept
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    • 2 Pioneers and Beginnings
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    • 3 On »German-Jewish Literature«
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    • 4 Yiddish Literature
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    • 5 English-language Literature
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    • 6 Hebrew Literature
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    • 7 Drama
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      8 Lyric Poetry
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      • For further reading
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    Judaism, Feminism, and Gender
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    • 1 1970s Jewish Feminism: Coming out Fighting
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    • 2 1980s: Toward Finding the Right Question(s)
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      3 1990s: Coming of Age: Jewish Feminism and »(En)gendering« Jewish Studies
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      • 3.1 Feminist Scholarship; Gender and Jewish Studies
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      • 3.2 Jewish Women’s Writings: Memoirs and Midrash; Commentaries and Anthologies
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      • 3.3 Bridges, Feminist Organizations and Social Justice Work
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    • 4 21st Century: »New« Jewish Feminism
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      5 Conclusion
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      • For further reading
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    Judaism and inter-faith relations since World War II
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    • 1 Historic overview
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      2 Jewish-Christian Dialogue
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      • 2.1 Beginnings
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      • 2.2 The World Council of Churches until Sigtuna (1988)
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      • 2.3 Articulating a Jewish Response
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      • 2.4 The Roman Catholic Church
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      • 2.5 The World Council of Churches after Sigtuna (1988)
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      • 2.6 Individual non-Roman Churches
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      • 2.7 Orthodox Churches and the Demise of Communism
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      • 2.8 Some Recent Statements
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      • 2.9 Israel and Interfaith Dialogue
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      • 2.10 Jewish Responses
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      3 Other Religions
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      • 3.1 Dialogue with Islam
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      • 3.2 Non-Abrahamic Religions
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      4 New Horizons: Scholars and Theologians
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      • 4.1 Covenant Theology
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      • 4.2 New Theologies: Feminism, Liberation, Creation
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      • 4.3 The Global Context of Dialogue
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      • 4.4 Academic Developments
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      • 4.5 Dialogue Moulds Theology
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    • 5 The Popularization and Secularization of Dialogue
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      6 Conclusion
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      • For further reading
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    Index
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      1 Sources
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      • 1.1 Biblical Sources
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      • 1.2 Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
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      • 1.3 Rabbinic Sources
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    • 2 Names
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    • 3 Keywords
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Prof. Dr. Michael Tilly is head of the Institute for Ancient Judaism and Hellenistic Religions at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at Tübingen University. Prof. Dr. Burton L. Visotzky serves as Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (NYC).