ISBN:
9781107663619
,
110766361X
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 280 Seiten
,
23 cm
Edition:
First paperback edition
Year of publication:
2014
DDC:
222.1306
Keywords:
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Bible
;
Jews Identity
;
Rabbinical literature History and criticism
;
Jews Cultural assimilation
;
Rabbinical literature
;
Jews ; Cultural assimilation
;
Jews ; Identity
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Abstract:
Introduction : law, identity, and Leviticus 18:3 --The question of Israelite distinctiveness: paradigms of separatism in Leviticus 18:3 --Allegory and ambiguity : Jewish identity in Philo's De congressu --A narrative of neighbors : rethinking universalism and particularism in patristic and rabbinic writings --The limits of "their laws" in Midrash halakhah --A short history of the people Israel from the patriarchs to the Messiah: constructions of Jewish difference in Leviticus Rabbah --Syncretism and anti-syncretism in the Babylonian Talmud --The judaization of reason: the Tosafists, Nissim gerondi, and Joseph Colon --Women's wear and men's suits: Ovadiah Yosef's and Moshe Feinstein's discourses of Jewishness --Conclusions : an "upside-down people"?
Note:
Originally published: 2012
,
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-274) and indexes
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