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1 online resource |
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Cover -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- THE STATE OF THE FIELD -- The Relevance of Myth for Understanding Ritual in Ancient Judaism -- ANCIENT JUDAISM -- The Babylonian Talmud's Treatment of Levirate Marriage -- The Religious Meaning of Bodily Excretions in Rabbinic Judaism: The Halakhah on Leviticus Chapter Fifteen: Zabim and Niddah -- MEDIEVAL AND MODERN JUDAISM -- Jews, Converses, and Native Americans: The Iberian Experience -- "Secular Studies are the Supplement of Torah Studies:" Kol Ben Levi -- The Homilies of Rabbi Yehiel Mechel Halevi Epstein -- The First Sermon -- JUDAISM AND ZIONISM -- Zionism and Religion: The Transformation of an Idea -- The Revolutionary Consciousness of the Religious Zionist Movement since 1902 -- REVIEWS -- DONALD HARMAN AKENSON, Surpassing Wonder. The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds -- BEZALEL BAR-KOCHVA, Pseudo-Hecataeus "On the Jews:" Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora -- SUSANNAH HESCHEL, Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus -- MENAGHEM KELLNER, Must a Jew Believe Anything? -- LEE I. LEVINE, Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity. Conflict or Confluence? -- JACOB NEUSNER, Four Stages of Rabbinic Judaism |
| Summary |
This annual on Rabbinic Judaism features principal articles, essays on method and criticism, systematic debates (Auseinandersetzungen), occasional notes, long book reviews, reviews of issues of scholarly journals, assessments of textbooks and instructional materials, and other media of academic discourse, scholarly and educational alike. The annual seeks to fill a gap in the study of Judaism, which is left by the prevailing division of Rabbinic Judaism into the standard historical periods (ancient, mediaeval, modern) that in fact do not apply; and by the common treatment of Judaism in bits and pieces (philosophy, mysticism, law, homiletics and institutional history, for example), which obscures the fundamental unity and continuity of Rabbinic Judaism from beginning to the present.; This 2000 edition contains articles by Ithamar Gruenwald, Dvora Weisberg, Jacob Neusner, Jose Faur, Simcha Fishbane, Norman Solomon, and Dov Schwartz, as well as reviews by Jacob Neusner, Herbert W. Basser, and Gunter Stemberger |
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Jewish law.
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Judaism -- History.
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Rabbinical literature.
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Jewish law.
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Judaism.
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Rabbinical literature.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Avery-Peck, Alan J. (Alan Jeffery), 1953-
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| ISBN |
1280464437 |
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9781280464430 |
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