Aaron W Hughes

Defining Judaism

A Reader

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Illustrates the range of theoretical and practical issues involved in defining Judaism for the purposes of comparative and historical studies. This book is divided into four overlapping sections that deal, in various ways, with the configuration of 'Judaism' and how this configuration relates to other historical and/or disciplinary contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781845536091
• ISBN-10: 1845536096
• Artikelnr.: 26981497

Autorenporträt

Aaron W. Hughes is Gordon and Gretchen Gross Professor of Jewish Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's Introduction: Judaism
Judaisms
Jewish: Toward Redefining Traditional Taxa PART I Historical and Chronological Definitions Orientation 1. Selection form The Book of Beliefs and Opinions
Saadya Gaon 2. Thirteen Articles of Faith
Maimonides 3. Answers to Napoleon
The Assembly of Jewish Notables 4. Selection from Judaism and Its History
Abraham Geiger 5. Setting the Problem
Laying the Ground
Judith Plaskow PART II. The Contours of Judaism 6. Apartheid Comparative Religion in the Second Century: Some Theory and a Case Study
Daniel Boyarin 7. Who Were the Jews: Problems in Profiling the Jewish Community Under Early Islam
Steven M. Wasserstrom 8. The Rejudaization of "the Nation"
Miriam Bodian 9. Jews and Germans
Gershom Scholem PART III. Re-Definitions 10. The Savage in Judaism
Howard Eilberg-Schwartz 11. Waiting for a Jew: Marginal Redemption at the Eight Street Shul
Jonathan Boyarin 12. Expanding the Canon of Jewish Philosophy: Towards an Appreciation of Genre
Aaron W. Hughes