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The Mishnah between Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe
Authors: Van Boxel Piet , Macfarlane Kirsten , Weinberg Joanna 
Published: June 2022

Abstract
This chapter sets the entire volume in a general context, demonstrating the significance of the study of the Mishnah in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a striking phenomenon, particularly when compared to the more Talmudic sixteenth century. It is shown how the ‘Mishnaic moment’ manifested itself both within the Jewish community and concurrently among a wide variety of Christian scholars from England, Germany, Holland, and Sweden. Annotated editions of the Mishnah were produced in Hebrew and in Latin translation, culminating in the monumental edition of Guilielmus Surenhusius. Produced in Amsterdam between 1698 and 1703, this work reflected over a century’s engagement with Jewish texts and, in particular, with Mishnah. Interest in Mishnah did not wane after Surenhusius’s Mishnah came to press, and his edition became the subject of intense and heated debate among scholars of all persuasions.
Translating the Mishnah and the Conversion of the Jews
Authors: Bartolucci Guido 
Published: June 2022

Abstract
Theodor Dassow (1648–1721), professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Wittenberg, was one of the most important German Hebraists of his time. When he died, he left to Wittenberg University an archive of about 6,000 handwritten pages bound in twenty-five volumes. These volumes brim with translations of Mishnah treatises and fragments of other Jewish works. One of the tomes contains at least four works that testify to the relationship that developed between Dassow and Isaac Abendana, when the German scholar visited Holland and England from 1676 to 1678. From the manuscript materials it would appear that Abendana taught the German professor how to translate the Mishnah and that they collaborated on a Latin translation of tractate Menahot. This chapter seeks to understand the reasons that led Dassow to become Abendana’s student as well as the role that the exercise of translating the Mishnah played in Dassow’s subsequent activity as a Hebraist.
The Significance of Historical Judaism and the Career of Humphrey Prideaux
Authors: Mandelbrote Scott 
Published: June 2022

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This chapter considers what can be learned from the career, writings, and library of Humphrey Prideaux (1648–1724), dean of Norwich, and disappointed candidate for the Oxford chair of Hebrew. Prideaux was the author of one of the most successful accounts of biblical history published in the eighteenth century, but his intellectual formation and activity remain understudied. Examination of Prideaux’s library of Hebraica and associated books, which were given to Clare College, Cambridge after his death, allows one to explore patterns of study dating back to Christ Church in the heyday of Edward Pococke’s teaching, and unearths relationships that play into later Oxford attempts to edit the Mishnah. At the same time, it reveals the importance of the study of Maimonides and of the Talmud for the forging of Prideaux’s own career as a Hebraist and addresses the significance of changes of style in the presentation of Hebraic learning.
Cultivating Education and Piety
Authors: Sclar David 
Published: June 2022

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The Mishnah among Jews in the early modern period largely landed in two distinct spheres: one, as a text to study with commentaries for the sake of greater comprehension; and two, as a source of mystical inspiration, generally fulfilled through ritual recitation of Mishnaic texts. In the mid-seventeenth century, printers in Amsterdam, Cracow, Istanbul, and elsewhere targeted another, less rabbinically sophisticated readership growing through the development of print. Menasseh ben Israel—author, orator, and messianic enthusiast—served as a driving force, producing three editions in Amsterdam in small format without significant apparatus. The sparsity of the imprints indicates a desire to sell far and wide and speaks volumes about the publisher’s intention to reach new students of the Mishnah. This chapter discusses the editions in the context of book production, audience, and curriculum, as well as the specific religious scenario of Western Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam.
The Role of Jewish Commentaries in Christian Interpretation of the Mishnah in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe
Authors: Weinberg Joanna 
Published: June 2022

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This chapter demonstrates the extent to which contemporary Jewish commentaries on the Mishnah infiltrated Christian annotated translations, and suggests that in early modern Europe study of the Mishnah could be described as a Jewish-Christian enterprise. In the late sixteenth century, the Maharal of Prague insisted on the Mishnah’s centrality for Judaism and the school curriculum. Though he himself did not produce a commentary, his disciples did. Of particular note was Yom Tov Lipmann Heller whose commentary on the Mishnah circulated widely among Jews and Christians Among the many Christian readers of ‘Yomtobus’ was Surenhusius, who translated sections from Heller’s commentary, sometimes explicitly and sometimes without noting the source of his explanation. The compiler of the Mishnah thus adopted the latest tradition of Jewish scholarship, which he most likely encountered in his lessons with Jewish teachers in Amsterdam.
Christianity as Jewish Allegory?
Authors: Macfarlane Kirsten 
Published: June 2022

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While Surenhusius’s Mishnah volumes have been celebrated as a landmark achievement, less praise has been given to their successor, the 1713 Sefer ha-Mashveh, long seen as a strange and difficult text. And yet, in many ways the Sefer ha-Mashveh was the culmination of Surenhusuis’s work on the Mishnah, the practical demonstration of the value that he saw in the study of rabbinic texts for Christian scholarship. This chapter provides the first full account of Surenhusius’s aims and achievements in writing the Sefer ha-Mashveh, and examines how it responded to the more recent challenges posed to orthodox Reformed beliefs about scripture. Such an account is valuable not just for what it can tell us about Surenhusius, but also for the insights it grants into the vexed historiographical question of the status of biblical scholarship in the ‘early Enlightenment’, and the role that Jewish thinkers, texts, and ideas played in the broader development of modern or ‘Enlightened’ biblical criticism.
The Phenomenon of Pup Play
Authors: Wignall Liam 
Published: June 2022

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This chapter describes and conceptualizes the core practices of pup play. Pup play is a form of role play in which adult humans adopt the characteristics that mimic the behavior of young dogs. It can be framed as a social activity, which focuses on relaxation and intimacy, and/or sexual, in which individuals become aroused during pup play or merge pup play with other kink activities. The chapter provides an overview of the history of pup play while distinguishing it from forms of zoophilia through the lack of real dogs, in desire and practice. The definition of kink is applied to pup play, drawing on both interviews and ethnographic observations to argue it is best understood as a kink. Finally the topical “social, not sexual” debate within pup play is discussed.
Musical care in adolescence
Authors: Saarikallio Suvi , McFerran Katrina Skewes 
Published: June 2022

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This chapter addresses musical care in adolescence from the perspective of how music can support adolescents’ critical developmental needs, including emotional self-regulation and identity development. The chapter approaches music as a multifaceted resource that is available in the lives of adolescents and often naturally functions as a healthy part of their psychosocial development. In contrast, the chapter also presents the authors’ notions of music as sometimes not functioning in helpful ways in adolescents’ lives. This leads to discussion of the importance of critically evaluating the potentially helpful and unhelpful uses of music and the role of professionals in helping adolescents to gain awareness of their music engagement patterns. From a disciplinary perspective, this chapter is grounded in a dialogue between music psychology research and music therapy clinical practice and research, further integrating perspectives from music sociology, music education, and adolescent development. The authors’ interdisciplinary understanding of musical care in adolescence draws mutually from their work in scientific research and practice. After introducing the authors’ approach, the chapter elaborates on how, why, and where music functions as a healthy resource for adolescents, in terms of emotional self-regulation and development of personal and social identity. Then the chapter introduces the authors’ research on identifying potentially unhealthy patterns of music engagement and presents examples of how this research knowledge can be applied into clinical work and how professionals can guide adolescents towards improved musical care. Reaching the best possible musical care for each adolescent is a dialogical journey, supported by research and professionals, yet authored by the young themselves.
Musical care in older adulthood
Authors: Wood Stuart , Clift Stephen 
Published: June 2022

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This chapter explores, from the authors’ combined perspectives, how musical care can be employed as a strategy of health and social care in older adulthood. The approach to musical care in this chapter reflects the authors’ interdisciplinary stance and their shared belief that music touches upon aspects of care at micro (within individuals), meso (amongst groups and institutions), and macro (society and culture at large) levels. This chapter is written by a music therapist and a health promotion specialist interested in music and health. The chapter surveys recent research on group singing as an intervention for older people living with long-term health complications, with particular reference to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The authors then discuss musical care in the context of nursing and music therapy interventions, particularly with reference to dementia. The final section includes two case examples of the authors’ own work. The first concerns a symptom-specific intervention for singing and respiratory illness and describes the experience of a married couple, one of whom lives with COPD, participating in a singing-for-breathing initiative. The second tells the experiences of a woman in residential care who is working with a music therapist. Finally, the concluding section proposes future directions for research and suggests that imagination, collaboration, and care amongst musical practitioners may ensure that older adulthood remains a time of flourishing.
Synthesis
Authors: Spiro Neta , Sanfilippo Katie Rose M. , Cross Ian 
Published: June 2022

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In concluding Collaborative Insights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Musical Care throughout the Life Course, the Synthesis identifies the ebb and flow of the place of musical care throughout the life course. The Synthesis brings together the ideas presented throughout the book. These ideas include areas of outcome, context, focus of care, and musical activities. Then two models of disciplinary relationships within musical care that present opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration are introduced. The magnet model refers to situations in which disciplines are seen to be drawn together; the person receiving musical care attracts a range of disciplines that act together. The concurrent model refers to situations in which several disciplines can be relevant to musical care or its research and are likely to run alongside one another, but are less likely to interact directly. Next, the Synthesis develops further the conceptualization of the term musical care: from blurring to breaking boundaries, emphasizing the commonalities among practices and research. Then comes consideration of the book’s limitations, which, in turn, leads to identification of opportunities. These opportunities include implications of the term musical care; the use of the life stage structure; to whom musical care is relevant and where, when, and why; and the importance of considering cultural context for future work. The Synthesis closes by bringing together suggestions for future work with a final call to action that invites readers to embark on interdisciplinary research and practice in musical care.
Daring to Struggle
Authors: Gill Bates 
Published: June 2022

Abstract
Increasingly powerful, prosperous, and authoritarian, China under the leadership of Xi Jinping has become a more intense competitor across the globe—economically, technologically, diplomatically, militarily, and in seeking to influence people’s hearts and minds. But what does China ultimately want in the world? This timely and illuminating book explains the fundamental motivations driving the country’s more dynamic, assertive, and risk-taking approach to the world under Xi Jinping. With original and perceptive analysis, Daring to Struggle focuses on six increasingly important interests for today’s China—legitimacy, sovereignty, wealth, power, leadership, and ideas—and details how the determined pursuit of them at home and abroad profoundly shapes its foreign relationships, contributing to a more contested strategic environment in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. The book offers rich insights on the increasing role of the Chinese Communist Party in the country’s international affairs, the looming risks of conflict in areas of contested sovereignty around China’s periphery, Beijing’s dramatically changing approach to foreign economic relations, its expanding use of economic leverage and military coercion, China’s aspirations to greater leadership in global governance, and the well-resourced promotion of its ideas, image and influence across the world. This lively and accessible perspective on China’s global ambitions draws from authoritative Chinese-language sources. The resulting analysis will inform policymakers, executives, China watchers, students, and other globally engaged citizens seeking to understand China’s ambitions and how our governments and societies can respond.
Legitimacy正当性
Authors: Gill Bates 
Published: June 2022

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Chapter 2 addresses the most important objective driving the People’s Republic of China’s foreign policy: maintaining and bolstering the legitimacy and survival of the Chinese Communist Party. This effort means seeking the acceptance, appreciation, and even approbation of foreign governments and societies for the People’s Republic of China’s system of governance, domestic policies, and pursuit of overseas interests. The chapter explains how the Chinese Communist Party legitimates and strengthens its rule through certain foundational foreign policy narratives concerned with ideological foresight, aggrieved nationalism, performative success, and cultural stewardship. The chapter goes on to show how, under Xi Jinping, the pursuit of legitimacy has assumed a much more prominent place in People’s Republic of China external relations, including through a more active role for the Party in the development and execution of the country’s foreign policy.
Challenges挑战
Authors: Gill Bates 
Published: June 2022

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Chapter 8 takes each of the six key foreign policy drivers in turn—legitimacy, sovereignty, wealth, power, leadership, ideas—and assesses the challenges China faces in pursuing them. The chapter makes the point that in spite of China’s outward confidence in world affairs, the country increasingly confronts a range of problems for its foreign relations. Indeed, the very pursuit of its foreign policy ambitions—while often bolstering national confidence—creates problems both at home and abroad which will hold China back and could derail Xi’s vision for national rejuvenation. These challenges include increasing intolerance toward unwelcome and illegal PRC influence activities abroad, growing unhappiness with China’s unfair economic practices, increasing concerns over Beijing’s use of economic and military coercion, intensifying criticism of China’s increasingly authoritarian political system, and mounting discomfort with China’s effort to shape international institutions and norms in ways which favor PRC interests.
Introduction
Authors: Sheth Falguni A. 
Published: June 2022

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This chapter gives an overview of how “visibly” Muslim women are treated and regulated in the United States by exploring the racial-cultural aesthetics of power through the ontopolitics and technologies of race such as court opinions, anti-discrimination, and judicial procedures. Women’s bodies are always read and judged, but in the case of dark, foreign, or marginalized women, these judgments are made in light of a prior history of colonialism and globalism. On this understanding, the sartorial aesthetic that reflects the cultural hegemony of Europe or the United States demarcates and highlights the backwardness of the sartorial aesthetic of Muslim women, through an enduring culture of neocolonialism and liberatory liberal discourse.
The Hijab and the Sari
Authors: Sheth Falguni A. 
Published: June 2022

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This chapter illuminates the racial aesthetic that is at work in vilifying the hijab while glorifying the sari. The history of colonialism and the forced domestication of the sari helps to facilitate its reception as an acceptably “sexy” garment. By contrast, the hijab has not been subjected to colonial modification and is still experienced as strange by observers—culturally, racially, and aesthetically. In order to explore the role that political and cultural authority plays in shaping “acceptable” and “unacceptable” racial aesthetics as linked to the hijab and the sari, this chapter explores the regulation of the sari and the sartorial strategies enacted by Mohandas Gandhi in his political resistance to British rule over India.
Reversing the Gaze
Authors: Sheth Falguni A. 
Published: June 2022

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This chapter reverses the Orientalist lens that Edward Said and other critics of cultural imperialism have explored. It evaluates the judgments of colonizing societies with regard to the standards that they impose upon women’s bodies. This approach identifies the racial-cultural aesthetic of power that operates in the aftermath of colonialism but without acknowledging that aftermath. Civilizing narratives that haunt the afterlife of colonialism produce a differential expectation for the cultural/social comportment of women of color, whether they remain in the geopolitical regions that were colonized or whether they are located in Western societies. These narratives are explored through dress codes for various companies and the model United Nations, as well as Frantz Fanon’s ruminations on Algerian women.
Transparency and the Deceptive Conceit of Liberalism
Authors: Sheth Falguni A. 
Published: June 2022

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Beginning with a court case in which a Muslim woman is banned from the courtroom for refusing a judge’s order to remove her niqab, this chapter explores the ways in which the judge’s demand resembles a demand for transparency. Transparency as a norm, a mode of discourse, and a kind of comportment betrays the explicit ethos of secular-liberal political norms and practices as being purely procedural. Drawing on early immigration law, the PATRIOT Act, and other laws, this chapter argues that transparency is a demand for “unfamiliar” strangers to make themselves familiar to the dominant, homogenous population—not merely through sincerity and collegiality, but through submission and obedience. The demand for transparency is also often an impossible demand for a gendered racial and cultural recomportment, that is, to transform onself into someone familiar—a neutral, vaguely feminist, liberal subject. It concludes that transparency remains in excess of liberal political and civic culture’s explicit scope.
Dismissal
Authors: Sheth Falguni A. 
Published: June 2022

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The phenomenon of hijabis has been mostly treated as an issue having to do with the compatibility of one’s religious beliefs with a secular society. However, there is another dimension of the regulation of the hijab that has rarely been discussed, namely the differential ways that Muslim women are treated by race—specifically Black Muslim women. Because of their Blackness, Black Muslim women are received negatively in a way that is singularly, if ineffably distinct from non-Black Muslim women. This chapter explores, through a range of transcripts and judicial opinions, how the courts engage in a racial dismissal of Black women hijabis. Given the racial and political history of the United States, along with the U.S. publicly legislated Islamophobic public policies (from the War on Terror to national security policies), there are few ways for Muslim hijabis—Black or non-Black—to be acceptable in the public spotlight. Moreover, the cumulative effect of being Black, visibly Muslim, and publicly assertive often results in visceral and violent responses from a neocolonial public that resists the visible, flourishing presence of women of color.
The perspectival nature of scientific representation
Authors: Massimi Michela 
Published: June 2022

AbstractThis chapter introduces the notion of perspectival representation with an analogy between art and science. It presents two varieties of perspectival representations in art. A representation can be said to be perspectival1 because the representation is from a specific vantage point and it is about the very vantage point from which the representation takes place. But a representation can also be said to be perspectival2 because it has a clear direction. It is towards one or more vanishing points and is not (self-referentially) about the vantage point from which the representation takes place. The chapter illustrates these two different ways of understanding perspectival representations with examples. Next it looks at a particular way in which perspectival representation has often been understood in philosophy of science as mainlyperspectival1. Namely, it has often been suggested that the vantage point from which the representation is drawn affects the content. For example, one can think of different scientific models as predicating different and incompatible properties of the same target system (via the notion of representing-as). A problem arises out of this widespread perspectival1 way of thinking about representation in science. Realism about science seems to be jeopardized when there are multiple models for the same target system that are deemed to represent-it-as x or y or z, where x, y, and z are incompatible properties. The problem is genuinely epistemic and cannot be eschewed by appealing to pragmatic factors, namely by invoking the use that epistemic agents make of perspectival1 representations for various purposes.