Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics
Subtitle: Jewish Authority, Dissent, and Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Times
Contributors: Daniel Frank (Editor); Matt Goldish (Editor)
Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr; Wayne State University Press
Published: November 27, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780814332375
Subjects: Judaism - General; Religion & Spirituality / Judaism; Jewish Studies; Social Science; Religion - Judaism; Congresses; Dissenters; History; History and criticism; Judaism; Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789; Rabbinical literature; Sociology
Description: "The influential leaders, institutions, and texts that make up rabbinic culture have held a central place in Judaism since the Middle Ages and have given Jewish cultures across the world remarkably uniform systems of law and doctrines into the modern period. Even so, dissent from mainstream rabbinic culture always existed, prompted by matters such as textual interpretation, differences of authority, and definitions of spirituality. Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics exposes some of the views of these often-overlooked critics, sectarians, and so-called heretics as an important historical category in Jewish culture."--book jacket.