Defining Jewish difference
Subtitle: from antiquity to the present
By: Beth A. Berkowitz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781107013711
Subjects: Rabbinical literature; Jews; Bible; Criticism, interpretation; History and criticism; Cultural assimilation; Identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : law, identity, and Leviticus 18:3; title: The question of Israelite distinctiveness: paradigms of separatism in Leviticus 18:3; title: Allegory and ambiguity : Jewish identity in Philo's De congressu; title: A narrative of neighbors : rethinking universalism and particularism in patristic and rabbinic writings; title: The limits of "their laws" in Midrash halakhah; title: A short history of the people Israel from the patriarchs to the Messiah: constructions of Jewish difference in Leviticus Rabbah; title: Syncretism and anti-syncretism in the Babylonian Talmud; title: The judaization of reason: the Tosafists, Nissim gerondi, and Joseph Colon; title: Women's wear and men's suits: Ovadiah Yosef's and Moshe Feinstein's discourses of Jewishness; title: Conclusion : an "upside-down people"?.