Daniel Boyarin

Judaism

The Genealogy of a Modern Notion

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Produktbeschreibung

Judaism makes the bold argument that the very concept of a religion of ‘Judaism’ is an invention of the Christian church. The intellectual odyssey of world-renowned Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin, this book will change the study of Judaism—an essential key word in Jewish Studies—as we understand it today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 160mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780813571621
• ISBN-10: 0813571626
• Artikelnr.: 51492366

Autorenporträt

DANIEL BOYARIN is the Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Imagine no Religion: How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface What Are We Talking About When We Talk About “Judaism”?
Part 1 The Terms of the Debate
Chapter 1 Debate of the Terms
Part 2 The State of the Lexicon: Questioning the Archive
Chapter 2 Jewry without Judaism: The Stakes of the Question
Chapter 3 Getting Medieval Yahadut
Part 3: A New Dispensation: The Christian Invention of “Judaism”
Chapter 4 “Judaism” out of the Entrails of Christianity
Chapter 5 From Yiddishkayt to Judentum; From Judentum to Yahadut;, or
Philology and the Transformation of a Folk
Epilogue
Bibliography