The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism

Voorkant
John Wiley & Sons, 12 mrt 2012 - 712 pagina's
In The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism, a team of internationally-renowned scholars offer a comprehensive and authoritative overview of Jewish life and culture, from the biblical period to contemporary times.
  • Provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the main periods and themes of Jewish history, from Biblical Israel, through medieval and early modern periods, to Judaism since the Holocaust, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Judaism today
  • Brings together an international team of established and emerging scholars across a range of disciplines
  • Discusses how to present Judaism - to both non-Jews and Jews - as a religious system on its own terms and with its own unique vocabulary
  • Explores the latest scholarship on a range of issues, including folk practices, politics, economic structure, the relationship of Judaism to Christianity, and the nature of Zionism diaspora and its implications for contemporary Israel
  • Considers Jewish historiography and the lives of ordinary people, the achievements of Jewish women, and the sustained interaction of Jews within the environments they inhabited
  • Edited by a leading scholar in Jewish studies and history
 

Geselecteerde pagina's

Inhoudsopgave

The WileyBlackwell Histories of Religion
Preface
The Decline of the Later Middle Ages
Priests and Levites in the Hebrew Bible
How Unique Was Israelite Prophecy?
Judaism after the Exile The Later Books of
Malachi
References
How Jews Modernized The Western Nations
The Zionist Movement and the Path
The Jews in the Land of the Russian Tsars
The Great Migration 18811924
Polish Jewry between the World Wars
Further reading
Paths of Modernity Jewish Women in Central
The Existential Crisis of the Holocaust

Jews in the Land During the Second Temple
What Is the Hebrew Bible?
Jews in Egypt The Special Case of the Septuagint
Early Christianity in a Jewish Context
The Babylonian Consolidation of Rabbinic
Jews in Christian Europe Ashkenaz in
The Jews in the Medieval ArabicSpeaking
Turning Point The Spanish Expulsion
Medieval Jewish Mysticism
The Early Modern Period
Science
Jews and Judaism in the Early Modern
The Jews of the Ottoman Empire
Zionism
References
Further reading
Traditional Judaism in the TwentyFirst
Contemporary American Jewish Culture
Israeli Culture from 1948 to the Present
Further reading
The Israeli Economy
Ethnic Diversity in Israel
The World of Jewish Music
American Jewrys Identification with Israel
The Jewish Holy Days

Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

Alexandria American ancient Israel antisemitism Arab Aristeas Aristobolus Ashkenaz authority Babylonian Bavli became biblical Israel century bce Christian Chronicles congregations conversos cultic culture Dead Sea Scrolls Deuteronomy Diaspora divine early Eastern Egypt Empire Europe Exile expulsion Gentiles German Greek Hasidism Hasmonean Haverkamp Hebrew Bible Herod high priest Hyrcanus immigrants interpretation Israelite Jerusalem Temple Jesus Jewish community Jewish history Jewish women Jewry Jews John Hyrcanus Josephus Judah Judaism Judea Juden Kabbalah kabbalistic king land language later leaders leadership Letter Letter of Aristeas Levites living medieval Messiah modern Modrzejewski Moses movement Nissinen oracle Orthodox Ottoman Palestine Pentateuch persecutions Persian period Poland political priesthood priestly prophecy prophet Ptolemy rabbis Reform religion religious ritual role Roman rulers Russia scholars Scrolls Second Temple Second Temple period Septuagint shrine social society synagogue Talmud Tetrateuch texts Torah Tosafists traditional University Press worship YHWH York Zionist

Over de auteur (2012)

Alan T. Levenson is Schusterman/Josey Professor of Jewish Intellectual and Religious History at the University of Oklahoma. His publications include Modern Jewish Thinkers: An Introduction (2006); Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism: German Defenses of Jews and Judaism (2004); The Story of Joseph: A Jewish Journey of Interpretation (2004); and The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible (2011).

Bibliografische gegevens

TitelThe Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism
The Wiley-Blackwell Histories of Religion
AuteurAlan T. Levenson
UitgeverJohn Wiley & Sons, 2012
ISBN1118232933, 9781118232934
Lengte712 pagina's
  
Citatie exporterenBiBTeX EndNote RefMan