Judaism : : The Genealogy of a Modern Notion / / Daniel Boyarin.
Judaism makes the bold argument that the very concept of a religion of ‘Judaism’ is an invention of the Christian church. The intellectual journey 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Key Words in Jewish Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; N-A |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface: What Are We Talking About When We Talk About “Judaism”?
- Part I. The Terms of the Debate
- 1. The Debate of the Terms
- Part II. The State of the Lexicon: Questioning the Archive
- 2. Jewry without Judaism: The Stakes of the Question
- 3. Getting Medieval Yahadut
- Part III. A New Dispensation: The Christian Invention of “Judaism”
- 4. “Judaism” out of the Entrails of Christianity
- 5. From Yiddishkayt to Judentum; From Judentum to Yahadut; or Philology and the Transformation of a Folk
- Epilogue: Theory as Askesis
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Index of Works Cited
- About the Author