Jewish Studies Between the Disciplines / Judaistik zwischen den Disziplinen : : Papers in Honor of Peter Schäfer on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday / / edited by Klaus Herrmann, Margarete Schlüter, Giuseppe Veltri.

• TeilnehmendeR: Herrmann, Klaus,; Veltri, Giuseppe,; Schlüter, Margarete,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2003.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (526 p.)
• Notes: "ISSN 1570-1522"--T.p. verso.

Peter Schäfer who celebrated his 60th birthday on 29 June 2003 has left a decidedly firm imprint on the young discipline "Jewish Studies" in Germany, which could only be set up at a German university after the Shoah. For someone directing a "small" academic institution he has managed during his academic career to guide and influence a strikingly large number of students in their scholarly pursuits in the field. The collected essays of this volume encompass quite a variety of topics, whereby the focal points in Peter Schäfer's own research are not difficult to recognize in the themes chosen by his former students: mysticism and magic are most conspicuous, followed by Rabbinic Judaism and the studies on the Middle Ages and the Early Modern and Modern Periods. Of note is also the fact that the methodological approaches of these contributions are no less manifold than their themes. Part of the contributions of this book were submitted in English, and all the German-language texts have an English summary or abstract.

Table of Contents

Preface; Tabula gratulatoria; List of Contributors; CONTENTS; I RABBINIC JUDAISM; II EARLY JEWISH MYSTICISM AND MAGIC; III MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN JUDAISM; IV MODERN JUDAISM; Index of References; Index of Modern Authors