Alexander / Berkowitz Religious Studies and Rabbinics

A Conversation
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-97377-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 252 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

Religious Studies and Rabbinics represents the first sustained effort to create a conversation between these two academic fields. Few if any volumes exist that put Religious Studies in dialogue with Jewish Studies or even with other area studies. The essays in this book reveal that when the two fields address each other, Religious Studies gains a fresh attentiveness to the local and specific, while Rabbinics moves out of the mesh of textual details into a healthy comparative mode that values religious life and experience along with history and philology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alexander, Elizabeth

Berkowitz, Beth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Elizabeth Shanks Alexander Part I: The History of Religion 1 Religious Studies, Then and Now – Randall Styers 2 Different Religions? Big and Little "Religion" in Rabbinics and Religious Studies – Beth A. Berkowitz 3 J.Z. Smith on the Humanities, Human Nature, and Higher Education – Kurtis Schaeffer Part II: Managing Commitments 4 "A Cheerful Unease": Theology and Religious Studies – Paul Dafydd Jones 5 Reading Midrash as Theological Practice – Deborah Barer 6 Alexandria between Athens and Jerusalem: Religious Studies as a Humanistic Discipline – Charles Mathewes Part III: Comparative Rubrics and Rabbinic Data 7 The Legal Language of Everyday Life in Rabbinic Religion – Chaya Halberstam 8 Time, Gender and Ritual in Rabbinic Sources – Sarit Kattan Gribetz 9 Ritual Failure, Ritual Success, and What Makes Ritual Meaningful in the Mishnah – Naftali S. Cohn Part IV: Engaging Details 10 Learning How to read; how Rabbinics Aids in the Study of Contemporary Christian Scripture-Reading Practices – Kelly Figueroa-Ray 11 Thou Shalt Not Cook a Bird in its Mother’s Milk?: Theorizing the Evolution of a Rabbinic Regulation – Jordan D. Roseblum 12 From the General to the Specific: A Genealogy of "Acts of Reciprocal Kindness" (Gemilut Hasidim) in Rabbinic Literature – Gregg E. Gardner