Judaism

The Genealogy of a Modern Notion
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8135-7161-4
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 332 g

Reihe: Key Words in Jewish Studies

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 today. Boyarin argues that although the world treats the word “Judaism” as appropriate for naming an alleged religion of the Jews, it is in fact a Christian theological concept only adopted by Jews with the coming of modernity and the adoption of Christian languages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyarin, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Boyarian 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.