Judaism / [edited by] David Biale.

Other author Biale, David, 1949- editor.
Format Book
EditionFirst edition.
PublicationNew York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Copyright Date©2015
Descriptionxxxviii, 722, 35 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesThe Norton anthology of world religions
Norton anthology of world religions. ^A1316288
Partial contents How the West Learned to Compare Religions / Jack Miles -- Israel Among the Nations / David Biale.
Partial contents First Temple Literature, 2500 B.C.E.-586 B.C.E. Before The Bible.
Partial contents Second Temple Literature, 538 B.C.E.-70 C.E. The Bible -- After The Bible.
Partial contents World of the Rabbis, First-Seventh Century C.E. The Oral Torah -- Law and Legend -- The Rabbis among Pagans and Jews.
Partial contents The Jewish Middle Ages, 637-1789. Medieval Curriculum -- Philosophy -- Law -- Bible Commentary -- Poetry: Sacred and Secular -- Piety Beyond the Law -- Demonic and Other Folktales -- Women's Spirituality -- Mysticism -- Medieval Messianism: Between Politics and Mysticism -- Hasidism and Its Opponents.
Partial contents Modern Judaism, 1789 to the Present. Harbingers of Modernity -- The Science of Judaism: The New Historicism -- Nineteenth-Century Religious Movements -- Women's Voices -- The Tradition in Twentieth-Century Jewish Thought -- Feminist Thinkers Confront the Tradition -- Shoah -- Zionism and the State of Israel -- Secular Jews Confront the Tradition.
Abstract Unprecedented in scope and approach, The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Judaism brings together over 300 texts from pre-Israelite Mesopotamia to post-Holocaust Israel and America.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
Genre/formSources.
ISBN0393912582
ISBN9780393912586

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