The Bloomsbury companion to Jewish Studies / edited by Dean Phillip Bell
- Published
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 417 pages).
- Additional Creators
- Bell, Dean Phillip, 1967-
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- Contents
- Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Detailed Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; The Development of Jewish Studies; Jews, Jewish Studies, and Higher Education in America; Jewish Studies, Judaism, and the Jewish Community; Jewish Studies Today; Future Orientations; A Note on This Volume; Notes; Part I Judaism and Jewish Society from the Bible to Modernity; 2 The Hebrew Bible; Introduction: Where to Start; Major Books and Themes; After the Hebrew Bible: Interpretation and Scholarship; Notes; 3 The World of the Rabbis., Introduction: Overview of the Rabbinic PeriodInterpretation and Scholarship; Conclusions: New Visions of Judaism in Late Antiquity; Notes; New Contexts: Medieval Jews and Judaism; 4 Comparative Medieval Perspectives; 5 Jews and the Islamic World: Transitions from Rabbinic to Medieval Contexts; Demographics in the Transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages; Responses to Conquest; Legal Status; Babylonians, Palestinians, and Karaites; Urbanization and Geographic Mobility; Linguistic and Cultural Change; The Breakdown of Empire and the Shift Westward; The Cairo Geniza; Islamic Iberia., The Late Medieval PeriodNotes; 6 Medieval Jews and Judaism in Christian Contexts; Introduction; Settlement and Migration; Legal Status and Jewish Cultural Life before the First Crusade; The First Crusade; Twelfth and Thirteenth-Century Developments: Daily Life, Learned Culture, and Religious Entanglement; Religious Polemic, Conversion, and Identity; Persecutions, Expulsion, and Beyond; Notes; Changing Tempos and Foci: Looking to Modernity; 7 Early Modern Jews and Judaism; Introduction; Defining Early Modern Jews and Judaism: Questions of Identity; Settlement and Demography., Jewish Communal Structure and GovernanceJewish Social Structures and Dynamics; Religion: Belief, Praxis, Deviation; Relations beyond the Jewish Community; Conclusions and Scholarly Directions; Notes; 8 Modernity, Judaism, and Jews; Introduction; Toward Modernity; Haskalah in Western Europe; Embracing Citizenship; New Religious Currents; Political and Racial Anti-Semitism in the Closing Quarter of the Nineteenth Century; Eastern European Jewry; Zionism; Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jewry; American Judaism; The Shoah: End of an Era; Key Research Trends., and Part II Reorienting Contemporary Jewry and Jewish Studies9 Mainstreams and Margins: Rethinking Contemporary Jewry; Introduction; Mainstreams and Margins; From Ben-Gurion/Blaustein to Bibi/Barack; Memory Anxiety; Religion Rising; Fate and Destiny; Notes; 10 Women, Gender, and Judaism; Introduction; Hebrew Bible; Late Ancient Mediterranean Diaspora; Women in the System of Rabbinic Judaism; Middle Ages; Early Modern Period; Jewish Enlightenment and Modernity; Conclusions: Contemporary Challenges; Notes; 11 Jewish Arts and Material Culture; Introduction; Creativity and Jewish Populations.
- Summary
- "The Continuum Companion to Jewish Studies is a comprehensive reference guide, providing an overview of Jewish Studies as it has developed as an academic sub-discipline. This volume will survey the development and current state of research in the broad field of Jewish Studies - focusing on methodologies, current themes, and varieties of source materials available. Significantly, the volume also includes eleven essays from internationallly renowned scholars that provide an important and useful overview of Jewish history and the development of Judaism, and explore central themes in Jewish Studies that cut across historical periods and offer important opportunities to track significant developments across Jewish experiences. In addition to an annotated bibliography to help orient students and researchers, the volume includes a series of indispensable research tools, including a chronology, maps, and an extensive glossary of key terms and concepts necessary as one engages various fields within Jewish Studies. This is the essential reference guide for anyone working in this field"--
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- ISBN
- 9781472505408 (electronic bk.)
1472505409 (electronic bk.)
9781472513267 (electronic bk.)
1472513266 (electronic bk.)
9781441158574
144115857X - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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