| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxxviii, 722 pages, 35 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Norton anthology of world religions |
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Norton anthology of world religions.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
General introduction. How the West Learned to Compare Religions / Jack Miles -- Judaism. Introduction: Israel Among the Nations / David Biale -- First Temple Literature, 2500 B.C.E.-586 B.C.E. Before The Bible ; The Bible -- Second Temple Literature, 538 B.C.E.-70 C.E. The Bible ; After The Bible -- World of the Rabbis, First-Seventh Century C.E. The Oral Torah ; Law and Legend ; The Rabbis among Pagans and Jews -- 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 -- 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. |
| Subject |
Judaism.
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Judaism -- History -- Sources.
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Judaism. (OCoLC)fst00984280
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RELIGION / Judaism.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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| Added Author |
Biale, David, 1949- editor.
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| ISBN |
0393912582 |
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9780393912586 |
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0393355039 |
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9780393355031 |
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