8642|Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics
Jonathan Aaron Boyarin | Jewish Studies Program - Cornell University
My work centers on Jewish communities and on the dynamics of Jewish culture, memory and identity. I have investigated these fields in a range of ethnographic ...
Talya Fishman | Penn Arts & Sciences Department of History
In Shaking the Pillars of Exile: 'Voice of a Fool,' an Early Modern Jewish Critique of Rabbinic Culture (Stanford University Press, 1997), she analyzes an early ...
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Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism | Princeton University Press
In each chapter, Sarit Kattan Gribetz explores a unique aspect of rabbinic discourse on time. She shows how the ancient rabbinic texts artfully subvert Roman ...
Tony Michels - UW-Madison History Department
My Research and Teaching Interests include American Jewish history, Yiddish culture ... History 901 – Zionism and Its Critics – Syllabus 2017 (pdf); History 901 ...
Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity. Greek culture in the Roman ...
... critiques and the cultural contexts (Greco-Roman, Christian, and Zoroastrian) of her texts. In her treatment of the Rabbinic sources themselves, she ...
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson - ASU Search
“The Bible in the Jewish Philosophical Tradition,” The Jewish Study Bible ... Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics: Jewish. Authority, Dissent and Heresy in ...
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