Defining Jewish difference : from antiquity to the present
Defining Jewish difference : from antiquity to the present
- 자료유형
- 단행본 서양서
- 최종처리일시
- 20131018165253
- ISBN
- 9781107013711 : \102,510
- ISBN
- 1107013712 (hardback : alk. paper)
- DDC
- 305.8924-22
- 청구기호
- 305.8924 B513d
- 서명/저자
- Defining Jewish difference : from antiquity to the present / edited by Beth A. Berkowitz
- 발행사항
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012
- 형태사항
- viii, 280 p ; 24 cm
- 서지주기
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- 주제명-통일서명
- Bible O.T Leviticus Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- 일반주제명
- Jews Cultural assimilation
- 책소개
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This book traces the interpretive career of Leviticus 18:3, a verse that forbids Israel from imitating its neighbors. Beth A. Berkowitz shows that ancient, medieval, and modern exegesis of this verse provides an essential backdrop for todays conversations about Jewish assimilation and minority identity more generally. The story of Jewishness that this book tells may surprise many modern readers for whom religious identity revolves around ritual and worship. In Lev.
