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This volume offers an examination of varied forms of expressions of heresy in Jewish history, thought and literature. Contributions explore the formative role of the figure of the heretic and of heretic thought in the development of the Jewish traditions from antiquity to the 20th century. Chapters explore the role of heresy in the Hellenic period and Rabbinic literature; the significance of heresy to Kabbalah, and the critical and often formative importance the challenge of heresy plays for modern thinkers such as Spinoza, Freud, Kafka, and Derrida, and literary figures such as Kafka, Tchernikhovsky, and I.B. Singer. Examining heresy as a boundary issue constitutive for the formation of Jewish tradition, this book contributes to a better understanding of the significance of the figure of the heretic for tradition more generally.

Jewish philosophy --- Jewish heresies. --- Other (Philosophy) --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Heresy, Jewish Identity, Canonization, Jewish Tradition.

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Health --- Medicine --- Religious aspects --- religious traditions --- medical issues --- religious values --- history of health and medicine --- the Judeo-Christian tradition --- medical care --- Jehovah's Witnesses --- Christian Science --- Pentecostalism --- Adventism --- Evangelicalism --- Mormonism --- Baptism --- Anabaptism --- Anglicanism --- Lutheranism --- Roman Catholicism --- Early Christianism --- Jewish Tradition --- Medieval Catholicism --- Disciples of Christ --- Church of Christ --- Wesleyan Methodism --- Eastern Orthodox Church

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the Christian tradition --- Millerism --- the Adventist tradition --- controversial Christian groups --- controversial groups --- Jewish tradition --- Islamic tradition --- Hindu tradition --- controversial Hindu groups --- Yoga groups --- Sikhism --- the Sound Current tradition --- Buddhist tradition --- Theosophy --- the Theosophical Societies --- esoteric groups --- Neopaganism --- Christian Science --- the New Thought tradition --- Spiritualism --- Channeling --- UFO religions --- new religions

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This volume collects several articles by scholar Uri Zur on various areas in the field of Jewish studies. Topics discussed include different types of structure in Talmudic texts from a literary point of view, the study of the Aramaic language utilized in the Bible and the Talmud from a linguistic and interpretive perspective, the redaction of sugyot in the Talmud Bavli analyzed from a textual point of view, and matters of halakha and halakhic rules. The author also examines contemporary topics such as modern Judaism in Israel and peacemaking efforts grounded in the Pentateuch and Jewish tradition.

Aramaic. --- Biblical criticism. --- Biblical interpretation. --- Biblical translation. --- Gemara. --- Hebrew. --- Hillel. --- Israel. --- Jewish law. --- Jewish studies. --- Jewish tradition. --- Judaism. --- Modern Orthodox Judaism. --- Pentateuch. --- Talmud Bavli;Eruvin;criticism. --- Talmud. --- ancient texts. --- contemporary Judaism. --- form-stylistic design. --- halakha. --- interpretation. --- linguistics. --- peace. --- peacemaking. --- rabbinic literature. --- redaction. --- sugyot. --- tannaitic text. --- traditional Jews. --- tripartite structure. --- RELIGION / Judaism / Talmud. --- Talmud. Eruvin --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Eruvin. --- Talmud Bavli. --- criticism. --- ʻErubin (Talmud) --- Eruvin (Talmud)

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Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on which they drew. Nevertheless, it has been assumed that the ancient rabbis were committed to maintaining continuity with the past. Moulie Vidas argues on the contrary that structural features of the Talmud were designed to produce a discontinuity with tradition, and that this discontinuity was part and parcel of the rabbis' self-conception. Both this self-conception and these structural features were part of a debate within and beyond the Jewish community about the transmission of tradition. Focusing on the Babylonian Talmud, produced in the rabbinic academies of late ancient Mesopotamia, Vidas analyzes key passages to show how the Talmud's creators contrasted their own voice with that of their predecessors. He also examines Zoroastrian, Christian, and mystical Jewish sources to reconstruct the debates and wide-ranging conversations that shaped the Talmud's literary and intellectual character.

Talmud --- Jewish law --- History. --- Interpretation and construction. --- Amoraic tradition. --- Babylonian Talmud. --- Bava Qamma. --- Christian literature. --- Christian sources. --- Christianity. --- Christians. --- Hekhalot literature. --- Hekhalot tradition. --- Israel. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish genealogy. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish people. --- Jewish tradition. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Mesopotamia. --- Oral Torah. --- Palestinian Talmud. --- Rav Yehuda. --- Sar ha-Torah narrative. --- Scripture. --- Torah study. --- Written Torah. --- Zoroastrian literature. --- Zoroastrian ritual. --- Zoroastrian sources. --- anonymous layer. --- apodictic rulings. --- attributed rulings. --- authority. --- composition. --- dialectic. --- discontinuity. --- genealogical knowledge. --- genealogical tradition. --- intellectual history. --- layered structure. --- literary design. --- liturgy. --- mystical Jewish sources. --- oral tradition. --- rabbinic culture. --- rabbis. --- recitation. --- religious text. --- sacred texts. --- scholarship. --- self-definition. --- self-presentation. --- stam. --- sugya. --- sugyot. --- tanna'im. --- tradition.