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This volume, while not the first to explore and critique the concept of Jewish identity, makes two important interventions into contemporary understandings of American Jewish life. It is the first collection to critically examine the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish identity. Insofar as Jewish identity has become the most popular way to talk about the desired outcome of Jewish education, a critical assessment of the relationship between education and identity is both useful and necessary. It is useful because the reification of identity has, we believe, hampered much educational creativity in the rather single-minded pursuit of this goal. It is necessary because the nearly ubiquitous employment of the term obscures a whole set of significant questions about what Jewish education is and ought to be for in the first place.Second, this volume offers responses that are not merely synonymous replacements for "identity." With a selection of more critical essays, we hope that we can begin to expand, rather than replace, the array of ideas that the term "identity" is so often used to represent.As scholars of Jewish education, the authors of this book hope their work contributes to any number of new conversations about the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish life. The intention here is to move from critical inquiry (in Part I of the volume) to suggestive possibilities (Part II). The true measure of this effort, of course, lies in the hands of the readers, those who will advance our understanding of the complexities of American Jewish education and life-beyond Jewish identity.
Jews --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Identity. --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- American Jews. --- American Zionism. --- American post-Zionism. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish education. --- Jewish experience. --- Jewish identity discourse. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish learning. --- Jewish practices. --- Jewish studies. --- Judaism. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- community. --- contemporary Judaism. --- education. --- educational goals. --- educational research. --- identity discourse. --- identity politics. --- identity. --- liberal Judaism. --- multicultural. --- multiethnic Jews. --- performativity. --- religious identity. --- religious practice. --- semiotics. --- yeshiva.
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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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One cannot think of Judaism without taking some stance relating to Israel’s special status, its election. The present collection highlights the challenges that Judaism faces, as it continues to uphold a sense of chosenness and as it seeks to engage the world beyond it—nations, as well as religions. The challenge is captured by the dual implication of election: divine love on the one hand and enmity with others on the other. Israel’s election, mission and vocation are played out within this tension of love, grounded in God and extending to humanity, and the opposite of love, as this finds expression in Israel’s relations with others. Israel must work out the purpose of its election and its realization in history in the tension between these two extremes. This challenge takes on great urgency in the context of advances in interfaith relations. These lead us to reflect on the meaning of Israel’s election as part of developing a contemporary Jewish theology of world religions.
Jews --- Chosen people (Jews) --- Election of Israel --- Israel, Election of --- Election (Theology) --- Judaism --- People of God --- Election, Doctrine of. --- Chosen people --- Doctrine of election --- Mission --- Relations --- Biblical interpretation. --- Election. --- Gentiles. --- Israel foreign relations. --- Israel. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish state. --- Jewish theology of religions. --- Judaism. --- Middle East. --- Zionism. --- agnosticism. --- antisemitism. --- blessing. --- chosenness. --- contemporary Judaism. --- genocide. --- interfaith relations. --- interfaith theory. --- interreligious dialogue. --- love. --- non-Jews. --- prayer. --- suffering. --- theology. --- world religious leadership.
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In late antiquity, as Christianity emerged from Judaism, it was not only the new religion that was being influenced by the old. The rise and revolutionary challenge of Christianity also had a profound influence on rabbinic Judaism, which was itself just emerging and, like Christianity, trying to shape its own identity. In The Jewish Jesus, Peter Schäfer reveals the crucial ways in which various Jewish heresies, including Christianity, affected the development of rabbinic Judaism. He even shows that some of the ideas that the rabbis appropriated from Christianity were actually reappropriated Jewish ideas. The result is a demonstration of the deep mutual influence between the sister religions, one that calls into question hard and fast distinctions between orthodoxy and heresy, and even Judaism and Christianity, during the first centuries CE.
Messiah --- Christianity and other religions --- Judaism --- History of doctrines. --- History. --- Relations --- Christianity --- Adam myth. --- Adam. --- Baby Messiah. --- Babylonian Jewry. --- Babylonian Jews. --- Babylonian Talmud. --- Bavli. --- Book of Revelation. --- Christian Messiah. --- Christianity. --- Christians. --- Christological interpretations. --- Daniel exegesis. --- David Apocalypse. --- Elohim. --- Enoch-Metatron. --- Ephraim. --- Gentiles. --- God's Son. --- God-Father. --- God-Son. --- God. --- Hebrew Bible. --- Hekhalot literature. --- Holy Spirit. --- Israel. --- Jerusalem Talmud. --- Jewish Messiah. --- Jewish faith. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Lesser God. --- Messiah. --- MessiahЋing David. --- Metatron. --- New Testament. --- Palestinian Judaism. --- Palestinian midrash. --- Rav Idith. --- Roman Empire. --- Torah revelation. --- YHWH. --- Young God. --- ancient Judaism. --- angels. --- contemporary Judaism. --- creation story. --- creation. --- divine figure. --- divine power. --- divine powers. --- expiatory suffering. --- family background. --- heresy. --- heretics. --- late antiquity. --- makro-anthropos. --- midrashim. --- old God. --- orthodoxy. --- pagans. --- rabbinic Judaism. --- rabbinic identity. --- rabbinic literature. --- rabbis. --- redemption. --- suffering Messiah. --- Jews --- Religions --- Semites --- Religion
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