The Bloomsbury companion to Jewish Studies /
"The Continuum Companion to Jewish Studies is a comprehensive reference guide, providing an overview of Jewish Studies as it has developed as an academic sub-discipline. This volume will survey the development and current state of research in the broad field of Jewish Studies - focusing on meth...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2013.
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| Series: | Bloomsbury companions.
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Table of Contents:
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- 1. How To Use This Book 2. Introduction to Jewish Studies: History and Development 3. Research Methods, Issues and New Directions 4 Content and Methodology Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible Leonard Greenspoon The Development of Rabbinic Judaism Gary Porton Medieval Jewish History and Judaism Marina Rustow & Elisheva Baumgarten Early Modern Jewries Dean Phillip Bell Modernity, Judaism and Jews Paul Mendes-Flohr Contemporary Jewry to be confirmed Gender and Judaism Judith Baskin Israel Studies and Zionism Elie Rekhess Jewish Arts and Material Culture Judah Cohen Demographics and Jewish History Sergio DellaPergolla Jewish Mysticism Zohar Raviv 5. A-Z Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts 6. Maps 7. Chronology 8. Annotated Bibliography Index.