MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2011044023
003 DLC
005 20120519123321.0
008 111103s2012 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011044023
020 $a9781107013711 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $a1107013712 (hardback : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn759771986
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$dYDX$dYDXCP$dBWX$dDLC
050 00 $aDS143$b.B478 2012
082 00 $a305.892/4$223
100 1 $aBerkowitz, Beth A.
245 10 $aDefining Jewish difference :$bfrom antiquity to the present /$cBeth A. Berkowitz.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
300 $aviii, 280 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aIntroduction : law, identity, and Leviticus 18:3 -- The question of Israelite distinctiveness: paradigms of separatism in Leviticus 18:3 -- Allegory and ambiguity : Jewish identity in Philo's De congressu -- A narrative of neighbors : rethinking universalism and particularism in patristic and rabbinic writings -- The limits of "their laws" in Midrash halakhah -- A short history of the people Israel from the patriarchs to the Messiah: constructions of Jewish difference in Leviticus Rabbah -- Syncretism and anti-syncretism in the Babylonian Talmud -- The judaization of reason: the Tosafists, Nissim gerondi, and Joseph Colon -- Women's wear and men's suits: Ovadiah Yosef's and Moshe Feinstein's discourses of Jewishness -- Conclusion : an "upside-down people"?.
650 0 $aJews$xIdentity.
630 00 $aBible.$pO.T.$pLeviticus$xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
650 0 $aRabbinical literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aJews$xCultural assimilation.