Defining Jewish Difference : From Antiquity to the Present.

Berkowitz shows that interpretation of Leviticus 18:3 provides an essential backdrop for today's conversations about Jewish assimilation and minority identity.

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Main Author: Berkowitz, Beth A.
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Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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505 0 |a Cover; Defining Jewish Difference; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction: Law, Identity, and Leviticus 18:3; DEBATING FOREIGN LAW; LEVITICUS 18:3'S INTERDICTION AGAINST FOREIGN LAW; ASSIMILATION AND ACCULTURATION, INFLUENCEAND IMITATION: CONCEPTUALIZING CULTURALCONTACT IN JEWISH HISTORY; RACE, ETHNICITY, AND RELIGION AS DISCOURSESOF DIFFERENCE; HERMENEUTICS AND HISTORY; LAW ANDNARRATIVE; MENTAL MAPS; RECEPTION HISTORIES; OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK; 2: The Question of Israelite Distinctiveness: Paradigms of Separatism in Leviticus 18:3; THE QUESTION OF DISTINCTIVENESS. 
505 8 |a THE LITERARY STRUCTURES OF LEVITICUS 18CHIASMUS AND ISRAELITE DISTINCTIVENESS; TWO PARADIGMS OF DISTINCTIVENESS; DISTINCTIVENESS IN THE LAWS OF EXODUSAND DEUTERONOMY; A HYPOTHETICAL GENEALOGY OF LEVITICUS 18; CONCLUSIONS: THE INTERPRETIVE PATH OFLEVITICUS 18; 3: Allegory and Ambiguity: Jewish Identity in Philo's De Congressu; EXEGESIS AND IDENTITY IN PHILO; ALLEGORICAL EXEGESIS IN DE CONGRESSU:ABRAHAM'S TEN-YEAR DELAY; ETHICS OR ETHNICS?; PHILO'S NATIVIZATION OF GREEK EDUCATION; WHAT PHILO TALKS ABOUT WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT EGYPT; THE POLITICS OF PARTICULARISM. 
505 8 |a CONCLUSIONS: ALLEGORY AND AMBIGUITY4: A Narrative of Neighbors: Rethinking Universalism and Particularism in Patristic and Rabbinic Writings; THE BIBLE'S ETHNIC LANGUAGE AND ITS ANCIENTINTERPRETERS; CLEMENT ON THE COMMANDMENTS: STROMATEIS 2.10.46-47; CLEMENT'S NARRATIVE ABOUT NEIGHBORS; THE SIFRA'S GENTILE WHO DOES TORAH; DEAUTHORIZATION OF LAW IN PAUL; THE COMPREHENSIVENESS OF LAW IN CLEMENTAND THE SIFRA; CONCLUSIONS: ETHNIC LANGUAGE AND INTERTEXTUALITY; 5: The Limits of "Their Laws" in Midrash Halakhah; NEUTRALIZATION STRATEGIES; THE SIFRA ON LEVITICUS 18:3: BUILDING ANDPLANTING AS THEY DO. 
505 8 |a A PERVERSE PARALLELPROHIBITING SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, OR HIDINGIN THE CLOSET; MEKHILTA DE-ARAYOT ON LEVITICUS 18:3:THINGS SET IN STONE; THEATERS, CIRCUSES, AND STADIA; THE WAYS OF THE AMORITES; HAIRSTYLES; CONCLUSIONS; 6: A Short History of the People Israel from the Patriarchs to the Messiah: Constructions of Jewish Differencein Leviticus Rabbah; THE QUESTION OF JUDAISM; STRUCTURAL OVERVIEW OF LEVITICUS RABBAH 23; UNIT 1: MORAL DIFFERENCE; UNIT 2: PHYSICAL DIFFERENCE; UNIT 3: DIFFERENCE AS OBEDIENCE TO GOD; UNIT 4: DIFFERENCE AS RITUAL COMPETENCE; UNIT 5A: DIFFERENCE IN POLITICS AND ECONOMICS. 
505 8 |a UNIT 5B: DIFFERENCE AS DEMOGRAPHYUNITS 6-7A: LEVITICUS 18:3 AND SONG OF SONGS 2:2; UNITS 7B-13: DIFFERENCE IN SEXUAL PRACTICE; CONCLUSIONS; 7: Syncretism and Anti-Syncretism in the Babylonian Talmud; HISTORY OR HERMENEUTICS?; DIGNITY IN DECAPITATION; BABYLONIAN TALMUD SANHEDRIN 52B: "SINCE IT ISWRITTEN IN THE TORAH, WE DO NOT DERIVE IT FROM THEM"; THE WAYS OF THE AMORITES; MAKING RABBIS INTO KINGS; SYNCRETIZING BY SECULARIZING; THE SEARCH FOR THE ORIGINS OF THE SWORD; CONCLUSIONS; 8: The Judaization of Reason in the Tosafists, Nissim Gerondi, and Joseph Colon; INTRODUCTION. 
500 |a Tosafot on avodah zarah iia. 
520 |a Berkowitz shows that interpretation of Leviticus 18:3 provides an essential backdrop for today's conversations about Jewish assimilation and minority identity. 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
650 0 |a Jews  |x Identity. 
650 0 |a Rabbinical literature  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Jews  |x Cultural assimilation. 
650 7 |a SOCIAL SCIENCE  |x Anthropology  |x Cultural.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a SOCIAL SCIENCE  |x Discrimination & Race Relations.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a SOCIAL SCIENCE  |x Ethnic Studies  |x General.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a SOCIAL SCIENCE  |x Minority Studies.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Jews  |x Cultural assimilation  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Jews  |x Identity  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Rabbinical literature  |2 fast 
655 7 |a Criticism, interpretation, etc.  |2 fast 
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