The Image of the Non-Jew in Judaism
Author: David Novak
Publisher: New York and Toronto : E. Mellen Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9780889469754
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The Image of the Non-Jew in Judaism
Author: David Novak
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2011-08-25
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1786949822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic study of the idea of Noahide law traces the concept’s historical development and shows how it is relevant to practical discussions of the halakhah pertaining to non-Jews and to relations between Jews and non-Jews. Individual analyses of each of the seven Noahide laws, drawing primarily on classical rabbinic texts by traditional commentators, are followed by a discussion of the underlying theory.
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Author: Moshe Ḥayyim Luzzatto
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Image of the Non-Jew in Judaism
Author: David Novak
Publisher: New York and Toronto : E. Mellen Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 512
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesigned as a historical study of the Noahide Laws, this monograph aims to trace the development of the concept of gentile normativeness in the history of Jewish law and theology. In addition, it seeks to show how this concept had internal influence on the development of that law and theology.
Zionism and Judaism
Author: David Novak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-03-09
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 131624122X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy should anyone be a Zionist, a supporter of a Jewish state in the land of Israel? Why should there be a Jewish state in the land of Israel? This book seeks to provide a philosophical answer to these questions. Although a Zionist need not be Jewish, nonetheless this book argues that Zionism is only a coherent political stance when it is intelligently rooted in Judaism, especially in the classical Jewish doctrine of God's election of the people of Israel and the commandment to them to settle the land of Israel. The religious Zionism advocated here is contrasted with secular versions of Zionism that take Zionism to be a replacement of Judaism. It is also contrasted with versions of religious Zionism that ascribe messianic significance to the State of Israel, or which see the main task of religious Zionism to be the establishment of an Israeli theocracy.
The Vanishing American Jew
Author: Alan M. Dershowitz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1998-09-08
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 0684848988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the meaning of Jewishness in light of the increasing assimilation of America's Jews and suggests ways to preserve Jewish identity.
The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature
Author: Bezalel Bar-Kochva
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2016-02-09
Total Pages: 632
ISBN-13: 0520290844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis landmark contribution to ongoing debates about perceptions of the Jews in antiquity examines the attitudes of Greek writers of the Hellenistic period toward the Jewish people. Among the leading Greek intellectuals who devoted special attention to the Jews were Theophrastus (the successor of Aristotle), Hecataeus of Abdera (the father of "scientific" ethnography), and Apollonius Molon (probably the greatest rhetorician of the Hellenistic world). Bezalel Bar-Kochva examines the references of these writers and others to the Jews in light of their literary output and personal background; their religious, social, and political views; their literary and stylistic methods; ethnographic stereotypes current at the time; and more.
How I Stopped Being a Jew
Author: Shlomo Sand
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2014-10-07
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 1781686149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a “secular Jew.” With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection, he articulates the problems at the center of modern Jewish identity. How I Stopped Being a Jew discusses the negative effects of the Israeli exploitation of the “chosen people” myth and its “holocaust industry.” Sand criticizes the fact that, in the current context, what “Jewish” means is, above all, not being Arab and reflects on the possibility of a secular, non-exclusive Israeli identity, beyond the legends of Zionism.
Goy
Author: Adi Ophir
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0198744900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work traces the development of the term and category of the goy from the Bible to rabbinic literature.
The Image and Its Prohibition in Jewish Antiquity
Author: Sarah Pearce
Publisher: Journal of Jewish Studies
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780957522800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgainst the commonly held opinion that ancient Judaism was an artless culture, this sumptuously illustrated book offers new ways of looking at art in Jewish antiquity. Leading experts, under the editorship of Sarah Pearce, skilfully explore different functions of images in relation to their prohibition by the Second of the Ten Commandments. The visual world of ancient Judaism often reflects a tense confrontation between Mediterranean, artful classical culture and the image-filled, yet law-inspired biblical literature. Readers will encounter a rich collection of objects and texts analysed in different contexts, from Solomon's Temple to late antiquity. The imageless God of monotheistic Judaism combated the polytheistic cults of Israel's neighbours with the use of symbols. Figurative, floral and geometrical embellishments of synagogues served as decoration and not for worship. Narrative biblical scenes in the Dura-Europos synagogue played an educational and political role in Jewish society on the outskirts of the Roman Empire. Antique Jewish art exercised a profound influence on medieval Islam and even on the modern Western visual world. This book is aimed at both the scholarly world and all readers interested in religion and art.
