Cultural Contradictions of the Nation State
Yehudah Mirsky on Alexander Kaye Alexander Kaye’s book stands at the confluence of three different scholarly traditions – the history of political thought
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Judaic studies
The Deep Humanity of Jewish Law
Zalman Rothschild on Moshe Halbertal Jewish law considers the topic of doubt worthy of occupying an entire category of law unto itself, and
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Daniel Boyarin’s Judaism: A Forum
Forum Contents “Introduction: Marginalia Forum on Daniel Boyarin’s Judaism,” Annette Yoshiko Reed and Shaul Magid “Was the Word in the Beginning? On the
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Was the Word in the Beginning? On the Relationship between Language and Concepts
Adele Reinhartz on Boyarin’s Judaism As part of the Key Words in Jewish Studies series by Rutgers University Press, Daniel Boyarin’s book, Judaism: The
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“Judaism” Here, There, but not Everywhere: Persian and Other Non-Western Perspectives
Simcha Gross on Boyarin’s Judaism The key insight of Daniel Boyarin’s provocative new book is that to better understand the “different ways that”
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Things Jewish: A View from Judeo-Arabic
Jonathan Decter on Boyarin’s Judaism In his current work, Carlo Ginzburg raises questions about “the emergence, between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, of
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Is “Judaism” Necessary?: A Response to Boyarin’s Judaism
Shaul Magid on Boyarin’s Judaism “One has to square away one’s philology before doing one’s philosophy” – Hermann Cohen There is a joke
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The Heartbreak of Modernity
Martin Kavka on Boyarin’s Judaism The argument of Boyarin’s book is right there in the title – Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern
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Hyperphilology and the Anachronism of Anachronism
Elliot R. Wolfson on Boyarin’s Judaism “Gegen die Wissenschaft der Philologie wäre nichts zu sagen: aber die Philologen sind auch die Erzieher. Da
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Time to Provincialize Christianity: A Response to Daniel Boyarin’s Judaism
Susannah Heschel on Boyarin’s Judaism Daniel Boyarin has been a courageous pioneering scholar to whom we owe major gratitude not only for amazing
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