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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Tosafot on avodah zarah iia. |
| Summary |
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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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Jews -- Identity.
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Jews -- Identity. |
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Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism.
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Rabbinical literature. |
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Jews -- Cultural assimilation.
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Jews -- Cultural assimilation. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Berkowitz, Beth A. Defining Jewish Difference : From Antiquity to the Present. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9781107013711 |
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9781139232203 |
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1139232207 |
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9781139233743 (electronic book) |
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1139233742 (electronic book) |
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9781107013711 |
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1107013712 |
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9781139230759 |
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