The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies
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The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies reflects the current state of scholarship in the field as analyzed by an international team of experts in the different and varied areas represented within contemporary Jewish Studies. Unlike recent attempts to encapsulate the current state of Jewish Studies, the Oxford Handbook is more than a mere compendium of agreed facts; rather, it is an exhaustive survey of current interests and directions in the field.
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- Reflects the current state of scholarship in the field
- Provides an exhaustive survey of current interests and directions in the field
- Features an international team of experts in the different and varied areas represented within contemporary Jewish Studies
- The Nature of Jewish Studies - Martin Goodman
- Biblical Studies and Jewish Studies - Alan Cooper
- Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period
- The Literature of the Second Temple Period
- Historiography on the Jews in the 'Talmudic Period': 70-640 CE - Seth Schwartz
- Classical Rabbinic Literature - Catherine Hezsner
- The Narratives of Medieval Jewish History - Joseph Dan
- Medieval Jewry in Christendom - Ram Ben-Shalom
- Medieval Jewry in the World of Islam - Mark R. Cohen
- Rabbinic Literature in the Middle Ages: 1000-1492 - Israel Ta-Shma
- The Study of Hebrew Literature of the Middle Ages: Major Trends and Goals - Tova Rosen and Eli Yassif
- Medieval Karaism - Meira Polliack
- Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries Since 1492 - Sarah Abrevaya Stein
- European Jewry in the Early Modern Period: 1492-1750 - Elisheva Carlebach
- Western and Central European Jewry in the Modern Period: 1750-1933 - David Rechter
- Easter European Jewry in the Modern Period: 1750-1939 - Michael Stanislawski
- The Holocaust - Saul Friedlander
- Settlement and State in Eretz Israel - S.Ilan Troen
- American Jewish History - Hasia Diner
- The Hebrew Language - Pablo-Isaac Halevi (Kirtchuk)
- Modern Hebrew Literature - Glenda Abramson
- Yiddish Studies - Cecile E. Kuznitz
- Judeo-Spanish Studies - Ora R. Schwarzwald
- Judaeo-Arabic and Judaeo-Persian - Geoffrey Khan
- Other Diaspora Jewish Literatures Since 1492 - Ilan Stavans
- Halacha and Law - Bernard Jackson, with B. Lifshitz, A. Gray, and D.B. Sinclair
- Bible Interpretation - Michael Fishbane
- Mysticism - Philip S. Alexander
- Jewish Liturgy and Jewish Scholarship: Method and Cosmology - Lawrence A. Hoffman
- Jewish Philosophy and Theology - Paul Mendes-Flohr
- Jewish Women's Studies - Tal Ilan
- Demography - Sergio Della Pergola
- Art, Architecture, and Archaeology - Lee I. Levine
- Music - Philip V. Bohlman
- Jewish Theatre - Ahuva Belkin and Gad Kaynar
- Jewish and Israeli Film Studies - Moshe Zimerman
- Anti-Semitism Research - Wolfgang Benz
- Jewish Folklore and Ethnography - Galit Hasan-Rokem
- Modern Jewish Society and Sociology - Harvey E. Goldenberg
This informative collection of essays covers all main areas currently taught and researched throughout the world, especially in Europe, the United States and Israel ... this volume is a vital reference source, and will be of enormous benefit to undergraduates, graduates, and interested readers ... as a state-of-the-art exploration of Jewish studies, this book is of seminal importance.
—Dan Cohn-Sherbok, The Church Times
... Jewish studies scholars will welcome a work that enables them to find out everything they wanted to know, along with a whole lot of things they didn’t know they wanted to know and about which they will now be able to hold intelligent conversations. In all, highly recommended.
—Jewish Chronicle