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Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion

By Daniel Boyarin

Book information

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
2018
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
1 MB (1545184 bytes)
Series
Key Words in Jewish Studies
Edition
Kindle Edition
Pages
216\0
Time added
2019-06-22 20:34:54

Description

Judaismmakes the bold argument that the very concept of a religion of ‘Judaism’ is an invention of the Christian church. The intellectual journey of world-renowned Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin, this book will change the study of “Judaism”—an essential key word in Jewish Studies—as we understand it today. Boyarin argues that although the world treats the word “Judaism” as appropriate for naming an alleged religion of the Jews, it is in fact a Christian theological concept only adopted by Jews with the coming of modernity and the adoption of Christian languages.

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