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The State of Jewish Studies

Edited by Shaye J. D. Cohen and Edward L. Greenstein
Editors Shaye Cohen and Edward Greenstein have compiled papers from a conference at the Jewish Theological Seminary held to celebrate its centennial as well as to mark the growth and maturity of Jewish Studies over the previous twenty years. Titled "The State of Jewish Studies'" the conference focused on methodological and interpretative questions and examined many areas of scholarship. The editors also supplemented the volume with specifically commissioned papers.

I. Introduction

II.The Study of Judaism
Biblical Studies
Ancient Judaism
Medieval Judaism
Modern Jewish History
Modern Jewish Literature
Jewish Art

III. Religion and Scholarship
Modern Jewish Thought
Jewish Studies and the Transmission of Judaism
Concluding Reflections
 
Co-published with the Jewish Theological Seminary

$44.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2194-1
$24.95s paper / ISBN 0-8143-2195-X

280 pages

1990