Cultures of the Jews, Volume 1 Mediterranean Origins (National Jewish Book Award)

Name: Cultures of the Jews, Volume 1 Mediterranean Origins (National Jewish Book Award)
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ISBN: 9780805212006

ISBN-10: 0805212000

ISBN-13: 9780805212006

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Biale

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Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their history, are the Jews one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their relationships been to the cultures of their neighbors? To address these and similar questions, some of the finest scholars of our day have contributed their insights to "Cultures of the Jews, a winner of the National Jewish Book Award upon its hardcover publication in 2002. Constructing their essays around specific cultural artifacts that were created in the period and locale under study, the contributors describe the cultural interactions among different Jews-from rabbis and scholars to…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/10/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.21" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Robert S. Westman is Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego.David Biale is the Emmanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis. He lives in Berkeley, California.



List of Contributors


Acknowledgments


Preface: Toward a Cultural History of the Jews



Introduction




Imagining the Birth of Ancient Israel: National Metaphors in the Bible




Israel Among the Nations: Biblical Culture in the Ancient Near East




Hellenistic Judaism




Jewish Culture in Greco-Roman Palestine




Confronting a Christian Empire: Jewish Culture in the World of Byzantium




Babylonian Rabbinic Culture




Jewish Culture in the Formative Period of Islam



Conclusion



Index