Jewish Identity in Early Rabbinic Writings (1994 Stern), book

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Jewish Identity in Early Rabbinic Writings (1994) is a book by Sacha Stern.

Abstract

Editions and translations

Published in Leiden: Brill, 1994 (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 23).

Table of contents

  • Israel and the nations: assumptions, images and representations. Self and other: cultural representations
  • Jews and non-Jews: collectivity, polarity and interdependence
  • The wicked and the righteous
  • Animals and angels
  • Israel among the nations and the world
  • Identity, the commandments, and bodily experience. Non-Jewish impurity and the experience of revulsion
  • The bodily features of Israel
  • The commandments: experience and praxis *Conclusion -- The people of Israel: centre and periphery. Introduction: lineal identity and the 'periphery' -- Converts -- Apostates -- The common people -- The rabbis and the people: a centripetal experience -- The protection of Jewish identity: dissociation and dissimilation. Social control: 'boundaries' and dissociation -- Cultural control: resistance to assimilation -- Conclusion -- Being Israel: solipsism, introversion and transcendence. Solipsism: the nations excluded -- Tzeniut: the ontology of concealment -- Transcendence: the Almighty and Israel

External links

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