摘要: The article reviews the book "The Hebrew Bible Reborn From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books: A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles Over the Bible in Modern Judaism," by Yaacov Shavit and Mordechai Eran, translated by Chaya Naor....
I grant you that it is hard to get through the rhetoric we hear on every front today. We get blasted by the far-right and the far-left with little sanity from either side. Both sides’ ideas begin to sound okay when all you hear is what they feed you, but when you really listen ...
I note that I use similar methodology and periodization to examine “religiofication”, which is intertwined with “secularization”, as I will elaborate below. By “religiofication” I refer to the application of normative Judaism from various rabbinic centers on increasingly large lay, non-...
and Spec. in order to reinforce the thesis that Judaism is, in essence, universal and tolerant. For further analysis, see (Strauss forthcoming a). Rapoport and Flesch are also worth mentioning in this respect, as they believed that scholarship on Philo could be used to convey the Maskilic ...