Creating Judaism: History, Tradition, Practice

Michael L. Satlow

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Paper, 360 pages, 19 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13489-7
$26.50 / £18.50

December, 2006
Cloth, 360 pages, 19 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13488-0
$75.00 / £52.00

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Introduction

1. Promised Lands

2. Creating Judaism

3. Between Athens and Jerusalem

4. The Rabbis

5. Rabbinic Concepts

6. Mitzvot

7. The Rise of Reason

8. From Moses to Moses

9. Seeing God

10. East and West

Epilogue: Whither Judaism?

Glossary

Bibliographical Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Judaism

About the Author

Michael L. Satlow is associate professor of religious studies and Judaic studies at Brown University. He is the author of Jewish Marriage in Antiquity and Tasting the Dish: Rabbinic Rhetorics of Sexuality.

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