The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-521-82597-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 1164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 286 mm, Gewicht: 2190 g

The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture is an authoritative and accessible reference work for a twenty-first-century audience. Its entries, written by eminent scholars, define the spiritual and intellectual concepts and religious movements that distinguish Judaism and the Jewish experience; they discuss central personalities and places, formative events and enduring literary and cultural contributions and they illuminate the lives of ordinary Jewish men and women. Essays explore Jewish history from ancient times to the present and consider all aspects of Judaism, including religious practices and rituals, legal teachings and legendary traditions and rationalism, mysticism and messianism. This reference work differs from many others in its broad exploration of the Jewish experience beyond Judaism. Entries discuss secular and political movements and achievements and delineate Jewish endeavors in literature, art, music, theater, dance, film, broadcasting, sports, science, medicine and ecology, among many other topics from the Bible to the Internet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baskin, Judith R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; How to use this book; Abbreviations; Figures; Contributors; List of entries; Entries; Index of names; Index of subjects.

Über Autor(innen)

Baskin, Judith R.
Judith R. Baskin is Knight Professor of Humanities and Associate Dean for Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. Her books include Pharaoh's Counsellors: Job, Jethro, and Balaam in Rabbinic and Patristic Tradition (1982) and Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature (2002). She is the editor of Jewish Women in Historical Perspective (1991; 2nd edition, 1998), Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing (1994) and The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture (with Kenneth Seeskin, 2010).