How Do We Know This?: Midrash and the Fragmentation of Modern Judaism - Couverture rigide

Harris, Jay M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0791421430 ISBN 13 : 9780791421437

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1994

Synopsis

This book is a study of rabbinic legal interpretation (midrash) in Judaism's rabbinic, medieval, and modern periods. It shows how the rise of Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Judaism in the modern period is tied to distinct attitudes toward the classical Jewish heritage, and specifically, toward rabbinic midrash halakah.

What has gone unnoticed until now is the extent to which the fragmentation of modern Judaism is related to the interpretative foundations of classical Judaism. As this book demonstrates, spokespersons for any form of Judaism that engaged modernity on any level had to explain the basis for their rejection or continued acceptance of the authority of rabbinically developed law. Inevitably and invariably, this need led them to address anew what were long-standing questions regarding the ancient interpretations of biblical law. Were they compelling? Were they reasonable? Were they still relevant? Each form of Judaism fashioned its own response to these challenges, and each argued forcefully against the responses of the other denominations.

Jay M. Harris describes the fragmentation of modern Judaism in terms of each denomination's relationship to classical Judaism's system of interpretation in part two of this book.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jay M. Harris is the Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of Humanities at Harvard University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791421430
• ISBN 13: 9780791421437
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 379
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