The Study of Judaism : Authenticity, Identity, Scholarship.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (174 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Why Do Only Jews Study Jewish Studies? -- The "Jewish Studies" of the Present Study -- Breakdown of Chapters -- Conclusions -- Chapter One: Authenticity, Identity, Scholarship -- David Gelernter's Judaism: A Way of Being -- Dislocating Judaism's Essence -- The Insider/Outsider Problem -- Between Semitism and Anti-Semitism: Religious Studies Confronts Its Inner Jew -- Conclusions: Situating Judaism -- Chapter Two: Encountering Tradition: The Search for a Jewish Essence -- Discovering Jewish History -- Leopold Zunz and Wissenschaft des Judentums -- Finding Judaism's Essence: Unlocking the Past -- Cohen, Rosenzweig, and the Rejection of Jewish History -- Gershom Scholem: The Reaction against Wissenschaft -- Conclusions -- Chapter Three: Imagining Judaism: Scholar, Community, Identity -- Scholars or Apologists? -- A Tale of Two Academies -- Jewish Studies in America -- Post-World War II Developments -- Finding Institutional Space -- Scholar and Community -- Conclusions -- Chapter Four: Take Ancient Judaism for Example: Five Case Studies -- Example 1: Morris Jastrow Jr. (1861-1921) -- Example 2: George Foot Moore (1851-1931) -- Example 3: Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough (1893-1965) -- Example 4: Jacob Neusner (1932-) -- Example 5: Jonathan Z. Smith (1938-) -- Conclusions -- Chapter Five: Private Foundations Encounter Judaism -- Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation -- Tikvah Fund -- The Posen Foundation -- Conclusions -- Chapter Six: Future Prospects -- Judaism on the Margins -- Judaisms, Christianities, Islams -- The Construction of Jewish Data -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Works Cited -- Index.
Considers Jewish studies as an academic discipline from its origins to the present.