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Religious Studies and Rabbinics - A Conversation (Hardcover)
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Religious Studies and Rabbinics - A Conversation (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series
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Religious Studies and Rabbinics have overlapping yet distinct
interests, subject matter, and methods. Religious Studies is
committed to the study of religion writ large. It develops theories
and methods intended to apply across religious traditions.
Rabbinics, by contrast, is dedicated to a defined set of texts
produced by the rabbinic movement of late antiquity. Religious
Studies and Rabbinics represents the first sustained effort to
create a conversation between these two academic fields. In one
trajectory of argument, the book shows what is gained when each
field sees how the other engages the same questions: When did the
concept of "religion" arise? How should a scholar's normative
commitments interact with their scholarship? The book argues that
if scholars from Religious Studies and Rabbinics do not realize
they are addressing the same problems, they will not benefit from
each other's solutions. A second line of argument brings research
methods, theoretical claims, and data associated with one field
into contact with those of the other. When Religious Studies
categories such as "ritual" or "the sacred" are applied to data
from Rabbinics and, conversely, when text-reading strategies
distinctive to Rabbinics are employed for texts from other
traditions, both Religious Studies and Rabbinics enlarge their
scope. The chapters range across such themes as ritual failure;
rabbinic conceptions of scripture, ethics, food, time, and everyday
life; problems of definition and normativity in the study of
religion; J.Z. Smith's writings; and the preaching of the
African-American Christian evangelical social justice activist John
Perkins. With chapters written by world-class theorists of
Religious Studies and prominent text scholars of Rabbinics, the
book provides a unique opportunity to expand the conceptual reach
and scholarly audience of both Religious Studies and Jewish
Studies.
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