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Interpreting Judaism in a postmodern age / edited by Steven Kepnes.

Contributor(s): Kepnes, Steven, 1952-
Material type: TextTextSeries: New perspectives on Jewish studies: Publisher: New York : New York University Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: xiii, 392 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0814746756 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0814746748 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Judaism -- 20th century | Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism | Hermeneutics -- Religious aspects -- Judaism | Judaism -- Sacred books -- HermeneuticsDDC classification: 296/.09/045 LOC classification: BM565 | .I58 1996Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Postmodern interpretations of Judaism: deconstructive and constructive approaches / Steven Kepnes / Deconstruction and biblical narrative / Edward L. Greenstein -- Postcritical scriptural interpretation in Judaism / Peter Ochs -- Halakhah as primordial tradition: a Gadamerian dialogue with early rabbinic memory and jurisprudence / Martin S. Jaffee -- Rabbinic resistance to male domination: a case study in Talmudic cultural poetics / Daniel Boyarin -- From sealed book to open text: time, memory, and narrativity in kabbalistic hermeneutics / Elliot R. Wolfson -- The poor in deed facing the Lord of all deeds: a postmodern reading of the Yom Kippur Mahzor / Adi Ophir -- The "Torah" of criticism and the criticism of the Torah: recuperating the pedagogical moment / Susan Handelman -- The struggle over the canon of early-twentieth-century Hebrew literature: the case of Galicia / Hannan Hever -- The hermeneutic turn in Franz Rosenzweig's theory of Revelation / Yudit Kornberg Greenberg -- Hasidism, Hellenism, Holocaust: a postmodern view / Edith Wyschogrod -- Cultural criticism, ideology, and the interpretation of Zionism: toward a post-Zionist discourse / Laurence J. Silberstein -- Rethinking Jewish feminist identity/ties: what difference can feminist theory make? / Laura S. Levitt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Postmodern interpretations of Judaism: deconstructive and constructive approaches / Steven Kepnes / Deconstruction and biblical narrative / Edward L. Greenstein -- Postcritical scriptural interpretation in Judaism / Peter Ochs -- Halakhah as primordial tradition: a Gadamerian dialogue with early rabbinic memory and jurisprudence / Martin S. Jaffee -- Rabbinic resistance to male domination: a case study in Talmudic cultural poetics / Daniel Boyarin -- From sealed book to open text: time, memory, and narrativity in kabbalistic hermeneutics / Elliot R. Wolfson -- The poor in deed facing the Lord of all deeds: a postmodern reading of the Yom Kippur Mahzor / Adi Ophir -- The "Torah" of criticism and the criticism of the Torah: recuperating the pedagogical moment / Susan Handelman -- The struggle over the canon of early-twentieth-century Hebrew literature: the case of Galicia / Hannan Hever -- The hermeneutic turn in Franz Rosenzweig's theory of Revelation / Yudit Kornberg Greenberg -- Hasidism, Hellenism, Holocaust: a postmodern view / Edith Wyschogrod -- Cultural criticism, ideology, and the interpretation of Zionism: toward a post-Zionist discourse / Laurence J. Silberstein -- Rethinking Jewish feminist identity/ties: what difference can feminist theory make? / Laura S. Levitt.

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