Authors: Donniel Hartman
ISBN-13: 9780826496645, ISBN-10: 0826496644
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Date Published: November 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction: The Modern Problem of 'Who are the Jews?' 1
Pluralism, Tolerance and Deviance 13
Deviance, Boundaries and Marginalization in Rabbinic Literature 36
Intolerable Deviance and its Forms of Marginalization in Mediaeval Halakhic Writing 69
The Hatam Sofer and the Boundaries of Orthodoxy 104
Moshe Feinstein and the Boundaries of Orthodoxy 133
Towards a Contemporary Theory of Boundaries 168
Bibliography 183
Index 191
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