Traveling Homeland - The Babylonian Talmud As Diaspora

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Boyarin Klappentext Daniel Boyarin is Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley. He is author of many books, including Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Zusammenfassung In A Traveling Homeland! Daniel Boyarin makes the case that the Babylonian Talmud is a diasporist manifesto producing and defining the practices that constitute Jewish diasporic identity in the form of textual! interpretive communities built around talmudic study. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prelude. A Different Diaspora Chapter 1. Diaspora and the Jewish Diasporas Chapter 2. At Home in Babylonia: The Talmud as Diasporist Manifesto Chapter 3. In the Land of Talmud: The Textual Making of a Diasporic Folk Chapter 4. Looking for Our Routes; or, the Talmud and the Making of Diasporas: Sefarad and Ashkenaz Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Boyarin
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.2015
• EAN: 9780812247244
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4724-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion; Divinations: Rereading Late An; Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion; Divinations: Rereading Late An
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous