Hebraism in Religion, History, and Politics - The Third Culture

This study offers an investigation into Hebraism as a category of cultural analysis within the history of Christendom. Its aim is to determine what Hebraism means or should mean when it is used.

List of contents

• 1: Cultural History and Hebraism: An Overview of Some Problems


• 2: Hebraism: The Third Culture


• 3: Reading the Talmud in Prison


• 4: The Territorial Contamination of the Blood


• 5: Conclusion: The Axial Age, Pluralism, and Hebraism


• References

About the author

Steven Grosby is Emeritus Professor of Religion at Clemson University. His areas of scholarship are the Hebrew Bible, ancient Israel and the ancient Near East, nationality and religion, and social theory. His publications include Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2005) and Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism (co-edited with Athena Leoussi; Edinburgh University Press, 2006).

Summary

This study offers an investigation into Hebraism as a category of cultural analysis within the history of Christendom. Its aim is to determine what Hebraism means or should mean when it is used.

Additional text

Grosby (emer., Clemson Univ.) fulfills his commitment to narrow the meaning of the term Hebraism to define a culture alongside classicism and Christianity, within Christendom, and to determine whether Hebraic culture emerges as useful heuristically to understanding post-Reformation history. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Grosby, Steven (Emeritus Professor of Religion Grosby, Grosby Steven
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.03.2021
• EAN: 9780199640317
• ISBN: 978-0-19-964031-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; European History, RELIGION / Judaism / General, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, Nationalism, Society & culture: general, Religion & politics, Jewish Studies, Religion and Politics, Society and culture: general, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Old Testaments