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List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Nokhri, Goy, and the Art of Separation in the Hebrew Bible
- 2: Fragile Exclusions, Virtual Inclusions: Ezra-Nehemiah and the Eschatological Prophesies
- 3: The Missing Goy: Second Temple Literature
- 4: Ethn¿ and Goyim, Hell¿nes and Allophyloi
- 5: Paul and the Non-Ethnic Ethn^d=e
- 6: Maturity: Rabbinic Literature and the Birth of the Goy
- 7: The Goy and the Formation of Tannaitic Discourse: Halakhah and Aggadah
- 8: Gentiles are not Barbarians
- Postscript
- Bibliography
About the author
Adi Ophir is Professor Emeritus at The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University and a Visiting Professor in the Humanities at the Cogut Center of the Humanities, Brown University. He was Director of the Lexicon for Political Theory research project at The Minerva Humanities Center. He was also the founding editor of Theory and Criticism, the main Hebrew journal for critical theory, and of the online journal Mafte'akh: Lexical Review for Political Thought, and member of the editorial board of Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon. His publications include The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine (Stanford University Press; 2012), Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals (MIT Press, 2005).
Ishay Rosen-Zvi is a Professor in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University and head of the Talmud section. He previously taught Talmud and Midrash at the University of California at Berkeley and was a fellow at the Scholion Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2013 he was elected to the Young Israeli Academy of Science. He is the author of Demonic Desires: "Yetzer Hara" and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) and The Mishnaic Sotah Ritual: Temple, Gender and Midrash (Brill, 2012).
Summary
This work traces the development of the term and category of the goy from the Bible to rabbinic literature.
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The study is both thorough and timely, and a contribution not only to biblical scholarship but also to interfaith relations and the understanding of relationships between Jews and non-Jews more widely.
