How Do We Know This?: Midrash and the Fragmentation of Modern Judaism

How Do We Know This?: Midrash and the Fragmentation of Modern Judaism
ISBN-10
0791421449
ISBN-13
9780791421444
Category
Religion
Pages
379
Language
English
Published
1995-01-01
Publisher
SUNY Press
Author
Jay M. Harris

Description

This book is a study of rabbinic legal interpretation (midrash) in Judaism’s rabbinic, medieval, and modern periods. It shows how the rise of Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Judaism in the modern period is tied to distinct attitudes toward the classical Jewish heritage, and specifically, toward rabbinic midrash halakah.

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