Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Review of Religious Studies and Rabbinics (ed. Shanks Alexander and Berkowitz)

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Religious Studies and Rabbinics (Mika Ahuvia).
Elizabeth Shanks Alexander and Beth A. Berkowitz.
Religious Studies and Rabbinics: A Conversation. Routledge, 2018.

... The volume makes the benefits of rabbinics for religious studies evident: rabbinics undermines the Protestant Christian-oriented category of religion, destabilizes universal ideals by upholding the value of the particular and local, and finally offers reading practices that are productive beyond the rabbinic corpora. ...

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