The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies

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The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies is part of a major series of Oxford Handbooks. This substantial volume of c.400,000 words reflects the current state of scholarship as analysed by an international team of experts in the different and varied fields represented within contemporary Jewish Studies.

Readership: Students and teachers of Jewish Studies

Contents/contributors:
1 Martin Goodman: The Nature of Jewish Studies
2.1a Alan Cooper: Biblical Studies and Jewish Studies
2.2a Martin Goodman: Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period
2.2b John Collins: Jewish Literature in the Second Temple Period
2.3a Seth Schwartz: Jews and Judaism in the Talmudic Period
2.3b Catherine Heszer: Classical Rabbinic Literature
3.1 Ram Ben-Shalom: Medieval Jewry in Christendom
3.2 Mark Cohen: Medieval Jewry in the World of Islam
3.3 Israel Ta-Shma: Rabbinic Scholarship in the Middle Ages
3.4 Joseph Dan: Medieval Judaism
3.5 Eli Yassif and Tova Rosen: Medieval Jewish Literature
3.6 Meira Polliack: Medieval Karaism
4.1 Sarah Stein: Oriental and Sephardic Jewry since 1492
4.2 Elisheva Carlebach: European Jewry in the Early Modern Period, 1492 to 1750
4.3 David Rechter: Western and Central European Jewry in the Modern Period, 1750-1933
4.4 Michael Stanislawski: Eastern European Jewry in the Modern Period, 1750-1939
4.5 Saul Friedlander: The Holocaust and its Aftermath
4.6 Ilan Troen: Settlement and State in the Land of Israel
4.7 Hasia Diner: Jews and Judaism in America
5.1a Pablo-Isaac Kirtchuk: Hebrew Language
5.1b Glenda Abramson: Modern Hebrew Literature
5.2 Cecilia Kuznitz: Yiddish Studies
5.3 Ora Schwarzwald: Ladino Studies
5.4 Geoffrey Khan: Judaeo-Arabic and judaeo-Persian Studies
5.5 Ilan Stavans: Other Diaspora Jewish Literatures since 1492
6.1 Bernard Jackson, with B. Lifshitz, A. Gray, and D.B. Sinclair: Halakha and Law
6.2 Michael Fishbane: Bible Interpretation
6.3 Elliot Wolfson: Mysticism and Magic
6.4 Lawrence Hoffman: Liturgy
6.5 Paul Mendes-Flohr: Jewish Philosophy and Theology
7 Tal Ilan: Jewish Women's Studies
8 Sergio Della Pergola: Demography
9 Lee Levine: Art, Architecture, and Archaeology
10 Phil Bohlman: Music
11 Gad Kaynar and Ahuvia Belkin: Theatre
12 Moshe Zimerman: Film
13 Wolfgang Benz: Antisemitism
14 Galit Hasan-Rokem: Folklore and Ethnography
15 Harvey Goldberg: Modern Jewish Society and Sociology