[PDF.23je] How Do We Know This?: Midrash and the Fragmentation of Modern Judaism (Suny Series in Judaica)

How Do We Know This?: Midrash and the Fragmentation of Modern Judaism (Suny Series in Judaica)

[PDF.jn82] How Do We Know This?: Midrash and the Fragmentation of Modern Judaism (Suny Series in Judaica)

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 | #1172206 in Books |  1994-11-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.90 x6.00l, | File type: PDF | 396 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Brilliant review of midrash|By Customer|This book is an excellent introduction to halachic midrash and is especially valuable in understanding how 19th century Jewish scholars dealt with rabbinic exegesis. By focusing on typical examples of reform and orthodox scholarship, Harris illuminates the entire period without bogging the body of the book in detail. I would highly rec|About the Author|Jay M. Harris is the Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of Humanities at Harvard University.

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.

What has gone unnoticed until now is the extent to which the fragmentation of modern Judaism is related to the interpretative foundations of cl...

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