Religious Studies and Rabbinics

Taylor & Francis

Religious Studies and RabbinicsA Conversation\nAuthor(s): Elizabeth Alexander, Beth Berkowitz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138288805, 978-1138288805\nSynopsis\nReligious Studies and Rabbinics have overlapping yet distinct interests, subject matter, and methods. Religious Studies is committed to the study of religion writ large. It develops theories and methods intended to apply across religious traditions. Rabbinics, by contrast, is dedicated to a defined set of texts produced by the rabbinic movement of late antiquity.\n\nReligious Studies and Rabbinics represents the first sustained effort to create a conversation between these two academic fields. In one trajectory of argument, the book shows what is gained when each field sees how the other engages the same questions: When did the concept of \""religion\"" arise? How should a scholars normative commitments interact with their scholarship? The book argues th.