How Do We Know This?: Midrash and the Fragmentation of Modern Judaism by Jay M. Harris

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

Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion

Jay M. Harris

379 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion
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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 ...

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