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This book re-thinks the relationship between the world of the traditional Jewish study hall (the Beit Midrash) and the academy: Can these two institutions overcome their vast differences? Should they attempt to do so? If not, what could two methods of study seen as diametrically opposed possibly learn from one another? How might they help each other reconceive their interrelationship, themselves, and the broader study of Jews and Judaism? This book begins with three distinct approaches to these challenges.
The chapters then follow the approaches through an interdisciplinary series of pioneering case studies that reassess a range of topics including religion and pluralism in Jewish education; pain, sexual consent, and ethics in the Talmud; the place of reason and devotion among Jewish thinkers as diverse as Moses Mendelssohn, Jacob Taubes, Sarah Schenirer, Ibn Chiquitilla, Yair Ḥayim Bacharach, and the Rav Shagar; and Jewish law as a response to the post-Holocaust landscape. The authors are scholars of rabbinics, history, linguistics, philosophy, law, and education, many of whom also have traditional religious training or ordination.
The result is a book designed for learned scholars, non-specialists, and students of varying backgrounds, and one that is sure to spark debate in the university, the Beit Midrash, and far beyond.
Contents
Introduction: Engagement: Religious Devotion, Academic Relativism, and Beyond. 1. Terms: Is Jewish Studies Devotionist, Relativist, or Transcendentalist? 2. Philosophy: Moses Mendelssohn, Leo Strauss, and the Relativist/Devotionist Divide. 3. History: Devotionist Textual Scholarship and Historical Consciousness in Early Modern Responsa. 4. Law: The Mothers, the Mamzerim, and the Rabbis: A Post-Holocaust Halakhic Debate as Legal and Historical Source. 5. Language: Did the Medieval Grammarians' Scientific Approach to Hebrew Reject or Embrace Tradition? 6. Ethics: Debating the Proper Orientation of the Ethical Self in Rabbinic and Monastic Sources from Antiquity. 7. Pain: Milk and Blood, or the Critical Place of Suffering for Sages and Readers of the Talmud. 8. Consent: Coercion, Consent, and Self in the Redaction of a Bavli Sugya. 9. Feminism: Relativism and Devotion, the Yarmulke, and the Ex-Bais Yaakov Girl. 10. Postmodernism: The Soft Radicalism of Rav ShaGaR. 11. Education: A Case Study in Devotional and Relativist Learning in Early Childhood Religious Education. Afterword: Limits: Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis.
