Defining Jewish Difference: From Antiquity to the Present

Abstract

1. Introduction: law, identity, and Leviticus 18:3 2. The question of Israelite distinctiveness: paradigms of separatism in Leviticus 18:3 3. Allegory and ambiguity: Jewish identity in Philo's De Congressu 4. A narrative of neighbors: rethinking universalism and particularism in patristic and rabbinic writings 5. The limits of 'their laws' in midrash halakhah 6. A short history of the people of Israel from the patriarchs to the Messiah: constructions of Jewish difference in Leviticus rabbah 7. Syncretism and anti-syncretism in the Babylonian Talmud 8. The judaization of reason: the Tosafists, Nissim Gerondi, and Joseph Colon 9. Women's wear and men's suits: Ovadiah Yosef's and Moshe Feinstein's discourses of Jewishness 10. Conclusion: an 'upside-down people'?

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