Israel Must Prepare for a Day When China Dominates the Middle East
Beijing is set to be the winner of the Syrian civil war.
May 14, 2019
The Absence of an Ancient Word for “Judaism” Doesn’t Mean There Was No Ancient Judaism
The flaw in Daniel Boyarin’s new book.
In his recent book Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion, Daniel Boyarin gives a historical account of the term “Judaism” and concludes that Jews had no word equivalent to it before the modern period. Boyarin therefore argues that, “from a linguistic point of view, only modern Judaism can be said to exist at all,” and that scholars who speak of ancient or medieval Judaism are engaging in an unscholarly anachronism. In her review, Adele Reinhartz writes:
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Rashida Tlaib’s Twisting of Jewish, and Palestinian, History
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The Absence of an Ancient Word for “Judaism” Doesn’t Mean There Was No Ancient Judaism
The flaw in Daniel Boyarin’s new book.