Contents
Preface What Are We Talking About When We Talk About “Judaism”?
Part 1 The Terms of the Debate
Chapter 1 Debate of the Terms
Part 2 The State of the Lexicon: Questioning the Archive
Chapter 2 Jewry without Judaism: The Stakes of the Question
Chapter 3 Getting Medieval Yahadut
Part 3: A New Dispensation: The Christian Invention of “Judaism”
Chapter 4 “Judaism” out of the Entrails of Christianity
Chapter 5 From Yiddishkayt to Judentum; From Judentum to Yahadut;, or Philology and the Transformation of a Folk
Epilogue
Bibliography
DANIEL BOYARIN is the Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture at the
University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or coauthor of
several books, including Imagine no Religion: How Modern
Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities.
"How Christians Invented 'Judaism,' According to a Top Talmud
Scholar," by Tomer Persico
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-how-christians-invented-judaism-according-to-a-top-talmud-scholar-1.7417536—
Haaretz
"Boyarin has created a very interesting argument."— Histoire
sociale/Social History
"What Boyarin does in Judaism is offer us a complex map, a detailed
topography, of how the term Judaism came to be used to define
Jewish 'doings,' and for some, to define Jews....One of the
greatest things a scholar of Boyarin’s stature can do is make
arguments that create the requisite space for future scholars to do
their work. A book of this scope can never, and should never, close
a conversation, but rather open one. Judaism is a term we all use
reflexively but do not quite know what it actually means. Boyarin’s
contribution to that reflexivity is a major contribution to
scholarship."— H-Judaic
"Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion attests once again
to Daniel Boyarin’s restlessly inquisitive mind and to his
persistent need to challenge commonly held assumptions in a manner
meant to be provocative and contrarian."— Marginalia
"Boyarin’s book provide[s] [the reader] to think through some of
these theoretical questions, and to continue our ongoing
conversation about the ancient individuals, groups, and ideas that
continue to resonate down to the present."— Marginalia
" Boyarin’s provocative new book... succeeds at its
primary goal: to destabilize the automatic use of 'Judaism' by
scholars."— Marginalia
"Brief and powerful."— Marginalia
"Provocative and challenging."— Marginalia
"A brilliant book that marks a fresh beginning for
scholarly conversations about Judaism, religion, and
even the historical utility of categories."— Annette Yoshiko
Reed, author of Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire
"This book offers a reflective, and even-meta reflective discussion
of the term 'Judaism.' Boyarin, as always, offers provocative,
trail blazing insights to reckon with."— Dina Stein, author of
Textual Mirrors: Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self
"A wonderfully clever argument that demands we reconsider much
of what we write and teach about Judaism." — Marginalia
"A significant and radical contribution."— Michael
Satlow, author of How the Bible Became Holy
"What we thus have from Boyarin’s philological genealogy is one
reading of 'Judaism' that begins as a negative, is turned into a
positive, and then becomes irrelevant, except for those who share
it with something else....Boyarin’s genealogy teaches us that
Judaism can never stand alone or be alone. If Judaism is all there
is, then the term 'Judaism' ceases to exist, mostly because it is
no longer necessary."— Marginalia
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