The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism

The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish History, Religion, and Culture is an authoritative and accessible reference work for a twenty-first-century audience. Its entries, written by eminent scholars, define the spiritual and intellectual concepts and religious movements that distinguish Judaism and the Jewish experience; they discuss central personalities and places, formative events, and enduring literary and cultural contributions, and they illuminate the lives of ordinary Jewish men and women. Essays explore Jewish history from ancient times to the present and consider all aspects of Judaism, including religious practices and rituals, legal teachings and legendary traditions, and rationalism, mysticism, and messianism. This reference work differs from many others in its broad exploration of the Jewish experience beyond Judaism. Entries discuss secular and political movements and achievements and delineate Jewish endeavors in literature, art, music, theater, dance, film, broadcasting, sports, science, medicine, and ecology, among many other topics from the Bible to the Internet.

Author: Judith R. Baskin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/31/2011
Pages: 1164
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.83lbs
Size: 11.27h x 8.81w x 1.33d
ISBN: 9780521825979

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2012

About the Author
Baskin, Judith R.: - Judith R. Baskin is Knight Professor of Humanities and Associate Dean for Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. Her books include Pharaoh's Counsellors: Job, Jethro, and Balaam in Rabbinic and Patristic Tradition (1982) and Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature (2002). She is the editor of Jewish Women in Historical Perspective (1991; 2nd edition, 1998), Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing (1994) and The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture (with Kenneth Seeskin, 2010).