INDEX

Abbasid Caliphate, 211

Abortion, 174

Abraham, prophet, 28

Absolutism, 22, 37, 39, 41

Academics, 3, 8, 53, 60, 98

Adam, 149, 207, 216, 217, 221, 223; Adamic naming language, 229n3; Adam and Eve, 46,

Adler, Rachel, 161

affective economy, 206, 222–228

aggadah, 8, 25

Albeck, Hanoch, 187, 193, 207, 217

Alfonsi, Peter, 255

Amora, 9, 117, 134, 142, 148n77, 151n109, 151n112, 154n132, 178, 179, 187, 190, 201n31, 204, 208, 211, 215, 216

anarchism, 69

animals, 129, 188, 192–195, 201-202n35, 205, 218, 235, 237–239, 245–249

aphorism, 71–74, 148n79, 148n82

Apocrypha, 5

Aramaic Levi Document, 246

Archaeology, 181

Aristotle, 2, 86, 120, 145n28, 232–234, 240, 248; Aristotelianism, 11, 13; organon, 7, 12

Asher, Jacob ben, 163–166; Arba‘ah Turim, 163–164

Ashkenazic rabbis, 182

Assi, Rav, 207, 211

Assmann, Jan, 87, 88, 92, 110n13

atheism, 34, 38, 42, 43, 50n56

Athens, 87

Augustinian, 254, 255

avodah zarah, 77–81; avodah as prayer, 208, 211, 215

bar mitzvah, 10

Benjamin, Walter, 18, 204–206, 217–228, 230n26, 230n31, 231n37

Benveniste, Emile, 91 see survivor

Berakhiah, Rabbi, 85, 86, 95, 109n4, 109n6

Berkovits, Roger, 160

Bible, 3, 9, 45n7, 55, 79, 154n132, 218, 219, 257

Blanchot, Maurice, 90–92, 94, 100, 106

blood, 129, 132, 236–240, 243–245, 250n9

Bloom, Harold, 23, 30, 45n10

Blumenberg, Hans, 34, 38–42

Boyarin, Daniel, 10, 21, 34–38, 45n10, 46n11, 57–63, 70, 73, 76, 248

Burnyeat, Myles, 232, 233, 242

Caesarea, 85–89, 93, 95, 106

Canpanton, Rabbi Isaac, 10–13, 30–33, 40, 42

Christiani, Pablo, 256

Christianity, 19, 26, 43, 46n13, 94, 253–257; Catholicism, 66–69, 72, 74, 77; censorship, 256–258; Protestant, 256, 258; theologeme, 97, 98, 105

Church Fathers, 3

Cicero, 4, 232

Citation, 85, 86, 90–108, 142

Classics, 4, 18, 248

Cohen, Hermann, 13, 46n13

commandments, 88, 110n13, 129, 132, 135, 137, 140, 163, 165–167, 174

converts, 142, 256–260

correspondence theory, 6

covenant, 24, 27, 28, 41, 227, 228

creation, 25, 41, 132, 162, 204–208, 215, 216, 220–228

dance studies, 180

Derrida, Jacques, 27, 30, 37, 41, 44, 90, 91, 94, 106

Descartes, René, 29, 38–44, 118

Detienne, Marcel, 87, 88, 109n10

Diaspora, 61, 76, 77, 255

Didache, 134

Dogma, 67, 68, 71, 76, 102–107; dogmatism-relativism, 99, 103

Dolgopolski, Sergey, 15, 16, 29, 30, 33, 51–54, 57–66, 70, 73–76, 184, 259

Donin, Nicholas, 256

doubt, 33, 40, 42, 73, 187, 188, 196, 249

dualism, 27, 37, 134, 149n95

Eden, 206, 207, 215, 216, 228

Eiger, Akiva, 163, 165, 166

Elijah, prophet, 23

emotion, 31, 43, 129, 178, 181, 183, 195, 228

Enlightenment, 2, 16, 79, 113

enthymeme, 18, 19, 31, 232, 235, 240

epistemology, 53–63, 71, 72

eruv, 178, 186–190, 194, 195

eschatology, 81

ethics, 13, 18, 116, 118, 132, 140, 257, 259

evil, 24, 64, 67–72, 74, 79, 134, 142

exile, 71, 72, 77, 81, 226, 227, 239

existence, 26, 40–43, 56–59, 67, 76, 224, 228

Exodus, 238

Ezekiel, 240, 243

feminists, 161, 179, 181

finite thinking, 22, 24, 34, 38, 40–44

Flusser, David, 134

forgetting, 15, 16, 54, 87, 88, 110n13

formalism, 60, 157–159, 161

formalistic reductionism, 161, 174

Freedman, Harry, 207, 216

Furstenberg, Ariel, 179

Gemara, 6, 72–75, 80

Genizah, 205–216, 221–224

gentile/goy, 78, 80, 116, 257

Gibbs, Robert, 26, 31

Ginzburg, Carlo, 110n16, 258

Greece, 2, 87

Guin, Ursula K. Le, 195, 196

Hahn, Tomie, 180

Halakhah, 8, 16, 17, 22, 23, 32, 49, 112, 113, 138, 155, 161, 168, 172, 174, 247

Halberstam, Chaya, 6, 248, 249

Halbertal, Moshe, 79, 80, 249

Halivni, David Weiss, 249

hamar gamal, 177–197

Hananel, Rabbenu, 188, 194

Hanasi, Rabbi Yehudah, 233, 248, 252n42

Handelman, Susan, 30

Haraway, Donna, 206, 226

Hasmonean age, 244

Hebrew, 3, 5, 36, 179, 182

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 30, 63, 75

Heidegger, Martin, 2, 15, 30, 33, 54, 56, 57

Hidary, Richard, 185, 233

Hobbes, Thomas, 41, 65, 68

Holy of Holies, 236, 238

humanism, 2, 59, 66

idolatry, 78–80

imperialism, 71–74, 77, 80

intolerance, 254

Iran, 2, 142

Irshai, Ronit, 161, 174

Islam, 3, 8; Muslim 2, 15

Israel/ Yisrael, 15, 27, 42, 55, 77–81, 105, 133, 249

Israelite, 130, 233

Jeremiah, 225, 226

Jesus, 46n15, 95, 134, 257

Jewish Studies, 19, 20, 55, 60, 78, 257

Jewish: thought, 2, 73, 155; law, 26, 112, 155, 156, 159, 161, 168, 170–173; tradition, 3, 23, 28, 173, 255, 258; culture, 55, 63, 183, 211, 257

Jhering, Rudolph von, 160

Job, book of, 24, 45n7, 227, 228

Josephus, Flavius, 142, 185

Judaism, 2, 13, 22, 23, 26, 28, 37, 43, 55, 161, 183, 254–258

Judea, 77, 185, 253

jurisprudence, 2, 160

Kabbalah, 10, 55, 73

Kadushin, 132, 133, 136

Kant, Immanuel, 14, 16, 34, 73, 74, 102, 112–129, 135–141

Karaites, 8, 9

Kelsen, Hans, 64, 158

kenosis, 24

kinesthetics, 178, 180, 181, 195, 196

Knohl, Israel, 239

Kosstrin, Hannah, 180, 196

Kripkean rule, 27

Kunin, Seth, 69, 246

LaMothe, Kimmerer, 180

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 156, 159, 160

Levi, Rabbi, 85, 86, 93, 95

Levinas, Emmanuel, 2, 13, 18, 21, 28, 42–44, 50n57

Levine, Baruch, 238–240, 243, 245

Levitical priesthood/tradition, 241, 244, 247, 249

Leviticus, 234–249

liability, 158, 168–172

liberalism, 59, 69, 70, 80

Lithuanian Talmudism, 155, 156, 162

Locke, John, 14

logo-politics, 51, 57–81

longue durée, 15, 16, 108n2

Luhmann, Niklas, 156, 157, 159

Luther, Martin, 256

Luzzatto, Moshe Chaim, 13

MacLeish, Archibald, 35

Maimonides, Moses, 7–10, 13, 73, 78, 163, 164n1, 167, 172; Mishneh Torah, 7, 8, 163; The Guide for the Perplexed, 8

Mannah, Rabbi, 85, 86

martyrdom, 92, 93, 95, 100

Marx, Karl, 2, 70

materialist, 34

mediation, 23, 28, 254, 257, 258

Melamud, Yitzhak, 160

memory, 4, 5, 10, 11, 15, 52, 54, 62, 63, 76, 86–89, 95, 106, 118, 240; memorizing, 5, 10; remembering, 4, 5, 15, 62, 73, 74, 76, 87–89

Meshel, Naphtali, 238, 239

Mesopotamia, 184

metalepsis, 97–99, 105

metaphysics, 37, 64, 66, 70–73, 218, 222, 225, 228

Middle Ages, 2, 3, 7, 9, 15, 17, 86, 254

Milbank, John, 37

mimetics, 12

miracles, 26, 39, 43

Mishnah, 5, 6, 9, 18, 19, 62, 72–81, 86, 93, 95, 101, 129, 168–171, 181, 185–190, 232–235, 244–250

modern state, 64–70, 74

monotheism, 26, 43, 110n13

morality, 16, 43, 112–128, 131–141, 159

Morrison, Toni, 181

Mosaic distinction see Assmann

Moscovitz, Leib, 179

Moses, prophet, 9, 27, 30, 48n27, 88, 130, 244

Mount Sinai, 23

muses, 87, 88

myth, 95

Nails, Debra, 248

Nancy, Jean-Luc, 59

natural law, 114, 133, 134, 140, 168, 173, 174

Neusner, Jacob, 207, 216

New Testament, 97–99, 105, 106, 110n17, 255, 256

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 31, 34, 38, 41, 43

Nihan, Christophe, 240

Noahide laws, 133, 173, 174

nomos, 64, 75, 76, 92

nonhuman, 80, 118, 204–206, 218–227

normative closure, 155–165, 174

Novak, David, 133, 136, 173, 174

Numbers, 234–249

oblivion/Lethe, 54, 86–89, 92, 106, 108n1, 109n10, 110n13

Ockham, William, 39, 40

Old Testament, 94, 97, 254

ontologies, 18, 31, 60, 81, 204–206, 216–224, 227, 228; deontologies, 80, 131

oral tradition, 3, 114, 141, 142, 208, 215

orthodoxy, 41, 47n16, 161

ownership, 157, 169–172, 175

Palestine, 2, 4, 15, 87, 93, 114, 142, 178, 184, 233

Papa, Rabbi Chananya bar, 215

Particularism, 55, 56, 61, 63, 77

Passover, 163–167

Paul, the Pharisee, 26, 46n11

pedagogy, 120, 121, 138, 160

Peirce, Charles Sanders, 175

performance studies, 178

Persia, 81, 211

persuasion, 18, 232, 234

Peter the venerable, 255

Phaedrus, 232

Pharisees, 93, 95, 110n17

phenomenology, 53, 57, 58, 61, 63, 71

philosophy: Anglo-American, 175; contemporary 54, 57, 259; Continental, 54; Greek, 18; philosophers, 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, 114, 178, 197; of language, 13, 18, 179, 181, 183, 204, 206

physiognomy, 123, 124

Pirqe Avot, 27, 134

Plato, 2, 30, 61, 86, 232; Platonism, 2, 7, 12, 18, 29, 30, 34, 86, 109n10; Platonic dialogue, 248; Platonic distinction, 88, 92; Neoplatonism, 10, 37; Crito, 232, 233, 250n1

polis, 55–59, 64–81

political philology, 96–99, 105

political theology, 63–72, 99, 105

positivism, 157–159, 162, 173, 174

praesens historicum, 102, 103

prayer, 182, 204–211, 214–217, 220–228, 231n33, 249

pre-Socratics, 2, 86

priestly source, 241, 242

print shops, 257

Psalms, 226

psychology, 117, 123, 144n10

Quintilian, 232, 233

Qumran, 134, 241, 242

Rabbinic: courts, 5; schools/academies, 2–7, 15, 86–89; interpretation, 2, 35, 45n10, 86; thought, 14, 16, 17, 96, 113, 114, 132, 139, 197, 249

racism, 115, 116

Rashi, 188, 192

Rationalism, 10, 11, 13, 133

Raz, Joseph, 158, 159, 174

Raz-Krakotzkin, Amnon, 257, 258

reading, 89, 90, 108

redemption, 67, 225–227, 231n33, 231n38

Reischer, Rabbi Ya’akov, 182

relativism, 37, 80, 99, 102–107, 118, 259

religion, 2, 13, 16, 26, 37, 43, 73, 116, 180, 254, 257

Renaissance, 2

Responsa, 5, 182

revelation, 22–28, 46n13, 68, 71, 101, 133, 162, 247

rhetoric, 2–19, 33, 58, 86, 184, 198n3, 232, 248, 250

ritual, 129, 174, 238, 244–249

Roman, 9, 35, 74, 77, 80, 92, 113, 129, 185, 233

romanticism, 2

Rosenzweig, Franz, 11, 21, 42, 43, 44n6

Sabbath, 9, 146n61, 178, 182–190, 196

Sacrifice, 226, 233–247, 251n34

Sasanian, 142, 211

Schaefer, Donovan, 206, 222–224

Schiffman, Lawrence, 242–245

Schmitt, Carl, 59, 63–74, 77, 78, 80

Scholem, Gershom, 21–23, 27, 50n56

Science, 34, 42, 55, 64, 70, 117, 128, 138, 159, 160, 257

scribes, 10, 93, 110n17, 142

scripture, 3, 25, 47n19, 86, 129, 130, 135, 140, 254, 255

Second Temple, 142, 233, 235, 237, 240, 242, 247, 249

secularism, 50n56, 64, 66, 69, 156, 159

Seforim, Mendele Mokher, 182

Sephardic, 30, 182

Sepphoris, 86

Sermon on the Mount, 93, 106, 110n17

sexual intercourse, 131, 132, 142

Shema, 85, 100, 101, 130

Shemesh, Aharon, 241

Shkop, Shimon, 156, 162, 163, 168–175

slaves, 142

social norms, 114, 124, 130–135, 140

Soloveitchik, Hayyim, 156, 162–168

Soloveitchik, Joseph, 155, 156

Sophists, 38; sophistry, 7, 184; Second Sophistic, 233, 234, 244

soul, 218–220

sovereign, 37, 65, 66, 69–72, 77, 81, 222

Spector, Janet, 181

Spinoza, Baruch, 26, 33

spirit/spiritual, 19, 35, 40, 205, 206, 227, 240, 255, 258

Stoicism, 9, 232–234, 242

subject/object divide, 205, 206, 225, 229n3

subjectivity, 11, 25, 37, 42, 106, 107, 256–259

supersessionism, 19, 37, 46, 48n44, 59, 105, 106, 255, 258, 260

survivor/superstes, 91, 92, 95, 106, 110n16

syllogism, 18, 19, 232, 240, 242

Syria, 2, 87

System: legal, 65, 70, 155–163, 189; halakhic, 155, 156, 161, 162, 168, 172; normative, 158, 159

systems theory, 156, 157

Tarski, Alfred, 33

tautology, 33, 34, 42, 111n22

teleology, 255, 256, 260

telos, 13, 119, 129, 136

Temple Scroll, 235, 240–247

testimony, 91–96, 100–107, 208, 254

tetragrammaton, 88, 89, 108n1

Tiberias, 86

tiqqun ha‘olam, 133

Torah, 22–29, 42, 43, 75, 76, 81, 129–137, 140, 141, 161, 170, 171, 183, 256

Tosefta, 5, 181, 235, 245–248

Totalitarianism, 59, 62, 64

tradition of tradition, 1, 2, 13–15, 89, 96

transcendentalism, 99, 102–106

truth, 6, 7, 15, 24–34, 38, 40–43, 56, 61–65, 68–72, 87, 160–162, 183, 196, 232, 234, 237, 242, 249, 254–256

universalism, 55–61, 67–70, 116

universe, 39, 224, 225, 228

visceral reason, 97, 98

visualization, 181, 196

Wagenaar, Jan, 239

Waite, Geoffrey, 97

war, 59, 66–70, 79

Weinrib, Ernest, 157, 158

Werman, Cana, 234, 245, 247

Wise, Michael, 241

Wissenschaft des Judentums, 55, 258

women, 145n31, 161, 174, 181, 199-200n18

Wozner, Shai, 168, 173

Yannai, Rabbi, 137

Yavneh, 86, 93, 95

Yehudah the Prince, Rabbi, 85, 86, 93

yeshiva, 86, 162

Yiddish literature, 182

Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), 233, 234, 237, 239–244, 248, 249

Yosel, Yosel ben, 43

Young, Charles, 232

Žižek, Slavoj, 25, 26, 37, 38, 48n44

Zunz, Leopold, 258