The Encyclopaedia of Judaism
First Edition
Published on 8. December 1999
Book
Hardback
524 pages
978-90-04-10583-6 (ISBN)
Description
Brill, in collaboration with The Museum of Jewish Heritage (New York) and Continuum (New York) proudly presents The Encyclopaedia of Judaism, published in Fall 1999.
This carefully crafted, three-volume work includes every topic necessary to systematically describe the Jewish faith in all its complexity and wonder. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it reflects the highest standards in scholarship. The Encyclopaedia of Judaism is presented in an informative, yet readable style intended for a wide-range of reading interests.
Covering a tradition of nearly four thousand years, some of the most distinguished scholars in the field describe the way of life, history, art, theology, philosophy, and the practices and beliefs of the Jewish people.
Written for readers of all backgrounds The Encyclopaedia of Judaism is a fully international work with more than 120 essays written by respected scholars from many different countries and backgrounds.
The second edition of The Encyclopaedia of Judaism is also available and can be found here.
This carefully crafted, three-volume work includes every topic necessary to systematically describe the Jewish faith in all its complexity and wonder. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it reflects the highest standards in scholarship. The Encyclopaedia of Judaism is presented in an informative, yet readable style intended for a wide-range of reading interests.
Covering a tradition of nearly four thousand years, some of the most distinguished scholars in the field describe the way of life, history, art, theology, philosophy, and the practices and beliefs of the Jewish people.
Written for readers of all backgrounds The Encyclopaedia of Judaism is a fully international work with more than 120 essays written by respected scholars from many different countries and backgrounds.
The second edition of The Encyclopaedia of Judaism is also available and can be found here.
Reviews / Votes
The Encyclopaedia of Judaism has been selected by the American Library Association as Outstanding Reference Source 2001.This book has been selected as CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Title for 2000.
'The publication of the Encyclopaedia of Judaism in the year of the Millennium is an event worthy of celebration. In three volumes scores of scholars have recorded all that happened to a millennial people, whose religious 'Civilization' influenced...the human race, Europe, Asia and the Americas, a measure far beyond what one might have expected from their small number in any given age.'
Emanuel Rackman, Rabbi, Bar-Ilan University
'These internationally renowned editors have been able to assemble many highly qualified scholars well known in their fields of research to guarantee the success of this extremely well planned Encyclopaedia.'
Guenter Stemberger, Institut fuer Judaistik, Universitaet Wien
'It is actually more than an ordinary encyclopedia. It is a substantial reference book. I recommend the Encyclopaedia of Judaism to everyone who wants to get reliable information about major subjects in Judaism in a compact...usefully detailed, format.'
Ithamar Gruenwald, Tel Aviv University
'It has been recently said that 'the Christian ignorance of Judaism is one of the great tragicomedies of history.'...The Encyclopaedia of Judaism will be a splendid resource to combat that epidemic of ignorance, not only for Christians and for neutral observers, but also, I suspect, for an American Judaism that is increasingly in need of finding ways, as the prophet Isaiah admonished, to 'look unto the rock when ye are hewn.'
Jaroslave Pelikan, Sterling Professor Emeritus, Yale University
'As an outsider, I find this encyclopedia comprehensive and stimulating. It is indeed learned, but not at all specialists, and in fact is designed to appeal to people of all ages, backgrounds, and religion. Where to my mind it outdoes similar encyclopedias of surveys is in its quiet insistence throughout that Judaism is al living religion, and not just a thing of the past that simply survives into the present.'
Leonard E. Boyla, O.P., Prefect, The Vatican Library, 1984-1997.
'These three volumes represent the cutting edge of contemporary learning of Judaism as religion. The authors of the various entries have opinions of their own and they are not always identical with conventional views. This is, therefore, not a bland encyclopedia. It is provocative in the tradition of the great eighteenth century encyclopedia which wspoused the views of the Enlightenment and of the Britannica which accepted the result of modern science. An encyclopedia is most useful and important when is makes the reader think.'
Arthur Hertzberg, Senior Editor, Encyclopedia Judaica.
'The Encyclopedia of Judaism is an essential resource for those interested
in learning more about Jewish life. '
Dr. Alfred Gottschalk, President of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, 2001.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Bd 1: XXXVI,530 S., 63 Abb., 1 Kte,, Bd 2: VIII,506 S., 37 Abb., 6 Graf., 7 Ktn, Bd 3: VIII,467 S., 78 Abb., 9 Graf.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 140 mm
Weight
4423 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-10583-6 (9789004105836)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Jacob Neusner, Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.
Alan J. Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies in the Religious Studies Department of the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Alongside his many publications on Rabbinic Judaism, he is editor of Review of Rabbinic Judaism: Ancient, Medieval and Modern (Brill).
William Scott Green is Professor of Religion, Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Judaic Studies, and Dean of the College at the University of Rochester. He is author or editor of several books on ancient Judaism and also has written broadly on religion and higher education. He served two terms as editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and is editor of Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism.
Alan J. Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies in the Religious Studies Department of the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Alongside his many publications on Rabbinic Judaism, he is editor of Review of Rabbinic Judaism: Ancient, Medieval and Modern (Brill).
William Scott Green is Professor of Religion, Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Judaic Studies, and Dean of the College at the University of Rochester. He is author or editor of several books on ancient Judaism and also has written broadly on religion and higher education. He served two terms as editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and is editor of Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism.