Contents, III. Culture and modernity: Jewish engagement(s) with modern culture / Joachim Schlör -- Halakhah (Jewish law) in contemporary Judaism / Elliot N. Dorff -- Languages of the Jews / Stefan Schreiner -- Jewish philosophy and thought / Ottfried Fraisse -- Modern Jewish culture / Matthias Morgenstern -- Judaism, feminism, and gender / Gwynn Kessler -- Judaism and inter-faith relations since World War II / Norman Solomon.
I. History -- II. Literature -- III. Culture and modernity.
Contents, I. History: Editor's introduction / Burton L. Visotzky and Michael Tilly -- Judaism, Hellenism, and the Maccabees / Hermann Lichtenberger -- Jews in the West : from Herod to Constantine the Great / Natalie B. Dohrmann -- The resilience of Jews and Judaism in late Roman-Byzantine Eretz Israel / Lee I. Irvine -- Judaism in Babylonia : 226-650 CE / Geoffrey Herman -- Jews and/under Islam : 650-1000 CE / Phillip Issac Liebermann -- Judaism in the Middle Ages : 1000-1500 / Robert Chazan -- Judaism during after the expulsions : 1492-1750 / Joseph M. Davis -- Modern Judaism : 1750-1930 / Dominique Bourel -- The Holocaust and anti-semitism / Michael Berenbaum -- Zionism and the state of Israel / Martin Kloke -- Judaism in America / Deborah Dash Moore -- Judaism in Europe and after the Second World War / Kerstin Amborst-Weihs.
Contents, II. Literature: The Jewish Bible : traditions and translations / Emanuel Tov -- Jewish literature in the Hellenistic-Roman period (350 BCE-150 CE) / Michael Tilly--Tannaitic literature / Gunter Stemberger -- Amoraic literature (ca 250-650 CE) : Talmud and Mishnah / Carol Bakhos -- Rabbinic-Gaonic and Karaite literatures / Burton L. Visotzky and Marzena Zawanowska -- Medieval commentary, responsa, and codes literature / Jonathan S. Milgram -- Medieval Biblical commentary and Aggadic literature / Rachel S. Mikva -- Piyyut / Elisabeth Hollender -- Jewish liturgy / Dalia Marx -- Jewish mysticism / Elke Morlok.
Contents, III. Culture and modernity: Jewish engagement(s) with modern culture / Joachim Schlör -- Halakhah (Jewish law) in contemporary Judaism / Elliot N. Dorff -- Languages of the Jews / Stefan Schreiner -- Jewish philosophy and thought / Ottfried Fraisse -- Modern Jewish culture / Matthias Morgenstern -- Judaism, feminism, and gender / Gwynn Kessler -- Judaism and inter-faith relations since World War II / Norman Solomon.
