Jewish Culture and Creativity : Essays in Honor of Professor Michael Fishbane on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday

Jewish Culture and Creativity honors the wide-ranging scholarship of Prof.Michael Fishbane with contributions of his students on subjects that cover the gamut of Jewish studies, from biblical and rabbinic literature to medieval and modern Jewish culture, and concluding with case studies of the creative application of Prof.Fishbane’s thought and theology in contemporary Jewish life.The innovative scholarship represented in this volume offers critical new perspectives from antiquity to contemporary Judaism and will serve as a stimulus for new directions in and beyond the field of Jewish studies.