Batya Stein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3830688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Batya Stein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Batya |
| FAMILY NAME | Stein |
| SIGNATURE | STEIN B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sexuality and the Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse
Religious-Zionism developed in Israel as an attempt to combine halakhic commitment with the values of modernity, two networks of meaning not easily reconciled. This book presents a study of the discourse on the body and sexuality within religious-Zionism as it has developed in recent decades, including in cyberspace, and considers such issues as homosexuality, lesbianism, masturbation, and the relationships between the sexes. It also analyzes the…
Religious Zionism: History and Ideology
Religious Zionism is a major component of contemporary Israeli society and politics. The author reviews the history of religious Zionism from both a historical and ideological-theological perspective. His basic assumption is that religious Zionism cannot be fully understood solely through a historical description, or even from social, political, and philosophical vantage points. This book is the first study on this subject to be published in Engl…
Faith at the Crossroads: A Theological Profile of Religious Zionism
Faith at the Crossroads: A Theological Profile of Religious Zionism
Religious Zionism emerged as an organized political movement in 1902, rebelling against the ethos of passivity endorsed by a mostly anti-Zionist Eastern European Orthodoxy. The book presents religious-Zionists as a new religious type, driven by distinct theological conceptions that reexamine fundamental notions, including God, faith, and historical process. Schwartz’s detailed analysis exposes the roots of a political movement that has proven cru…
Web of Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature
Web of Life weaves its suggestive interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a singular, breathtakingly tragic, and sublime rabbinic text, Lamentations Rabbah. The textual analyses that form the core of the book are informed by a range of theoretical paradigms rarely brought to bear on rabbinic literature: structural analysis of mythologies and folktales, performative approaches to textual production, femin…
Studies in Jewish Myth and Jewish Messianism
Studies in Jewish Myth and Messianism
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Studies in Jewish Myth and Messianism
Studies in Jewish Myth and Jewish Messianism
Web of Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature
Web of Life weaves its suggestive interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a singular, breathtakingly tragic, and sublime rabbinic text, Lamentations Rabbah. The textual analyses that form the core of the book are informed by a range of theoretical paradigms rarely brought to bear on rabbinic literature: structural analysis of mythologies and folktales, performative approaches to textual production, femin…
Faith at the Crossroads: A Theological Profile of Religious Zionism
Faith at the Crossroads: A Theological Profile of Religious Zionism
Religious Zionism emerged as an organized political movement in 1902, rebelling against the ethos of passivity endorsed by a mostly anti-Zionist Eastern European Orthodoxy. The book presents religious-Zionists as a new religious type, driven by distinct theological conceptions that reexamine fundamental notions, including God, faith, and historical process. Schwartz’s detailed analysis exposes the roots of a political movement that has proven cru…
Sexuality and the Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse
Religious-Zionism developed in Israel as an attempt to combine halakhic commitment with the values of modernity, two networks of meaning not easily reconciled. This book presents a study of the discourse on the body and sexuality within religious-Zionism as it has developed in recent decades, including in cyberspace, and considers such issues as homosexuality, lesbianism, masturbation, and the relationships between the sexes. It also analyzes the…
Religious Zionism: History and Ideology
Religious Zionism is a major component of contemporary Israeli society and politics. The author reviews the history of religious Zionism from both a historical and ideological-theological perspective. His basic assumption is that religious Zionism cannot be fully understood solely through a historical description, or even from social, political, and philosophical vantage points. This book is the first study on this subject to be published in Engl…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Judaism (5 works) · Religious studies (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · History (3 works) · Religious Zionism (3 works) · Zionism (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works) · Faith (2 works)