Defining Neighbors. Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter - Jonathan Marc Gribetz

204 • chapter 5 accusation that the talmud privileges Jews over non- Jews. Clearly cog- nizant of this challenge, Moyal historic ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 205 his own view but rather as his interpretation of hillel’s aphorism. however, given the variety of ...

206 • chapter 5 examination of the torah,^78 one finds that the prophets refer to “their nation with the name ‘Israel’ in matter ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 207 “render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto God that which is God’s.”^80 In his gloss on ...

208 • chapter 5 of christ” remains unfulfilled; perhaps Moyal intended to return to the matter in a future volume, one of the ma ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 209 egypt during the time of antiochus,^89 Moyal turns to the topic of cul- tural exchange between th ...

210 • chapter 5 on the “Israelite temple in alexandria,” Moyal sought to highlight the shared origins of Judaism and Christianit ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 211 on Islam. Finally, we must consider the context in which at- Talmūd was written and meant to be r ...

212 • chapter 5 composition of the Septuagint text (by seventy rabbis for King ptolemy ii philadelphus) and the skeptical, acade ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 213 an account of the transmission of the Oral Law from Moses, but also with his own extensive introd ...

214 • chapter 5 its use of Islamic legal terminology, this is an account that would— and may well have been intended to— appeal ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 215 It was permitted earlier for each Israelite [man] to take [the num- ber of] wives permitted by th ...

216 • chapter 5 by all three faiths. twice in the course of his introductory review of the transmission of Jewish Oral Law, Moya ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 217 Moyal’s Nationalist reading of Jewish history and its ottoman implications even as he works to pr ...

218 • chapter 5 from a text of this genre is difficult, not least because Moyal’s historical reconstructions suggest more than o ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 219 der could be understood to imply, in modern times, a semiautonomous Jewish community under the Ot ...

220 • chapter 5 with this very name in contemporary egypt. In the three decades pre- ceding the 1909 publication of at- Talmūd, ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 221 nationalism in its various forms. the phenomenon that his arab read- ers were witnessing in pales ...

222 • chapter 5 after Moyal published at- Talmūd, Malul published his own short arabic book aimed at answering contemporary arab ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 223 as “the root of the misfortune of humanity and the cause of human atrocities”— who recently ralli ...