Description

The Companion to Judaism affords perspective on Judaism, its history, doctrines, divisions, and contemporary condition. The work systematically organizes and places into context the history of Judaism from ancient through modern times, identifies and expounds some of Judaism’s principal doctrines, introduces the more important forms of modern and contemporary Judaism, and takes up topics of special interest in contemporary Judaic life. In this way, it identifies the focal points of an ancient and contemporary religion, defining a context in which diverse texts and facts of Judaism fit and make sense. Readers thus gain a view of the whole even as they encounter each of Judaism’s important parts.