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Comparing Religions Through Law

Judaism and Islam

By: Jacob Neusner,Tamara Sonn

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Comparing Religions Through Law

Judaism and Islam

By: Jacob Neusner,Tamara Sonn

Neusner is a very famous and eminent scholar in "50 key Jewish Thinkers" The relationship between Judaism and Islam is topical and controversial Discusses 'promised land' and 'jihad' in religious and political context Unique approach - comparative study of the two religions through the structure of the law. Sonn is a respected Islamist

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1134647743

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Rabbinic Judaism's Generative Logic, Volume One

The Making of the Mind of Judaism

By: Jacob Neusner

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Rabbinic Judaism's Generative Logic, Volume One

The Making of the Mind of Judaism

By: Jacob Neusner

First volume documenting Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age.

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1586841815

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Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism

Fifth Series

By: Jacob Neusner

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Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism

Fifth Series

By: Jacob Neusner

This collection of eight essays draws on a half-year of work, the second six months of 2009. Neusner takes up three problems in the history of Religions, four essays on fundamental issues in form-history and the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon, and one theological essay.

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0761852409

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Narrative and Document in the Rabbinic Canon

The Two Talmuds

By: Jacob Neusner

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Narrative and Document in the Rabbinic Canon

The Two Talmuds

By: Jacob Neusner

The author states in his preface: For a thousand years, from its earliest documents of the second century to the High Middle Ages, Rabbinic Judaism preferred to compose and collect anecdotes, not to construct of them sustained and connected biographies. This is a study of the inclusion of biographical narratives about sages in some of the components of the unfolding canon of Rabbinic Judaism in the formative age, the documents of the first six centuries C.E., exclusive of the two Talmuds. A sage here is defined as a man who embodies the Rabbinic system. A sage-story, then, is an anecdote about the life and deeds of a Rabbinic sage. A biographical narrative in general is the record of things done on a concrete and specific past-tense occasion by named individuals. The stories are not told as part of a sustained biographical account of those individuals' lives, birth to death. I am able in this way to correlate the unfolding of the authorized biography in the counterpart-Christian one. The documentary hypothesis yields the correlation between the advent of the Christian authorized biography and the advent of the sage-story in the later documents of the Rabbinic canon.

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0761852123

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Uniting the Dual Torah

Sifra and the Problem of the Mishnah

By: Jacob Neusner

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Uniting the Dual Torah

Sifra and the Problem of the Mishnah

By: Jacob Neusner

In this book Jacob Neusner analyzes the text of Sifra, a commentary on the book of Leviticus, arguing that Sifra should be understood as successfully relating the Mishnah, the authoritative writing down of the Oral Torah, to Jewish Scripture, or the written Torah. Neusner shows how Sifra's authors adopted a mediating position between the written Torah and the Mishnah, reconstructing large tracts of the Mishnah according to the logic and program of the written Torah of Leviticus.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521381258

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Telling Tales

Making Sense of Christian and Judaic Nonsense: The Urgency and Basis for Judeo-Christian Dialogue

By: Jacob Neusner

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Telling Tales

Making Sense of Christian and Judaic Nonsense: The Urgency and Basis for Judeo-Christian Dialogue

By: Jacob Neusner

Jacob Neusner makes the astonishing claim that Judeo-Christian dialogue is nonexistent. . . . This book is substantive. It suggests what both parties [Christians and Jews] might do and say as first works and words when they undertake dialogue. If they are realistic, frank, aware of their own stories, they can further such dialogue. If they keep making up 'soft versions' of their own tradition, they will produce mush or hypocrisy (from the Foreword). Instead of having dialogue, Christians and Jews have been exchanging monologues--parallel lines that never meet, says Jacob Neusner. This is because neither Christians nor Jews have viewed each other according to each other's terms. Neusner proposes a new way of beginning dialogue by suggesting that Jews and Christians exchange stories. This, he says, will help Christians and Jews understand each other and ultimately provide a way of making sense of the other party's "nonsense.

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1725220059

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The Talmud

A Close Encounter

By: Jacob Neusner

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The Talmud

A Close Encounter

By: Jacob Neusner

For the uninitiated - and even for seasoned scholars - the Talmud is a daunting sea of literature. Jacob Neusner in this book offers guidance in approaching the rabbinic writings, analyzing the ancient teachings, and interpreting the basis of religious authority for traditional Judaism. The result is a vivid introduction to one of the great documents of religion in society. We may compare the framers of the Talmud therefore to a weaver of a tapestry.... The weaver uses yarn that she has not made, yarn that is received from somewhere else. But the weaver uses the yarn to execute a vision of her own. The threads of the tapestry serve the artist's vision; the artist does not weave so that the threads show up one by one. The weavers of a tractate of the Bavli, as we shall see, make ample use of available yarm. But they weave their own tapestry of thought. And it is their vision, not the character of threads in hand, that dictates the proportions and message of the tapestry. From Chapter 5

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Rabbinic Narrative: A Documentary Perspective, Volume Three

Forms, Types and Distribution of Narratives in Song of Songs Rabbah and Lamentations Rabbah and a Reprise of Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan Text A

By: Jacob Neusner

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Rabbinic Narrative: A Documentary Perspective, Volume Three

Forms, Types and Distribution of Narratives in Song of Songs Rabbah and Lamentations Rabbah and a Reprise of Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan Text A

By: Jacob Neusner

Each Rabbinic document, from the Mishnah through the Bavli, defines itself by a unique combination of indicative traits of rhetoric, topic, and particular logic that governs its coherent discourse. But narratives in the same canonical compilations do not conform to the documentary indicators that govern in these compilations, respectively. They form an anomaly for the documentary reading of the Rabbinic canon of the formative age. To remove that anomaly, this project classifies the types and forms of narratives and shows that particular documents exhibit distinctive preferences among those types. This detailed, systematic classification of Rabbinic narrative supplies these facts concerning the classification of narratives and their regularities: [1] what are the types and forms of narrative in a given document? [2] how are these distinctive types and forms of narrative distributed across the canonical documents of the formative age, the first six centuries C.E.? The answers for the documentary preferences are in Volumes One through Three, for the Mishnah-Tosefta, the Tannaite Midrash-compilations, and Rabbah-Midrash-compilations, respectively. Volume Four then sets forth the documentary history of each of the types of Rabbinic narrative, including the authentic narrative, the ma'aseh and the mashal. How the traits of the several types of narratives shift as the respective types move from document to document is spelled out in complete detail. This project opens an entirely new road toward the documentary analysis of Rabbinic narrative. It fills out an important chapter in the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon in the formative age.

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9004494545

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Revelation

The Torah and the Bible

By: Jacob Neusner,Bruce D. Chilton

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Revelation

The Torah and the Bible

By: Jacob Neusner,Bruce D. Chilton

Here is a superb resource for all who wish to deepen their understanding of Judaism and Christianity and the relationship between these two great traditions. The authors compare and contrast the paramount theological categories of Judaism and Christianity, specifically Torah, God, and Israel for Judaism, and Bible, God, and church for Christianity. 'Revelation' is the first of three volumes in support of this effort. It consists of a conversation between the Torah and its authoritative representation in the Talmud of Babylonia (a complete and exhaustive statement of God's will for Judaism) and the Christian Bible (Hebrew Scriptures and New Testament), including the interpretation of scripture within the primitive church as the foundation of Christian authority. Within this conversation the authors do not sidestep profound disagreement in favor of proposing obscure theological difference. Each believes in his tradition and its affirmations, and each seeks to grasp the rationality of the views of the other.

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1592446612

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Judaism in the Beginning of Christianity

By: Jacob Neusner

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Judaism in the Beginning of Christianity

By: Jacob Neusner

In this clearly written book, Jacob Neusner answers the central questions about the world of Judaism in which Christianity was born. He gives an overview of the history and religion of Israel and an analysis of the Judaic legacy as it endured among those who did not become Christians. He also discusses the troubling issue of the Pharisees and investigates the identity of the "historical Hillel." This accessible book aims to speak directly to every student who is concerned with both the early and contemporary meanings of the Jewish and Christian faiths.

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Fortress Press

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1451410166

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The Transformation of Judaism

From Philosophy to Religion

By: Jacob Neusner

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The Transformation of Judaism

From Philosophy to Religion

By: Jacob Neusner

Neusner describes, analyzes, and interprets the transformation of one system of the Israelite social order by a connected but autonomous successor-system. He reviews the initial statements made in The Transformation of Judaism: From Philosophy to Religion. The book summarizes ten years of work, from 1980 to 1990.

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0761854398

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An Introduction to Judaism

A Textbook and Reader

By: Jacob Neusner

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An Introduction to Judaism

A Textbook and Reader

By: Jacob Neusner

An ancient religion practiced through most of recorded history and having profound influence on both Christianity and Islam, Judaism is also a modern religion that still transforms the lives of many people. Neusner surveys how Judaism took shape as people responded to political and religious crises and describes how Judaism is practiced in American today.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664253482

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Meet Our Sages

By: Jacob Neusner

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Meet Our Sages

By: Jacob Neusner

Describes how the sages created the Mishnah, Talmud, and other holy books of the oral Torah.

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Behrman House, Inc

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Judaism and Story

The Evidence of the Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan

By: Jacob Neusner

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Judaism and Story

The Evidence of the Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan

By: Jacob Neusner

In this close analysis of 'The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan', a sixth-century commentary on the Mishnah-tractyate 'The Fathers' (Avot), Jacob Neusner considers the way in which the story, as a distinctive type of narrative, entered the canonical writings of Judaism. The final installment in Neusner's cycle of analyses of the major texts of the Judaic canon, 'Judaism and Story' shows that stories about sages exist in far greater proportion in 'The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan' than in any of the other principal writings in the canon of Judaism of late antiquity. Neusner's detailed comparison of 'The Fathers' and 'The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan' demonstrates the transmission and elaboration of these stories and shows how these processes incorporated the newer view of the sage as a supernatural figure and of the eschatological character of Judaic teleology. These distinctions, as Neusner describes them, mark a shift in Jewish orientation to world history. 'Judaism and Story' documents a chapter of rabbinic tradition that explored the possibility of historical orientation by means of stories. As Neusner demonstrates, this experiment with narrative went beyond argumentation focused on the explication of the Torah. The sage story moved in the direction of biography, but without allowing biography to emerge. This development, in Neusner's account, parallels the movement from epistle to Gospel in early Christianity and thus has broad implications for the history of religions.

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1592443591

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Rabbinic Narrative: A Documentary Perspective, Volume One

Forms, Types and Distribution of Narratives in the Mishnah, Tractate Abot, and the Tosefta

By: Jacob Neusner

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Rabbinic Narrative: A Documentary Perspective, Volume One

Forms, Types and Distribution of Narratives in the Mishnah, Tractate Abot, and the Tosefta

By: Jacob Neusner

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9047402200

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Judaism: The Classical Statement

The Evidence of the Bavli

By: Jacob Neusner

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Judaism: The Classical Statement

The Evidence of the Bavli

By: Jacob Neusner

Produced ca. A.D. 600, the Babylonian Talmud--or Bavli-- serves as the single authoritative statement of Jewish law and theology. In this fourth volume of his examination of major formative texts of Judaism, Jacob Neusner explains how and why the Bavli came to define the Jewish faith from its time to ours. Through an analysis of the text, its sources and editorial organization, he traces the history of the composition of the Babylonian Talmud, clarifies its relation to the earlier corpus of canonical literature, and clearly establishes its philosophical, religious, and cultural context. Because there is little objective, external evidence from which to interpret the Bavli's development, Neusner uses the signs of redactional layering within the literature to discover the motivations and techniques by which the Talmud was formed. His use of the critical, secular methods of modern literary and historical study is unique in Talmudic exegesis and provides an entirely new perspective for understanding the Bavli in relation to the Mishnah and Yershalmi, the Jerusalem Talmud. Much of Neusner's research compares the use of the various literary forms of the Mishnah by the editors of the two Talmuds. Offering detailed examples and statistical lists to buttress his analysis, he argues that only in the Bavli have the editors achieved a genuine redactional synthesis between the Mishnah and Hebrew Scriptures, the two major sources of the Jewish tradition. In conclusion, Neusner spells out the religious significance of Bavli's achievement and shows how this unique combination allows for the tradition's continual renewal.

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1592443613

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Contours of Coherence in Rabbinic Judaism (2 vols)

By: Jacob Neusner

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Contours of Coherence in Rabbinic Judaism (2 vols)

By: Jacob Neusner

A three part set of monographs on the coherence of Rabbinic Judaism in its literature: Part one: In the Rabbinic literature of late antiquity disputes and alternative interpretations of a common datum form a medium of expressing coherence. Part two, system over self, asks about the role of individual sayings and traditions. The Bavli imposes on received sayings and stories its forms and topical Halakhic program. Part three: Talmudic knowledge, asks, do the types ands forms of Mishnah-exegesis and Halakhah-analysis of the Bavli make possible a sequential history of the Talmudic knowledge, layer by layer, for example, generation by generation? With adequately classified data in hand, we may describe the generative logic of Talmudic analysis as that exegetical and analytical process unfolding in sequences is signified by the requirements of a pure, atemporal dialectics.

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9047406869

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How Not to Study Judaism: Parables, rabbinic narratives, rabbis' biographies, rabbis' disputes

By: Jacob Neusner

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How Not to Study Judaism: Parables, rabbinic narratives, rabbis' biographies, rabbis' disputes

By: Jacob Neusner

In How Not to Study Judaism : Examples and Counter-Examples, Jacob Neusner presents a collection of essays and book reviews that identify the wrong way of conducting the academic study of Judaism. Pointing readers toward the right way to pursue the academic study of Judaism, Nuesner's focus is on the study of the literature of Judaism and the culture of the Jewish community.

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076182782X

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Vanquished Nation, Broken Spirit

The Virtues of the Heart in Formative Judaism

By: Jacob Neusner

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Vanquished Nation, Broken Spirit

The Virtues of the Heart in Formative Judaism

By: Jacob Neusner

Neusner's book explores how attitudes in Jewish canonical writings relate to the politics of the Jews as a vanquished people.

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0521328322

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Theological Dictionary of Rabbinic Judaism: Principal theological categories

By: Jacob Neusner

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Theological Dictionary of Rabbinic Judaism: Principal theological categories

By: Jacob Neusner

Rabbinic theological language has made possible a vast range of discourse, on many subjects over long spans of recorded time and in diverse cultural settings. This theological dictionary defines the principal theological usages of Rabbinic Judaism as set forth in the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity, Mishnah, Talmuds, and Midrash-compilations. It systematically lays 1] the theological categories that are native to those writings; 2] cogent statements that can be made with them; 3] coherent propositions that those statements set forth and (within their own terms and framework) logically demonstrate as true and self-evident, both. Volume One of this dictionary covers vocabulary that permits the classification of religious knowledge and experience, and the organization and categorization of those data into intelligible and cogent sense-units. Volume Two shows how these classifications combine and recombine in sentences. We may deem these rules of theological discourse concerning religious experience to be the counterpart of syntax which words combine (or do not combine) with which other words, in what inflection or signaled relationship, and why. Volume Three shows how the theology accomplishes its goals of analysis, explanation, and anticipation in order to make sense of and impose meaning upon a subject. That marks the point at which constructive theology commences and systematic theology will find its language.

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0761830294

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The Incarnation of God

The Character of Divinity in Formative Judaism

By: Jacob Neusner

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The Incarnation of God

The Character of Divinity in Formative Judaism

By: Jacob Neusner

Examines the notion of divine incarnations as a central element of the portrait of God that came into focus through the Judaism of the dual Torah.

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1586841092

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Understanding the Talmud

A Dialogic Approach

By: Jacob Neusner

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Understanding the Talmud

A Dialogic Approach

By: Jacob Neusner

As far back as the time of the Byzantine emperor Justinian, the place of the Oral Torah, even more than the Bible, in maintaining Jewish cohesion has been recognized. In his revolutionary guide to Talmud study, Prof. Jacob Neusner defines the unique quality of Talmud study and the secret of its attraction to many generations of Jews, and, in our time, to not a few non-Jews. As Neusner himself explains, "The genera of the Talmud of Babylonia conducts a searching analysis of the laws and their principles. It is intellectually ambitious but linguistically economical--a few questions teach throughout. The result is that the Talmud finds it possible to say the same thing about many things and so to demonstrate the coherence of its truth." Neusner illustrates this characteristic of the Talmud with a wealth of interesting examples, dealing with questions of responsibility, intentionality, belief, actions, and philosophy.

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KTAV Publishing House, Inc.

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0881257397

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The Groundnut Cookbook

By: Duval Timothy,Folayemi Brown,Jacob Fodio Todd

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The Groundnut Cookbook

By: Duval Timothy,Folayemi Brown,Jacob Fodio Todd

The Groundnut Cookbook is an African cookbook by friends Duval Timothy, Jacob Fodio Todd and Folayemi Brown. They are three energetic, imaginative Londoners set to change the face of African food with their cookbook packed full of gorgeous full-colour photography and easy-to-follow, fresh and healthy recipes. Learn how to prepare classics like their namesake Groundnut Stew, and Jollof Rice, alongside innovative offerings like their Avocado Ice Cream or Puna Yam Cake. The Groundnut Cookbook will make you wonder why it's taken you this long to explore Africa's culinary gems

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1405923245

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Legal Spectator & More

By: Jacob A. Stein

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Legal Spectator & More

By: Jacob A. Stein

A compilation of Washington, DC, attorney Jacob Stein's essays about lawyers, judges, clients, literature, and popular culture. The essays in this volume have previously appeared in Washington Lawyer, American Scholar, the Times Literary Supplement, and Wilson Quarterly.

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