Introduction
1: Nokhri, Goy, and the Art of Separation in the Hebrew Bible
2: Fragile Exclusions, Virtual Inclusions: Ezra-Nehemiah and the
Eschatological Prophesies
3: The Missing Goy: Second Temple Literature
4: Ethn=e and Goyim, Hell=enes and Allophyloi
5: Paul and the Non-Ethnic Ethnd=e
6: Maturity: Rabbinic Literature and the Birth of the Goy
7: The Goy and the Formation of Tannaitic Discourse: Halakhah and
Aggadah
8: Gentiles are not Barbarians
Postscript
Bibliography
Adi Ophir is Professor Emeritus at The Cohn Institute for the
History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University
and a Visiting Professor in the Humanities at the Cogut Center of
the Humanities, Brown University. He was Director of the Lexicon
for Political Theory research project at The Minerva Humanities
Center. He was also the founding editor of Theory and Criticism,
the main Hebrew journal for critical theory, and of the online
journal
Mafte'akh: Lexical Review for Political Thought, and member of the
editorial board of Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon. His
publications include The One-State Condition: Occupation and
Democracy in
Israel/Palestine (Stanford University Press; 2012), Power of
Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied
Palestinian Territories, and The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology
of Morals (MIT Press, 2005). Ishay Rosen-Zvi is a Professor in the
Department of Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University and head of
the Talmud section. He previously taught Talmud and Midrash at the
University of California at Berkeley and was a fellow at the
Scholion Institute
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2013 he was elected to
the Young Israeli Academy of Science. He is the author of Demonic
Desires: "Yetzer Hara" and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity
(University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2011) and The Mishnaic Sotah Ritual: Temple, Gender and
Midrash (Brill, 2012).
The combination of rich textual analysis and a strong theoretical
background make for an impressive study that is perfectly suited
not only for scholars and graduate students of Biblical literature,
ancient Judaism, and early Christianity, but also for those
interested in the history of interreligious relations and tensions,
including the study of anti-Judaism.
*Scott Ury, Tel Aviv University, Religious Studies Review*
Their co-authored book is a rich and rewarding (if sometimes
demanding) study that discusses a wide range of ancient Jewish
texts, and points to different ways in which ideas of otherness can
be understood and experienced
*Andrew Gregory, University College, Anvil*
The work is thorough in its review of contemporary scholarship in
this area, and rightly dismisses both the tendency of scholars to
project rabbinic views back to an earlier period and the common
misreading of the rabbis in the light of apologetic concerns.
*Norman Solomon, University of Oxford, Journal of Jewish
Studies*
Goy is an important and absolutely necessary intervention in
scholarly assumptions.
*Cavan Concannon, University of Southern California. , Ancient Jew
Review*
Ophir and Rosen-Zvi's study sheds light on a significant blind
spot. The two uncover a dramatic historical development and for the
first time elucidate the history of one of the oldest and most
important Jewish institutions.
*Tomer Persico, Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC
Berkeley, Haaretz*
Goy is first and foremost a meticulous historical and philological
research into ancient rabbinic texts. Yet this research on things
past is closely related with the present, what gives the discussion
a sense of urgency.
*Karma Ben-Johanan, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Political
Theology Network*
Books such as this should be judged not only by what they say, but
also by the quality of debate that they generate. On this score,
Goy is already a success ... Ophir and Rosen-Zvi's blend of
methodological precision with philological breadth has set a new
standard for debate on these issues
*James Adam Redfield, Reading Religion*
an impressive work of scholarship ... [it] is important and worthy
of further discussion and research
*Elad Lapidot, Political Theology*
This carefully argued, somewhat technical monograph offers a
wide-ranging survey of ancient Israelite and early Jewish
understandings of non-Israelites and non-Jews. ... there is no
doubt that Ophir and Rosen-Zvi have done an important service by
analyzing a vast amount of literature across several historical
periods. They also engage an astonishing number of scholarly
dialogue partners, as their extensive footnotes and 50-page
bibliography reveal. An invaluable resource for those interested in
the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple studies, the New Testament, and
rabbinics.
*CHOICE *
The English book provoked considerable interest and responses rates
from the scholarly sphere.
*Meir Ben Shahar, Sha'anan College, Haifa, Israel*
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