Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: A Portrait of Chaim Seidler-Feller ix
4. Bibliography of Publications by Chaim Seidler-Feller xlvii
5. Part I. The Sources of the Tradition: Bible and Talmud
6. Order as Meaning: Juxtaposition in the Bible 3
7. Behind Every Great Prophet Is a Woman: The Women in Exodus 2 in Talmudic Interpretation 26
8. Study of Torah as a Discourse of Violence: Milḥamtah shel Torah, Variations on a Theme 43
9. Discipleship in Rabbinic Literature 67
10. Secular Legal Paradigms and Talmudic Law: Rav Tsa‘ir on Legal Loopholes 95
11. Part II. Jewish Thought and Theology
12. Buber, Scholem, and the Me’or enayim: Another Perspective on a Great Controversy 117
13. On Not Finishing the Work: A Commentary on Avot 2:16 143
14. The Faith of Abraham 152
15. The Ascent and Decline of the “Historical Jew” 163
16. Divine Command Theory in Jewish Law and Ethics 188
17. Part III. Modern Jewish History and Sociology
18. Polio Season: Transformations of Philip Roth’s “Jewish Mother” from Sophie Portnoy to Marcia Steinberg 207
19. Go to School, Work, Marry, Have Children, Be Jewish: Jewish Women and Jewish Men in the United States and Israel 222
20. The Day of Reckoning: Max Radin and the Rule of Law in International War Crimes 243
21. Antisemitism: Reflections and Ruminations 254
22. Part IV. Zionism and Jewish Politics
23. Sovereignty and Ethics in the Thought of Rabbi Ḥayyim David Halevi 269
24. Rabbi Shlomo Goren on the Maimonidean Law of Siege: An Essay on the Ethics of Jewish Warfare 284
25. Invoking the Indigenous, for and against Israel 298
26. Jewish Folk Art and Ideology: The Śimḥat Torah Flag through the Ages 319
27. Student Tributes
28. Meira Wolkenfeld 359
29. Adam Greenwald 363
30. Mayim Bialik 365
31. Jonathan Jacoby 367
32. Colleague Tributes
33. Laurie L. Levenson 371
34. Edward Feld 379
35. David Berner 383
36. Saul Andron 387
37. List of Contributors 391