1 Table of Contents: “...Regulating marital relations between spouses by consent -- Freedom of contract in Jewish family law...”

2 Table of Contents: “...Jewish law as a subject for study -- Jewish law as a religious legal order -- The sources of jewish...”

3 Table of Contents: “...Introduction: a name, not an essence -- 1. Why Jewish thought, and what makes it Jewish? -- 2...”

4 “...In The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World Jordan D. Rosenblum explores how cultures critique...”

5 “...Belief in the coming of a Messiah poses a genuine dilemma. From a Jewish perspective...”

6 Subjects: “...Jewish literature / History and criticism...”

7 “... imperial ideology and imperial eschatology influenced Jewish representations of the Messiah and Messianic...”

8 “... in Roman-era Palestine. It then explores how early rabbinic food regulations created a distinct Jewish...”

9 “... to the definition of Jewishness, as it seems to have been by Ezra, the possibility of conversion is all...”