Table of contents for Rabbinic culture and its critics : Jewish authority, dissent, and heresy in medieval and early modern times / edited by Daniel Frank and Matt Goldish.

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Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments 000
Daniel Frank and Matt Goldish
Rabbinic Culture and Dissent: An Overview 000
I. Rabbinic Judaism and Its Boundaries in the Middle Ages
1. Arrogance, Bad Form, and Curricular Narrowness: Belletristic Critiques of Rabbinic Culture from Medieval Spain and Provence 000
Adena Tanenbaum 
2. Maimonides' Critique of the Rabbinic Culture of His Day 000
Menachem Kellner
3. Varieties of Belief in Medieval Ashkenaz: The Case of Anthropomorphism 000
Ephraim Kanarfogel
4. Drawing the Line: Views of Jewish Heresy and Belief among Medieval and Early Modern Ashkenazic Jews 000
Joseph Davis
5. Laity versus Leadership in Eleventh-Century Jerusalem: Karaites, Rabbanites, and the Affair of the Ban on the Mount of Olives 000
Marina Rustow
6. Elijah Yerushalmi and Karaite Ambivalence Toward Rabbanite Literature 000
Daniel Frank
II. Jews, Conversos, and Heretics in the Early Modern Period
7. From the Dossiers of the Inquisition: Crypto-Jewish Attacks on Ecclesiastical Authority 000
Miriam Bodian
8. Regulating Sociability: Rabbinical Authority and Jewish-Christian Interaction in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam 000
Adam Sutcliffe
9. The Treatment of "Heretical Views" in the Sermons of Saul Levi Morteira of Amsterdam 000
Marc Saperstein
10. Spinoza and the Rabbis: Immortality on the Amstel 000
Steven Nadler
11. The Besht as Spinozist: Abraham Krochmal's Preface to Ha-Ketav ve-ha-Mikhtav: Introduction and Translation 000
Allan Nadler
III. Sabbateanism and Its Repercussions
12. Toward a Reevaluation of the Relationship between Kabbalah, Sabbateanism, and Heresy 000
Matt Goldish
13. Jacob Frank Fabricates a Golem 000
Harris Lenowitz
14. When a Rabbi Is Accused of Heresy: The Stance of Rabbi Jacob Joshua Falk in the Emden-Eibeschuetz Controversy 000
Sid Z. Leiman
List of Contributors 000
Index 000

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Judaism -- History -- Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 -- Congresses.
Dissenters -- History -- Congresses.
Heresy -- History -- Congresses.