Daniel Boyarin 
Judaism [PDF ebook] 
The Genealogy of a Modern Notion

Judaism makes the bold argument that the very concept of a religion of Judaism is an invention of the Christian church. The intellectual journey of world-renowned Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin, this book will change the study of Judaism an essential key word in Jewish Studies as we understand it today. Boyarin argues that although the world treats the word Judaism as appropriate for naming an alleged religion of the Jews, it is in fact a Christian theological concept only adopted by Jews with the coming of modernity and the adoption of Christian languages.