Theological Dictionary of Rabbinic Judaism

Part Two: Making Connections and Building Constructions

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Theological Dictionary of Rabbinic Judaism

Part Two: Making Connections and Building Constructions

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Rabbinic theological language has made possible a vast range of discourse, on many subjects over long spans of recorded time and in diverse cultural settings. This theological dictionary defines the principal theological usages of Rabbinic Judaism as set forth in the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity, Mishnah, Talmuds, and Midrash-compilations. It systematically lays [1] the theological categories that are native to those writings; [2] cogent statements that can be made with them; [3] coherent propositions that those statements set forth and (within their own terms and framework) logically demonstrate as true and self-evident, both. Volume One of this dictionary covers vocabulary that permits the classification of religious knowledge and experience, and the organization and categorization of those data into intelligible and cogent sense-units. Volume Two shows how these classifications combine and recombine in sentences. We may deem these rules of theological discourse concerning religious experience to be the counterpart of syntax which words combine (or do not combine) with which other words, in what inflection or signaled relationship, and why. Volume Three shows how the theology accomplishes its goals of analysis, explanation, and anticipation in order to make sense of and impose meaning upon a subject. That marks the point at which constructive theology commences and systematic theology will find its language.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Part One: Principal Theological Categories
Chapter 4 Part Two: Making Connections and Building Constructions: Connections; Constructions
Chapter 5 Part Three: Models of Analysis, Explanation, and Anticipation: Models of Analysis; Models of Explanation; Models of Anticipation

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Published Feb 07 2005
Format Paperback
Edition 2nd
Extent 428
ISBN 9780761830283
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 228 x 154 mm
Series Studies in Judaism
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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