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Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism

Second Series

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Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism

Second Series

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This collection of ten essays and five book reviews draws on three years of work, from late 2005 through mid-2008. It begins with two Halakhic essays, one on the category-formations of the Halakhah and how to account for the ones that we do not have but ought to have anticipated. The argument proceeds to another way of formulating the historical problem of the Talmud, its roots in Scripture. This is followed by an account of how the Halakhah actualizes the Torah's narrative.
Also included are four essays on Classical Judaism and two literary studies, which show both old and new engagements. Five book reviews conclude the collection, one of them a review essay, covering Edward Kaplan's two volumes on Abraham J. Heschel.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 1. The Halakhic Category Formations of Normative Judaism: Why this, not that, in the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli?
Chapter 2 2. Religious Jurisprudence in Judaism; The Halakhic Theology Seen Whole: Actualizing the Torah's Story
Chapter 3 3. The Religious Meaning of the Torah
Chapter 4 4. Is Judaism a traditional Religion?
Chapter 5 5. The Golden Rule in Classical Judaism
Chapter 6 6. Divine Love in Classical Judaism
Chapter 7 7. Why No Science in Judaism?
Chapter 8 8. Is Scripture the Origin of the Halakhah?
Chapter 9 9. Testing the Results of Richard Kalmin: A Null Hypothesis Examined in the Setting of Mishnah and Bavlii Tractate Moed Qatan
Chapter 10 10. Is the Yerushalmi Constructed in Accord with Analytical Templates?
Chapter 11 11. Gabriele Boccaccini, Roots of Rabbinic Judaism: An Intellectual History, From Ezekial to Daniel
Chapter 12 12. Bruce Chilton, Abraham's Curse: Child Sacrifice in the Legacies of the West
Chapter 13 13. Edward K. Kaplan and Samuel H. Dresner, Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness. Edward Kaplan, Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972
Chapter 14 14. Jonathan Sacks, The Home We Build Together: Recreating Society
Chapter 15 15. Jonathan Cohen,Philosophers and Scholars: Wolfson, Guttman and Strauss on the History of Jewish Philosophy

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Published Nov 05 2008
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 290
ISBN 9780761844013
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Studies in Judaism
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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