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This book surveys the treatment of war and peace in the canon of Rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity: to what does Judaism refer when it speaks of war and peace in the context of the Hebrew words "milhamah" (war) and "shalom" (peace)? But this study is not lexical. It is categorical. "War" represents a commanding, coherent category-formation, while "peace" covers a variety of circumstances and transactions. "War" is specifically a Halakhic category and "Peace" an Aggadic taxon. Do "war" and "peace" present us with a lexical or a categorical phenomenon? War forms a category-formation and peace is a substantive - a word bearing diffuse references. With what consequence? When we come across the word "war" without further data, we know the context and intent, but "peace" covers a mass of miscellaneous, free-standing facts and diverse implications.
Table of Contents
Part 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 The Mishnah
Chapter 4 The Tosefta
Chapter 5 Sifra
Chapter 6 Sifré to Numbers and Sifré Zutta to Numbers
Chapter 7 Sifré to Deuteronomy
Chapter 8 Mekhilta Attributed to R. Ishmael
Chapter 9 Genesis Rabbah
Chapter 10 Leviticus Rabbah
Chapter 11 Pesiqta deRab Kahana
Chapter 12 Song of Songs Rabbah
Chapter 13 Lamentations Rabbah
Chapter 14 Ruth Rabbah
Chapter 15 Esther Rabbah I
Chapter 16 Fathers According to R. Nathan
Chapter 17 Yerushalmi Berakhot and the Division of Zeraim
Chapter 18 Yerushalmi Moed
Chapter 19 Yerushalmi Nashim
Chapter 20 Yerushalmi Neziqin and Tractate Niddah
Chapter 21 Bavli Tractate Berakhot and the Division of Moed
Chapter 22 Bavli Nashim
Chapter 23 Bavli Neziqin
Chapter 24 Bavli Division of Qodoshim and Tractate Niddah
Chapter 25 War in the Halakhah, Peace in the Aggadah
Product details
| Published | Aug 24 2011 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 244 |
| ISBN | 9780761855989 |
| Imprint | University Press of America |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | Studies in Judaism |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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