Authors: Jacob Neusner
ISBN-13: 9781932792256, ISBN-10: 1932792252
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Date Published: June 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Jacob Neusner (Ph.D. Columbia and Union Theological Seminary) is a Research Professor of Theology and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College.
If law alone yields legalism, then religious belief, by itself, fails to create justice. In Performing Israel s Faith, Jacob Neusner shows how Jewish Halakhah (law) and Aggadah (narrative) fit together to form a robust and coherent covenant theology one directly concerned about this world. Neusner s careful and thorough examination of several key issues within Rabbinic Judaism the nations, idolatry, sin, repentance, and atonement demonstrates that neither Halakhah nor Aggadah can be fully and rightly understood in isolation from each other. Performing Israel s Faith thus effectively reveals that Rabbinic Judaism s true pattern of religion was constituted by a covenant theology comprised by both law and story a covenant theology whose aim was to restore the sanctification of God s original creation.
1 | The Aggadic theology of the nations | 7 |
2 | The Halakhic theology of idolatry | 41 |
3 | The Aggadic theology of sin, repentance, and atonement | 83 |
4 | The Halakhic theology of atonement | 123 |
5 | Law and theology, Halakhah and Aggadah | 165 |
Epilogue : covenantal conduct : the outcome of performing Israel's faith | 207 |