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Rabbinic Judaism: The Theological System »

Authors: Jacob Neusner
ISBN-13: 9780391041431, ISBN-10: 0391041436
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Jacob Neusner

Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College.

Book Synopsis

Rabbinic Judaism, in its classical writings produced from the first through the seventh century of the Common Era, sets forth a theological system that is orderly and reliable. This work make its contribution in seeing in the principal conceptions of Rabbinic Judaism a logos—a sustained, rigorous, coherent argument.

This title is also available in hardback (ISBN 0 391 04143 6)

	Preface
1	Imagining Eden and Re-presenting the Result	3
2	The Moral Order: Reward and Punishment	17
3	The Political Order: Israel and the Torah	28
4	The Political Order: The Gentiles and Idolatry	53
5	Ordering the Ultimate Anomaly: Private Lives	84
6	World beyond Time	107
7	World without Change	128
8	Complementarity	148
9	Correspondence	166
10	Intentionality	183
11	Sin	202
12	Repentance and Atonement	219
13	Restoring Private Lives: Resurrection	234
14	Restoring the Public Order: The World to Come	246
15	Before and After	267

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