Religion and the Individual: A Jewish Perspective »

Jacobs conducts a thorough survey of some of the most important instances where the individual is discussed in the Jewish religious tradition.

Preface; List of abbreviations;

1. Individual significance;
2. Self-realization as a religious value;
3. Attitudes to life and death;
4. Family relationships;
5. Loving the neighbour;
6. Communal obligations;
7. God and the soul;
8. Does a person's body belong to God?;
9. Worship with the body;
10. God and personal freedom;
11. Immortality;
12. Conclusion: a question of emphasis; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index.