Authors: Jacob Neusner, Jacob Neusner
ISBN-13: 9780761834892, ISBN-10: 0761834893
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University Press of America
Date Published: June 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
The Rabbinic Midrash, founded on a theological system and structure, is comprised by active category formations that turn facts into knowledge and knowledge into propositions of a theological character. This work defines the principal parts of the theological system that animated the Rabbinic sages' encounters with Scripture as embodied in the Rabbinic Midrash, and shows how these parts form a cogent theological system.
Pt. 1 | The common theology of Rabbinic Midrash | |
1 | The theological category-formations of Rabbinic Midrash [1] : God and man, God and Israel | 1 |
2 | The theological category-formations of Rabbinic Midrash [2] : God, Israel, and the nations | 29 |
3 | The theological category-formation of Rabbinic Midrash [3] : God's justice and God's mercy | 63 |
4 | The theological category-formations of Rabbinic Midrash [4] : God's judgment, Israel's repentance and atonement; God's remorse, Israel's consolation | 91 |
5 | The theological category-formations of Rabbinic Midrash [5] : restoration : the end of days | 107 |
Pt. 2 | Special cases and general conceptions | |
6 | Special cases : theological category-formations particular to a single document | 133 |
Pt. 3 | Midrash-compilations without conventional theological category-formations | |
7 | The implicit theological foundations of Sifra | 195 |
8 | Midrash without theology : Sifre to numbers | 213 |
Pt. 4 | Rabbinic Judaism : the theological construction | |
9 | The place of the Rabbinic Midrash-compilations in the encompassing theology of Rabbinic Judaism, Aggadic and Halakhic | 251 |