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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)

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Author Biography: Jacob Neusner

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Pt. 1The common theology of Rabbinic Midrash
1The theological category-formations of Rabbinic Midrash [1] : God and man, God and Israel1
2The theological category-formations of Rabbinic Midrash [2] : God, Israel, and the nations29
3The theological category-formation of Rabbinic Midrash [3] : God's justice and God's mercy63
4The theological category-formations of Rabbinic Midrash [4] : God's judgment, Israel's repentance and atonement; God's remorse, Israel's consolation91
5The theological category-formations of Rabbinic Midrash [5] : restoration : the end of days107
Pt. 2Special cases and general conceptions
6Special cases : theological category-formations particular to a single document133
Pt. 3Midrash-compilations without conventional theological category-formations
7The implicit theological foundations of Sifra195
8Midrash without theology : Sifre to numbers213
Pt. 4Rabbinic Judaism : the theological construction
9The place of the Rabbinic Midrash-compilations in the encompassing theology of Rabbinic Judaism, Aggadic and Halakhic251

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