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Theology Of Normative Judaism »
Authors: Jacob Neusner
ISBN-13: 9780761831167, ISBN-10: 0761831169
Format: Paperback
Publisher: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Date Published: February 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Jacob Neusner
Book Synopsis
This anthology treats the following topics, providing access to the important Talmudic statements on them: Mythic Monotheism: Creation, the Nature of Man, the Fall; Torah; Israel and the Nations; You Shall Be Holy, for I the Lord your God am Holy; Sin and Atonement; and Resurrection and Eternal Life. Each topic is broken up into its principal components and expounded and illustrated by primary sources in English translation.
Table of Contents
| Defining what is normative in the theology of Judaism | 1 | |
| Theology of Judaism : Halakhah & Aggadah | 10 | |
| Why the rabbis are right : before and after the oral Torah | 21 | |
| The theology of rabbinic Judaism : the human condition | 49 | |
| Man and nature : the correspondences | 49 | |
| Man=Adam and Eve | 51 | |
| Eden and the land, Adam and Israel | 56 | |
| The world empires prefigured in creation and in the lives of the patriarchs | 58 | |
| The theology of rabbinic Judaism : how we know God | 63 | |
| How the Torah was given | 63 | |
| The main principles of the Torah | 64 | |
| Summarizing the commandments of the Torah | 66 | |
| Torah-study will save Israel | 70 | |
| Torah-study sustains on its own; only sin necessitates hard labor | 72 | |
| What is at issue? | 73 | |
| Why the gentiles rejected the Torah | 73 | |
| Israel is alike and not alike the gentiles | 79 | |
| The election of Israel | 84 | |
| What is at issue? | 89 | |
| What does it mean to be holy like God? | 89 | |
| Man incarnates God | 92 | |
| The traits God values | 95 | |
| Sin is not absolute | 103 | |
| Sin comes about by reason of arrogance | 106 | |
| The impulse to do evil | 113 | |
| Repentance | 118 | |
| Repentance, prayer, and charity | 123 | |
| Atonement | 125 | |
| The resurrection of the dead forms a natural next step | 129 | |
| Proof that the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead derives from the Torah | 131 | |
| God's infinite mercy at the last judgment | 141 | |
| The world to come | 143 | |
| A postscript on the passion narratives viewed from the perspective of the theology of normative Judaism | 147 |
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