Jacob Neusner (Bard College, New York, USA)

Judaism

The Basics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Accessible and wide-ranging, this text is a must-have resource covering the stories, beliefs and expressions of Judaism â the oldest of the worldâ s major faiths.

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Produktdetails

• The Basics
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RU1763Z
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 212g
• ISBN-13: 9780415401760
• ISBN-10: 0415401763
• Artikelnr.: 20891276

Autorenporträt

Jacob Neusner was the Research Professor of Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He was also a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, in England. He published more than 900 books and unnumbered articles and was the most published humanities scholar in the world.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Defining a Religion and Judaism in Particular 1. Defining Judaism through Stories 2. Who and What is Israel? The Community of Judaism and Passover 3. The Israelite Before God and the Days of Awe 4. The Individual Israelite and Israel in History: The Huppah, the Covenant of Abraham, Eating Lunch 5. The Purpose of the Law, the Ten Commandments, the Sabbath 6. God is One, Merciful and Just 7. The Formation of Normative Judaism 8. The Articulation of Normative Judaism 9. Reform, Orthodox and Conservative Judaisms, Zionism 10. The Holocaust and How Judaism Speaks Today