Jacob Neusner

Theological and Philosophical Premises of Judaism (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Jacob Neusner is Distinguished Service Professor of the History and Theology of Judaism and Senior Fellow, Institute of Advanced Theology, Bard College. He is also a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, in England. He has published more than 100 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic and popular and journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781618111012
• Artikelnr.: 56998763

Autorenporträt

Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic, popular and journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the world. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven US and European honorary doctorates. He received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1953, his Ph.D. from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in 1961, and Rabbinical Ordination and the degree of Master of Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1960. Neusner is editor of the 'Encyclopedia of Judaism' (Brill, 1999. I-III) and its Supplements; Chair of the Editorial Board of 'The Review of Rabbinic Judaism,' and Editor in Chief of 'The Brill Reference Library of Judaism', both published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. He is editor of 'Studies in Judaism', University Press of America. Neusner resides with his wife in Rhinebeck, New York. They have a daughter, three sons and three daughters-in-law, six granddaughters and two grandsons.

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Preface. THREE THEOLOGICAL PREMISES OF JUDAISM. 1. SPEECH: An eye that sees an ear that hears. i. Know before whom you are going to give a full account of yourself. ii. Oaths. iii. Vows and the Nazirite Vow in Particular. 2. TIME:
Considerations of Temporal Priority or Posteriority Do Not Enter into the Torah
. i. Temporal Sequence Does Not Apply to the Torah. ii. The Present-Tense Past: Scripture Re-Presented in the Immediacy of the Moment. iii. How are events treated, if not as unique indicators of the movement of history? Patterning Events. Mishnah-tractate Täanit 4:6
7. iv. History in the Torah and in the Mishnah. v. How the Mishnah Configures Israel in the Context of History Defined by God. How the Destruction of the Temple Figures in Mishnah-tractate Rosh Hashanah 4:1
3. vi. Patterning the History of the Sacrificial Cult: Mishnah-Tractate Zebahim 14:4
10. vii. A Messiah in the Mishnah: Mishnah-tractate Sotah Chapter Nine. 3. SPACE: The land of Israel is holier than all lands. i. The Locative Dimension. ii. Taking life to Sustain Israel
s life: Hullin. iii. The Domestic Table Compared with the Temple Altar. iv. The Particular Laws of Mishnah-Tractate Hullin. v. Gradations of Sanctification. vi. Why Hullin in Particular?. vii. Location, Occasion, the Character of the Encounter, in God
s Context, of God and the Israelite. 4. ANALYSIS: Hierarchical classification and the Law
s Philosophical Demonstration of Monotheism. i. Hierarchical classification. ii. Aristotle and the Mishnah
s Deductive Reasoning. iii. Message: The Taxonomic Power of Human Intention. vii. Mixtures in the First Division of the Halakhah: Bikkurim. viii. Conclusion. 6. ANALYSIS: Intentionality. i. Defining Intentionality, Attitude. ii. Intentionality and Freedom of Will. iii. The Manipulation and Application of power. iv. The point of differentiation within the political structures, supernatural and natural alike, lies in the attitude and intention of a human being. v. The Sources of Power: The Will of God and the Will of Man. INTEGRAL JUDAISM. 7. Integrating the System. i. At the Center of the System. ii. Defining Zekhut. iii. Specific Meanings of Zekhut in Particular Contexts. iv. Zekhut in Genesis Rabbah. v. Deeds that Generate Zekhut. vi. Relationships. 8. Living in the kingdom of God. i. The Rationality of the Israelite Social Order. ii. Approved Emotions. iii. Competition for the Status of
Being Israel
. iv. From Philosophy to Religion: The Kingdom of Heaven and the City of God. v. The Question of History Once Again. Index of Ancient Sources. Index of Subjects.