Handbook of rabbinic theology : language, system, structure / Jacob Neusner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neusner, Jacob, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Doctrines.

Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (638 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : Brill Academic Publishers, [2002]

Summary:

From his study of the rabbinic literature, Jacob Neusner shows how the rabbinic documents give expression to a theological system. Neusner discusses the how divine thought came to expression and he shows how the implicit theological system is expressed in the rules for the life of God's chosen people. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Bibliography

Introduction

I. What Is Theology?

II. System

III. Structure

IV. Category-Formations and Theological Norms

V. How Can We Speak of Theology in the Context of Rabbinic Judaism?

VI. How Do We Know What the Rabbis Thought?

A. Logical Coherence

B. Anonymity and Schismatic, Attributed Opinion

C. Signals of Normativiry

D. Premises of Discourse

E. Juxtapositions

F. The Four Principal Indicators

VII. The Project Viewed Whole

Part One: The Grammar of Rabbinic Theology: Vocabulary, Syntax, Semantics

Chapter One: Prolegomenon to the Theological Language of Rabbinic Juadism

I. Language as a Metaphor for Theology

II. Why Appeal to Grammar in Quest for Systemic Logic?

III. A Religion of Intellect, Creating a Language of Faith

IV. Vocabulary, Syntax, Semantics

V. Speaking the Theological Language of Judaism

Chapter Two: Vocabulary: Native Categories

I. Defining Vocabulary/Category

II. Native Categories

III. What Makes a Native Category Theological?

IV. The Uses of the Metaphor, Vocabulary/Native Categories

V. The Workings of the Process of Category-Formation: Assigning Nouns to Sets of Persons, Places, or Things

VI. The Vocabulary of Religious Experience Afforded by the Torah

VII. What Is at Stake? What Holds the Whole Together

VIII. The Source of Category-Formation

IX. Why Insist on the Native Sources of Category-Formations?

Chapter Three: Syntax: Connections and Constructions

I. Syntax: Identifying the Mystery of Self-Evidence

II. Designating Relevant Evidence

III. List-Making

IV. Connections

V. Constructions

VI. Theological Syntax in Lists of Events

VII. Theological Syntax Summarized.

Chapter Four: Semantics: Models of Analysis, Explanation and Anticipation

I. Defining Semantics

II. Models of Rationality

III. Semantics Is to Language as Models of Cogent Discourse Are to Theology

IV. Models of Analysis

Abraham as Model of Israel, the People

V. Models of Explanation

Ancestral Merit and Virtue

VI. Models of Anticipation

Astrology and Israel

VII. The Upshot

Part Two: The Theological System of Rabbinic Judaism: Norms of Belief

Chapter Five: Prolegomenon to the Theological System that Animates the Aggadah

I. Theology in Aggadic Realization: A System and its Dialectics

II. Mythic Monotheism: Imagining Eden and Re-presenting the Result

III. Sages Read Scripture as Philosophers Read Nature and Society

IV. Questions of Systemic Description, Analysis, and Interpretation

V. From Philosophy to Theology in the Framework of Scripture

Chapter Six: Sources of World Order

I. How (on the Basis of Scripture) Do We Know That God Is Just?

II. The Political Order: Israel and the Torah

III. The Political Order: The Gentiles and Idolatry

IV. Ordering the Ultimate Anomaly: Private Lives

Chapter Seven: Perfecting Worlds Order

I. How Do We Show That the World God Created Is Perfect?

II. Time and Paradigm

III. World without Change

IV. Complementarity

V. Correspondence

Chapter Eight: Sources of World Disorder

I. What Disrupts Eden?

II. Sin

Chapter Nine: Restoring World Order

I. Repentance, Regeneration, and Renewal

II. Restoring Private Lives: Resurrection

III. The Messiah: Theme, Not Category-Formation

IV. Restoring the Public Order: The World to Come

V. What Do the Sages Mean by "The World to Come"?

Part Three: The Theological Stracture of Rabbinic Judaism: Norms of Behavior in the Israelite Social Order.

Chapter Ten: Prolegomenon to the Theological Stracture of Rabbnic Judaism Realized in the Halakhah

I. Adam and Israel, Eden and the Land

II. The Halakhic Realization, in Israel's Social Order, of the Mythic Monotheism of Scripture

III. The Halakhah in Theological Context: Judaism's Theological Anthropology

IV. The Topical Sequence of the Halakhic Re-presentation

V. The Halakhic Canon and its Category-Formations

VI. Halakhic Interiorities

A. Between Israel and God

B. Within Israel's Social Order

C. Inside the Israelite Household

Chapter Eleven: What, Where, and When us Eden

I. Realizing Eden

A. Shebi'it

B. 'Orlah

C. Kilayim

D. Shabbat-'Erubin

II. Who Owns Eden?

A. Ma'aserot

B. Terumot

C. Hallah

D. Ma'aser Sheni

E. Bikkurim

F. Pe'ah

G. Dema'i

III. Adam and Eve

A. Qiddushin

B. Ketubot

C. Nedarim

D. Nazir

E. Sotah

F. Gittin

G. Yebamot

IV. Sacralization and Intentionality

Chapter Twelve: Israel and Adam, The Land and Eden, Sin and Atonement

I. Corporate Israel: The New Moral Entity

A. Sheqalim

B. Tamid and Yoma

C. Zebahim and Menahot

D. 'Arakhin

E. Bekhorot

F. Me'ilah

G. Temurah

II. Intentionality and the Cosmic Order

III. Intentionality and the Civil Order: Legitimate Violence. Who Does What to Whom?

A. Keritot

B. Sanhedrin-Makkot

C. Baba Qamma-Baba Mesi'a-Baba Batra

D. Horayot

E. Shebuot

IV. In Defense of Israel's Authentic Eden: The Struggle in the Household between Life and Death

Chapter Thirteen: Enemies of Eden, Tangible and Invisible

I. The Contest between Death and Life, Uncleanness and Sanctification: [1] The Sources of Uncleanness

A. Tangible Enemies: 'Abodah Zarah

B. Invisible Enemies: Death. Ohalot

C. Nega'im

D. Zabim and Niddah.

II. The Contest between Death and Life, Uncleanness and Sanctification: [2] The Locus of the Struggle for Life

A. Makhshirin

B. Tohorot

C. 'Uqsin

D. Kelim

III. Overcoming Death: Rites of Purification

A. Parah

B. Miqvaot

C. Tebul Yom

D. Yadayim

E. Where the Contest Is Resolved: Home and Temple in Hierarchical Formation: Hagigah

IV. Cause and Effect: Where and Why Man's Will Matters

Chapter Fourteen: Choosing Life in the Kingdom of God

I. From Eden to the Kingdom of God: Accepting the Yoke of the Commandments

A. Berakhot

B. Hullin

C. Megillah

D. Rosh Hashanah

E. Pesahim

F. Sukkah

G. Mo'ed Qatan

H. Besah

I. Ta'anit

Epilogue: The Halakhic Structure Seen Whole

I. The Problem and the Halakhic Solution

A. The Problem

B. The Halakhic Solution

II. The Halakhic Reconstruction of the Human Condition

III. Reprise: The Halakhic Structure Epitomized

IV. System and Structure: How the Aggadah and the Halakhah Intersect

V. The Theology of Rabbinic Judaism.

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Print version: Neusner, Jacob Handbook of Rabbinic Theology

ISBN:

9789004496484

OCLC:

1291318650