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Genre/Form: | Translations into English Translations |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jacob Neusner; Alan J Avery-Peck |
ISBN: | 0631207376 9780631207375 0631207384 9780631207382 |
OCLC Number: | 45162178 |
Description: | xxv, 452 pages ; 26 cm. |
Contents: | Part I. The history of Judaism -- Defining Judaism / Jacob Neusner -- The religious world of ancient Israel to 586 / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Judaism and the Hebrew scriptures / Philip R. Davies -- Second Temple Judaism / Frederick J. Murphy -- The formation of Rabbinic Judaism, 70-640 ce Günter Stemberger -- The canon of Rabbinic Judaism : the Mishnah and the Midrash / Jacob Neusner -- Judaism and Christianity in the formative age / Bruce Chilton -- Judaism in the Muslim world / Sara Rehuer -- Judaism in Christendom / David R. Carr -- Philosophy in Judaism : two stances / S. Daniel Breslauer -- Jewish piety / Tzvee Zahavy -- Part II. The principle Doctrines of Judaism -- The doctrine of Torah / Jacob Neusner -- The doctrine of God / Alan J. Avery-Peck -- The doctrine of Israel / Jacob Neusner -- The doctrine of Hebrew language usage / David H. Aaron -- Part III. Modern and contemporary Judaisms -- Reform Judaism / Dana Evan Kaplan -- Orthodox Judaism / Benjamin Brown -- Conservative Judaism : the struggle between ideology and popularity / Daniel Gordis -- New age Judaism / Jeffrey K. Salkin -- Part IV. Special topics in understanding Judaism -- Ethics of Judaism / Elliot N. Dorff -- Women in contemporary Judaism / Judith R. Baskin -- Judaism as a theopolitical phenomenon / Daniel J. Elazar -- Theology in contemporary Judaism / Neil Gillman -- Secular forms of Jewishness / Paul Mendes-Flohr -- Judaism and Zionism / Yosef Gorny -- The "return" to traditional Judaism at the end of the twentieth century : cross-cultural comparisons / M. Herbert Danzher. |
Series Title: | Blackwell readings in religion, 1. |
Responsibility: | edited by Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck. |
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"I am excited at the prospect of the publication of these books, in that they promise to display the lifelong fruits of research and mature insights of a master scholar on Judaism." Robert Goldenberg. "The editors set out to produce a work that is open to the educated general reader, rather than being restricted to a scholarly audience, and in this reviewer's opinion they have certainly succeeded. Overall what is presented...is a detailed, balanced, scholarly but approachable work, a source of information as well as a resource for further study." The Expository Times Read more...

