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Foundations of Judaism / Jacob Neusner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Philadelphia : Fortress Press, c1989.Description: xvii, 126 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0800623150
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 296/.09/015 19
LOC classification:
  • BM 601 .N482 1989
Contents:
Contents:
Doctrine : Torah as symbol. The meaning of "Torah" in Judaism ; From scroll to symbol ; The Mishnah and the Torah ; The theory of the Torah in Tractate Abot ; Meanings of "Torah" in the Yerushalmi -- Teleology : Torah and Messiah. Judaism a Messianic religion? ; The Mishnah's doctrine of the Messiah and of history ; The Messiah and the doctrine of history in the Yerushalmi -- Method : Torah, canon, sage. Revelation and canon ; Scripture and the Mishnah ; Revelation, canon, and scriptural authority : the historical and the apologetic context ; Revelation, canon, and scriptural authority : the theological context.
Item type: Books

Abridged version of 3-part work published 1983-1985 under same title.

Includes index.

Contents:

Doctrine : Torah as symbol. The meaning of "Torah" in Judaism ; From scroll to symbol ; The Mishnah and the Torah ; The theory of the Torah in Tractate Abot ; Meanings of "Torah" in the Yerushalmi --
Teleology : Torah and Messiah. Judaism a Messianic religion? ; The Mishnah's doctrine of the Messiah and of history ; The Messiah and the doctrine of history in the Yerushalmi --
Method : Torah, canon, sage. Revelation and canon ; Scripture and the Mishnah ; Revelation, canon, and scriptural authority : the historical and the apologetic context ; Revelation, canon, and scriptural authority : the theological context.