Foundations of Judaism / Jacob Neusner.
Material type:
- 0800623150
- 296/.09/015 19
- BM 601 .N482 1989

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.