Description
Book SynopsisThis collection of seven essays draws on work done in 2010. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis of Judaisms and deals with comparisons of Judaisms. The papers include two commentaries on the current state of the academic study of Judaism. The reason for periodically collecting and publishing essays and reviews is to give them a second life, after they have served as lectures or as summaries of monographs or as free-standing articles or as expositions of Judaism in collections of comparative religions. This re-presentation serves a readership to whom the initial presentation in lectures or specialized journals or short-run monographs is inaccessible. Some of the essays furthermore provide a précis, for colleagues in kindred fields, of fully worked out monographs.
Table of ContentsPart 1 Preface Chapter 2 Comparison and Classification of Systems of the Social Order Chapter 3 The Social Vision of Rabbinic Judaism Chapter 4 The Rabbis and the Prophets: The Case of Amos Chapter 5 The Messiah and the Resurrection of the Dead Chapter 6 Resurrection in Rabbinic Judaism Part 7 Reflections on a Changing Scene Chapter 8 Fifty Years of Jewish Learning: What has Changed and What Difference Does it Make? Chapter 9 Autobiography of an Impresario: Encounters with Hershel Shanks
