Description
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays draws on work done in 20102011. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis of Judaism, its literature, and its theology. 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 ContentsPreface 1. From History to Hermeneutics: The Talmud as a Historical Source 2. History and Theology: Critically Recovering Rabbi Jesus 3. War in the Halakhah, Peace in the Aggadah 4. The Mishnah’s Conception of the Priesthood:The Aggadah versus the Halakhah 5. Rabbinic Theology: A System 6. Review Notes: Rosenblum, Jordan D. Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism. Cambridge 7. Review Notes: Shafran, Rabbi Simcha, Fire Ice Air. A Polish Jew’s Memoir of Yeshiva, Siberia, America. Staten Island
