Description
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays draws on work done in 20112012. 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. The History of the Halakhah of Besah 2. Scarce Resources: Philosophical Economics Reproduced 3. Orthodoxy and Heresy. The Debate with Daniel Boyarin 4. War in the Halakhah, Peace in the Aggadah 5. Study of Torah versus Making a Living 6. Rabbinic Theology: A System 7. The Restoration of Israel: Soteriology in Rabbinic Judaism 8. Just War in Classical Judaism 9. Law and Religion in Judaism: How Judaism Exemplifies the Principles of Relationship between Attitude and Action
