Research Catalog

Title

Understanding Jewish theology : classical issues and modern perspectives / edited by Jacob Neusner.

Author

Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016

Publication

New York : Ktav Publishing House, Inc. : Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai Brith, [1973]

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Details

Description

x, 280 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Judaism > Doctrines
• Judaism
• Judaism
• 11.24 Jewish theology and philosophy
• Judaism > Doctrines
• Jüdische Theologie
• Jodendom

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Part I. The theological structure of classical Judaism -- i. God -- One God / Abraham Joshua Heschel -- God in search of man / Abraham Joshua Heschel -- ii. Torah -- "Not by bread alone" / Jakob J. Petuchowski -- Tradition and commentary / Gershom G. Scholem -- The study of Torah / Abraham Joshua Heschel -- iii. Israel -- God, Israel, and election / Solomon Schechter -- Judaism and the land of Israel / Arthur Hertzberg -- Part II. Torah : a way of living -- The meaning of observance / Abraham Joshua Heschel -- The ideological foundations of the Halakhah / David S. Shapiro -- Cleanness / Moses Hayyim Luzzatto -- The Shulhan Aruk : enduring code of Jewish law / Isadore Twersky -- Part III. Continuity and change in modern times -- i. God -- An outline of modern Jewish theology / Emil Fackenheim -- The human condition after Auschwitz / Emil Fackenheim -- Implications of the Holocaust / Jacob Neusner -- The meaning of God in modern Jewish religion / Mordecai M. Kaplan -- ii. Torah -- The ideology of the founders of Jewish scientific research / Max Wiener -- Who needs Yiddish? / Joseph C. Landis -- iii. Israel -- The Jewish people in metamorphosis / Moshe Davis -- The Jewish consensus / Ben Halpern -- The blessings of assimilation in Jewish history / Gerson D. Cohen -- Part IV. Conclusion -- Judaism in the secular age / Jacob Neusner.

ISBN

• 0870682156
• 9780870682155

LCCN

72013904

OCLC

• ocm00583964
• 583964
• SCSB-120647

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library