The Implicit Norms of Rabbinic Judaism The

This book explores the theological premises of the documents upon which the Rabbinic canon was built and asks whether these premises cohere in a tight theological system? The Implicit Norms of Rabbinic Judaism examines these documents and their premise and reveals that orthodoxy and heresy constituted native categories of the Rabbinic system of thought inherent.

Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Theology and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College

PREFACE

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1. DEFINING THE HUMAN CONDITION: ABOT

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(10)

i. The Document and its Program: Recurrent Questions

1

(6)

ii. To whom, and for whom, does the document speak? Propositions and preoccupations

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(1)

iii. Implicit truths

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(3)

2. THE CATEGORICAL STRUCTURE OF KNOWLEDGE: THE MISHNAH

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(14)

i. The Document and its Program: Recurrent Questions

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(6)

ii. To whom, and for whom, does the document speak? Propositions and preoccupations

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(5)

iii. Implicit truths

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(3)

3. THE LAWS OF INTELLECT: SIFRA

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(10)

i. The Document and its Program: Recurrent Questions

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(7)

ii. To whom, and for whom, does the document speak? Propositions and preoccupations

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(1)

iii. Implicit truths

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(2)

4. THE LAWS OF HISTORY: GENESIS RABBAH

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i. The Document and its Program: Recurrent Questions

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(13)

ii. To whom, and for whom, does the document speak? Propositions and preoccupations

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(1)

iii. Implicit truths

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(2)

5. THE LAWS OF SOCIETY: LEVITICUS RABBAH

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(16)

i. The Document and its Program: Recurrent Questions

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(12)

ii. To whom, and for whom, does the document speak? Propositions and preoccupations

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(1)

iii. Implicit truths

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(3)

6. THE CELESTIAL LAWS: PESIQTA DERAB KAHANA

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(14)

i. The Document and its Program: Recurrent Questions

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(9)

ii. To whom, and for whom, does the document speak? Propositions and preoccupations

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(2)

iii. Implicit truths

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(3)

7. KNOWING GOD: LAMENTATIONS RABBAH

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(14)

i. The Document and its Program: Recurrent Questions

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(7)

ii. To whom, and for whom, does the document speak? Propositions and preoccupations

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(1)

iii. Implicit truths

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(7)

8. LOVING, AND BEING LOVED BY, GOD: SONG OF SONGS RABBAH

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(14)

i. The Document and its Program: Recurrent Questions

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(3)

ii. To whom, and for whom, does the document speak? Propositions and preoccupations

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(2)

iii. Implicit truths

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(9)

9. THE NORMS OF CONVICTION OF RABBINIC JUDAISM: ORTHODOXY AND HERESY

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i. Principal Elements of Orthodox Doctrine

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(2)

ii. The Orthodox Definition of Heresy

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(1)

iii. Borderlines

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