Theological Dictionary of Rabbinic Judaism Part One: Principal Theological Categories

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ISBN: 9780761830290 | 0761830294
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Copyright: 2/7/2005

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Rabbinic theological language has made possible a vast range of discourse, on many subjects over long spans of recorded time and in diverse cultural settings. This three-part theological dictionary defines the principal theological usages of Rabbinic Judaism as set forth in the rabbinic canon of late antiquity, Mishnah, Talmuds, and Midrash-compilations.

Preface

Introduction

xix

Principal Theological Categories

xix

Making Connections and Building Constructions

xiv

Models of Analysis, Explanation, and Anticipation

xxviii

Models of Analysis

xxix

Models of Explanation

xxxi

Models of Anticipation

xxxii

Part One Principal Theological Categories

Atonement

(8)

Commandment

(8)

Creation

(4)

Gentiles

(16)

God

(16)

Intentionality

(10)

Israel

(26)

Justice and Mercy

(14)

Kingdom of Heaven

105

(2)

Land of Israel

107

(10)

Loving Kindness

117

(4)

Man

121

(4)

Messiah

125

(10)

Prayer

135

(4)

Prophecy, Echoes, and Other Media for Divine Communication

139

(4)

Redemption

143

(4)

Repentance

147

(10)

Resurrection

157

(10)

Revelation, Giving of the Torah

167

(4)

Righteousness

171

(4)

Sage, the; and the Disciple of Sages

175

(10)

Sanctification

185

(4)

Sin

189

(16)

Soul, the

205

(4)

Suffering

209

(4)

Temple, Holy Place

213

(4)

Torah, the

217

(6)

Torah, Oral

223

(4)

Torah-Study

227

(14)

Will of God, the

241

(6)

Women

247

(4)

Zekhut

251

(8)

Cross-References

259

Part Two Making Connections and Building Constructions

A. Connections

Arrogance and Sin

Atonement and Sanctification

Attitude and Authority

Attitude and Possession: When Is Hope Abandoned

Death and Rejoicing

Divine Judgment, Mercy, and the First of Tishre

Israel's Estrangement from God

The Evil Inclination to Sexuality; the Messiah, the Sage

Torah and Exile, Torah and Wealth

Faith vs. Lack of Faith, Success Versus Failure

Fasting for Heaven, Heaven Feeds Israel

Gentiles Rejected, Israel Chosen

Losing Composure in General, and When a Sage Dies

Meal as a Religious Duty, Sages and Meals, Marrying One's Daughter to a Sage

The Messiah and the Land of Israel

Responsibility, Culpability, and Punishment

Sins Committed by Speech: Slander

Losing One's Temper and Sin

Rain is Comparable to the Torah, Yielding Various Sayings on the Torah and Study Thereof

War over Torah-Study and This-Worldly War

Work is Essential to an Honorable Existence, and the Right Kind of Work Involves Productive, Not Service, Occupations

World to Come and the Messiah

Self-Evident Connections and Theological Givens

B. Constructions

Aaron, Simeon and Levi, Cozbi

Abel/Cain, Noah/Contemporaries, Abraham/Nimrod, Isaac/Ishmael, Jacob/ Esau, Moses/Pharaoh, David/Saul, Israel/Nations

Abraham, Balaam, Joseph, Pharaoh

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the Gift of Suffering

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Judah, Jeremiah, David, Asa. Moses

Abraham, Isaiah, Aaron

Abraham, Jacob, Elisha

Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, Isaiah, Samuel, Samson, Solomon, Job, Caleb, Eliakim, Zerubbabel, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah

Abraham, Sodom vs. Israel, Hanianiah, Mishael, and Azariah, Those Who Came Up After the Exile

Abraham, Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah; Moriah/Sinai

Abraham/Moriah, Fathers/Red Sea, Joshua/Gilgal, Samuel/Mispeh, Elijah/Carmel, Jonah/Fish, David-Solomon/Jerusalem

Acts of Loving Kindness, Righteousness, Offerings/Prayer, Temple/Synagogue, End of Days/Redemption

Adam, Esau, Sennacherib, Hiram King of Tyre, Nebuchadnezzar, Evil Merodach, and Israel

Adam, Israel, Sisera

Adam, Jacob, the Generation of the Wilderness, Zion

Adam, Noah, Abraham

Adam, Pharaoh, Limb of Adulteress

The Fathers, the First Man, Pharaoh, Moses, the Generation of the Wilderness

Adam, Seth, Methuselah, David, Abraham, Jacob, and Moses

Altar, Priests, God; Sinai, Moses-Aaron, God; Exiles of Israel, Nebuchadnezzar, Hananiah, Mishael, & Azariah; Daniel

Amalek, Pharaoh

Asa, Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, Josiah vs. Ahaz, Manasseh, Amon

Babylonia, Media, Greece, Edom/Rome

Balaam, Doeg, Ahitophel, and Gahazi

Cain, Esau, Pharaoh, Haman, Gog

Cain, Korah, Balaam, Doeg, Ahitophel, Gahazi, Absalom, Adonijah, Uzziah, and Haman

Chaos, Torah, Messiah

Charity, Supplication, Name-Change, Character-Change

Creation, Patriarchs, Isaac, Sarah-Rachel-Hannah, Joseph/Prison, Redemption

Creation, Gog/World to Come, Torah, Tent of Meeting

Cyrus, Ahasuerus

David, Job, Generation of the Flood, Men of Sodom

David, Solomon

David, Solomon, Hezekiah, Manasseh, the Messiah, and Boaz

Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Media, Greece, Rome

Egypt, Babylonia, World to Come

Egypt, Edom

Egypt, the Sea, Marah, Rephidim, Horeb, the wilderness, the Spies/Joshua-Caleb, Shittim, Achan/Joshua, Israel/Judah

Egypt, the Sea, Sinai, the World to Come

Egypt, Sinai, Gog and Magog, and Messiah

Eliezer, Moses, and Solomon

Eliezer of Damascus, Esau, Ruth, Nations of the World, Hezekiah, Mesha, Kings of Israel, Kings of the East

Esau, Jeroboam, and Haman

Exile, Chaldeans, Ishmaelites, and Inclination to Do Evil

Exodus, Sea, Sinai, Resurrection of Dead, Messiah

Five Pairs, the

Flood, Sodom, Ten Tribes, Sennacherib

Generation of the Flood, Men of the Tower of Babel, Men of Sodom

Generation of the Flood, Tower of Babel, Sodom, Egyptians, Sisera, Absalom, Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar, Prince of Tyre

The Generation of the Flood, the Generation of the Dispersion, the Men of Sodom, the Spies, the Party of Korach, Ten Tribes

The Generation of the Flood, Job, Egyptians, Gehenna

Generation of the Flood, Men of Sodom, Egypt

Generation of Flood, Sodomites, Egyptians, Samson, Amnon, Zimri

Generation of the Flood, Sodomites, Pharaoh, Sisera, Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar, the Wicked Empire

Generation of the Flood, Sodomites, the Incident at Shittim

Generation of Flood, Men of Tower of Babylon, Sodom, vs. Abraham

Four Kingdoms (Gen.14:1)/Abraham, Pharaoh/Moses, Sihon-Og/Moses, Canaanites/Joshua, Sisera, Deborah-Barak, Sennacherib vs. Hezekiah, Haman/Mordecai

God's Love/Israel's Idolatry; Esau/Jacob, Joseph/Brothers, David/Saul; Marital Love/Adultery

God, Daniel, and Nebuchadnezzar

Gog, Building of Temple, the End

Hezekiah, Mordecai-Esther, the Present Generation

Holy One, Abraham, Benjamin, Solomon, Israel, Temple

Holy One, Abraham-Isaac-Jacob-Joseph, Sarah-Rebecca-Leah-Rachel, Sanhedrin-Disciples-Scribes, Israel

Holy One / Israel / Egyptians / Water; Solomon / Isaac / Temple / Holy One / Benjamin / Israel; Moses / Torah / Holy One / Israel; Moses / Torah / Holy One / Israel

Idolatry, Fornication, and Murder

Idolatry, Incest, Murder

Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Jacob

Election of Israel, Covenant of the Priesthood, Covenant of the Levites, Covenant with the Kingdom of the House of David, Covenant with Jerusalem, Covenant with the House of the Sanctuary, Covenant with Israel

Jacob, Joseph

Jeroboam, Ahaz, and Manasseh

Joseph, David, Boaz

Joseph, David, Mordecai, Israel

Judah-Benjamin/Sodom, Cities of the Sea/Generation of the Flood

The Rule of Justice, the Torah, and the Building of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness

King in Past, King at Present, King of the World, Moses

Land of Israel, Jerusalem, Eternal House, Aaron, David

Learning, Sexual Impulse, Death

Mana, Fish, Youth, Offerings, First Fruits, Drink Offerings, Mishnah, Talmud, Lore

Moses vs. Amos, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah

Moses vs. Jeroboam

Mordecai and Moses, Mordecai and Abraham

Moses, Elijah

Moses, Elijah, Micah

Moses, Hillel, Yohanan B. Zakkai, Aqiba

Moses, Joseph, Jacob, Elijah, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, Daniel

Moses, Joshua, Deborah-Barak, Hezekiah, Hananiah-Mishael-Azariah, Mordecai-Esther

Moses, Joshua, Elders, Prophets, Men of the Great Assembly

Moses/Solomon, Noah/Abel

Naaman, Nebuzaradan, Haman, Sisera, Sennacherib

Nabat, Ahitophel, Pharaoh's Astrologers

Nations/Israel, Generations/Wilderness, Mountains/Moriah, Cities/Jerusalem, Mountains/Sinai, Lands/Land of Israel

Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Haman

Nebuchadnezzar and Nebuzaradan, Vespasian and Trajan

Nimrod, Abraham, Pharaoh, Moses-Aaron, Sihon-Og, Moses-Aaron, Sisera, Deborah-Barak, Sennacherib, Hezekiah-Isaiah, Haman, Mordecai, Kings of Canaanites, Joshua-Caleb

Noah, Cain, Uzziah

Noah, Methuselah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Miriam, Joshua, Samuel

Noah/Necho, Moses-Aaron/Spies, Josiah/Ahab, David/Nebuchadnezzar, Zedekiah/Samson, Sons of Aaron/Congregation of Korah

Obadiah vs. Esau

Past, Present, Messiah, Gog-Magog, Age to Come

Pharaoh, Haman, Esau

Pharaoh, Sennacherib, and You

Pharaoh, Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar, David, Solomon, Daniel

Prayer, Charity, and Repentance

Priesthood, Martyrs, David, and Nebuchadnezzar

Priestly Blessing, Priestly Watches, Sanhedrin, Israelites of the Exodus

Priests, Levites, Israelites

Rainbow, Patriarch, and Priests

Rebecca/Laban, Israel/Egypt, Israel/Nations, Learning/Ignorance, Israel/Nations Today

Redemption, Pharaoh, Four Kingdoms, Retribution

Rome, Persia, All the Other Nations

Samson, & Absalom vs. Miriam, Joseph, and Moses

Samson, Saul, Absalom, Zedekiah, Asa

Sanhedrin, Priests, Levites, Israelites, Land, Firstborn, Sanctuary, Altar, Anointing Oil, Kingship, Offerings

Sanctification, Hierarchy of

Scoffers, Flatterers, Liars, and Slanderers

Sea, Heaven, Sun and Moon, Ravens, Fire, Lions, Fish

Sea, Marah, Refidim, Manna, Quail, Golden Calf, Paran

Snake, Head Baker, Korach, Haman

The Men of Sodom, Minor Children of the wicked, Korach, Generation of the Wilderness, Ten Tribes

Solomon, Ahaz, the Messiah, Abraham and Jacob

Timing, Oppression, Outcry, Merit, Repentance

The Torah, the Sacrifices, Gehenna, and the Rule of the Kingdoms

Vespasian, Greece, Haman, Gog

Wilderness, Baal Peor, Amorites

The Rules of Making Constructions

Cross-References

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