The Way of Torah
, by Neusner, Jacob
- ISBN: 9780534169381 | 0534169384
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/1/1992
| Foreword | |
| Preface to the Fifth Edition | |
| Related Reading | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Table of Dates | |
| Defining Judaism | p. 1 |
| Defining a Religion | p. 3 |
| Religion as an Account of the Social Order | p. 3 |
| Religion as Tradition or System | p. 4 |
| Defining Judaism | p. 6 |
| The Diversity of Judaisms | p. 6 |
| Defining a Judaism | p. 8 |
| The Periods in the History of Judaisms and the Paramount Status of One Judaism | p. 9 |
| The Ecology of Judaism | p. 13 |
| The Ecology of Religion | p. 13 |
| The Ecology of Judaism | p. 14 |
| The Four Periods in the History of Judaism | p. 17 |
| The First Age of Diversity (ca. 500 B.C.E. to C.E. 70) | p. 17 |
| The Age of Definition (ca. C.E. 70 to 640) | p. 18 |
| The Age of Cogency (ca. C.E. 640 to 1800) | p. 20 |
| The Second Age of Diversity (ca. 1800 to the present) | p. 21 |
| Jews as an Ethnic Group and Judaism as a Religion in Modern Times | p. 22 |
| The Holy Scriptures of Ancient Israel and the History of Judaism | p. 25 |
| The Torah of Judaism Comprises Not Only the Written Torah | p. 25 |
| Identifying Oneself as "Israel" | p. 26 |
| The Holy Books of Judaism | p. 29 |
| The Mishnah | p. 31 |
| Defining the Mishnah: The First Holy Book in Judaism After the Hebrew Scriptures | p. 32 |
| Describing the Mishnah: Its Contents and Context | p. 34 |
| The Mishnah's Judaism | p. 36 |
| Women in Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishnah | p. 39 |
| Women as the Indicator of the Character of a Religious System | p. 39 |
| Proper Conduct with Women | p. 41 |
| A Steady-State World of Permanence and Order | p. 43 |
| The Household, the Family, and Women | p. 45 |
| The Mishnah and the Talmud | p. 47 |
| A Talmud as a Commentary to the Mishnah | p. 47 |
| The Talmud and the Mishnah as Part of the Oral Torah | p. 49 |
| Torah in Two Media, Written and Oral | p. 51 |
| The Oral Torah and the Challenge of Christianity | p. 52 |
| The Midrash | p. 54 |
| What Is Midrash? | p. 54 |
| How the Sages of Judaism Read the Book of Genesis as a Parable for Their Own Time | p. 57 |
| What About Judaism and Christianity: "Why Don't the Jews Believe in Jesus as Christ?" | p. 64 |
| Why or Why Not? | p. 64 |
| A Family Quarrel, an Israelite Civil War | p. 65 |
| Different People Talking About Different Things to Different People | p. 67 |
| The Torah's World View | p. 75 |
| The Evidence | p. 77 |
| Hear, O Israel | p. 81 |
| Coming Together | p. 85 |
| Going Forth | p. 88 |
| Nourishing Life in the Here and Now: The Land and Jerusalem in the Age to Come | p. 91 |
| The Torah's Way of Life | p. 95 |
| Life Under the Law of the Torah | p. 97 |
| Hear Our Prayer, Grant Us Peace | p. 101 |
| Sabbaths for Rest, Festivals for Rejoicing | p. 106 |
| Birth, Maturity, Death | p. 112 |
| The Center Of Life: Study of Torah | p. 114 |
| The Philosopher | p. 122 |
| The Mystic | p. 130 |
| An Ordinary Man | p. 136 |
| Two Extraordinary Women | p. 140 |
| The Torah in Modern Times: Continuity and Change | p. 145 |
| The Historical Setting | p. 147 |
| For Some, The End of Traditional Society | p. 151 |
| Theology: Reform and Orthodoxy | p. 158 |
| Nationality and Peoplehood: Messianism and Zionism | p. 165 |
| The Prophetic Tradition in Modern Times: The Torah and Ethics | p. 169 |
| The Study of Torah in Modern Times: Yeshiva, Seminary, and University | p. 174 |
| The Unbroken Myth | p. 182 |
| Into the Twenty-First Century: The Age of New Beginnings | p. 186 |
| Notes | p. 195 |
| Glossary | p. 200 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 207 |
| Index | p. 209 |
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