The theology of the Oral Torah : revealing the justice of God / Jacob Neusner.

"The Theology of the Oral Torah demonstrates the cogency and inner rationality of the classical statement of Judaism in the Oral Torah, bringing a theological assessment to bear on the whole of rabbinic literature. Jacob Neusner shows how the proposition that God is One and all-powerful but als...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999.
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Imagining Eden and Re-presenting the Result
  • pt. I. Sources of World Order. 2. The Moral Order: Reward and Punishment. 3. The Political Order: Israel and the Torah. 4. The Political Order: The Gentiles and Idolatry. 5. Ordering the Ultimate Anomaly: Private Lives
  • pt. II. Perfecting World Order. 6. World beyond Time. 7. World without Change. 8. Complementarity. 9. Correspondence
  • pt. III. Sources of World Disorder. 10. Intentionality. 11. Sin
  • pt. IV. Restoring World Order. 12. Repentance and Atonement. 13. Restoring Private Lives: Resurrection. 14. Restoring the Public Order: The World to Come. 15. Before and After.