The Theology Of The Halakhah

Author : Chaim N. Saiman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691210858

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Halakhah by Chaim N. Saiman Pdf

How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed Jewish law into a way of thinking and talking about everything Typically translated as "Jewish law," halakhah is not an easy match for what is usually thought of as law. This is because the rabbinic legal system has rarely wielded the political power to enforce its rules, nor has it ever been the law of any state. Even more idiosyncratically, the talmudic rabbis claim the study of halakhah is a holy endeavor that brings a person closer to God—a claim no country makes of its law. Chaim Saiman traces how generations of rabbis have used concepts forged in talmudic disputation to do the work that other societies assign not only to philosophy, political theory, theology, and ethics but also to art, drama, and literature. Guiding readers across two millennia of richly illuminating perspectives, this panoramic book shows how halakhah is not just "law" but an entire way of thinking, being, and knowing.

Author : Shai Cherry
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781644693421

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Coherent Judaism by Shai Cherry Pdf

Coherent Judaism begins by excavating the theologies within the Torah and tracing their careers through the Jewish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Any compelling, contemporary Judaism must cohere as much as possible with traditional Judaism and everything else we believe to be true about our world. The challenge is that over the past two centuries, our understandings of both the Torah and nature have radically changed. Nevertheless, much Jewish wisdom can be translated into a contemporary idiom that both coheres with all that we believe and enriches our lives as individuals and within our communities. Coherent Judaism explains why pre-modern Judaism opted to privilege consensus around Jewish behavior (halakhah) over belief. The stresses of modernity have conspired to reveal the incoherence of that traditional approach. In our post-Darwinian and post-Holocaust world, theology must be able to withstand the challenges of science and history. Traditional Jewish theologies have the resources to meet those challenges. Coherent Judaism concludes by presenting a philosophy of halakhah that is faithful to the covenantal aspiration to live long on the land that the Lord, our God, has given us.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004122915

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The Theology of the Halakhah by Jacob Neusner Pdf

Neusner proves that the law of normative Judaism, the Halakhah, viewed whole, with its category-formations read in logical sequence, tells a coherent story. He demonstrates that details of the law contribute to making a single statement, one that, moreover, complements and corresponds with that of the Aggadah, the lore and scriptural exegesis of Judaism. He has now portrayed for the first time the way in which Aggadah and Halakhah, attitude and action, belief and behavior, join together to set forth normative Judaism, the vast system for holy Israel's social order of the Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrash of late antiquity.

Author : David Novak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015024861760

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Halakhah in a Theological Dimension by David Novak Pdf

Author : Markus Bockmuehl
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567087344

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Jewish Law in Gentile Churches by Markus Bockmuehl Pdf

Why did the Gentile church keep Old Testament commandments about sex and idolatry, but disregard many others, like those about food or ritual purity? If there were any binding norms, what made them so, and on what basis were they articulated?In this important study, Markus Bockmuehl approaches such questions by examining the halakhic (Jewish legal) rationale behind the ethics of Jesus, Paul and the early Christians. He offers fresh and often unexpected answers based on careful biblical and historical study. His arguments have far-reaching implications not only for the study of the New Testament, but more broadly for the relationship between Christianity and Judaism.

Author : Bernard S. Jackson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004162730

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Essays on Halakhah in the New Testament by Bernard S. Jackson Pdf

These essays explore the Jewish background to central issues in the New Testament -letter and spirit, prophecy and law, forgiveness, the accounts of Jesus' "trial(s)," evidence required for legal/theological claims, the shepherding images, disinheritance, and teachings on marriage and divorce.

Author : Phillip Sigal
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781589832824

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The Halakhah of Jesus of Nazareth According to the Gospel of Matthew by Phillip Sigal Pdf

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004116176

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The Halakhah by Jacob Neusner Pdf

The Halakhah embodies the complete Jewish Law, and contains commandments and guidelines for day-to-day living. The original commandments given by God to the Jewish people were enhanced by rabbis to offer a detailed framework to guide the lives of all Jews. In this complete, all-encompassing encyclopaedia of the Halakhah, the various laws are classified in such a way that a systematic and coherent structure is obtained. Each entry of the Halakhah is presented in a logical fashion. Where applicable, the original biblical wording is given, extended with literal abstracts from the Torah. Next, problems and questions that may arise from that law are stated and any additional information given. Finally, each entry gives comprehensive explanations and recommendations as to how these laws are to be observed in daily life where to be and where not to be, what to do and what not to do, what to say and what not to say. The Halakhah, or standard Jewish Law, combines the Mishnah (about 200 CE), the Tosefta (about 300 CE), and the two Talmuds (about 400, 600 CE for the Land of Israel and Babylon, respectively). Volumes I and II contain entries pertaining to the Jewish people in relationship to God. Volume III explains how the Jewish people can restore and maintain their society in accordance with the Torah as it is explained by the rabbis. In Volumes IV and V of this study, we take up the life of the Jewish household in their encounter with God. The Encyclopaedic account therefore moves from regulating relationships between Israel and God to establishing stable and equitable relationships among Israelites and finally to actually living the Halakhah."

Author : Joseph E. David
Publisher : Springer
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319065847

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Jurisprudence and Theology by Joseph E. David Pdf

The book provides in depth studies of two epistemological aspects of Jewish Law (Halakhah) as the ‘Word of God’ – the question of legal reasoning and the problem of knowing and remembering. - How different are the epistemological concerns of religious-law in comparison to other legal systems? - In what ways are jurisprudential attitudes prescribed and dependent on theological presumptions? - What specifies legal reasoning and legal knowledge in a religious framework? The author outlines the rabbinic jurisprudential thought rooted in Talmudic literature which underwent systemization and enhancement by the Babylonian Geonim and the Andalusian Rabbis up until the twelfth century. The book develops a synoptic view on the growth of rabbinic legal thought against the background of Christian theological motifs on the one hand and Karaite and Islamic systemized jurisprudence on the other hand. It advances a perspective of legal-theology that combines analysis of jurisprudential reflections and theological views within a broad historical and intellectual framework. The book advocates two approaches to the study of the legal history of the Halakhah: comparative jurisprudence and legal-theology, based on the understanding that jurisprudence and theology are indispensable and inseparable pillars of legal praxis.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0761831177

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Is Scripture the Origin of the Halakhah? by Jacob Neusner Pdf

The Halakhah constitutes a coherent construction comprised by category-formations defined by topics purposively amplified. These category-formations everywhere pursue a cogent analytical program, addressing diverse subjects, treated systematically, a single set of questions of definition and analysis. Is Scripture the origin of the Halakhic system, which defines the norms of Judaism? At stake is not the starting point of discrete bits of legal data. At issue is the origin of the comprehensive structure comprised by the Halakhic category-formations, by these topics and no others. Scripture forms the natural starting point for any inquiry into the origins of Judaism. So it is quite natural to treat Scripture as the base-line and the Halakhic category-formations as the variable when seeking the origin of the system. But what happens when, as in this project, we treat the system as the base-line and Scripture as the variable? Then we see that the Halakhic system viewed as a coherent statement does not originate in Scripture. Important parts of that statement do, important parts do not. But the system viewed whole does not.

Author : David Novak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X004189328

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The Theology of Nahmanides Systematically Presented by David Novak Pdf

Author : Emanuel Rackman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000042864060

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Modern Halakhah for Our Time by Emanuel Rackman Pdf

Of the few that have produced such legal codes, Judaism is perhaps the most law-oriented. But though much has been published on Judaism's legal aspects, little of it relates to the coordination of its legal and theological sides. It is therefore altogether appropriate that Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, one of the few who has, is a trained lawyer as well as a rabbi.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1883058848

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Scripture and the Generative Premises of the Halakhah: Halakhah based on scripture and Halakhic categories autonomous of scripture by Jacob Neusner Pdf

Author : Alexander Guttmann
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814344019

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Rabbinic Judaism in the Making by Alexander Guttmann Pdf

Through the ages, theology in Judaism has played roles of varying importance. But the role of theology is minor compared with that of law and observance. This book is devoted to a study of the evolution of normative Judaism from the time of Ezra (ca. 400 B.C.) to Judah I, the Prince (ca. 200 A.D.). Its focus on law represents a realistic approach to the history of applied Judaism. Rabbinic Judaism in the Making is the first study in English to trace the evolution of Rabbinic Law and Rabbinic Judaism. A concise history of post-biblical normative Judaism in antiquity, Mr. Guttmann’s book concentrates on the crucial inter-testamental period, and should be valuable to students of ancient history, and both Christian and Jewish theologians, ministers, and rabbis.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Studies in Judaism
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0761857397

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The Rabbinic System by Jacob Neusner Pdf

This book recapitulates chapters in The Theology of the Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice of God (1999) and The Theology of the Halakhah (2001) to convey, as a single continuous narrative, the tale that the Halakhah and the Aggadah as theological constructions jointly tell.