How the Aggadah and the Halakhah complement each other
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How the Aggadah and the Halakhah complement each other
(Studies in Judaism, . The rabbinic system)
University Press of America, c2012
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This book recapitulates chapters in two comprehensive accounts of the theology of Rabbinic Judaism, which deal with the two principal components of the native categories of the Rabbinic canon-Aggadah, lore, and Halakhah law. Jacob Neusner abbreviates some chapters in the two systematic accounts, The Theology of the Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice of God (1999) and The Theology of the Halakhah (2001). In this book, Neusner supplies a precis of the principal theological topics that have occupied him for the past two decades. In this way, he gains an audience of colleagues with an interest in the theology of Rabbinic Judaism who are unlikely to read the long books with their elaborate repertoire of sources that set forth Neusner's principal results.
The systematic Theology of the Halakhah and its equally systematic companion for the Aggadah, The Theology of the Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice of God, tell a single, continuous story. Seen together, the two large and distinct realms of discourse portray one Judaism: an integrated world-view (Aggadah), way of life (Halakhah), and account of the social entity, Israel. All together, these represent Neusner's answer to the critical question of defining Rabbinic Judaism: how do the diverse, autonomous documents of Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age coalesce, like the Mishnah, which transcends documentary limits and joins the Halakhah to the Aggadah in a single coherent formulation, and of what does that statement consist? In The Rabbinic System, he conveys, as a single continuous narrative, the tale that the Halakhah and the Aggadah as theological constructions jointly tell.
Table of Contents
Preface
Part One: The Theology of the Aggadah
1. Monotheism
i. The Theology of Monotheism
ii. Imagining Eden and Re-presenting the Result
iii. The Moral Order: Reward and Punishment
2. Israel and the Nations
i. Legitimate Violence
ii. Who is Israel?
3. Intentionality
Part Two: The Theology of the Halakhah
4. Eden
i. What, Where and When Is Eden?
ii. Shebi'it
iii. ' Orlah
iv. Kilayim
v. Shabbat-Erubin
vi. Who Owns Eden?
vii. Ma'aserot
viii. Terumot
ix. Hallah
x. Ma'aser Sheni
xi. Bikkurim
xii. Pe'ah
xiii. Dema'i
5. Intentionality and the Civil Order
i. Legitimate Violence: Who Does What to Whom
ii. Keritot
iii. Sanhedrin-Makkot
iv. Baba Qamma-Baba Mesi'a-Baba Batra
vi The Rabbinic System
v. Horayot
vi. Shebuot
6. The Enemies of Eden, Tangible and Invisible
i. Death and life, Uncleanness and Sanctification: [1] The Sources of Uncleanness
ii. Tangible Enemies: Abodah Zarah
iii. Invisible Enemies: Death. Ohalot
iv. Negaim
v. Zabim and Niddah
vi. The Contest between Death and Life
vii. Makhshirin
viii. Tohorot
ix. Uqsin
x. Kelim
xi. Overcoming Death I. Rites of Purification
xii. Parah
xiii. Miqvaot
xiv. Tebul Yom
xv. Yadayim
xvi. Where the Contest is Resolved: Home and Temple in Hierarchical Formation: Hagigah
xvii.Cause and Effect: Where and Why Man's Will Matters
Epilogue:
7. The Halakhah Theology Seen Whole. Actualizing The Torah's Story
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