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| 1 | The vitality of rabbinic imagination : the Mishnah versus the Bible and Qumran : two comparisons | 1 |
| 2 | Is scripture the origin of the Halakhah? | 57 |
| 3 | How important was the destruction of the second temple in the formation of Rabbinic Judaism? | 79 |
| 4 | How pivotal is Yavneh in the history of Judaism? | 95 |
| 5 | The kingdom of heaven in kindred systems, Judaic and Christian | 125 |
| 6 | The Mishnah's conception of the priesthood : the Aggadah versus the Halakhah | 153 |
| 7 | Does classical Judaism yield a doctrine of tolerance? | 169 |
| 8 | Does classical Judaism yield a doctrine of altruism? | 193 |
| 9 | A documentary reading of Rabbinic compositions on 586, 70, and 132-135 in the formative canon | 207 |
| 10 | Rabbinic literature and the Christian scriptures | 227 |
| 11 | How Halakhic and Aggadic documents treat the bestiary common to them both | 241 |
| 12 | Pirqe Abot read as a coherent theological statement | 269 |
| 13 | The two stages in the formation of Talmudic Judaism : the literary inquiry into a historical question | 279 |
| 14 | Do types and forms yield a pre-history of the Bavli? : testing the results of Richard Kalmin | 303 |
| 15 | The second temple origins of the Halakhah of Besah | 325 |
| 16 | The integrity of the rabbinic law of purity (Mishnah-Tractate Tohorot) | 335 |
| 17 | Judaism and the Hebrew language | 347 |
| 18 | Talmudic dialectics | 353 |
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| 19 | Daniel Boyarin, Border lines : the partition of Judaeo-Christianity | 359 |
| 20 | Joel M. Hoffman, In the beginning : a short history of the Hebrew language | 369 |
| 21 | Maren Niehoff, Philo on Jewish identity and culture | 373 |
| 22 | The oeuvre of Jonathan Z. Smith | 375 |
| 23 | Amram Tropper, Wisdom, politics, and historiography. Tractate avot in the context of the Graeco-Roman Near East | 387 |
| 24 | Karin Hedner Zetterholm, Portrait of a villain : Laban the Aramean in rabbinic literature | 393 |
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Joseph Morales
reviewed Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Current Questions and Enduring Answers on March 27, 2018 Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Current Questions and Enduring Answers
I cannot possibly recommend this, or indeed any Edersheim book, highly enough. Though his style is perhaps more academic than might be desirable in a "casual" Theological treatise, with references and footnotes and asides galore, they are worth wading through for the treasure within.
This is the first of Edersheim's works that I've worked through as an adult, and it is definitely a different read as an adult than it was as a teen. Edersheim exudes knowledge in every paragraph, knowledge that has, unfortunately, been dismissed as irrelevant by many in modern Christendom. We've become so enamored with reading the Bible as if it were God's personal letter to us as individuals that we forget that it was, indeed, written at a specific time in history, with historical customs and beliefs shaping how the Word was communicated to believers at the time.
This book was especially helpful to me in reading the Gospels (particularly Jesus's disputations with the Pharisees), as well as Paul's Epistles to Jewish believers. Judaism, as it exists now, is a product of 2000 years of rich intellectual tradition and growth in the post-Temple era, and it is easy for Christians to simply conflate the modern Judaism with that of the Pharisees, forgetting the impact of the Sadducean and Essene movements in the first century A.D.
I would say that this should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the historical context of the New Testament. It opens and elaborates on so many elements of the text that would otherwise be a mystery to those of us reading it in the 21st century.
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Add Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Current Questions and Enduring Answers, The documentary reading of the Rabbinic canon continues to create engaging questions and interesting problems for study. This collection of essays and book reviews represents two years of work from 2003 to 2005 focused on the Rabbinic canon. The collectio, Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Current Questions and Enduring Answers to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Current Questions and Enduring Answers, The documentary reading of the Rabbinic canon continues to create engaging questions and interesting problems for study. This collection of essays and book reviews represents two years of work from 2003 to 2005 focused on the Rabbinic canon. The collectio, Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Current Questions and Enduring Answers to your collection on WonderClub |
