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Torah from heaven : the reconstruction of faith /
Traditional Jewish religious belief speaks of a divinely revealed, perfect text, authoritatively expounded. The question this book addresses is one with which the author has struggled all his life: in the light of historical criticism, advances in knowledge, and changing moral attitudes, is the trad...
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London :
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization : in association with Liverpool University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Where I Come From
- Seduction of `True Belief'
- What Does It All Mean?
- Philosophical Beginnings
- Facing the Questions
- Pulpit and Prejudice
- Interfaith Dialogue
- Academic Detachment?
- pt. I REVELATION
- Torah from Heaven: Growth of a Tradition
- 1. Holy Books
- What Is `Torah'?
- `Sacred Canon'
- Why the Five Books Are Special
- Philo on Moses and the Ancestral Books
- Conclusion
- 2. Two Torahs? Scripture and the Rabbis
- Divine Revelation: The Story
- Mythic Accounts of Torah
- Written Torah and the Oral Torah
- Rules of Interpretation
- Interpretation Against the Plain Meaning
- Conclusion
- 3. Mystics and Kabbalists
- Pythagoras, Numerology, and the Book of Creation
- Mystical Significance of the Mitsvot
- Prophets after the Bible
- Nahmanides (Ramban) the Mystic
- Conclusion
- 4. Great Chain of Being: Philosophers and Kabbalists
- Platonists and Aristotelians
- Ascent of the Soul
- Descent and the `Shells'
- Reasons for the Mitsvot
- Conclusion
- 5. Maimonides: The `Classical' Position
- Revelation as History
- Oral Torah
- Torah and Dogma
- Conclusion: Maimonides the Minimalist
- 6. Oral Torah: What Does It Contain?
- Does the Torah Teach Science?
- Torah of Kabbalists and Rationalists
- Conclusion
- Summary of Part I
- pt. II ATTACK
- Counter-Tradition: Hard Questions
- 7. Counter-Tradition
- Alexandrians
- Sadducees and Pharisees
- Pagan Philosophical Critiques
- Gnosticism
- Later Developments
- Conclusion
- 8. Original Torah
- How Texts Were Written
- Evidence of the Scrolls and the Ancient Versions
- Severus Scroll
- Can the Original Text be Recovered?
- Masoretes
- Rabbinic Responses to Textual Variation
- Modern Editions of the Bible
- Conclusion
- 9. Contradictions, Moral Problems, Factual Errors
- Reconciling Hermeneutic
- Interpreting Aggadah
- Historical and Archaeological Problems
- Moral Issues
- Scientific Inaccuracy
- Fantasy, Arbitrariness, Superstition
- Conclusion
- 10. Rise of Historical Criticism
- Beginnings of Biblical Criticism
- Deists and Sceptics
- Bible as Literature
- From History to Myth
- Source Theory
- Archaeology
- Higher Criticism = Higher Antisemitism?
- Conclusion
- Summary of Part II
- pt. III DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH
- Repairing the Breach: In Defence of Tradition
- 11. Defenders of the Faith
- What Must be Defended
- Ancient Wisdom Restored: The Renaissance
- Jewish Bible Commentary Rekindled
- Conclusion
- 12. Transformation of Judaism: Interpretation, Interpretation, Interpretation
- Elijah, the `Vilna Gaon' (1720-1799)
- Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786)
- Torah
- Mystical Code, or Source of Values?
- 13. Mendelssohn's Influence
- Isaac Samuel Reggio (1784-1855)
- Samuele Davide Luzzatto (1800-1865)
- Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891)
- Umberto Cassuto (1883-1951)
- 14. Independents
- Jacob Tsevi Mecklenburg (1785-1865)
- Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888)
- Malbim (Meir Leibush ben Yehiel Michel Weiser, 1809-1879)
- 15. In the Steps of the Gaon: Written and Oral Torah Are One
- Naftali Tsevi Yehudah Berlin (1816-1893)
- Me'ir Simhah Hakohen of Dvinsk (1843-1926)
- Barukh Halevi Epstein (1860-1942)
- 16. Hoffman and German Orthodoxy
- David Hoffman (1843-1921)
- Hayim Hirschensohn (1857-1935)
- Benno Jacob (1862-1945) and A.S. Yahuda (1877-1951)
- Isaac Breuer (1883-1946)
- Jehiel Jacob Weinberg (1884-1966)
- Joseph Herman Hertz (1872-1946)
- Summary of Part III
- pt. IV NEW FOUNDATIONS
- Torah from Heaven: The Reconstruction of Belief
- 17. Non-Orthodox Reconstructions
- Moses Mendelssohn: Revealed Legislation
- Salomon Ludwig Steinheim (1789-1866): Empiricist of Revelation
- Samuel Holdheim (1806-1860): Radical Reform
- Progressive Revelation: Krochmal, Formstecher, Hirsch, Cohen
- Leo Baeck (1873-1956): Essence of Judaism
- Martin Buber (1878-1965): All Life Is Meeting
- Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929): Creation, Revelation, Redemption
- Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972): Passion of the Prophets
- Emmanuel Levinas (1905/6-1995): The Face of the Other
- 18. Joseph Dov Soloveitchik and the a priori Torah
- Hermeneutics of `Torah'
- Historical Criticism
- Oral Torah Problem
- Conclusion
- 19. Feminist Critiques
- Sinai Covenant
- Language and Gender
- Images of God
- Equality before the Law
- Need for Change
- 20. Four Defences of Traditional Belief
- David Weiss Halivni: The Maculate Torah
- Louis Jacobs: Liberal Supernaturalism
- Menachem Kellner: Rejection of the Dogmatic Approach
- Tamar Ross: Cumulative Revelation
- Strengths of the Four Approaches
- 21. Divided by a Common Scripture
- Reform Torah
- Orthodox Torah
- Conservative Torah
- Go Compare Denominations
- Summary of Part IV
- pt. V TORAH FROM HEAVEN
- 22. Options
- Justifications
- Community: Costs and Benefits of Belief
- Individual: Costs and Benefits of Belief
- 23. What Is Truth?
- What Is Truth?
- Excursus: Consistency and `Double Truth'
- In What Sense Is `Torah from Heaven' True?
- On `Narrative Theology'
- Conclusion. `Torah from Heaven': A Myth of Origin
- 24. Myth of Origin: Opportunities and Dangers
- What `Torah from Heaven' May Signify
- History and Myth Do Not Conflict
- `Torah from Heaven': Uses and Abuses
- Benefits of Understanding `Torah from Heaven' as Mythos rather than Logos
- Dangers from Understanding `Torah from Heaven' as Logos rather than Mythos
- Things That Worry People
- 25. Demography versus Reason: The Future of Jewish Religion
- Does Reason Matter?
- `Authentic Judaism'
- Survival of the Fittest
- Conclusion
- 26. Confronting Change
- Meditation at the Mountains of Fire (January 2004)
- Coming to Terms with Modernity
- Intellectual Violence
- Who Decides?
- What I Have Dealt With
- What I Have Not Dealt With.