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Tables of Contents for Understanding Judaism Through History
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Introduction: Interpreting Judaism through History
1
25
The Difficulty of Introductions: Studying Religion
1
4
The Difficulty of Introductions: Studying Judaism
5
6
Jewish Ethics and Belief: The Case of Hillel the Elder
11
4
Daily Prayer and Ritual: How Does God Work?
15
2
Views of History and the Liturgical Year
17
3
Personal Rituals: The Variety of Being Human
20
3
The Rest Is Commentary: Complete the Learning
23
1
Summary
23
1
Questions
24
1
Further Reading
24
2
Formative Judaism
26
29
Introduction
26
1
The History Imagined in the Herbrew Bible
27
3
The Hellenistic and Roman Periods
30
6
The History of Jews in the Diaspora
36
3
Ethics and the History of Formative Judaism
39
2
The Jewish Canon, Rituals, and Beliefs about Divinity
41
3
Hellenistic Canonization, Rituals, and Beliefs
44
7
The Rabbinic Canon and Its Implications for Belief and Ritual
51
1
Summary
52
1
Questions
53
1
Further Reading
53
2
Rabbinic Judaism
55
27
Introduction
55
1
The Self-Understanding of Rabbinic Judaism
56
2
The Development of Rabbinic Judaism in the Land of Israel
58
5
The Development of Rabbinic Judaism in Babylonia
63
3
The Rise of Islam
66
4
Ethics, Texts, and the Shape of the Oral Torah
70
4
Ritual Practices and Views of the Divine
74
5
Summary
79
1
Questions
80
1
Further Reading
80
2
Medieval Judaism
82
36
Introduction
82
3
Response to the Collapse of the Abbasid Empire
85
3
Response to Christian Persecution
88
3
Coping with the Expulsion from Iberia
91
4
Holland and Eastern Europe: Continuity despite Difference
95
2
Discontinuity and Messianic Hope
97
3
Sabbetai Zevi and His Movement
100
1
Ritual and Ethics: Ashkenazic and Sephardic Practice
101
6
Sephardic Piety: Law Codes and Philosophical Theology
107
3
The Piety of Ashkenazic Judaism
110
3
Mysticism and Pietism in Ashkenazic and Sephardic Cultures
113
2
Summary
115
1
Questions
116
1
Further Reading
116
2
Modern Judaism
118
36
Introduction
118
1
Adumbrations of Confronting Discontinuity
119
6
The Jewish Religion of Western European Jews
125
10
The Jewish Religion of Eastern European Jews
135
9
Americanizing Jewish Religion
144
4
Characteristics of the Eastern European Wave of Immigration
148
3
Summary
151
1
Questions
152
1
Further Reading
152
2
Postmodernity and Its Possibilities
154
27
Postmodernity: A Fluid Period
154
1
The Development of Postmodern Jewish Religion
154
3
Toward a Postmodern Temperament
157
2
Philosophers of Meaning
159
6
The Nazi Challenge
165
4
Ethical Dilemmas of a Jewish State
169
6
Ways of Jewish Religion in North America
175
3
Conclusions
178
1
Summary
179
1
Questions
179
1
Further Reading
180
1
Glossary of Terms
181
35
Index
216