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Tables of Contents for Common Ground
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
Martin E. Marty
Introduction: Reading Scripture Together
xiii
Neusner: How a Rabbi Reads the Torah
1
5
Greeley: How a Priest Reads the Bible
6
6
Neusner: Is Not My Word like Fire?
12
9
Neusner: Beginning ``In the Beginning''
21
9
Greeley: The Lovers in the Song---Creation
30
14
Neusner: God and Israel---the Lovers
44
4
Neusner: Let Us Make Man
48
8
Neusner: Adam, Where Are You?
56
11
Greeley: Adam
67
10
Neusner: ``I Regret That I Made Them,'' but Noah Found Favor
77
9
Greeley: Noah
86
6
Neusner: And Abram Put His Faith in the Lord
92
10
Greeley: Abraham
102
6
Neusner: The Abraham of the Bible and the Abraham of the Torah
108
2
Neusner: ``Take Your Son, Your Favored One, Isaac''
110
14
Neusner: ``Then Jacob Made a Vow''
124
11
Neusner: ``I the Lord Am Your God Who Brought You Out of the Land of Egypt''
135
12
Neusner: The Ten Commandments
147
12
Greeley: Moses, Our Rabbi
159
8
Greeley: The Faithless Bride---Hosea, Jeremiah, Ezekiel
167
10
Greeley: Who Is Lady Wisdom?
177
9
Neusner: The Prophets
186
9
Greeley: Jesus---What He Said
195
9
Greeley: Jesus---What He Did
204
9
Greeley: Jesus---Who He Was
213
7
Greeley: Women and Jesus
220
8
Neusner: Jesus
228
12
Greeley: Saint Peter
240
9
Greeley: Saint Paul and the Gentiles
249
8
Neusner: Paul
257
9
Greeley: Mary, Jesus' Mother and Ours
266
11
Neusner: Mary---Can She Be Jewish Too?
277
7
Neusner: Is God Male or Female?
284
10
Greeley: The Womanliness of God
294
5
Neusner: What Judaism Can Teach Christianity about Reading Scripture
299
7
Neusner: Thinking About ``the Other'' in Religion---It Is Necessary, but Is It Possible?
306
7
Neusner: Can Christianity and Judaism Conduct Dialogue? Yes, Says the Rabbi---Six Years Later
313
7
Greeley: This Time the Rabbi Is Right!
320
5
General Index
325
8
Index to Biblical and Talmudic References
333