Aspects of Rabbinic Theology: Including the Original Preface of 1909 and the Introduction by Louis Finkelstein

by Solomon Schechter, Neil Gillman, Louis Finkelstein

Overview

The classic statement of the ideas which form the religious consciousness of the Jewish people at large, by one of the great minds of Jewish scholarship of our century. His creative scholarship, compelling English style, and warm personality have given this book lasting influence on Jew and non-Jew alike. Includes the original preface of 1909 and the introduction by Louis Finkelstein.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781879045248
Publisher:	Jewish Lights Publishing
Publication date:	06/01/1993
Series:	Jewish Lights Classic Reprint
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.05(w) x 8.98(h) x 1.23(d)

About the Author

Neil Gillman, rabbi and PhD, is professor of Jewish philosophy at The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he has served as chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy and dean of the Rabbinical School. He is author of Believing and Its Tensions: A Personal Conversation about God, Torah, Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought ; The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a Publishers Weekly "Best Book of the Year"; The Way Into Encountering God in Judaism ; The Jewish Approach to God: A Brief Introduction for Christians ; Traces of God: Seeing God in Torah, History and Everyday Life (all Jewish Lights) and Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew, winner of the National Jewish Book Award.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Neil Gillman
Introduction by Louis Finkelstein
Preface

Chapter I. Introductory
Chapter II. God and the World
Chapter III. God and Israel
Chapter IV. Election of Israel
Chapter V. The Kingdom of God (Invisible)
Chapter VI. The Visible Kingdom of God (Universal)
Chapter VII. The Kingdom of God (National)
Chapter VIII. The "Law"
Chapter IX. The Law as Personified in the Literature
Chapter X. The Torah in Its Aspect of Law (Mizwoth)
Chapter XI. The Joy of the Law
Chapter XII. The Zachuth of the Fathers: Imputed Righteousness and Imputed Sin
Chapter XIII. The Law of Holiness and the Law of Goodness
Chapter XIV. Sin as Rebellion
Chapter XV. The Evil Yezer : The Source of Rebellion
Chapter XVI. Man's Victory by the Grace of God, Over the Evil Yezer Created by God
Chapter XVII. Forgiveness and Reconciliation with God
Chapter XVIII. Repentance: Means of Reconciliation

Additions and Corrections
List of Abbreviations and Books Not Quoted with Full Title
Index

What People are Saying About This

Jacob Neusner

This is the only book on the theology of Judaism written a hundred years ago that anyone can read today with profit.

Editorial Reviews

An accessible classic statement of fundamental Jewish ideas by one of the great Jewish scholars of this century. Includes the original preface from the 1909 edition and Louis Finkelstein's introduction to the 1961 edition. (Aug.)

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