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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Defining Judaism | |
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| Religion as a cultural system: Ethos, ethics, ethnos | |
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| Judaism: The social entity, its way of life and worldview | |
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| What question does Judaism ask and what answer does it set forth? | |
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| Judaism and the Jews | |
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| The Israelite people, the Israeli state | |
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| Judaism Through Story | |
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| Defining Judaism through stories | |
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| Scripture and the narrative repertoire of Judaism | |
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| Which books of Scripture tell the story? The Torah and the former prophets | |
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| The latter prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve Minor Prophets | |
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| The writings | |
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| From the history of ancient Israel to a narrative of the human condition | |
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| Adam, Eve and Eden, Israel and the Land | |
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| Adam and Israel: The parallel stories | |
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| Who and what is Israel? | |
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| Supplying the sustaining script | |
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| Israel and the nations | |
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| Five great occasions of basic Judaism | |
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| The community of Judaism and Passover | |
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| How Passover defines Judaism | |
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| The lesson of Passover | |
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| Who and what is Israel? | |
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| The story of Passover perpetually present | |
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| The Israelite before God and the Days of Awe | |
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| A different kind of narrative | |
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| The narrative of the Days of Awe: The New Year, the Day of Remembrance | |
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| Rosh Hashanah, the New Year: The birthday of the world | |
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| Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement | |
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| New beginnings on the Day of Atonement | |
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| Sukkot / the Festival of Tabernacles | |
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| The individual Israelite and Israel in history: the Huppah; the Covenant of Abraham; eating lunch | |
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| How the marriage rite (Huppah) defines the bride and groom within the narratives of Judaism | |
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| How the rite of the Covenant of Abraham (circumcision) defines the newborn son within the narratives of Judaism | |
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| How the Grace after Meals situates the Israelite within the narratives of Judaism | |
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| Judaism in Behavior and Belief | |
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| The purpose of the Law, the Ten Commandments, the Sabbath | |
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| The 613 Commandments and their single purpose | |
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| "'What is hateful to you, to your fellow don't do.' That's the entirety of the Torah; everything else is elaboration. So go, study!" | |
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| "Study is greater, for study brings about action" | |
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| The Ten Commandments | |
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| The Sabbath | |
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| God is One, merciful and just | |
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| Ethical monotheism | |
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| God represented as one | |
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| The creed of Judaism: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One" | |
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| How does the Torah prove the justice of God? | |
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| "Measure for Measure" illustrated by the ordeal of the wife accused of adultery | |
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| The problem of evil | |
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| How Judaic monotheism solves the problem of evil | |
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| How does the Torah prove the mercy of God? | |
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| All Israel has a portion of the world to come | |
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| How do we know that the Resurrection of the Dead is basic to Judaism? | |
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| The Secular History of Judaism | |
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| The formation of normative Judaism | |
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| From story to history | |
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| The Pentateuch in historical context | |
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| Second Temple Judaisms, 450 B.C.E. to 70 C.E. | |
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| The social world of Second Temple Judaism | |
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| Qumran's Judaic system | |
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| The scribes and the Pharisees before 70 C.E. | |
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| The first phase of Rabbinic Judaism, 70-200 C.E.: The Judaism of the Mishnah | |
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| The second phase of Rabbinic Judaism, 200-600 C.E.: The Judaism of the Talmuds | |
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| The articulation of normative Judaism | |
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| The success of Rabbinic Judaism in Western civilization | |
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| Subsets of Rabbinic Judaism: New philosophical thinking | |
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| Maimonides | |
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| Judah Halevi | |
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| Subsets of Rabbinic Judaism: Media of mystical piety, Hasidism | |
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| Rabbinic Judaism defines its heretics: Karaism and Sabbateanism | |
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| Karaism and the doctrine that at Sinai God revealed the Torah to be transmitted through two media, written and oral | |
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| Reform, Orthodox, and Conservative Judaisms, Zionism | |
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| Competition in defining Judaism in modern times | |
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| Why did the Rabbinic system meet competition? | |
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| Reform Judaism | |
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| Integrationist Orthodox Judaism | |
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| Conservative Judaism | |
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| Zionism | |
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| The Holocaust | |
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| How Judaism speaks today | |
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| The Judaism of Holocaust and Redemption | |
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| The worldview, way of life, and theory of Israel of the Judaism of Holocaust and Redemption | |
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| The problem of evil | |
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| How Judaism speaks today | |
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| An Orthodox voice | |
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| A Reform voice | |
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| Glossary and Abbreviations | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |