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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Is Theology? | |
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| System | |
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| Structure | |
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| Category-Formations and Theological Norms | |
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| How Can We Speak of Theology in the Context of Rabbinic Judaism? | |
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| How Do We Know What the Rabbis Thought? | |
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| Logical Coherence | |
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| Anonymity and Schismatic, Attributed Opinion | |
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| Signals of Normativity | |
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| Premises of Discourse | |
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| Juxtapositions | |
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| The Four Principal Indicators | |
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| The Project Viewed Whole | |
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| The Grammar of Rabbinic Theology: Vocabulary, Syntax, Semantics | |
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| Prolegomenon to the Theological Language of Rabbinic Judaism | |
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| Language as a Metaphor for Theology | |
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| Why Appeal to Grammar in Quest for Systemic Logic? | |
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| A Religion of Intellect, Creating a Language of Faith | |
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| Vocabulary, Syntax, Semantics | |
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| Speaking the Theological Language of Judaism | |
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| Vocabulary: Native Categories | |
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| Defining Vocabulary/Category | |
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| Native Categories | |
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| What Makes a Native Category Theological? | |
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| The Uses of the Metaphor, Vocabulary/Native Categories | |
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| The Workings of the Process of Category-Formation: Assigning Nouns to Sets of Persons, Places, or Things | |
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| The Vocabulary of Religious Experience Afforded by the Torah | |
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| What Is at Stake? What Holds the Whole Together | |
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| The Source of Category-Formation | |
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| Why Insist on the Native Sources of Category-Formations? | |
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| Syntax: Connections and Constructions | |
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| Syntax: Identifying the Mystery of Self-Evidence | |
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| Designating Relevant Evidence | |
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| List-Making | |
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| Connections | |
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| Constructions | |
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| Theological Syntax in Lists of Events | |
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| Theological Syntax Summarized | |
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| Semantics: Models of Analysis, Explanation, and Anticipation | |
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| Defining Semantics | |
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| Models of Rationality | |
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| Semantics Is to Language as Models of Cogent Discourse Are to Theology | |
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| Models of Analysis | |
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| Abraham as Model of Israel, the People | |
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| Models of Explanation | |
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| Ancestral Merit and Virtue | |
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| Models of Anticipation | |
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| Astrology and Israel | |
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| The Upshot | |
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| The Theological System of Rabbinic Judaism: Norms of Belief | |
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| Prolegomenon to the Theological System That Animates the Aggadah | |
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| Theology in Aggadic Realization: A System and its Dialectics | |
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| Mythic Monotheism: Imagining Eden and Re-presenting the Result | |
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| Sages Read Scripture as Philosophers Read Nature and Society | |
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| Questions of Systemic Description, Analysis, and Interpretation | |
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| From Philosophy to Theology in the Framework of Scripture | |
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| Sources of World Order | |
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| How (on the Basis of Scripture) Do We Know That God Is Just? | |
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| The Political Order: Israel and the Torah | |
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| The Political Order: The Gentiles and Idolatry | |
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| Ordering the Ultimate Anomaly: Private Lives | |
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| Perfecting World Order | |
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| How Do We Show That the World God Created Is Perfect? | |
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| Time and Paradigm | |
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| World without Change | |
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| Complementarity | |
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| Correspondence | |
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| Sources of World Disorder | |
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| What Disrupts Eden? | |
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| Sin | |
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| Restoring World Order | |
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| Repentance, Regeneration, and Renewal | |
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| Restoring Private Lives: Resurrection | |
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| The Messiah: Theme, Not Category-Formation | |
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| Restoring the Public Order: The World to Come | |
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| What Do the Sages Mean by "The World to Come"? | |
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| The Theological Structure of Rabbinic Judaism: Norms of Behavior in the Israelite Social Order | |
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| Prolegomenon to the Theological Structure of Rabbinic Judaism Realized in the Halakhah | |
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| Adam and Israel, Eden and the Land | |
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| The Halakhic Realization, in Israel's Social Order, of the Mythic Monotheism of Scripture | |
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| The Halakhah in Theological Context: Judaism's Theological Anthropology | |
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| The Topical Sequence of the Halakhic Re-presentation | |
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| The Halakhic Canon and its Category-Formations | |
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| Halakhic Interiorities | |
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| Between Israel and God | |
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| Within Israel's Social Order | |
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| Inside the Israelite Household | |
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| What, Where, and When Is Eden? | |
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| Realizing Eden | |
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| Shebiit | |
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| Orlah | |
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| Kilayim | |
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| Shabbat-Erubin | |
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| Who Owns Eden? | |
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| Maaserot | |
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| Terumot | |
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| Hallah | |
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| Maaser Sheni | |
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| Bikkurim | |
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| Peah | |
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| Demai | |
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| Adam and Eve | |
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| Qiddushin | |
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| Ketubot | |
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| Nedarim | |
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| Nazir | |
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| Sotah | |
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| Gittin | |
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| Yebamot | |
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| Sacralization and Intentionality | |
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| Israel and Adam, the Land and Eden, Sin and Atonement | |
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| Corporate Israel: The New Moral Entity | |
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| Sheqalim | |
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| Tamid and Yoma | |
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| Zebahim and Menahot | |
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| Arakhin | |
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| Bekhorot | |
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| Meilah | |
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| Termurah | |
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| Intentionality and the Cosmic Order | |
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| Intentionality and the Civil Order: Legitimate Violence. Who Does What to Whom? | |
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| Keritot | |
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| Sanhedrin-Makkot | |
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| Baba Qamma-Baba Mesia-Baba Batra | |
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| Horayot | |
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| Shebuot | |
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| In Defense of Israel's Authentic Eden: The Struggle in the Household between Life and Death | |
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| Enemies of Eden, Tangible and Invisible | |
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| The Contest between Death and Life, Uncleanness and Sanctification: [1] The Sources of Uncleanness | |
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| Tangible Enemies: Abodah Zarah | |
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| Invisible Enemies: Death. Ohalot | |
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| Negaim | |
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| Zabim and Niddah | |
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| The Contest between Death and Life, Uncleanness and Sanctification: [2] The Locus of the Struggle for Life | |
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| Makhshirin | |
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| Tohorot | |
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| Uqsin | |
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| Kelim | |
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| Overcoming Death: Rites of Purification | |
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| Parah | |
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| Miqvaot | |
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| Tebul Yom | |
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| Yadayim | |
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| Where the Contest Is Resolved: Home and Temple in Hierarchical Formation: Hagigah | |
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| Cause and Effect: Where and Why Man's Will Matters | |
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| Choosing Life in the Kingdom of God | |
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| From Eden to the Kingdom of God: Accepting the Yoke of the Commandments | |
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| Berakhot | |
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| Hullin | |
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| Megillah | |
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| Rosh Hashanah | |
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| Pesahim | |
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| Sukkah | |
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| Moed Qatan | |
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| Besah | |
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| Taanit | |
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| Epilogue: The Halakhic Structure Seen Whole | |
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| The Problem and the Halakhic Solution | |
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| The Problem | |
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| The Halakhic Solution | |
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| The Halakhic Reconstruction of the Human Condition | |
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| Reprise: The Halakhic Structure Epitomized | |
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| System and Structure: How the Aggadah and the Halakhah Intersect | |
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| The Theology of Rabbinic Judaism | |
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| Index | |