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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Judaism and Conscience | |
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| A Word about Conscience | |
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| Conscience Confronts God | |
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| Abraham and Moral Audacity | |
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| Moses Nullifies God's Law | |
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| Moses Cites Scripture to God | |
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| Moses Frees God | |
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| Four Dissenting Prophets | |
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| Hannah Hurls Words Toward Heaven | |
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| The Psalmist Awakes the Slumbering | |
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| Natural Moral Sensibility | |
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| Human Conscience and Divine Legislation | |
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| Rabbinic Legal Conscience | |
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| Laws That Never Were and Never Will Be | |
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| The Rebellious Son | |
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| Idolatrous Cities, Leprous Houses | |
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| Capital Punishment | |
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| Sotah: The Ordeal of Jealousy | |
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| Illegitimacy: When Conscience Fails | |
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| The Chained Woman | |
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| Maimonides: Within the Letter of the Law | |
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| The Myth of Absolute Immutability | |
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| Moral Relativism | |
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| The Fear of God and the Fear of Torah | |
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| What Is Meant by Conscience as "Fear of God" | |
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| Matters of Temperament | |
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| Conscience and Covenant: Vertical and Horizontal | |
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| The God of the Philosophers | |
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| The Duality in One Covenant | |
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| The Vertical Covenant | |
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| Statutes | |
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| The Consolations of Obedience | |
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| The Horizontal Covenant of Conscience | |
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| Legends of Conscience | |
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| Against Conscience | |
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| The Myth of Gyges | |
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| Freud: The Truth about Human Nature | |
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| Nietzsche: The Craftiness of Conscience | |
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| Social Darwinism and Conscience | |
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| Theological Suspicions | |
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| Judaism: The Morality of Theistic Humanism | |
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| Witness to Goodness | |
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| Ben Gurion's Search for Morale | |
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| To Discover Conscience in Hell | |
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| An Entire Village: The Conspiracy of Goodness | |
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| Stefa Krawkowska: The Heroism of Hiding | |
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| Seven Sisters and a Mother Superior | |
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| Diplomat Rescuers | |
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| Aristides de Sousa Mendes: Undiplomatic Diplomacy | |
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| Sempo Sugihara | |
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| Conversation with a German Pastor | |
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| The Conscience of an Anti-Semite | |
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| The Enigma of Anti-Semitic Rescuers | |
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| Zophia and Zegota | |
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| Motivations for Altruism | |
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| The Ambiguity of Good and Evil | |
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| Capturing the Evil Tempter | |
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| Cultivating Conscience | |
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| Obedience and Authority | |
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| Abu Ghraib and the "Prison" of Stanford | |
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| The Milgram Experiment | |
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| The Bridge across the Rivers of "Either-Or" | |
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| Either-Or: The Way Options Are Shared | |
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| Not in Heaven But on Earth | |
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| Abraham Isaac Kook: The Art of Reconciliation | |
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| Facing God | |
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| What Can Religion Do? | |
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| The Pedagogy of Conscience | |
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| The Habit of Conscience | |
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| Heroes of Conscience | |
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| Transmitting Conscience | |
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| The Many Faces of Conscience | |
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| The Pendulum of Duty | |
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| Notes | |