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Index
A History of Judaism
Contents
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note
Glossary
Introduction: Approaching the History of Judaism
Part I: Origins (c. 2000 BCE–70 CE)
1 Deserts, Tribes and Empires
2 The Formation of the Bible
3 Worship
Temple
Synagogue
4 The Torah of Moses: Judaism in the Bible
Part II: Interpreting the Torah (200 BCE–70 CE)
5. Jews in a Graeco-Roman World
6 ‘Jewish Doctrine Takes Three Forms’
Pharisees
Sadducees
Essenes and Therapeutae
The ‘Fourth Philosophy’
Zealots
The Yahad in the Dead Sea Scrolls
7 The Limits of Variety
Sages
Nazirites and Haverim
Allegorizers
Jesus and Paul
8 Preoccupations and Expectations
Purity, Sabbath and Calendar
Vows, Oaths and Asceticism
Magic, Demons and Angels
Visions and Prophecy
Eschatology and Messianism
Life after Death and Martyrdom
Part III: The Formation of Rabbinic Judaism (70–1500 CE)
9 From Pagan Rome to Islam and Medieval Christendom
10 Judaism without a Temple
11 Rabbis in the East (70–1000 CE)
12 Judaism beyond the Rabbis
Greek Judaism
Karaites
13 Rabbis in the West (1000–1500 CE)
Rashi and the Development of Halakhah
Maimonides: Faith and Philosophy
The Zohar and Kabbalah
Part IV: Authority and Reaction (1500–1800)
14 The European Renaissance and the New World
15 New Certainties and New Mysticism
Codifiers
The Followers of Luria
Sabbetai Zevi
Hasidism
Part V: The Challenge of the Modern World (1750–present)
16 From the Enlightenment to the State of Israel
17 Reform
18 Counter-Reform
Modern Orthodoxy
Conservative Judaism
19 Rejection
20 Renewal
Part VI: Epilogue
21 Waiting for the Messiah?
Notes
Abbreviations and Transliteration
Introduction: Approaching the History of Judaism
1 Deserts, Tribes and Empire
2 The Formation of the Bible
3 Worship
4 The Torah of Moses: Judaism in the Bible
5 Jews in a Graeco-Roman World
6 ‘Jewish Doctrine Takes Three Forms’
7 The Limits of Variety
8 Preoccupations and Expectations
9 From Pagan Rome to Islam and Medieval Christendom
10 Judaism without a Temple
11 Rabbis in the East
12 Judaism beyond the Rabbis
13 Rabbis in the West
14 The European Renaissance and the New World
15 New Certainties and New Mysticism
16 From the Enlightenment to the State of Israel
17 Reform
18 Counter-Reform
19 Rejection
20 Renewal
21 Waiting for the Messiah?
Further Reading
Index
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