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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jacob Neusner |
| ISBN: | 0664253482 9780664253486 |
| OCLC Number: | 24630289 |
| Description: | xvi, 476 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | A Word to the Student: Why Study Judaism? -- The Jewish People: Judaism in the World Today -- Judaism at Home: Through the Year -- Grace after Meals -- The Passover Seder -- Judaism in the Family: Through the Cycle of Life -- The Rite of Circumcision -- The Bar or Bat Mitzvah -- The Marriage Ceremony -- Death and Burial -- Judaism in the Synagogue -- The World of the Synagogue: Daily Prayer -- Sabbaths of Creation, Festivals of Redemption -- The Days of Awe: Standing before God for Judgment -- Jewish Law and Learning: Halakhah and Study of the Torah -- How People Practice Judaism in America: The Jewish People and the Jewish Faith -- The Two Judaisms of America -- The Judaism of Home and Family -- The Judaism of Holocaust and Redemption -- Judaism at Home and Judaism in Public: The Civil Religion of American Jews -- Anthology for Part One The Jewish People: Judaism in the World Today -- Jack Wertheimer, Recent Trends in American Judaism -- Jacob Neusner, The Jewish Religious Experience in America: The Problem of Interpretation -- The Torah: Judaism in Holy Books and in History -- The Hebrew Scriptures of Ancient Israel: The Crisis Addressed by the Five Books of Moses -- Israel before Judaism: The Biblical Prelude -- The Yahwist's Judaism for an Imperial Israel, 950 B.C.E. -- Crisis and Resolution -- Event and Pattern -- The Model Judaism: The Priests' System for Israel after Exile and Return -- Sacred Perseverance and the Exegesis of the Everyday: Why the Priests' Judaic System of Sanctification Persisted. |
| Responsibility: | Jacob Neusner. |
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