Rabbinic Discourse As a System of Knowledge : The Study of Torah Is Equal to Them All.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Preface -- 2 A Cohesive Concept of Rabbinic Judaism: A Philosophical Theology -- 3 Approaches in Jewish Thought since Modernity -- 4 An Epistemological Model for Torah Study -- 5 Components of an Epistemological Model of Religious Reasoning -- 5.1 The Linguistic Turn and Hermeneutics -- 5.2 The Communal Nature of Knowledge -- 5.3 Rejection of Dualism -- 6 Subject Matter and Methods: Torah Study and Textual Reasoning -- Chapter 1 God Transcendent and Immanent Rabbinic Discourse and the Conceptualization of God -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Peirce's Pragmatism: An Epistemological Background -- 1.3 God in the Bible -- 1.4 God without Being -- 1.5 Jean-Luc Marion: God, Self and Love -- 1.6 Emmanuel Levinas: God, Self, and Moral Command -- 1.7 God in Rabbinic World -- 1.7.1 God as a Commanding Other -- 1.7.2 Midrash -- 1.7.3 Midrash and Court of Law -- 1.8 Destruction and Prayer: The House of Assembly -- 1.9 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Torah Study The Logical Space of Bet Hamidrash -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Torah Study as a Field of Meaning: The Postliberal and Aftermodern Theological Contexts -- 2.3 Belief and Knowledge in Contemporary Epistemology -- 2.3.1 Holism -- 2.3.2 Interpretation -- 2.3.3 Objectivity -- 2.4 Belief and Knowledge in Rational Discourse -- 2.5 Belief and Knowledge in Rabbinic Discourse -- 2.6 The Torah as a Communal System of Meaning -- 2.7 Torah Study in Rabbinic Tradition -- 2.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Autonomy, Community, and the Jewish Self -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Heteronomy, Autonomy and Thought -- 3.3 Personal Freedom -- 3.4 Eugene Borowitz: A Covenantal Notion of Judaism -- 3.5 Freedom and Religious Communities -- Chapter 4 Torah's Seventy Faces Authority and Hermeneutics in Rabbinic Discourse -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Torah's Seventy Faces: Three Models.

4.2.1 The Referential Model -- 4.2.2 The Self-Referential Model -- 4.2.3 An Interactive Model of Torah's Formation -- 4.3 Conclusion: Rabbinic Authority and Hermeneutics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

In Rabbinic Discourse Hannah Hashkes offers a most original proposal for a new direction in Jewish philosophic theology. She combines effectively the language of contemporary philosophy in discussions on religious thought with the sophisticated reading of rabbinic homiletical and legal material.

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