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Contributors viii Preface xii Part I: The History of Judaism 1 1 Defining Judaism 3 Jacob Neusner 2. The Religious World of Ancient Israel to 586 BCE 20 Marvin A. Sweeney 3. Judaism and the Hebrew Scriptures 37 Philip R. Davies 4. Second Temple Judaism 58 Frederick J. Murphy 5. The Formation of Rabbinic Judaism, 70-640 C.E 78 Guenter Stemberger 6. The Canon of Rabbinic Judaism 93 Jacob Neusner 7. Judaism and Christianity in the Formative Age 112 Bruce D. Chilton 8. Judaism in the Muslim world 131 Sara Reguer 9. Judaism in Christendom 142 David R. Carr 10. Philosophy in Judaism: Two Stances 162 Daniel Breslauer 11. Jewish Piety 181 Tzvee Zahavy Part II: The Principal Doctrines of Judaism 191 12. The Doctrine of Torah 193 Jacob Neusner 13. The Doctrine of God 212 Alan J. Avery-Peck 14. The Doctrine of Israel 230 Jacob Neusner 15. The Doctrine of the Messiah 247 William Scott Green and Jed Silverstein 16. The Doctrine of Hebrew Language Usage 268 David Aaron Part III: Modern and Contemporary Judaisms 289 17. Reform Judaism 291 Dana Evan Kaplan 18. Orthodox Judaism 311 Benjamin Brown 19. Conservative Judaism: The Struggle Between Ideology and Popularity 334 Daniel Gordis 20. New Age Judaism 354 Jeffrey K. Salkin Part IV: Special Topics in Understanding Judaism 371 21. Ethics of Judaism 373 Elliot N. Dorff 22. Women in Contemporary Judaism 393 Judith R. Baskin 23. Judaism as a Theopolitical Phenomenon 415 Daniel J. Elazar 24. Contemporary Jewish Theology 441 Neil Gillman 25. Secular Forms of Jewishness 464 Paul Mendes-Flohr 26. Judaism and Zionism 477 Yosef Gorney 27. The "Return" to Traditional Judaism at the End of the Twentieth Century: Cross Cultural Comparisons 495 M. Herbert Danzger Abbreviations 512 Index 515

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