Is Scripture the Origin of the Halakhah?

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University Press of America, 2005 - 217 páginas
The Halakhah constitutes a coherent construction comprised by category-formations defined by topics purposively amplified. These category-formations everywhere pursue a cogent analytical program, addressing diverse subjects, treated systematically, a single set of questions of definition and analysis. Is Scripture the origin of the Halakhic system, which defines the norms of Judaism? At stake is not the starting point of discrete bits of legal data. At issue is the origin of the comprehensive structure comprised by the Halakhic category-formations, by these topics and no others. Scripture forms the natural starting point for any inquiry into the origins of Judaism. So it is quite natural to treat Scripture as the base-line and the Halakhic category-formations as the variable when seeking the origin of the system. But what happens when, as in this project, we treat the system as the base-line and Scripture as the variable? Then we see that the Halakhic system viewed as a coherent statement does not originate in Scripture. Important parts of that statement do, important parts do not. But the system viewed whole does not.
 

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CategoryFormations Autonomous of Scripture
1
II BERAKHOT
2
III DEMAI
3
IV KETUBOT
5
V QIDDUSHIN
8
VI TAANIT
11
VII TAMID MIDDOT AND QINNIM
14
VIII TOHOROT
16
XXIV SHEBIIT
124
XXV TEBUL YOM
127
XXVI TEMURAH
130
XXVII TERUMOT
133
XXVIII YADAYIM
136
XXIX ZABIM AND NIDDAH
138
XXX ZEBAHIM
154
THE AMBIGUOUS ORIGINS OF THE HALAKHIC MESSAGE
161

IX UQSIN
28
X AUTONOMOUS OF SCRIPTURE BUT SYSTEMICALLY INTEGRAL
32
CategoryFormations Related to Scripture but Independently Amplified
35
II ABODAH ZARAH
36
III BESAH
38
IV BABA QAMMABABA MESIABABA BATRA
40
V ERUBIN
59
VI GITTIN
62
VII HAGIGAH
67
VIII HALLAH
70
IX HULLIN
74
X KELIM
78
XI KILAYIM
82
XII MAASEROT
84
XIII MAKHSHIRIN
86
XIV MEGILLAH
88
XV MEILAH
89
XVI MENAHOT
92
XVII MIQVAOT
94
XVIII MOED QATAN
96
XIX OHALOT
98
XX ORLAH
103
XXI PARAH
105
XXII SANHEDRIN AND MAKKOT
108
XXIII SHABBAT
113
CategoryFormations Defined by Scripture
165
III NEGAIM
167
IV PESAHIM
169
V SHEBUOT
172
VI SOTAH
173
VII SUKKAH
174
VIII YOMA
175
IX CATEGORYFORMATIONS DEFINED BY SCRIPTURE
177
CategoryFormations Related to Scripture and Derivatively Amplified by Scripture
179
III BEKHOROT
181
IV BIKKURIM
183
V KERITOT
185
VI MAASER SHENI
187
VII NEDARIMNAZIR
189
VIII PEAH
192
IX ROSH HASHANAH
194
X SHEQALIM
195
XI YEBAMOT
196
XII WITHIN SCRIPTURES FRAMEWORK
200
Is Scripture the Origin of the Halakhah?
201
II BUT YES WITHOUT SCRIPTURE THERE IS NO HALAKHIC SYSTEM
203
III IF NOT FROM SCRIPTURE THEN WHENCE THE SYSTEM?
205
IV WHEN? AN ANSWER FROM HISTORY
210
V WHY NOT? AN ANSWER FROM THEOLOGY
215
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Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Theology and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College. He is also a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, and Life Member of Clare Hall at Cambridge University, England.

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