Making God's word work : a guide to the Mishnah
The Mishnah is the crown jewel of Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age, so says the distinguished author of this book. Initiated in the aftermath of the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, and developed and amplified over the next five centuries, the Mishnah is the product of an age of calamity giving birth to a renewed search for recovery. As such, it speaks to every age, but to none more particularly and clearly than to our own which has witnessed the destruction wrought by the Shoah and the return to the land of Israel
Criticism, interpretation, etc
375 pages ; 23 cm
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The Mishnah in religious context. Making God's word work
Monotheism and justice. God's justice and the ordeal of the accused wife ; God's justice : Israel and the gentiles
Israel : the community and the individual. Corporate Israel as a moral entity ; Personal autonomy ; Ownership and possession ; The norm and the exception ; When Israelites deliberately violate the norms
Israel : the family and the household. The Israelite family ; The Israelite household : responsibility and intentionality ; The Israelite household : when intention does not count
God's presence in Israel's social order. God's presence in Israelite contention : the oath ; God the landlord, Israel the tenant ; Eating together : Israel's presence in God's house ; Dwelling together : God's presence in the Israelite household
Israel in God's context. God and the individual Israelite ; Israel in history and in eternity : the Messiah
The Mishnah as model. How the topical, rhetorical and logical media of the Mishnah convey its theological message ; The Mishnah in context : making God's word work today