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Theological And Philosophical Premises Of Judaism


The sanctification of Israel, the people, endures [1] in the absence of the <p>cult and [2] in alien, unclean territory and [3] whatever the source of the</p> <p>food that Israel eats. Israel¹s sanctity is eternal, un-contingent,</p> <p>absolute. The sanctification that inheres in Israel, the people, transcends</p> <p>the Land and outlives the Temple and its cult. Since the sanctity of Israel,</p> <p>the people, persists beyond the Temple and outside of the Land, that</p> <p>sanctity stands at a higher point in the hierarchy of domains of the holy</p> <p>that ascend from earth to heaven and from Man to God.</p> <p>That theological construction (Chapters One, Two and Three) gained support</p> <p>from a science and a philosophy (Chapters Four, Five, and Six) that</p> <p>accomplished the hierarchical classification of nature and of the social</p> <p>order. Nature and society arose from the complex to the simple, and</p> <p>conversely the many descended from the one. These represented the</p> <p>theological givens, sustained by the philosophical premises, of Judaism. The</p> <p>law constructed its propositions upon generalizations that pertained</p> <p>universally, so bringing the Israelite norms into accord with natural law.</p> <p>This emerges in the way in which the law sorted out mixtures by their types,</p> <p>fully in line with the Stoic theory of mixtures. The philosophical</p> <p>categorization and classification of the power of intentionality, shaded</p> <p>over into the consideration of classes of causation and responsibility in</p> <p>the Aristotelian manner from deliberate to inadvertent.</p> <p>But how does Judaism integrate into a coherent system its premises, the</p> <p>theological propositions, and its recurrent analytical protocols, the</p> <p>philosophical principles. The book sets forth the integrating conceptions in</p> <p>Chapters Seven and Eight. The philosophical and theological components are</p> <p>integrated in an encompassing composition.</p>

Author(s): Jacob Neusner  

ISBN 10: 1934843199
ISBN 13: 9781934843192
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Publication: May 2008
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