Logic in the Torah
Subtitle: A Thematic Compilation
Publisher: Avi Sion
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781984935816
Table of contents: title: Foreword	6; title: 1.	Logic in the Torah	8; title: 1.	Introduction	8; title: 2.	Instances of logic in the Torah	9; title: 3.	Summary and conclusions	52; title: 4.	As regards the Tanakh	55; title: 2.	Adductive Logic in the Torah	57; title: 1.	The art of knowing	57; title: 2.	Adduction in Western philosophy	60; title: 3.	Adducing prophecies and prophethood	64; title: 3.	Qal vaChomer	76; title: 1.	Background	76; title: 2.	The valid moods	83; title: 3.	Preliminaries	92; title: 4.	Samples in the Torah	95; title: 4.	Revised List of Biblical A Fortiori	101; title: 1.	Problems encountered	101; title: 2.	The solution found	104; title: 3.	The data and their analysis	107; title: 4.	Synthesis of Results	113; title: 5.	The Language of Biblical A Fortiori	118; title: 1.	Introduction	118; title: 2.	In Torah books	119; title: 3.	In historical books	122; title: 4.	In other books	127; title: 5.	Rejects	136; title: 6.	Addendum (2005)	139; title: 6.	Miriam’s A Fortiori Argument	142; title: 1.	Formal validation of a fortiori argument	142; title: 2.	The principle of deduction	146; title: 3.	The argument a crescendo	153; title: 4.	The rabbis’ dayo (sufficiency) principle	156; title: 5.	Analysis of Numbers 12:14-15	161; title: 7.	Louis Jacobs’ Contribution	171; title: 1.	Comparing enumerations	171; title: 2.	Cases new to me	178; title: 3.	Three rejects	186; title: 4.	General observations	188; title: 8.	A Fortiori Discourse in the Jewish Bible	194; title: 1.	Introduction and summary	194; title: 2.	A fortiori arguments in the Tanakh	197; title: 9.	A Fortiori Arguments in the Christian Bible	209; title: 1.	Disclaimer	209; title: 2.	Primary findings	210; title: 3.	Analysis of arguments found	216; title: 4.	Jesus of Nazareth	222; title: 5.	Paul of Tarsus	234; title: 6.	Additional findings	263; title: 10.	Logic in the Koran and Hadiths	271; title: 1.	Disclaimer	271; title: 2.	Initial findings in the Koran	272; title: 3.	al-Ghazali’s findings	275; title: 4.	Sticks and carrots	288; title: 5.	About the Koran	292; title: 6.	On logic in the Hadiths	307; title: 7.	The intellectual poverty of Islam	312; title: Main References	316