The Theology of the Oral Torah
Subtitle: Revealing the Justice of God (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion)
Publisher: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr
Published: April 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 699
ISBN-13: 9780773518025
Subjects: Rabbinical literature; Judaism; Jewish Law; Jewish Religious Texts; Righteousness; Religion; Judaism - General; Doctrines; Books of the Old Testament; Literary theory; Theology; God (Judaism); Christian Theology - General; History and Criticism; Christianity - Theology - General
Description: "The Theology of the Oral Torah demonstrates the cogency and inner rationality of the classical statement of Judaism in the Oral Torah, bringing a theological assessment to bear on the whole of rabbinic literature. Jacob Neusner shows how the proposition that God is One and all-powerful but also merciful and just defines the system and structure of rabbinic Judaism.

He argues that in working this proposition out in rich detail the classical texts generate the central rabbinic problem: how can the conflicting traits inherent in the proposition be resolved?"--BOOK JACKET.