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The Theological Grammar of the Oral Torah Volume Two
The Theological Grammar of the Oral Torah Volume Two Author:Jacob Neusner Theology identifies the main frame, the cognitive structure, of a religion's authoritative documents or doctrines: what holds them all together and defines the message of each one, but how to identify the comprehensive theological traits and principal components? Here I turn to linguistics to supply a metaphor guiding the description and an... more »alysis of the theological structure and system of that part of Rabbinic Judaism represented by the classical documents of the Oral Torah. Rabbinic Judaism is the Judaic religious system that appeals to the myth of the dual Torah, oral and written, revealed together at Sinai and transmitted through a process of tradition from God to our rabbi, Moses, and thereafter in the same manner from master to disciple, from then to now. That Judaism finds its authoritative writings in the document comprised by Scripture and the writings that set forth that originally-oral Torah. The documents that comprise the oral part of the Torah frame this inquiry into describing a governing theology of a corpus of kindred writings.« less