She Used to be My MotherGefen Publishing House Ltd, 2001 - 271 pages |
Contents
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From Tribalism to Monarchy The Circumstances Leading to the Birth of the Universal Perspective | 55 |
The Scriptural Prophets All the Way to Universalism and Back | 69 |
Destruction and Exile Leading to Normative Judaism | 85 |
The Forging of UltraOrthodox Judaism | 96 |
The Holy Bible Stagnation v Creativity | 104 |
Eretz Israel and the Halacha | 139 |
The Modern Return to Zion | 150 |
The Zionist Paradigm | 157 |
The New ScientificEcological Paradigm | 180 |
Secular Zionism v Religion Rituals and Community Life | 193 |
In Search of a New Jewish Paradigm | 205 |
The Maze A People A Religion | 217 |
The Paradigm | 235 |
The Halacha Torah to Moses from Sinai? | 111 |
On Two of Second Temple Era Innovations The Messiah and the Afterworld | 129 |
Afterword | 260 |
Common terms and phrases
Amos ancient Babylon become believe Bible Biblical Book Book of Exodus Capra century Chapter Christianity Commandments concept course created culture Danny deep Deep Ecology despite Deuteronomy discover divine earth ecological Edom Eph's Eretz Israel exile existence Exodus Ezekiel fact father God's Halacha hand Hasmoneans Hebrew holy human hundred idea Isaiah Israeli Jeremiah Jerusalem Jewish attributes Jewish paradigm Jews Judaism Judea justice King land Land of Israel later living looked matter Messiah Mitzvot monotheism Moses national paradigm never new-paradigm nowadays old paradigm one's Oral Law overall peace political practice present-day prophecies Prophets question rabbi Rambam regard religion religious remember Sabbath Samaria Schumacher College Second Temple secular seems separate shift social spiritual story Talmud tell Ten Commandments tenets thinking Thou Torah traditional turned universal walked whole words worldview written Zionist