The Blackwell companion to Judaism / edited by Jacob Neusner, Alan J. Avery-Peck. - Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. - xv, 553 p. ; pbk ; 26 cm. - Blackwell companions to religion ; 1. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Defining Judaism / Jacob Neusner --
The religious world of ancient Israel to 586 BCE / Marvin A. Sweeney --
Judaism and the Hebrew scriptures / Philip R. Davies --
Second temple Judaism / Frederick J. Murphy --
The formation of Rabbinic Judaism, 70-640 CE / Guenter Stemberger --
The canon of Rabbinic Judaism / Jacob Neusner --
Judaism and Christianity in the formative age / Bruce D. Chilton --
Judaism in the Muslim world / Sara Reguer --
Judaism in Christendom / David R. Carr ---
Philosophy in Judaism : two stances / S. Daniel Breslauer --
Jewish piety / Tzvee Zahavy --
The doctrine of Torah / Jacob Neusner --
The doctrine of God / Alan J. Avery-Peck --
The doctrine of Israel / Jacob Neusner --
The doctrine of the Messiah / William Scott Green and Jed Silverstein --
The doctrine of Hebrew language usage / David H. Aaron --
Reform Judaism / Dana Evan Kaplan --
Orthodox Judaism / Benjamin Brown --
Conservative Judaism : the struggle between ideology and popularity / Daniel Gordis --
New Age Judaism / Jeffrey K. Salkin --
Ethics of Judaism / Elliot N. Dorff --
Women in contemporary Judaism / Judith R. Baskin --
Judaism as a theopolitical phenomenon / Daniel J. Elazar --
Contemporary Jewish theology / Neil Gillman --
Secular forms of Jewishness / Paul Mendes-Flohr --
Judaism and Zionism / Yosef Gorny --
The "return" to traditional Judaism at the end of the twentieth century : cross-cultural comparisons / M. Herbert Danzger.

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