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    <title>Blackwell companion to Judaism</title>
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    <namePart type="date">1932-</namePart>
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    <namePart>Avery-Peck, Alan J. (Alan Jeffery)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1953-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Blackwell Publishers</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2000</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>xv, 553 p. ; pbk ; 26 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents> 	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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Jacob Neusner, Alan J. Avery-Peck.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Judaism</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">296/BLA</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">1577180585 (alk. paper)</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">00021874</identifier>
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