TY - BOOK AU - Neusner,Jacob AU - Avery-Peck,Alan J. TI - The Blackwell companion to Judaism T2 - Blackwell companions to religion SN - 1577180585 (alk. paper) U1 - 296/BLA PY - 2000/// CY - Malden, MA PB - Blackwell Publishers KW - Judaism N1 - 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 ER -