The Social Teaching of Rabbinic Judaism: Between Israelites

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BRILL, 2001 - Conflict management - 768 pages

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
Corporate Israel and the Individual
15
V
22
Resolving Conflict b within
29
What Precisely Do We Mean by Conflict?
41
A The Definition of the Relationship and of Conflicts
54
CONFLICTS BETWEEN FAMILIES
57
When Marriages Break Down The Systemic Interest
70
Where Intention Matters Where Intention Does
93
Disputes in the Union of Families through Marriage
106
B The Halakhic Resolution of Conflict
125
MAINTAINING THE SOCIAL
146
of Systemic Interest in that Relationship
170
Baba Mesia
204
THE PLACE OF THE OATH IN RESOLVING CONFLICTS BETWEEN
214
A The Definition of the Relationship and of Conflicts
220

Disputes in the Dissolution of the Union of Families
76
The Halakhic View of Conflicts
85

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About the author (2001)

Jacob Neusner was born in Hartford, Connecticut on July 28, 1932. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard University in 1953. He studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he was ordained a Conservative rabbi and received a master's degree in Hebrew letters in 1960. He also received a doctorate in religion from Columbia University. He taught at Dartmouth College, Brown University, and the University of South Florida before joining the religion department at Bard College in 1994. He retired from there in 2014. He was a religious historian and one of the world's foremost scholars of Jewish rabbinical texts. He published more than 900 books during his lifetime including A Life of Yohanan ben Zakkai; The Way of Torah: An Introduction to Judaism; Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishnah; Strangers at Home: The 'Holocaust,' Zionism, and American Judaism; Translating the Classics of Judaism: In Theory and in Practice; Why There Never Was a 'Talmud of Caesarea': Saul Lieberman's Mistakes; and Judaism: An Introduction. He wrote The Bible and Us: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together with Andrew M. Greeley and A Rabbi Talks with Jesus with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI. He also edited and translated, with others, nearly the entirety of the Jewish rabbinical texts. He died on October 8, 2016 at the age of 84.

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