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Making God's word work : a guide to the Mishnah

Print Book, English, 2004
Continuum, New York, 2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
375 pages ; 23 cm
9780826415561, 9780826415578, 0826415563, 0826415571
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The Mishnah in religious context. Making God's word work
Monotheism and justice. God's justice and the ordeal of the accused wife ; God's justice : Israel and the gentiles
Israel : the community and the individual. Corporate Israel as a moral entity ; Personal autonomy ; Ownership and possession ; The norm and the exception ; When Israelites deliberately violate the norms
Israel : the family and the household. The Israelite family ; The Israelite household : responsibility and intentionality ; The Israelite household : when intention does not count
God's presence in Israel's social order. God's presence in Israelite contention : the oath ; God the landlord, Israel the tenant ; Eating together : Israel's presence in God's house ; Dwelling together : God's presence in the Israelite household
Israel in God's context. God and the individual Israelite ; Israel in history and in eternity : the Messiah
The Mishnah as model. How the topical, rhetorical and logical media of the Mishnah convey its theological message ; The Mishnah in context : making God's word work today