The Horizontal Society : : Understanding the Covenant and Alphabetic Judaism (Vol. I and II) / / Jose Faur.

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• VerfasserIn: Faur, Jose,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (676 p.)

The Horizontal Society is an exposition of rabbinic thought as exemplified by Maimonides. The thought streams of Greece, Rome, and Christendom serve as a contrast. This work is in the Hebrew rhetorical tradition of melisa. The main text in five sections-—The God of Israel, The Books of Israel, The G...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Hebrew Transliteration Table
• Abbreviations
• Prologue
• Volume I
• Section I. THE GOD OF ISRAEL
• Introductory Remarks
• 1. The Book of Creation
• 2. Monolingualism and the Analphabetic Mind
• 3. God as a Writer
• 4. Of Scribes and Analphabetic Poets
• Concluding Reflections
• Section II. THE BOOKS OF ISRAEL
• Introductory Remarks
• 5. The Berit (‘Covenant’) Sinai-Moab
• 6. Scripture and the Mental Law of Israel
• 7. The Publication of Scripture
• 8. Epistles and Memoranda
• 9. Interpreting the Books of Israel
• 10. Law and the Judiciary
• 11. The Boundaries of Derasha
• Concluding Reflections
• Section III. THE GOVERNANCE OF ISRAEL
• Introductory Remarks
• 12. Of Ḥerut
• 13. Hierarchic Humanity
• 14. Horizontal Man
• 15. The Household of Israel
• 16. Humanity before Statehood
• 17. God’s Territory
• 18. The Three Crowns of Israel
• 19. Hebrew Theocracy: Sovereignty under the Law
• 20. The Crown of a Good Name
• 21. Galut: Right without Might
• 22. Jewish Dominion over the Land of Israel
• 23. Pagan Political Thought
• 24. A Perfect Tora
• 25. The Five Doctrines Taught by Patriarch Abraham
• 26. The Two-Realm Governance
• 27. Silencing Scripture
• 28. The Road to Serfdom: Freedom without Law
• 29. Paul’s Theo-politics
• 30. Escape from Guilt
• 31. Imperial Religion
• 32. The Political Dimension of Anti-Semitism
• 33. Two Concepts of Human Rights
• 34. Pax Romana and Pax Hebraica
• 35. The Sabbath is the Lord’s
• 36. Separating Church from State
• Concluding Reflections
• Section IV. THE MEMORY OF ISRAEL
• Introductory Remarks
• 37. National Memory
• 38. The Matrix of Jewish Memory
• 39. Walking Under the Fox’s Shadow
• 40. The Emergence of the Sword/Cross Axis
• 41. A Crisis of Memory
• 42. Unmasking Spurious Verus Israel
• 43. The Publication of the Mishna
• 44. Minting Tradition into Oral Law
• 45. National and Vernacular Memory
• 46. Meliṣa and the Realm of the Verisimilar
• 47. Expanding National Memory
• 48. Kalla and the Formation of the Babylonian Talmud
• Concluding Reflections
• Section V. THE FOLLY OF ISRAEL
• Introductory Remarks
• 49. Qabbala and the Conveyence of Talmudic Tradition
• 50. “Little Foxes” — Rabbis without Qabbala
• 51. The Day of the Willow
• 52. The Genesis of Jewish Heroic Virtue
• 53. Heroic Knowledge
• 54. Payback Time — the Case of the Catalonian Rabbis
• 55. “Our Lords, the Rabbis of France”
• 56. Fighting Assimilation?
• 57. Kabbalah vs. Qabbala
• 58. Cult of the Occult
• 59. The anti-Scientific Obstinacy of the Maimonideans
• 60. The Five Pillars of Anti-Maimonidean Kabbalah
• 61. The Problem with ‘Philosophy’ …
• 62. A Reflective Response to R. Hayye Gaon’s Call
• 63. The Mishne Tora
• 64. Hierarchic Truth
• 65. The Inerrant Saint
• 66. Israel’s Fourth Miracle
• Concluding Reflections
• Epilogue
• Front Matter 2
• APPENDICES
• 1. Vocalization of the Scroll of the Tora
• 2. Hebrew ‘Writing’ and ‘Reading’
• 3. Alphabetization and Masora
• 4. Precept, Monolatry, and Sanctity
• 5. Defilement of the Hands
• 6. ‘Depositing a Text’ for Publication
• 7. An Academy to Police the Hebrew Language
• 8. Reciting a Text for Publication
• 9. Wearing Phylacteries
• 10. The Autonomy of the Law
• 11. Alien Cult
• 12. Morasha
• 13. Becoming a Single Body
• 14. Gideon and Washington
• 15. The Concept of Galut
• 16. By Virtue of Conquest
• 17. Private Property
• 18. Equality before the Law
• 19. Ṭ'M
• 20. Malicious Erudition
• 21. Why we should all strive to be Illiterate
• 22. Purloining an Ass for Christ: Freedom without Law
• 23. Ingesting Jesus
• 24. Extreme Dichotomy
• 25. Erasing the Memory of ‘Amaleq
• 26. ‘Prophets/Scribes’ and the National Archives of Israel
• 27. Yeshiba
• 28. Perush, Be’ur, and Peshaṭ
• 29. Pappus b. Judah
• 30. Verus Israel?
• 31. Remez
• 32. Qabbala and Halakha
• 33. Halakha le-Moshe mi-Sinai
• 34. Derekh Qeṣara
• 35. God’s Mystery
• 36. Seder
• 37. The Four Levels of Instruction
• 38. Teaching Tora in Public
• 39. Shone: Rehearsing and Conveying Halakha
• 40. Megillat Setarim
• 41. The Publication of Oral Texts
• 42. TQN
• 43. The Introduction of the Monetary System in Rabbinic Tradition
• 44. Oral Law
• 45. Writing the Oral Law
• 46. Was there a ‘Dispensation’ to write the Oral Law?
• 47. Hebrew ḥibber and Arabic tadwin
• 48. Gemara and Talmud
• 49. Emora
• 50. National Publication for Use in Constitutional Interpretation: the Jewish and the US Systems
• 51. Tanya Kevatteh
• 52. Leaning Towards the Majority
• 53. Mahdora
• 54. “Little Foxes”
• 55. Minim and Minut
• 56. Tukku
• 57. About “Strict Talmudists”
• 58. Semantic Assimilation
• 59. Heroes and Heroism
• 60. Ḥasid and Ḥasidut
• 61. The Targum
• 62. Writing a Sefer Tora
• 63. The Sorrowful Scholarship of Professor Baer
• 64. Medieval Jewish Prophets
• 65. The Science of Necromancy
• 66. The Mandate of the Jewish Court According to Ramban
• 67. The Ministry of Luminous Rabbis: Unerring and Inerrable
• 68. Settled Law
• 69. Relying on Legal Sources and Authorities
• 70. The Library of Lucena
• Bibliography
• INDICES
• Index of References
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Names
• Index of Terms