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Judaic and Christian Visions of the Social Order - Describing, Analyzing and Comparing Systems of the Formative Age (Paperback)
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Judaic and Christian Visions of the Social Order - Describing, Analyzing and Comparing Systems of the Formative Age (Paperback)
Series: Jacob Neusner Series: Religion/Social Order
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Free-standing ideas form systems when random facts coalescing in a
set of abstract propositions can be shown logically to cohere. We
know that that is so when ideas intersect and can be shown to
accommodate new problems and generate answers to fresh questions.
The system exhibits its cogency by fixing upon one thing and saying
it in many ways. That emerges when the evidence of a particular
conception of the social order turns out to concern itself with a
generative question and to recapitulate an answer that is repeated
many times over. In that way the writings that in theory form a
system of the social order signal their logic by what they deem
self-evident. The essays address writings of formative Judaism in
the time of the Mishnah and the Talmud, the first six centuries of
the Common Era, and formative Christianity in the first six
centuries of the Common Era. They take up a common program of
categories and consequent convictions: where Judaism and
Christianity intersected. This seeks not just random points of
agreement but fundamental structural congruence: the confluence of
systems. That inquiry concerns shared organizing categories of
religion and ethics of the two faiths. What concerns us is how
Scriptures held in common produced a single construction of history
and a common view of culture and society.
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