Description: Distinguished historian of Judaism Jacob Neusner here ventures for the first time into constructive theology. Taking the everyday life of contemporary Judaism as his beginning, Neusner asks when in the life of the living faith of the Torah does Israel, the holy community, meet God? Where does the meeting take place? What is the medium of the encounter?In his attempt to answer these questions, Neusner sets forth the character and the form of the Torah as sung theology. Israel, the holy community, meets God in the synagogue, while at prayer, and in the yeshiva, when studying the Torah—at the moment in each setting when the Torah is received. In both circumstances people do not read but sing out its words. With the written part of the Torah sung in the synagogue, and the oral part declaimed in centers of sacred learning, music provides the medium for Judaism's theological voice.
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Release Year: 1995
Book Title: Judaism's Theological Voice: The Melody of the Talmud (Chicago...
Number of Pages: 242 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Judaism's Theological Voice : the Melody of the Talmud
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Judaism / Rituals & Practice, Judaism / Theology, Biblical Studies / General
Publication Year: 1995
Item Height: 0.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.9 Oz
Subject Area: Religion
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Jacob Neusner
Item Width: 0.7 in
Series: Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
