| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| A Word to the Student: Why Study Judaism? | p. xi |
| The Jewish People: Judaism in the World Today | |
| Judaism at Home: Through the Year | p. 3 |
| Grace after Meals | p. 3 |
| The Passover Seder | p. 8 |
| Judaism in the Family: Through the Cycle of Life | p. 15 |
| The Rite of Circumcision | p. 15 |
| The Bar or Bat Mitzvah | p. 20 |
| The Marriage Ceremony | p. 22 |
| Death and Burial | p. 30 |
| Judaism in the Synagogue | p. 37 |
| The World of the Synagogue: Daily Prayer | p. 37 |
| Sabbaths of Creation, Festivals of Redemption | p. 50 |
| The Days of Awe: Standing before God for Judgment | p. 59 |
| Jewish Law and Learning: Halakhah and Study of the Torah | p. 62 |
| How People Practice Judaism in America: The Jewish People and the Jewish Faith | p. 69 |
| The Two Judaisms of America | p. 69 |
| The Judaism of Home and Family | p. 70 |
| The Judaism of Holocaust and Redemption | p. 71 |
| Judaism at Home and Judaism in Public: The Civil Religion of American Jews | p. 76 |
| Anthology for Part One The Jewish People: Judaism in the World Today | |
| Jack Wertheimer, Recent Trends in American Judaism | p. 85 |
| Jacob Neusner, The Jewish Religious Experience in America: The Problem of Interpretation | p. 117 |
| The Torah: Judaism in Holy Books and in History | |
| The Hebrew Scriptures of Ancient Israel: The Crisis Addressed by the Five Books of Moses | p. 131 |
| Israel before Judaism: The Biblical Prelude | p. 131 |
| The Yahwist's Judaism for an Imperial Israel, 950 B.C.E. | p. 137 |
| Crisis and Resolution | p. 141 |
| Event and Pattern | p. 142 |
| The Model Judaism: The Priests' System for Israel after Exile and Return | p. 145 |
| Sacred Perseverance and the Exegesis of the Everyday: Why the Priests' Judaic System of Sanctification Persisted | p. 151 |
| The Beginning of Rabbinic Judaism: The Crisis Addressed by the Mishnah in 70 C.E. | p. 157 |
| Pharisaism before, and Judaism after, 70 C.E. | p. 157 |
| The Mishnah: History of Its System | p. 163 |
| The Topical Program of the Mishnah | p. 164 |
| The Mishnah's System as a Whole | p. 167 |
| The Mishnah and Judaism | p. 169 |
| The Mishnah | p. 175 |
| Humanity in Crisis: What Can Israel Do? | p. 175 |
| Women in the Mishnah | p. 176 |
| Women: Yebamot, Chapter 10 (M. Yeb. 10:1-5) | p. 178 |
| The Social Vision of the Mishnah | p. 185 |
| The Formation of Rabbinic Judaism: The Crisis Addressed by the Talmuds and the Midrash | p. 193 |
| The Unfolding of the Mishnah's Tradition | p. 193 |
| Systemic Changes in the Fourth Century: Canon, Symbol, Teleology | p. 200 |
| The Crisis of the Fourth Century | p. 207 |
| The Talmud of the Land of Israel, the Midrash, and the Talmud of Babylonia | p. 211 |
| The Talmud of the Land of Israel | p. 211 |
| The Midrash: Genesis Rabbah and Leviticus Rabbah | p. 225 |
| The Talmud of Babylonia | p. 235 |
| The Dual Torah: A Review. From the Mishnah through the Bavli | p. 247 |
| Anthology for Chapters Six to Nine Rabbinic Judaism: Its Formative History and Holy Books | |
| Jacob Neusner, Deuteronomy and Sifre to Deuteronomy | p. 257 |
| The Success of Rabbinic Judaism: From Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century | p. 269 |
| Why Judaism Triumphed amid Christianity and Islam | p. 269 |
| A Judaism within Rabbinic Judaism: Hasidism | p. 275 |
| Heresies against Rabbinic Judaism: Karaism versus the Oral Torah | p. 279 |
| Heresies against Rabbinic Judaism: Sabbateanism versus the Sage-Messiah | p. 284 |
| The Power and Pathos of Judaism | p. 287 |
| The Advent of New Judaisms in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | p. 291 |
| The Fall of Judaism and the Rise of Judaisms | p. 291 |
| A Judaism within Rabbinic Judaism: Reform | p. 295 |
| Judaism within Rabbinic Judaism: Orthodoxy | p. 300 |
| A Judaism outside of Rabbinic Judaism: Zionism | p. 309 |
| Heresies outside of Judaism: Zionism | p. 312 |
| Anthology for Chapters Ten and Eleven Rabbinic Judaism: Law, Philosophy, Mysticism, and Theology | |
| Isadore Twersky, The Shulhan Arukh: Enduring Code of Jewish Law | p. 323 |
| Abraham J. Heschel, The Mystical Element in Judaism | p. 339 |
| Emil L. Fackenheim, The Human Condition after Auschwitz | p. 363 |
| Ben Halpern, The Jewish Consensus | p. 375 |
| The Jewish People and the Torah | |
| Defining Judaism | p. 385 |
| The Problem of Definition and How It Has Been Evaded | p. 385 |
| Defining by Identifying an Integrating Symbol: "The Torah" as the Definition of Judaism | p. 389 |
| A Review of the History of Judaism | p. 392 |
| Anthology for Part Three How Encyclopedias Define Judaism | |
| Louis Jacobs, Judaism (Encyclopaedia Judaica) | p. 405 |
| William Scott Green, Old Habits Die Hard: Judaism in The Encyclopedia of Religion | p. 413 |
| A Word to the Teacher: Introducing Judaism | p. 433 |
| Glossary | p. 447 |
| Index | p. 473 |
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