Jacob Neusner & Alan Avery-Peck 
The Blackwell Companion to Judaism [PDF ebook] 

Contributors.
Preface.
Part I: The History of Judaism:.
1. Defining Judaism: Jacob Neusner (University of South Florida
and Bard College).
2. The Religious World of Ancient Israel to 586: Marvin Sweeney
(Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate
University).
3. Judaism and the Hebrew Scriptures: Philip R. Davies
(Sheffield University).
4. Second Temple Judaism: Frederick J. Murphy (College of the
Holy Cross).
5. The Formation of Rabbinic Judaism, 70-640 C.E: G_nther
Stemberger (Universitat Wien).
6. The Canon of Rabbinic Judaism: Jacob Neusner (University of
South Florida and Bard College).
7. Judaism and Christianity in the Formative Age: Bruce D.
Chilton (Bard College).
8. Judaism in the Muslim world: Sara Reguer (Brooklyn College of
the City University of New York).
9. Judaism in Christendom: David R. Carr (University of South
Florida).
10. Philosophy in Judaism: Two Stances: Daniel Breslauer
(University of Kansas). 11. Jewish Piety: Tzvee Zahavy (Fairleigh
Dickinson University).
Part II: The Principal Doctrines of Judaism:.
12. The Doctrine of Torah: Jacob Neusner (University of South
Florida and Bard College).
13. The Doctrine of God: Alan J. Avery-Peck (College of the Holy
Cross).
14. The Doctrine of Israel: Jacob Neusner (University of South
Florida and Bard College).
15. The Doctrine of the Messiah: William Scott Green (University
of Rochester).
16. Language as Doctrine: Hebrew: David Aaron (Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Religion).
Part III: Modern and Contemporary Judaisms:.
17. Reform Judaism: Dana Evan Kaplan (University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee).
18. Orthodox Judaism: Benjamin Brown (Hebrew University).
19. Conservative Judaism: The Struggle Between Ideology and
Popularity: Daniel Gordis (University of Judaism).
20. New Age Judaism: Jeffrey K. Salkin (Port Washington, New
York).
Part IV: Special Topics in Understanding Judaism:.
21. Ethics of Judaism: Elliot Dorff (University of Judaism).
22. Women in Contemporary Judaism: Judith Baskin (University at
Albany, State University of New York).
23. Judaism as a Theopolitical Phenomenon: Daniel J. Elazar
(Jerusalem Center For Public Affairs).
24. Theology in Contemporary Judaism: Neil Gillman (Jewish
Theological Seminary).
25. Secular Forms of Jewishness: Paul Mendes-Flohr (Hebrew
University).
26. Judaism and Zionism: Yosef Gorney (Tel Aviv University).
27. The ‘Return’ to Traditional Judaism at the End of the
Twentieth Century: Cross Cultural Comparisons: M. Herbert Danzger
(City University of New York).
Abbreviations.
Index.

Jacob Neusner is Distinguished Research Professor of
Religious Studies at the University of South Florida and Professor
of Religion at Bard College. He has seven honorary degrees,
fourteen academic medals and has published more than 800 books.
Alan J. Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic
Studies at The College of the Holy Cross. His has published widely
and is editor of the journal The Annual of Rabbinic Judaism:
Ancient, Medieval and Modern.