Is Scripture the Origin of the Halakhah?

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Author: Jacob Neusner

ISBN-10: 0761831177

ISBN-13: 9780761831174

Category: History - Judaism

The Halakhah constitutes a coherent construction comprised by category-formations defined by topics purposively amplified. These category-formations everywhere pursue a cogent analytical program, addressing diverse subjects, treated systematically, a single set of questions of definition and analysis. Is Scripture the origin of the Halakhic system, which defines the norms of Judaism? At stake is not the starting point of discrete bits of legal data. At issue is the origin of the comprehensive...

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Is Scripture the origin of the Halakhic system, which defines the norms of Judaism? At stake is not the starting point of discrete bits of legal data, but the origin of the comprehensive structure comprised by the Halakhic category-formations. As scripture serves as the natural starting point for inquiries into the origins of Judaism it is quite natural to treat Scripture as the base line and the Halakhic category-formations as the variable when seeking the origin of the system. But what happens when we treat the system as the base line and Scripture as the variable?

1Category-formations autonomous of scripture12Category-formations related to scripture but independently articulated353Category-formations defined by scripture1654Category-formations related to scripture and derivatively amplified by scripture1795Is scripture the origin of the Halakhah?201