Table of Contents for "Exodus, Exile and Redemption"

Introduction

1: The Unseen Author and the Human Drama

2: Torah Subjects, Stories and Heroes

3: How to Elicit the Torah's Deepest Secrets

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Section 1: The Problem of the History of Judaism

1: Has Judaism Come to an End?

2: The Vanishing Essence of Judaism

3: A Chronology of Judaism

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Section 2: Knowing Hashem

1: Prophecy: A Definition

2: The Profound Meanings within the Simple Narratives of the Torah

3: When Was the Name of Hashem Revealed?

4: Knowledge in the Land

5: How to Train a Prophet: The Path of Knowledge

6: Faith before Knowledge, Engagement before Marriage

7: Anti-Faith and Indirect Knowledge

8: Knowing Hashem: Good Character

9: Knowing Hashem: Yaakov’s Fear and the Unfinished Quest for Divine Understanding

10: Analyzing a Tsaddik’s Character with Reverence and Truth

11: The Development of Yaakov’s Character

12: The Moral Limits of “An Eye for an Eye”

13: The Temple Yaakov Didn’t Build

14: Funding the Divine: The Moral Foundation of Temple Economics

15: Baring the Soul before Hashem

16: Man’s Crooked Heart and its Remedy

17: Walking the Path: A Guide to Spiritual Perfection

18: Criticism of the Bible Critics

19: Revisiting Prophetic Judaism: The Paradox of Decline

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Section 3: Between the Torah and the Prophets

1. To Know or Not to Know

2. Embracing Contradictions in Torah Learning

3. Prophets Against Toil

4. On Animal Sacrifice

5. What is Ours and What is God’s?

6. Prophetic Antinomianism

7. The Impossibility of Knowledge

8. Can Man See God?

9. Moshe, the Master of Those Who Know

10. Mosaic Humility and Prophetic Pride

11. Sacrifice and Sin

12. Divine Design and the Role of Human Choice