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ISBN 10: 1587063360
ISBN 13: 9781587063367
Author: Irun R Cohen
This book presents a set of essays interpreting excerpts from the Talmud that illustrate values essential to Western science. It includes another set of essays interpreting the function of interpretation in the method of science, to associate Talmudic and post-modern concepts.
Part I. Preamble
Narrator
Ideology of science
Talmudic probe
Book organization
Part II. Talmudic Texts
5. Text, signifier and signified
6. The Talmud
7. Cinematic Talmud
8. Translating the Talmud
9. The Hebrew roots of interpretation and reality
10. Levels of Jewish text
11. The Yeshiva
12. Disclaimer
Subject One: Person
13. Rain and resurrection
14. Abel’s blood
15. Another’s blood
16. Life and water
17. Individual name
18. Weaving texts
Subject Two: Place
19. Place names
20. Holy discrimination
21. Akhnai’s oven
22. Rabbi Eliezer, Jacob of Kfar Sekhaniah and Jesus of Nazareth
23. In the toilet and under the bed
24. Constraints on power
25. Creative urge
26. The devil and the urge
27. Human creator
28. Yeshiva in Heaven
Subject Three: Time
29. Hebrew time
30. God’s personal name
31. Progress
32. Four kinds of time
33. Chronological time
34. Natural time
35. Two faces of nature
36. Mythology: The wheel of natural time
37. Historical time
38. Existential time
39. Shma: Time begins in darkness
40. One face of nature
41. Associations
42. Love thy neighbor
43. Blessings acknowledge time
44. Blessing time
45. Replacing nature
46. Sabbath cycle
47. Passover and significance
48. Telling the Haggadah
49. Narrative and narrator: Telling and hearing
50. Meta-(meta-text)
51. Shavuot: And fulfillment
52. Biblical Shavuot: Receiving
53. Talmudic Shavuot: Choosing
54. Halakhah: Interpreting Torah
55. Ninth of Av: Day of loss
56. Rosh Hashanah: Day of judgment
57. Torah texts for Rosh Hashanah
58. Shofar: The trumpet
59. Memories
60. Kingship
61. Yom Kippur: Day of atonement
62. Yom Kippur: Day beyond time
63. Sukkot: Returning to time
64. Hanukkah: Days of light
65. Purim: Coming of age
66. Does the world make sense?
67. Talmudic hermeneutics
Part III. Texts of Science
68. Interpretation
69. Understanding by metaphor
70. Prediction and understanding
71. Utility and understanding
72. Understanding causes
73. Emergence of free will
74. Signification in science
75. Cinematic science
76. Types of meaning
77. Meaning for science
78. Validation of meaning
79. Biological interpretation of meaning: Co-respondence
80. Power of pluralism
81. Paradigms
82. Tests of truth
83. Communications of science
84. Database
85. Creating the database
Part IV. Postamble
86. Definitions: Religion and science
87. Science in action
88. Talmud in action
89. Creation
90. Human uniqueness
91. Einstein and Freud
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