How to Understand Judaism
- New York SCM Press Ltd 1995
- 93p
includes index and biblioraphy
What is Judaism?..............1 What do you do when you study a religion ?........1 Jews in a changing world ..........3 2. Passover and shavuot ........7 passover.....7 Chosen people ............10 3. The jewish year.........13 The high holy days ...........13 Rosh hashanah.............13 Yom kippur........16 Minor festivals .........17 Fast Special Days .........21 4. How home and the sabbath ............23 The home .........23 5. Rites of Passage................29 6. The synagogue........37 7. Torah and jewish literature...........43 8.From 1800 BCE to 1800 CE .............52 Beginnings ..............52 9. Jews in the modern world .............61 10. Varieties of Judaism ...........72 11. A new relationship ...........78