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Israel and Humanity

Pages marked with * have been translated from the French.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Opening Pages *
• Foreword by Alfred M. Levy, Chief Rabbi of France *
• Preface *
• Preface by Hyacinth Loyson *
• Author's Note *
• Introduction *

FIRST PART

GOD

CHAPTER I. THE IDEA OF GOD IN ISRAEL: THE ONE GOD.

• Hebrews and Egyptians *
• Spirituality and personality of God in Hebrew tradition *
• Monotheism Semitic and Aryan trends *
• The theory of emanation and Judaism *
• Influence of proselytes in Israel *
• Israel and the mysteries of paganism *

CHAPTER II. THE IDEA OF GOD IN ISRAEL: THE UNIQUE GOD

• Attributes of God *
• God created the world and humanity *
• Monotheism in the Bible *
  • The Pentateuch *
  • Historical Books *
• The Tetragrammaton and the unity of God *

CHAPTER III. THE IDEA OF GOD IN ISRAEL: THE UNIVERSAL GOD

• The Creator in the Bible *
• Traces of the knowledge of God among the Gentiles *
• Biblical Universalism *
• Universalism among rabbis *
• Question of original monotheism *
• The God in the universal myths and initiations *
• Other traces of monotheism in ancient pagan traditions *

CHAPTER IV. THE IDEA OF GOD IN ISRAEL: THE GOD'S PROVIDENCE

• The universal empire of God *
• The Universal Providence *
• The righteousness of God in the concept of Providence *
• Divine Providence in the government of nations *

CHAPTER V. ANCIENT MOSAIC MONOTHEISM: THE GOD OF GODS

• The Mosaic monotheism and criticism *
• Grammatical and theological study of the title Elohe ha Elohim *
• The assimilation theory *
• Theory of divine attributes and cosmic forces *

CHAPTER VI. ANCIENT MOSAIC MONOTHEISM: THE DIVINE NAMES

• El Elyon, the Most High God
• Study the word Elohim
  • Background on the simultaneous use of singular and plural
  • Theological explanation accompanying the plural word Elohim
  • The episode of the golden calf
  • Some other examples of plural alleged against Mosaism
  • Value is Elobim vis-à-vis the pagan ideas
  • Elohimism and Jah-véism
• Multiplicity of Divine names

CHAPTER VII. ANCIENT MOSAIC MONOTHEISM: GOD AND THE GODS

• Comparisons between the biblical God of Israel and the pagan gods
• Israelite Idolatry
• The ritual of the scapegoat and the Kabbalah
• Religious borrowing from the Jews by pagans
• Vanity of pagan gods from the biblical concept

CHAPTER VIII. THE IDEA OF GOD IN THE NATIONAL JUDAISM.

• What is meant by the title God of Israel
• Incompatibility of the idea of a national God with the Jewish conception
• Particularism and universalism

CHAPTER IX. THE IDEA OF THE GUARDIAN ANGELS IN JEWISH MONOTHEISM

• Astrolatry and angelology
• An examination of some texts establishing the doctrine of the Pentateuch
• An examination of some texts establishing the doctrine Isaiah and Daniel
• The "sar" guardian angel of Israel
• Philosophy of angelology in Hebrew tradition
• Derivation of polytheism from monotheism

SECOND PART

RIGHTS.

CHAPTER I. THE IDEA OF MAN IN JUDAISM: ORIGIN OF HUMANITY.

• The original unity from the Bible and the Rabbis
• The original unity and the election of Israel
• Predestination and the question of the identity of nature
• Doctrine of the Kabbalah on the original unity
• Superiority of Biblical traditions over the pagan legends

CHAPTER II. THE IDEA OF MAN IN JUDAISM: DIGNITY OF MAN.

• The man in God's image and miniture of the universe
• The man regarded as the temple of God
• Nobility of the human body
• Human freedom
• Of the perfectibility of man and his vocation as an imitation of God
• The immortality of the soul in its relationship to human dignity

CHAPTER III. THE IDEA OF MAN IN JUDAISM: JEWISH CONCEPT OF PROGRESS.

• Biblical and rabbinic Testimonials
• Intellectual and religious progress
• Rabbinic ideas on human progress compared to the immutability angelic
• Messianic Hopes and modern criticism
• The idea for progress in religion from Judaism
• Progress in the establishment.
  • Reports have rights to the land
  • The cosmic periods by the rabbis
  • The tohu-vohu of Genesis
  • Eden and rebirth
  • The Sabbath and the philosophy of history
• Progress in the creation

CHAPTER IV. THE IDEA OF MAN IN JUDAISM: HUMAN COOPERATION WITH GOD.

• Dominion of man over nature
• Man termed as pontiff and the creation
• Philosophy as the doctrine of human cooperation
• The doctrine of human cooperation and Scripture
• Doctrines rabbinical and pagan ideas.
  • Western Paganism
  • Eastern Paganism
• The creative man
• The idea of human influence in modern philosophy

CHAPTER V. THE IDEA OF NATIONALITY IN JUDAISM.

• Economic moral rights
• Universal social consciousness
• International Law in Judaism
• The human family
• The brotherhood of peoples

CHAPTER VI. ORGANIZATION OF THE HUMAN SOCIETY.

• Israel's Role in the family of nations
• Reports from Israel with the Gentiles
• The law of human organization
  • Unity of law in the universe and humanity
  • The unity of law in Rabbi tradition
  • Identity of human and divine law according to the Bible
  • Text of Proverbs, Job and Jeremiah
• The value of philosophical doctrine in Judaism

CHAPTER VII. UNIVERSAL CHARACTER OF THE LAW IN HEBRAISM.

• The testimony of Philo
• The call of Abraham.
  • Apostleship of the Hebrew patriarch
  • Spiritual Paternity of Abraham
  • Psalm 110
  • Other biblical and rabbinic evidence for the calling of Abraham
• Jewish proselytism
• Revelations divide among Gentiles
  • Existential inspiration among the Gentiles and his disappearance from the Rabbis
  • Balaam
  • The role of the pagan philosophers

THIRD PART

LAW.

CHAPTER I. THE TWO ASPECTS OF THE UNIVERSAL LAW: MOSAISM AND NOAHISM.

• Status of Gentiles vis-à-vis the Mosaic tradition
• The Din, elements of religion of Israel
  • Their existence and their separation at birth of Christianity
  • The idea of duality in the religious and Gentile in Mosaic tradition
• Ethnicity and local Mosaic tradition
• Attitude of Jews against Gentiles
• The Mosaic worship obligatory for Gentile

CHAPTER II. THE TWO ASPECTS OF THE UNIVERSAL LAW: LEGAL STATUS OF NOACHIDE

• The good pagan
• The Sabbath Noachides.
  • Rabbinic Legislation
  • Agreement relating to awards rabbinical Sabbath
  • The Sabbath in history
• The worshipers of God
• The Israel Catholicism
• The controversy between R. Eliezer and R. Jehoshua
• The Judaism and the religion of the future

CHAPTER IIII. THE TWO ASPECTS OF THE UNIVERSAL LAW: REPORTS AND WORSHIP CENTER OF TWO.

• Israel and the plurality of religions
• The idea of universal religion of the Romans
• Choice of Jerusalem as the world's religious center
• Jerusalem and patriarchal history and mosaic.
  • Mount Moria and the sacrifice of Abraham
  • Bethel and the vision of Jacob
  • Moses and the later times
• Jerusalem location in the Israelite conception

CHAPTER IV. RELIGION IN THE UNIVERSAL WORSHIP MOSAIC.

• Symbolism of the Temple in Jerusalem *
• Role of Gentiles in the construction of the Tabernacle and the two Temples
  • The Tabernacle of the desert *
  • The Temple of Solomon *
  • The Second Temple *
• Layout of the Temple *
• The sacrifices of the Gentiles *
• Participation of the Gentiles to the worship of the Temple
• The propitiatory sacrifice for the Gentile

CHAPTER V. RELIGION IN THE UNIVERSAL REVELATION MOSAIC.

• Rabbinic ideas on the revelation at Sinai
• The borders of Israel
• The translation of the Law
• Revelation and Gentiles
• The Many Aspects of God's law

CHAPTER VI. THE UNIVERSAL RELIGION IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE TWO CONVERTS IN JUDAISM.

• The Gher Toshav from Scripture and tradition
• The proselytes of justice
• The proselyte, as the door
  • Status of Noachides after Scripture
  • The Pentateuchal Toshav
  • The gher Noachide
  • Status of foreign slaves in Palestine
  • The question of circumcision
• Status and admission of a proselyte of the gate in the Jewish Society
• Pagans in Palestine.
  • Civil rights and religious non-Jews in the Holy Land
  • The law on usury and Gentiles
  • Pagan Women
  • Feelings of Israel against the stranger
• Beauty morality of Judaism

CIIAPITRE VII. THE UNIVERSAL RELIGION IN THE DOCTRINE OF JUDAISM: THE LAW NOACHIDE.

• Unity and Diversity
• The supernatural element in the religion of Israel
• Noachides and proselytes at the gate
• The domination and the conversion of pagans
• Content of Noachism
• Noachism of legal Laws

CRAPITRE VII. REPORTS OF THE RELIGION AND THE STATE AFTER THE ORGANIZATION OF JUDAISM,

• The Theocracy in Israel
• Priesthood, prophesy and royalty
• Design and the Jewish priesthood among the Gentiles
• The idea of sovereignty in Israel
• The Ideal and Reality in Politics
• Jewish conception of social life

CHAPTER IX. THE UNIVERSAL PRECEPTS OF NOACHISM.

• The Seven Commandments
• Prohibition of polytheism.
  • Noachide monotheism and Jewish monotheism
  • Obligations of martyrs for the Gentiles
• The prayers and sacrifices
• Vows
• Sacrilege
• The Homicide.
  • Differences between Jewish law and Noachide law
  • Specific provisions of Tradition
  • Status of Noachide converted to Judaism
• The marriage laws.
  • Marriage and Divorce
  • Monogamy and polygamy
  • Prohibited unions
• The commandment against theft
• The dietary laws
• Report Judaism with the universal revelation of Noachism

• Conclusion
• Contents
• Copyright

See also

• Israël et L'Humanité

References