Israel and Humanity

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Israel and Humanity

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• FOREWORD, Emile Touati
• preface, PALLIÈRE LOVED
• Introduction

PART

THE GOD OF ISRAEL

CHAPTER I. - A GOD

• Spirituality and personality of God in Hebrew
• The theory of emanation and Judaism
• Influence of proselytes in Israel
• Israel and the mysteries of paganism

CHAPTER II. - ONE GOD

• God created the world and humanity
• Monotheism in the Pentateuch
• The Tetragrammaton and the unity of God
• The "God of gods"
• theory of divine attributes and cosmic forces

CHAPTER III. - GOD UNIVERSAL

• Traces of the knowledge of God among the Gentiles
• Universalism Biblical
• Universalism among rabbis

CHAPTER IV. - GOD'S PROVIDENCE

• Providence Universal
• The Justice of God and the election of Israel
• Divine Providence in the government of nations

CHAPTER V. - THE IDEA OF GOD IN THE NATIONAL JEWISH

• Incompatibility of the idea of a national God with
• design Israelite
• particularism and universalism

SECOND PART

THE MAN IN THE HEBRE IALA

CHAPTER 1. - ORIGIN OF HUMANITY

• Superiority of Biblical traditions on the pagan legends

CHAPTER II. - THE DISTINGUISHED HUMAN DIGNITY

• The man regarded as the temple of God
• Nobility of the human body
• Human freedom
• The imitation of God
• The immortality of the soul

CHAPTER III. - THE JEWISH CONCEPTION OF PROGRESS

• Progress intellectual and religious
• Messianic Hope
• Progress in Creation
• The Sabbath and the philosophy of history
• The progress in the creature

CHAPTER IV. - HUMAN COOPERATION OF GOD

• Man pontiff and term of Creation
• Philosophy of the doctrine of human cooperation
• Doctrines rabbinical and pagan ideas
• Man creator

CHAPTER V. - THE IDEA OF NATIONALITY IN JUDAISM

• International Law from Judaism
• The human family and the brotherhood of peoples
• Reports of Israel with the Gentiles

THIRD PARTY

THE LAW

CHAPTER I. - UNITY AND UNIVERSALITY OF LAW

• Abraham, apostle of the Gentiles
• The divine revelations in the Gentile

CHAPTER II. - THE TWO ASPECTS OF THE UNIVERSAL LAW: MOSAISM AND Noachism

• The two elements of the religion of Israel
• Ethnicity and local Mosaic
• Attitude of the Jews against conversions
• Worship mosaic optional for the Gentile
• The supernatural element in the religion of Israel

CHAPTER III. - THE Noachide

• The "fearing God"
• The "Catholic" of Israel
• Equality between men

CHAPTER IV THE Noachism

• The seven commandments
• Prohibition of polytheism
• Sacrilege
• Homicide
• Marriage Laws
• The conviction of theft
• The dietary laws
• Additions to Noachism
• The moral laws of Noachism

CHAPTER V. - RELIGION AND STATE

• priesthood, kingship and prophecy
• Israel's sovereignty
• Ideal and reality in politics
• Jewish conception of social life

CHAPTER VI. - Universalism in Mosaism

• Translations of the Act
• Revelation and Gentiles
• The symbolism of the Temple
• Universalism in the Mosaic worship

CHAPTER VII. - REPORTS AND MOSAISM Noachism. JERUSALEM, THE CAPITAL OF BELIEVERS

• Selection of Jerusalem as the religious center of the world

• Conclusion

See also

• Israël et L'Humanité