Fifty Synagogue Seminars

Jeremy Hugh Baron

doi:10.5771/9780761851080

Summary

During the last twelve years, Dr. Baron has led fifty pre-Sabbath-service seminars at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, New York and/or the New London Synagogue. These didactic essays explore the Bible, theology, liturgy, social responsibility, and the arts - from Who wrote the Bible? to Mark Twain's Concerning the Jews. Each chapter examines a problem that had perplexed Baron, and for which he provides a detailed evidence-based review together with sources. He pursues each issue from hundreds or thousands of years ago to the present, including both the Diaspora and Israel. He looks at what countries bordering Palestine had discussed and practiced, and scrutinizes the attitudes of other Abrahamic and Eastern religions and their differing denominations. Finally, he attempts to assess the relevance of each topic for the twenty-first century.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-5107-3
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-5108-0
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 378
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Chapter One. Discoveries of Near-Eastern Sources of Genesis Stories No access
2. Chapter Two. Abraham’s Tu vi-Sh’vat in February 1821 BCE in Larsa No access
3. Chapter Three. Potiphar’s Wife: The Trial of Joseph Jacobson No access
4. Chapter Four. Bible Women: Eight Heroines, or Villainesses No access
5. Chapter Five. Did Jephtha Sacrifice His Daughter? No access
6. Chapter Six. Legends of the Queen of Sheba No access
7. Chapter Seven. The Man of God from Judah No access
8. Chapter Eight. Jezebel and Athaliah: Two Non-Jewish Queens No access
9. Chapter Nine. Three Biblical Mistranslations No access
10. Chapter Ten. Jesus and Passover 30 CE No access
11. Chapter Eleven. Isaac La Peyrère, Biblical Criticism and American Racism No access
12. Chapter Twelve. Who Wrote Leviticus 10:1–2 and I Kings 14:1–17, 15:25–28? No access
13. Chapter Thirteen. Final Report of the Synod of Yavneh, 100 CE No access
1. Chapter Fourteen. Our Androgynous God—Monad, Dyad, Triad or Tetrad? No access
2. Chapter Fifteen. Monotheism and Akhenaten No access
3. Chapter Sixteen. The Jewish Colony on Elephantine Island No access
4. Chapter Seventeen. The Karaites of Lithuania No access
5. Chapter Eighteen. Rashi on Lying in Bed No access
6. Chapter Nineteen. Galileo, Newton, Biblical Cosmology and Chronology No access
7. Chapter Twenty. Fundamentalism No access
8. Chapter Twenty-One. Seven Proselyte Priests No access
1. Chapter Twenty-Two. Our Babylonian Calendar No access
2. Chapter Twenty-Three. Our Babylonian New Years Days No access
3. Chapter Twenty-Four. Our Babylonian Week? No access
4. Chapter Twenty-Five. A Personal Passover No access
5. Chapter Twenty-Six. Pomegranates No access
6. Chapter Twenty-Seven. Covering the Head No access
7. Chapter Twenty-Eight. Prayers for the Government No access
8. Chapter Twenty-Nine. The Decline and Fall of the Jewish Woman and Her Recent Renascence No access
1. Chapter Thirty. Are We in Exile? No access
2. Chapter Thirty-One. Jewish Eugenics and Marriage Laws No access
3. Chapter Thirty-Two. Is There a Jewish Face? No access
4. Chapter Thirty-Three. Jewish Sumptuary Laws No access
5. Chapter Thirty-Four. Jewish Communal Sick Care from the 14th to 21st Century No access
6. Chapter Thirty-Five. Is ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ a Biblical Commandment? No access
7. Chapter Thirty-Six. Corporal Punishment of Children in England and the USA No access
8. Chapter Thirty-Seven. India’s White and Black Jews No access
9. Chapter Thirty-Eight. Three Generations of the Lipmann / Weiner / Sonnenfels Family No access
10. Chapter Thirty-Nine. Doctors, Religion and the Law No access
11. Chapter Forty. The Anglo-American Biomedical Antecedents of Nazi Crimes: A Historical Analysis of Racism, Nationalism, Eugenics and Genocide No access
12. Chapter Forty-One. The Experimental Psychology of Destructive Obedience and Anti-Semitism No access
13. Chapter Forty-Two. Genocidal Doctors No access
14. Chapter Forty-Three. Jethro, Roger Williams and the Separation of Church and State No access
1. Chapter Forty-Four. Psalms and Hymns No access
2. Chapter Forty-Five. A Rejudaisation of Handel’s ‘Messiah’ No access
3. Chapter Forty-Six. Byron’s Passovers and Isaac Nathan’s Melodies No access
4. Chapter Forty-Seven. Kol Nidrei, Max Bruch and His ‘Hebrew Melodies’ of Byron and Nathan No access
5. Chapter Forty-Eight. Handel’s Biblical Operas and Oratorios No access
1. Chapter Forty-Nine. Jewish Art Was Almost Always Figurative No access
LITERATURE No access Pages 347 - 348
Chapter Fifty. Mark Twain ‘Concerning the Jews,’ 1899 No access Pages 349 - 356
Index of Persons No access Pages 357 - 368
Index of Subjects No access Pages 369 - 378