# Judaism

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Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:13.883Z
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## Summary

A religion, an ethnicity, a peoplehood, a textual tradition, and an argument. Judaism is what the Jewish people have done with the covenant they understand themselves to share with the God of Abraham. It has lasted, in continuously identifiable form, for some 3,000 years. Key sections include: Ju daism.; Opening What Judaism is.; Chapter I Ancient Israel.; Chapter II The Hebrew Bible.; Chapter III The Second Temple period.; Chapter IV The rabbinic re-foundation.; Chapter V Talmud as form of life.; Chapter VI The medieval diaspora.; Chapter VII Maimonides.; Chapter VIII Kabbalah..

## Slide Outline

1. Ju daism.
2. Opening What Judaism is.
3. Chapter I Ancient Israel.
4. Chapter II The Hebrew Bible.
5. Chapter III The Second Temple period.
6. Chapter IV The rabbinic re-foundation.
7. Chapter V Talmud as form of life.
8. Chapter VI The medieval diaspora.
9. Chapter VII Maimonides.
10. Chapter VIII Kabbalah.
11. Chapter IX Hasidism.
12. Chapter X Emancipation and reform.
13. Chapter XI The denominations today.
14. Chapter XII Martin Buber.
15. Chapter XIII Abraham Joshua Heschel.
16. Chapter XIV Emmanuel Levinas.
17. Chapter XV Joseph Soloveitchik.
18. Chapter XVI The Shoah.
19. Chapter XVII Modern Israel.
20. Chapter XVIII The practice of Jewish life.
21. Chapter XIX The synagogue.
22. Chapter XX Halakhah.
23. Chapter XXI Jewish feminism.
24. Chapter XXII Watch & read.
25. Chapter XXIII The shelf.
26. Chapter XXIV Why Judaism matters.
27. Chapter XXV The next decade.
28. Chapter XXVI How to engage.
29. Chapter XXVII The covenant.
30. The end of the deck.

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