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Record W4318716011 · doi:10.1163/9789004496491_002

Preface

2002· book-chapter· en· W4318716011 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Jacob Neusner

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMedieval and Classical Philosophy
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersMcGill University
KeywordsPhilosophy

Abstract

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Rabbinic Judaism, the religion of the Torah of Sinai, embodies a theological system.In secular terms, the ancient Israelite Scripture as set forth by the Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmuds, and Midrash-com-pilations~"the Oral Torah"~of late antiquity embodies a coherent theological system.In this book, I set forth the principal parts of that system and show how it works.It is a system that translates into governing principles the implications of Scripture's narratives, laws, and prophecies.That system recasts the mythic monotheism~ monotheism set forth through the narrative of Scripture~into a working theology for holy Israel's cosmic and social order, which is spelled out here.How does monotheism frame its theology and the issues thereof?A religion of numerous gods finds many solutions to one problem, a religion of only one God presents one solution to many problems.How so?Life is seldom fair.Rules work only sometimes.To explain the reason why, polytheisms adduce multiple causes of chaos, a god per anomaly.Diverse gods do various things, so, it stands to reason, ordinarily outcomes conflict.Monotheism by nature explains many things in a single way.One God rules.Life is meant to be fair, and just rules are supposed to describe what is ordinary, all in the name of that one and only God.So in monotheism a simple logic governs to limit ways of making sense of things.But that logic contains its own dialectics, contradictory principles that require resolution.If one true God has done everything, then, since he is God all-powerful and omniscient, all things are credited to, and blamed on, him.In that case, given the human condition, he can be either good or bad, just or unjust~but not both.Responding to the generative dialectics of monotheism, Rabbinic Judaism systematically reveals the justice of the one and only God of all creation.God is not only God but also good.Appealing to the facts of Scripture, the written part of the Torah, in the documents of the oral part of the Torah, the sages in the first six centuries of the Common Era constructed a coherent theology, a cogent structure and logical system, to expose the justice of God.Here in detail I

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.491
Threshold uncertainty score0.984

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.3520.016

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.085
GPT teacher head0.203
Teacher spread0.119 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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