Bibliographic record
Abstract
James Joyce is reputed to have said that if Dublin were destroyed, it could be reconstructed, brick by brick, from the pages of Ulysses.Along these same lines, I allege, if the Hebrew Scriptures of ancient Israel, the Written Torah, were lost, the main lines of the narrative of Israel's life with God and the consequent social vision could be reconstructed out of the details of the Halakhah, norms of conduct, and of the Aggadah, norms of conviction, that are set forth in the Oral Torah, that is, the canon of Rabbinic writings of late antiquity.Here I show that the Rabbinic documents of the formative age of Judaism, the first six centuries c.E., make use of a generative theological grammar to set Scripture forth as a comprehensive, rational theological system of conviction and to construct a cogent theological structure of the social order--thus the "language, system, and structure" of the title.This handbook presents in condensed form the results of three of my systematic works on the theology of Rabbinic Judaism, the Judaism set forth by Scripture as mediated by the Mishnah, Talmuds, and Midrash-compilations of late antiquity.The three titles here formed into a single coherent statement are The Theological Grammar if the Oral Torah I-III (1999), The Theology if the Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice if God (1999), and The Theology if the Halakhah (200 1 ).The three were conceived to form a single continuous statement, covering the theological language, system of belief, and structure of behavior that animates the definitive documents and characterizes the age and thought of those that produced them.Accordingly, in the principal parts of this reprise, I lay out [l] how the Rabbinic system speaks, [2] what it says, and [3] how it is embodied in the social order of the community for which it constructs its encompassing conception.Parts Two and Three turn to the functioning system and categorical structure.The former concerns how the theological corpus set forth in the Aggadah ("narrative"), the corpus of Scriptural interpretation, doctrine, ethics, and narrative actually functioned in explaining Israel's condition, the latter addresses how the Halakhah ("norms of behavior," "law") identified the building Jacob Neusner -9789004496484
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.484 | 0.298 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".