1. Character of the Sources

2. Method

3. The Rabbis

1. The Caution against Speculation

2. Exaggerated Caution

1. In the Beginning

2. The World as Environment

3. Creation of Man

A. Microcosm

B. Image of God

C. Macroanthropos

4. Providence

5. God's Nearness and Distance

6. Election as Origin

1. Human Nature: The Experience of Dividedness

A. Duality in the Bible

B. Body

a) Birth and Creation

b) Sexuality

c) Attitude Toward the Body

C. Soul

a) Moment of Creation

b) Immortality

c) Pre-existence

2. Human Condition

A. Freedom

a) Providence and Freedom

b) Impulse and Freedom

B. Sin

a) Death and Sin

b) Repentance and Atonement

c) Reward and Punishment

C. Suffering

1. The Kingdom of God

A. The Invisible Kingdom

B. The Universal, Visible Kingdom

C. The National, Visible Kingdom

2. The Torah

A. Wisdom and Torah

B. Letter and Spirit

3. Learning and Action

A. The Torah as Supreme Value

B. The Goal of Wisdom

a) Domestic Life

b) Socio-Economic Life

C. The Question of Asceticism

D. The Question of Mysticism

4. Human Solidarity

A. Unity of the Chosen People

B. Evolution of the Individual

C. Election as Destiny

5. The End of History and Beyond

A. The Angel of Death

B. Messianic Hope

C. Resurrection

D. World to Come

E. Judgment

F. Gehinnom and Gan Eden

1. New Needs, New Forms

2. Vigor of the Pharisaic Principle

1. Rabbinic Sources

2. Secondary Literature