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List of contents
I: Born Free and Equal; Editor's Note; Man’s Dignity in God’s World; Judaism and Equality; A Common Humanity under One God; Many Are Called and Many Are Chosen; II: The Rule of Law; Editor’s Note; The Bible and the Rule of Law; Kingship under the Judgment of God; The Rule of a Higher Law; III: The Democratic Ideal; Editor’s Note; Judaism and the Democratic Ideal; Foundations of Democracy in the Scriptures and Talmud; Democratic Aspirations in Talmudic Judaism; IV: Freedom of Conscience; Editor’s Note; Conscience and Civil Disobedience in the Jewish Tradition; Freedom of Religion-Absolute and Inalienable; The Right of Dissent and Intellectual Liberty; V: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness; Editor’s Note; The Good Life; The Right of Privacy; There Shall Be No Poor; VI: The Earth Is the Lord’s; Editor’s Note; Man as Temporary Tenant; Do Not Destroy!; Ecology and the Jewish Tradition; VII: Pursuit of Peace; Editor's Note; The Vision of Micah; VIII: Human Rights in an Israeli Context; Religious Freedom and Religious Coercion in the State of Israel; In God’s Image: The Religious Imperative of Equality Under Law; The Values of a Jewish and Democratic State: The Task of Reaching a Synthesis
About the author
Carlos Ripoll
Summary
Areligion or a culture like Judaism, at least three thousand years old, cannot be expected to be all of one piece, homogeneous, self-contained, consistent, a neatly constructed system of ideas. If Judaism were that, it would have died centuries ago and would be a subject of interest only to the historian and archaeologist.
