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209 Index of Names and Subjects Abraham ibn Ezra, 105 aggadah and halakhah, 7–8 amoraim, 7 Bar Kokhba Revolt, 13 baraita, 51 binding of Isaac, 97–108 Conservative Judaism, 154–56 covenantal nomism, 112 Didache, 139 gemara, 52 halakhah, 7 Haredim, 152–54 Hasidim, 153–54 Hillel and Shammai, 32 Jesus movement, 26, 138 Josephus, 12, 132 Karaites, 4 Maccabean Revolt, 9 Maimonides, 29 mashal, 83–84 medical ethics and halakhah, 175–82 midrash, 7, 69–97 and aggadah, 74–87 and law, 87–90 collections of, 90–93 Mishnah, 39–47 purpose and redaction, 43–45 structure and content, 40–43 nimshal, 83–84 Orthodox Judaism, 150–54 parables Gospel, 118–25 rabbinic, 83–87, 115–18, 126–27 Paul, 130–34 and biblical interpretation, 134–38 Pharisees, 10 Qumran, 10 rabbinic movement, 14–17 Reform Judaism, 148–50 Reconstructionist Judaism, 156 religious authority Conservative Judaism, 162–63 Orthodox Judaism, 160 Reform Judaism, 164–65 Revelation, 17–20 Conservative Judaism, 160–61 Orthodox Judaism, 157–58 Reform Judaism, 163–64 210 Index of Names and Subjects Sadducees, 10–11 Samaritans, 10–11 Same sex relations and halakhah, 165–67 Conservative Judaism, 165–72 Orthodox Judaism, 172–74 Reform Judaism, 174 School of Rabbi Aqiva, 90–91, 140–42 School of Rabbi Ishmael, 90–91, 140–42 sugya, 51 Talmud Babylonian, 7, 51–59 Palestinian, 7, 60–61 tannaim, 7 Targums, 93–97 Torah, 20–21 oral, 21 written, 21 Tosefta, 47–48 Yavneh, 14 Yehudah ha-Nasi, 43 Yohanan ben Zakkai, 14 ...

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