Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Hebrew Transliteration Table -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Section I -- Introductory Remarks -- 1. The Book of Creation -- 2. Monolingualism and the Analphabetic Mind -- 3. God as a Writer -- 4. Of Scribes and Analphabetic Poets -- Concluding Reflections -- Section II -- Introductory Remarks -- 5. The Berit ('Covenant') Sinai-Moab -- 6. Scripture and the Mental Law of Israel -- 7. The Publication of Scripture -- 8. Epistles and Memoranda -- 9. Interpreting the Books of Israel -- 10. Law and the Judiciary -- 11. The Boundaries of -- Concluding Reflections -- Section III -- Introductory Remarks -- 12. Of Herut -- 13. Hierarchic Humanity -- 14. Horizontal Man -- 15. The Household of Israel -- 16. Humanity before Statehood -- 17. God's Territory -- 18. The Three Crowns of Israel -- 19. Hebrew Theocracy: Sovereignty under the Law -- 20. The Crown of a Good Name -- 21. Galut: Right without Might -- 22. Jewish Dominion over the Land of Israel -- 23. Pagan Political Thought -- 24. A Perfect Tora -- 25. The Five Doctrines Taught by Patriarch Abraham -- 26. The Two-Realm Governance -- 27. Silencing Scripture -- 28. The Road to Serfdom: Freedom without Law -- 29. Paul's Theo-politics -- 30. Escape from Guilt -- 31. Imperial Religion -- 32. The Political Dimension of Anti-Semitism -- 33. Two Concepts of Human Rights -- 34. Pax Romana and Pax Hebraica -- 35. The Sabbath is the Lord's -- 36. Separating Church from State -- Concluding Reflections -- Section IV -- Introductory Remarks -- 37. National Memory -- 38. The Matrix of Jewish Memory -- 39. Walking Under the Fox's Shadow -- 40. The Emergence of the Sword/Cross Axis -- 41. A Crisis of Memory -- 42. Unmasking Spurious Verus Israel -- 43. The Publication of the Mishna -- 44. Minting Tradition into Oral Law -- 45. National and Vernacular Memory.

46. Melis%a and the Realm of the Verisimilar -- 47. Expanding National Memory -- 48. Kalla and the Formation of the Babylonian Talmud -- Concluding Reflections -- Section V -- Introductory Remarks -- 49. Qabbala and the Conveyence of Talmudic Tradition -- 50. "Little Foxes" - Rabbis without Qabbala -- 51. The Day of the Willow -- 52. The Genesis of Jewish Heroic Virtue -- 53. Heroic Knowledge -- 54. Payback Time - the Case of the Catalonian Rabbis -- 55. "Our Lords, the Rabbis of France" -- 56. Fighting Assimilation? -- 57. Kabbalah vs. Qabbala -- 58. Cult of the Occult -- 59. The anti-Scientific Obstinacy of the Maimonideans -- 60. The Five Pillars of Anti-Maimonidean Kabbalah -- 61. The Problem with 'Philosophy' … -- 62. A Reflective Response to R. Hayye Gaon's Call -- 63. The Mishne Tora -- 64. Hierarchic Truth -- 65. The Inerrant Saint -- 66. Israel's Fourth Miracle -- Concluding Reflections -- Epilogue -- 1. Vocalization of the Scroll of the Tora -- 2. Hebrew 'Writing' and 'Reading' -- 3. Alphabetization and Masora -- 4. Precept, Monolatry, and Sanctity -- 5. Defilement of the Hands -- 6. 'Depositing a Text' for Publication -- 7. An Academy to Police the Hebrew Language -- 8. Reciting a Text for Publication -- 9. Wearing Phylacteries -- 10. The Autonomy of the Law -- 11. Alien Cult -- 12. Morasha -- 13. Becoming a Single Body -- 14. Gideon and Washington -- 15. The Concept of Galut -- 16. By Virtue of Conquest -- 17. Private Property -- 18. Equality before the Law -- 19. T'M -- 20. Malicious Erudition -- 21. Why we should all strive to be Illiterate -- 22. Purloining an Ass for Christ: Freedom without Law -- 23. Ingesting Jesus -- 24. Extreme Dichotomy -- 25. Erasing the Memory of 'Amaleq -- 26. 'Prophets/Scribes' and the National Archives of Israel -- 27. Yeshiba -- 28. Perush, Be'ur, and Peshat -- 29. Pappus b. Judah -- 30. Verus Israel?.

31. Remez -- 32. Qabbala and Halakha -- 33. Halakha le-Moshe mi-Sinai -- 34. Derekh Qesara -- 35. God's Mystery ( סוד ) -- 36. Seder -- 37. The Four Levels of Instruction -- 38. Teaching Tora in Public -- 39. Shone: Rehearsing and Conveying Halakha -- 40. Megillat Setarim -- 41. The Publication of Oral Texts -- 42. TQN ( תקן ) -- 43. The Introduction of the Monetary System in Rabbinic Tradition -- 44. Oral Law -- 45. Writing the Oral Law -- 46. Was there a 'Dispensation' to write the Oral Law? -- 47. Hebrew hibber and Arabic tadwin -- 48. Gemara and Talmud -- 49. Emora -- 50. National Publication for Use in Constitutional Interpretation: the Jewish and the US Systems -- 51. Tanya Kevatteh ((תניא כוותיה) -- 52. Leaning Towards the Majority -- 53. Mahdora -- 54. "Little Foxes" -- 55. Minim and Minut -- 56. Tukku -- 57. About "Strict Talmudists" -- 58. Semantic Assimilation -- 59. Heroes and Heroism -- 60. Hasid and Hasidut -- 61. The Targum -- 62. Writing a Sefer Tora -- 63. The Sorrowful Scholarship of Professor Baer -- 64. Medieval Jewish Prophets -- 65. The Science of Necromancy -- 66. The Mandate of the Jewish Court According to Ramban -- 67. The Ministry of Luminous Rabbis: Unerring and Inerrable -- 68. Settled Law -- 69. Relying on Legal Sources and Authorities -- 70. The Library of Lucena -- Index of References -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names -- Index of Terms.