Part I. The history of Judaism -- ch. 1. Defining Judaism / Jacob Neusner -- ch. 2. The religious world of ancient Israel to 586 BCE / Marvin A. Sweeney -- ch. 3. Judaism and the Hebrew scriptures / Philip R. Davies -- ch. 4. Second temple Judaism / Frederick J. Murphy -- ch. 5. The formation of Rabbinic Judaism, 70-640 CE / Guenter Stemberger -- ch. 6. The canon of Rabbinic Judaism / Jacob Neusner -- ch. 7. Judaism and Christianity in the formative age / Bruce D. Chilton -- ch. 8. Judaism in the Muslim world / Sara Reguer -- ch. 9. Judaism in Christendom / David R. Carr --- ch. 10. Philosophy in Judaism : two stances / S. Daniel Breslauer -- ch. 11. Jewish piety / Tzvee Zahavy -- Part II. The principal doctrines of Judaism -- ch. 12. The doctrine of Torah / Jacob Neusner -- ch. 13. The doctrine of God / Alan J. Avery-Peck -- ch. 14. The doctrine of Israel / Jacob Neusner -- ch. 15. The doctrine of the Messiah / William Scott Green and Jed Silverstein -- ch. 16. The doctrine of Hebrew language usage / David H. Aaron -- Part III. Modern and contemporary Judaism -- ch. 17. Reform Judaism / Dana Evan Kaplan -- ch. 18. Orthodox Judaism / Benjamin Brown -- ch. 19. Conservative Judaism : the struggle between ideology and popularity / Daniel Gordis -- ch. 20. New Age Judaism / Jeffrey K. Salkin -- Part IV. Special topics in understanding Judaism -- ch. 21. Ethics of Judaism / Elliot N. Dorff -- ch. 22. Women in contemporary Judaism / Judith R. Baskin -- ch. 23. Judaism as a theopolitical phenomenon / Daniel J. Elazar -- ch. 24. Contemporary Jewish theology / Neil Gillman -- ch. 25. Secular forms of Jewishness / Paul Mendes-Flohr -- ch. 26. Judaism and Zionism / Yosef Gorny -- ch. 27. The "return" to traditional Judaism at the end of the twentieth century : cross-cultural comparisons / M. Herbert Danzger.