犹太文明向来以文本为中心，文本不仅构成各种思想与实践的共同背景，还为犹太身份认同提供了稳定内核，从而赋予犹太文明一种一以贯之的连续性。本书精选了过去两千五百年的犹太文本并详加注释，既突出了拉比文献对于理解犹太文明的重要性，又关注非西方地区的犹太文本和历史上被边缘化的犹太声音，并把能否体现犹太人与非犹太人的互动作为选取文本的一个标准。对于具有英语基础的读者而言，本书是一部直观了解犹太文明核心特征和基本表述方式的通识读本。

宋立宏，南京大学哲学宗教学系、犹太和以色列研究所教授。主要从事犹太文明、中犹关系研究，已出版专著、编著多部，包括《犹太流散中的表征与认同》（2018）、The Image of Jews in Contemporary China （2016）和《罗马与耶路撒冷》 （2015）。另主编“犹太文丛”（浙江人民出版社）。

导言/Introduction
1 IN THE BEGINNING
1.1 Genesis 1:12:4
1.2 On “In the Beginning” (Gen. 1:1)
1.2.1 Proverbs 8:22-31
1.2.2 Genesis Rabbah, 1:1
1.2.3 2 Maccabees 7:28
1.2.4 Dead Sea Scrolls. The Community Rule 1QS 3:15-16; 11:11,17-18
1.2.5 John 1:13
1.3 Genesis Rabbah, 1:10. Creation with the Hebrew Letter Beth
1.4 Philo, On the Creation 31. On the Light of the First Day
1.5 On "Let Us Make Man" (Gen. 1:26)
1.5.1 Philo, On the Confusion of Tongues 179
1.5.2 Genesis Rabbah 8:
1.6 Nahmanides on "Let Us Make Man in Our Image, After Our Likeness" (Gen. 1:26)
1.7 Mystical Interpretations on the Creation
1.7.1 The Zohar, Introduction 1:3b. A Mystical Interpretation on Be-Reshit
1.7.2 Isaac Luria on the Creation
1.7.3 A Hasidic Interpretation on Be-Reshit
1.8 Robert Gordis on "Fill the Earth and Master It" (Gen. 1:28)
1.9 Louis Ginzberg, Creation and the Hebrew Alphabet (1909)
1.10 Sabbath Liturgy
1.10.1 The Kiddush for Sabbath Evening
1.10.2 The Havdalah Service for the End of Sabbath
1.11 Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath (1951)
1.12 Dan Pagis, Testimony
1.13 Shlomo Carlebach on Singing Creation into Being
2 ADAM, EVE AND LILITH
2.1 Genesis 2:43:24
2.2 On “The Dust of the Earth” (Gen. 2:7)
2.2.1 Philo, On the Creation, 137
2.2.2 Rashi
2.3 Leviticus Rabbah 8:1. God as Marriage-Maker
2.4 Avot de-Rabbi Nathan, Chapter 1. On the "Fence for the Torah"
2.5 Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer 14. The Sin of Adam and Eve
2.6 Alphabet of Ben Sira. Lilith, Adam's First Wife
2.7 Shelomo Almoli, Dream Interpretations
2.7.1 Serpent
2.7.2 Woman
2.7.3 Nakedness
2.7.4 The Dead
2.8 Judith Plaskow, "Our Story: The Coming of Lilith "(1972)
3 "AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?": THE IMAGES OF CAIN
3.1 Genesis 4:1-26
3.2 Targum Pseudo-Jonathan to Genesis
3.3 Genesis Rabbah, 22:12-13. On the Mark and the Repentance of Cain
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4 THE TEST OF ABRAHAM: AKEDAH
5 YAVAN IN THE TENTS OF SHEM: JEWS AMIDST GREEKS AND ROMANS
6 THE WORLD OF THE RABBIS
7 THE JEWISH LAWS
8 ETHICAL LITERATURE
9 THE JEWISH LITURGY
10 THE YOKE OF THE TORAH
11 SECULAR FORMS OF JEWISHNESS
12 JEWISH VOICES FROM THE MARGINS
Appendices
Terms and Sources
参考书目