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Rainbow Covenant: Torah and the Seven Universal Laws
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The Rainbow Covenant: torah and the seven universal laws
by Michael Dallen
Foreword by Rabbi Michael Katz
Published by Lightcatcher Books (Springdale, Arkansas) and the Rainbow Covenant Foundation (New York, New York), 2003
ISBN: 0-9719388-2-2
Library of Congress
Control Number: 2003102494
And God spoke unto Noah, and to Noah's children with him, saying, 'And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you.' - Genesis 9:8-9
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Preface
[p. i]
Foreword by Rabbi Michael Katz [p. vii]
Introduction
[p. xi]
BOOK ONE - The Rainbow Covenant
1. The Permanent Revolution: Sinai [p. 3]
2. The Torah Revolution: Revolutionary Texts [19]
3. Written Law and Oral Law: The Other Torah [29]
4. The Rainbow Covenant: Wisdom for the World [39]
5. Revealed Law: Beginning Noahide Precepts [53]
6. Unfolding the Code: Theory and Practice [63]
7. Who Decides What? New Approaches [79]
BOOK TWO - The Seven Universal Laws
1. Common Principles [p. 91]
2. Dietary
Laws [97]
3. Laws Against
Larceny [129]
4. Sex Laws
[153]
5. Laws Against
Murder [185]
6. Laws Against
Lawlessness [209]
7. Laws Against
Sacrilege [227]
8. Laws Against
Idolatry [267]
Appendix - Revolutionary
Doctrine: Israel’s Thirteen Principles of Faith [313]
Sources and Materials [329]
Index [p. 343]
About the Author [353]
Hardcover, illustrated, including endnotes, appendices (Israel's Thirteen Principles of Faith - 14 pp. - and Sources and Materials, guide to further study - 14 pp.), and index, 392 pp.
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