Logic in the Torah

By Sion, Avi, Dr.

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Title:	Logic in the Torah
Author:	Sion, Avi, Dr.
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Philosophy, logic, Torah, Tanakh, related Scriptures
Collections:	Authors Community, Philosophy
Historic Publication Date:	2018
Publisher:	Avi Sion - Kindle

Member Page:	Avi Sion
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Description
Logic in the Torah is a ‘thematic compilation’. It collects in one volume essays that he has written on this subject in Judaic Logic (1995) and A Fortiori Logic (2013), in which traces of logic in the Torah and related religious documents (the Nakh, the Christian Bible, and the Koran and Hadiths) are identified and analyzed.

Summary
Logic in the Torah is a ‘thematic compilation’. It collects in one volume essays that he has written on this subject in Judaic Logic (1995) and A Fortiori Logic (2013), in which traces of logic in the Torah and related religious documents (the Nakh, the Christian Bible, and the Koran and Hadiths) are identified and analyzed.

Table of Contents
Foreword 6 1. Logic in the Torah 8 1. Introduction 8 2. Instances of logic in the Torah 9 3. Summary and conclusions 52 4. As regards the Tanakh 55 2. Adductive Logic in the Torah 57 1. The art of knowing 57 2. Adduction in Western philosophy 60 3. Adducing prophecies and prophethood 64 3. Qal vaChomer 76 1. Background 76 2. The valid moods 83 3. Preliminaries 92 4. Samples in the Torah 95 4. Revised List of Biblical A Fortiori 101 1. Problems encountered 101 2. The solution found 104 3. The data and their analysis 107 4. Synthesis of Results 113 5. The Language of Biblical A Fortiori 118 1. Introduction 118 2. In Torah books 119 3. In historical books 122 4. In other books 127 5. Rejects 136 6. Addendum (2005) 139 6. Miriam’s A Fortiori Argument 142 1. Formal validation of a fortiori argument 142 2. The principle of deduction 146 3. The argument a crescendo 153 4. The rabbis’ dayo (sufficiency) principle 156 5. Analysis of Numbers 12:14-15 161 7. Louis Jacobs’ Contribution 171 1. Comparing enumerations 171 2. Cases new to me 178 3. Three rejects 186 4. General observations 188 8. A Fortiori Discourse in the Jewish Bible 194 1. Introduction and summary 194 2. A fortiori arguments in the Tanakh 197 9. A Fortiori Arguments in the Christian Bible 209 1. Disclaimer 209 2. Primary findings 210 3. Analysis of arguments found 216 4. Jesus of Nazareth 222 5. Paul of Tarsus 234 6. Additional findings 263 10. Logic in the Koran and Hadiths 271 1. Disclaimer 271 2. Initial findings in the Koran 272 3. al-Ghazali’s findings 275 4. Sticks and carrots 288 5. About the Koran 292 6. On logic in the Hadiths 307 7. The intellectual poverty of Islam 312 Main References 316